Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-09-20
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General Scott and the Atlas.
The Atlas says that General Scott is not mere
his peace achievements those Of ,car. We must
fess that were aware of this fact before. We
believed that General Scott was simply a Bajazet
or Tamerlane, who rode upon horse, in company
with great many other men trained TO kill expedi-
tiously, and that he told those men to kill at Lun-
dy's Lane, Cherubusco, and Chepultepec, and they
did it, but that he profound scholar like Ken
ophon, or an accomplished politician like Julius
Caesar, we were not aware. Presidential nom
ination, however,is like coat Of varnish mans
biography, it brings out all his points, and makes
them shine. General Scott, in the walks OF war,
made tracks, bloody tracks to be sure, but every
body saw them In the walks Of peace he was APP
parenty nonentity; in the walks of craftsmanship
and intellectually, he seemed even more nonenti-
ty, if that possible, for nobody ever heard Of
him as a civilian; but now, having obtained the
nomination at Baltimore he out strong, in the
columns OF the Atlas, covered with all the glores OF
Hector, and adorned with all the graces of
Paris.
Ii must be confessed. however, that General Scott
possesses duality Of character, but it is duality
which is generally expressed as "two faced" Like
the Statue Of Janus, at Rome, which looks both
ways at once, along the Appaian way, General Scott
looks both ways once, along the political way of
this republic; and he squints it in such quiet, nat.
ural way, that you don't exactly know how he is
looking, until some John NJ. Bolts or other, takes
letter from his breaches pocket, which, like COM
pass, shows how the General is veering
In his youth, General Scott was an abolitonist
He began the study Of politics the pages Of Black
stone, Jefferson, and Judge Thicker, and entered on
the path Of his political life with strong convictions
that slavery in general not only unjust and high
" impolitic but that the General Government
should wash its hands clear of it altogether; and
that the States should abolish il fast as they pos
sibIy could. In 1871 we find him repeating these
abolition sentiments, in his Atkinson letter. In
1850, the reaction in favor Of slavery having taken
place, we find him working with might and main.
as lobbyer and letter writer, for the Texas $l0,.
100000 grant, for the destruction Of the WiImot
Proviso, and for The Fugitive Slave Law. And in
the passage Of those measures, and finally standing
trumphantly upon the Wing pro-savery platform,
the candidate Of that apostate party.
slam persuaded" says General Scott in 1871,
'sthat it is high moral obliga ion of masters and
slaye-holdiog States, to employ all means not in
compatible with the safety Of both coors, 10 meo.
rate slavery even to extermination.''
I Il ttTf i.
Presidency, would you accept the nominalon?''-
Yes, provided be not required to renounce any
protested principle Ny principles are conrictions.-
Yet this Gener who has courage enough to kill In
dams and Mexicans-who once was an abolitionist,
and who once said, "My principles convictions"
now boasts that he wrought harder than any other
man for the passage Of the Fugitive Slave Law,
which subverts, trampes on, and insults all his pro.
fessed princples,-and he hugs TO his bosom the
whig platform, which openly denounces and attacks
freedom Of speech.
Let any man with one drop of free blood in his
veins, spark of independence in his mind,
read the eighth article Of the Wing Baltimore plat
form, on winch Gen. Scott stands, and then saw if
such man is worthy Of the vote of any one, save
uouDle'uYeu uouSnlace or nunkcr. i MS infamous
resolve reads as follows:
ReSolced, That the series of acts of the 3lst
Congress, the act known as the fugitive slave
law included,are acquiesced in by the Wing par
ty of the United States, as settlement in princi-
pie and substance, of the dangerous and exciting
questions which they embrace, and SO far asihey
are concerned, we will maintain and insist upon
their strict enforcement, until time and expert
| ence shall demonstrate the necessity of further
legisation,t TO guard against the EVASION of the law
on the one hand and The abuse Of their pocers on
the other-not mpairing their present efficiency land
| we deprecate all further agitation of the ques-
| ttons thus settled, as dangerous to our peace,
and aCilt discountenance all efforts to reneto
such agitation, oheneUer, achereuer, and ho,vev-
| err the attempt may be made. and will maintain
this system as essential to the nationality of The
| Wing party Of the Union.
Said we not truly, that Gen. Scott has duality
Of characlerg-ihough not of that particular double
ness which the Atlas claims for him. He is
thorough paced doughfaoe, and politician of easy
virtue, or he would not stand in the position which
he occupies as leader Of aparty pledged to sus-
tain The infamous fugitive slave laws and stiHe the
discussion of slavery, in the pulpit, in the halls of
legislation, by the 6reside, in the columns Of the
newspapers, and in the meetings Of the people. But
Gen. Scott and his Wing myrmidons must fight
harder fight than that Of Queenstown, Cherubusco,
Or Lundy Lane, before he and they shall attain this
end. The free democracy defy such threats, and
despise the man who can endorse them.
EYMessrs. Fillmore and Webster, have been
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