The Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1850-1852, 1852-04-15

r,e 20 crnsaui ntl go ro~'oriog.-s
Sc. = Astr ~hase toad, ins. to power
and J.a,rot,Ag- have made a.. rau. .
h.t.~Srd AVID a,ynonyme 81 reproach'
: certainly can have no cis, TO bc re-.
eardei as respectable, aud rs conduc-
,oIs ea.boi b. respected by ANY whose
is,iro !. worth ia. ha,tng.
BI, 10 return to Mr.. SiAnly's lct'cr.
After seme preliminary r.mrfks aboa,
hi, preferences for lir. Fillmore. his
Devotion TO the ~corprem,se'. and his be.
lirf tina: q person No; ~ favor Of them
could hardly obtain q vote in . single
Southern STATE. he proceeds TO define
his ~ POSITION with regard to Gen.
Scott. SO far from ever having sAid
tina, be csnno, and will moi, go for him,
he always knew ,hA, be was deserving
his confidence. aud that lie was q per.
son who would DO all he could TO pre-.
vent the agitation Of The slavery ques.
ton. and The disturbance Of the com.
promise. \ Southern man by birth
lac has poured out his blood ON North.
ern frontiers in the war Of 1912, aud
achieved wonders with soldiers from all
paris Of The Uaion in the ssparr sllel-d
march from vers cras 10 Mexico.-
lie has ever known him TO be a true
republican. and has no frar that he will
no. grove ne true to his country's best
interests in peace, u he ever has in
war. Mr. Sianly takes exception TO
Mr.. Cabeil'. insisting upon new letters
and new pledges from Gen. Scott.
lie quotes Mr. CabrIl's W letter to
chow that Gen. Seol,'s opinions are
well known, have never been conceal.
ed, and do no, need any new rcaffrms.
ton. lie says:
The people Of North Carolina want
a man whose opinions are known, who
Is worthy OF confidence in all the re.
latlons Of lifc-o tried patriotism and
unsuspecied integrity. They do 40,
u a nan who writes letters and
makes pledges just before election
letters that would require personal ex.
plantations every ten days to enable the
country TO understand them"
This will enable you to judge OF The
tenor Of Mr.. S,anly's letter. II is all
Of similar purport.
a few word, now as to the lying letter
in the New York Express, to which Mr.
Sianly replies. IL speak. among OF her
things, Of Christopher Williams, AS q
gray headed Wing, Of tho s~trictest,
s,rai,est Wing faith, wi, bout the shad.
ow OF turning, uninf. c,ed with South.
ernisn's. SC. &C.," In a recent letter
gave you some distinctive details OF
MIR. Williams claims 10 be regarded as
a sound, true Whis-his votes, for in
stance, for Linn Boyd for Speaker,
against the tariff, his vote in company
with the bitterest Locofocos oithe House
the only Wing on the final vote, agains,
tho motion TO brevet Gen. Scott II
the flame were worth tho candle,
might 60 on, almost without limit, to
multiply instances of his infdeli!y to
his party allegiance. both in the last
Congress, and when he was formerly a
member in 1910, and which have gam.
ed for him the undesirable estimation
ct an unreliable and ''f,hy" Wig
Yet 'hisi the Wig whom the CORES.
dent OF tho Express bedauLs with his
false and fulsome fa,tery. Another
statement, even more im~puden,ly false,
1" that in reference to Mr. Mangum.
that he, too, is opposed to Gen. Scott
unless he will come out openly and pub.
llcly in favor OF the compromise. So
far from this being true, there is no
fact more universally known in Wash
inston, than that Mr Mansum is one o,
The mos, decided Scot, men here; ,la.
Oh all ocasoins, whenever he alludes 10
the subject, he makes no c~oncealmen,
of his PR ferences. esieeming him to be
the only Wing candidate that stand.
any chance Of an election. More than
this he is opposed TO any letters, pledge.
or new platforms, whatever, as a depar-
ture from the universal Wing practice.
SO much for the impudent mistatemen,s
OF this letter writer.
The proceedings Of Congress yesterday,
were neither particular interesting nor
important. The Senate was occupied
throughout the greater part of it,
session, &" listening to .~ery sc~s and
prosy speech by MIR Mason Of Virginia,
on the subjcc, of non. intervention. OF
course as 3 genuine Virginia abstract.
i%onists, Mr Mason wen, against 10.
ierveniion in favor Of Kossulh