Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-10-16
Iron the Campaign Republic.
Hon Charles M. Conrad, Secretn.
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Hon Charles M. Conrad, Secrefn.
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Baron ROUGE, Oct. s, 1852.
We perceive that the Washington
linton, and other interruptions prints,
in their labitipal propensity for putting
forth statements as facts, have without
giving their sources Of Information, declar.
ed that they have reason to believe tina,
the Hon. G. M. CONRAD is hostile to
General ScoTT. and opposed to his cleo.
ton to the Presidency. The minor press.
es have taken up the notes Of their me.
%tropolitan leaders, and are seizing upon
this manufactured material for election.
eeriag purposes. These paltry moves
may do very well 10 deceive those who
do not wish to he truly informed, but will
surely not have any influence upon a SIM
gle Wing, or any u%nprejudiced person.
In the hrst place, the fact alleged is not
attempted to be proved, or rendered even
probable. and lift were, would amount to
nothing; for, admitting that Mr.. c. M.
CONRAD had personal objections 10 Gen.
ScorT, If they are not deemed by him of
sufficient Importance to require their dis
closure to his party, can they have any
weight, even with those who are dispos.
ed to make large concessions to Mr.. Con-.
RAIDS opinions? But, we maintain that
the allegations Of the Union newspaper
and other prints are not entitled to the
slightest credit, while we have probable
aud secondary proof, of the highest kind,
that Mr.. CONRAD. although prefering Mr..
FILLMORE. is nevertheless determined to
support the nominee of his party.
In proof Of Our assertion, we would
state that persons who probably influence,
and are probably influenced by Mr.. Con-
RAD, are the warm supporters OF General
ScorT. Judge Moore, onr member of
Congress, the brother-in-law of Mr.. Cow
RAD, and residing with him at his house in
Washington, is, as is we'll known at
Washington and throughout the State,
the most untiring and active supporter Of
General ScoTT. to be round in the broad
Union. MI. A. T. CONRAD, a brother
residing IN New Orleans, is an entliuslas.
tic supporter of General ScoTT, and has
taken unusual interest in the present
campaign. The Hon. +. d. CONRAD, an.
other brother, residing in our midst, de.
clared for General SeoTT the he
heard Of his nomination ; was one of the
Vice Presidents at the grand mass meet.
ing which took place in this parish to
confirm the Baltimore nominations, and
was one Of the committee that drafted the
resolutions adopted at that meeting. The
high respect the Hon. c. M CONRAD
holds the brothers opinion in, is proverbiaI,
aud all this although only presumption, is
very strong proof that the Secretary of
Wa is a,so a tried friend Of Gen. ScoTT,
and that the assumptions Of the Union
and other papers, have no foundation in
truth, and have only been invented for
electioneering purposes. In addition to
these facts, we have to state that in a re-
cent conversation with a highly esteemed
gentleman who had lately been to Wash
ington, and freely conversed with Mr.. Cow
RAD, that this gentleman, upon hearing
the substance Of the charge in the Union,
respecting Mr.. CONRAD, laughed heartily
at the absurdity Of the statement, and de-
StatCu iiS bhuh IoHN lItiOuy tudb AVAIL. SON.
A would cordially sustain and vote for
General ScoTT. We have also conversed
with very intimate personal friends Of the
Secretary, who have Informed us that they
have the best and most undoubted author
ity for stating that the feeling Of the Sec.
rotary towards General ScoTT. are of the
most friendly and confidential nature, and
that they are reciprocated by the General.
On account Of these facts, We enter
tain not the least doubt that the Hon. G..
M. CONRAD cordially desires the election
of General ScoTr, and he becomes the
victim of misrepresentation, because he
has too much modesty to assume it as a
fact, that his declaration Of adhesion to
Gen. ScoTT, is a matter Of such vast i'm.
portance as to require that he should step
aside from the arduous duties Of his i'm
pottant Office, to notice the electioneering
squios of the partisan opposition press,
when this very notice would be Immediate
ly construed into an assent to their improb-
able allegations. JUSTICE.
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