The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-03-24

'ui' suoJooa Inc pdluHoIc Gun Oh yesterday bhOOls
forth ray as follows:
GEN scorr AND TnE CoMPRoAnsK-TaE GgSKRALs Po.
srloS DERnED.A Washington correspondent of the Nash
vile Banner recently had interview with Gen. Scott,
who, II is alleged, is ind gnsn the charge made
OF the newspapers that his position In regard the
promise measures is ambiguous According this writer
Gen, Scott, In his conversation with him, said;
How any doubt my past present support Of
the compromise measures Did not al the mrs. mee ting
o. the friends Of the Union, held in Caste Garden New
York. publicly proclaim my approval of them lat peri.
Cd TOO, when bur lew Ia thai city advocated The propr
ETY. OF their adoption, And Immediately after my persal
OF Mr. Cays first great speech in their Defence ia
the Senate of the United States did pot Sit down my
residence n the city Of New York, and write 10 him in sub
81 have Ia my day and generation, fought battles which
have gained for our common country some ule renown
and glory These however might have been won by other
men, lost would have been repaired by the ndoma
which you fighting involves all that is glorious
mortal Of the present and the past-all that is dear and
hopeful OF The future is tbs battle OF the preservation OF
the Union and the Conrtuonhe perpeiniiy Of our
publican institutions. trust In God that you may be
oessal In your patriotic undertaking; for Inos heayyap
cordial and energetic support"
He also addressed similar letter. 1t is said, TO Mr. Web
ser, after reading his great speech According the
wriier General Scott also remarked to hmi
"Did not, during their discussion Congress- person
ally exert my influence for heir passage through both
proof that had not been for my humble aid and influence
the compomse measures could not by of from five
to ten, have passed the House OF Representative"
This is very important. 1t fully explains why the
Pennsylvania wing Stale convention which nominated
Governor Johnston, just before the Chrsiiana murders
in resistance Of the fugitive law, and while the bill re-
peang the obstruction law OF that State yet awaited in
the governors pocket its final vsto did, at the same time
with great enthusiasm. nominate General Scott for the
presidency. and conduct its whole canvass under the
open and undsputed sanction Of his name That CONVEX
ton took exactly ground of approval
IF alIfl -
Gays bill which General Scott as now appears had pre-
vousy taken in his letter to that distinguished senator
Among the measures OF Mr. Cays bill thus approved by
that convention and iis two nomineesGovernor John
ston and General Scotte fugaive-siars law aoas not
included The convention, in its resolutions, marked
this omission Of the fugitive law from among the meas
ures which il approved, by voting dom, summa
rily and with great unanimy, both in preliminary
caucus and in full convention, resolution to maintain
that law part of the adjustment measures Governor
Johnston-lhe one OF the two nominees who was on the
spotreseved the question of his acceptance Of the nom
nation until that resolution passed, and then in his
speech accepting the nomination Unexpectedly action qhe
conusntoa BY declaring that" the fugitive iaw aras as open
to repeal the tariff of 1896" Such was the political
in which Gen Scott consented TO act as the
chief that recent memorable canvass in
Pennsyvana which the eye OF the country was turned
almost decisive of the safety of The Union In that can
the undivided South compelled to recognise and
did recognise, that the wings with Johnston and Scott
their head. should triumph, that triumph would be the
solemn reputation by the popular verdict OF the Key
stone State, OF the fugitive law part OF the Com
promise. To the whig party thus organized and led
by Generacot and Governor Johnston in that canvass
both the leading wing organs in this city, unquesonably
feeling that President Fillmore and his policy had been
thrown overheard this precise question OF the main
OF the fugitive law, their honor he it spoken
absolutely refused their support And now, be il remem-
bered that this in Pennsylvania thus gorousy
fought out by the democrats and the compromise wings
against Messrs Scott and Johnston at the head OF the
abolition and agitation element in their party, was the
very eris,s oil the momentous question whether the
Compromise, in ils only vulnerable point of the fugitive
law, should stand fall How can General Scott ever
atone 10 bis country for the sad and perous and odious
part which, at that critical moment, his great name was
made 10 playa Whatever General Scott may have said
written year before about Mr.. Clay's omnibus bill
Mr. Websters 7lh OF March Speech il is utterly un.
deniable that his great then welded 10 give
power TO the wing league which sought 10 break down
Presiden, Fillmore and his administration on the cues
ton of the fugitive law.
But there is another point made in the above extract
from the Baltimore Sun which is worthy of notice II
goes TO show why Gen. Scott the same time so
readily nominated by the wings OF Ohio who regulated
in the convention all obligation TO maintain the Com.
promise and proclaimed in the letter of their then newly
elected senator, Mr. Wade, eternal hostility 10 the ug-
tive law. Before the Castle Garden meeting was held in
New York. il appears that Gen. Scott wrote 10 Mr. Web.
ster TO approve Dir Webser's position What was Mr.
Websters position at that time in regard the fugitive
lawi We learn this from Mr.. Webstefs subsequent
letter TO the Castle Garden meeting, which Cen Scott
attended In that letter Mr. Webster did NOT approve he
fugitive iaap, but, on the contrary, expressly stated
that he had himself drawn different fugitive law nth
the trial BY jury on the spot, part OF its process of
recovery and restoration Of the fugitive That was Mr.
Websters position on the fugitive law al the time when
General Scott gave his written approval OF that position
1t precisely the position taken at the same time by
Governors Johnston and Hunt in their messages recon
mending the repeal modification OF the present fugitive
law. 1T was precisely the position taken by all those
wings in Ohio who did not object 10 every form of
the fugitive law. It precisely the position on
which the anti-compromise wings OF New York. Penn.
syvania, and Ohio leagued under the Scott banner
to make war President Fillmore. I, is The posi-
lion which the New York Tribune, and the wing
OF the whg party for which II speaks now take in the
elaborate article quoted in columns yesterday which,
Ia the breath. denounces the fugitive law and urges
the nomination OF General Scott az friend of The Cam