Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-07-29
Recusant Wings.
From the National Tnteiligencer:

To prevent all mistake and misapprchen-
sion, we, the undersigned, Members Of
Congress, adopt this method of making a
Joint statements to our constituents, res
pectively, and to all who may take an inter-
est in the subject, that we cannot and will
not support Gen. Scott for the Presidency,
as he now stands before the American peo-
pie, for the following amongst other reasons:
He obstinately refused, up to the time of
his nomination, to give any public opinion
i'll favor Of that series Of measures of the
last Congress known as the Compromise;
the permanent maintenance Of which with
us is a question Of paramount importance.
Nor has he since his nomination made any
declaration of his approval of those meas
ures as final adjustment of the issues in
controversy.
1t is true the resolutions of the Conven-
ton that nominated him are as clear and as
explicit upon this question as need be; but
Gen. Scott, in his letter of acceptance, which
| contains all that we have from him on that
matter, does not give them the approval of
his judgment. This he seems studiously to
have avoided. He accepts the nomination
"with the resolutions annexed" That is,
he takes the nomination cum onere as an in
dividual takes an estate with whatever IN
cun1Jrdnce it may be loaded with. And the
only pledge and guaranty he offers for his
adherence to the principles of the resolu-
tions" are "thc known incidents Of long
public life," sc.
Among these "known incidents" Of his
| life, there is not one, so far as we are aware
OF, in favor of the principles of the compro-
mise, In one, at least, of his public letters,
he has expressed sentiments inimical to the
institutions of fifteen states of the Union
Since the passage of the compromise he has
suffered his name TO be held up before the
people of several of the Safes as a candi-
date for the Presidency by the open and
avowed enemies of those measures. And
in the convention that conferred this nomi-
nation upon him he permitted himself to be
used by the Free SoilerS in that body, to de-
feat Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Webster, be-
cause of their advocacy of those measures
and firm adherence to the policy that sus-
tanned them.
To Join such men, and aid them in com
pleting their triumph over, and sacrifice Of
the true and tried friends of the constitution,
and the faithful discharge of all its obliga-
tions, is what we can never do. We con-
slider Gen. Scott as the farorite candidate Of
the Free Soil wing of the Wing party. That
his policy, If he should be elected, would
be warped and shaped to conform to their
views, and to elevate them to power in the
administrator of the Government, can but
be considered as legitimate and probable
result And, believing as we do, that the
views Of that faction Of mischievous men
are dangerous not only TO the just and con-
stitutional rights of the Southern States,
(Which we represent in part,) but to the
peace and quiet of the whole country, and
to the permanent union of the States, VIC
regard it as the highest duty of the well,
wishers of the country everywhere, what.
lever else they may do, TO at least withhold
from him their support. This we intend tc
do,
Alexander H. Stephens of Ga
Charles Jas. Faulkner, of Va.
w. Brooke, Of Miss.