Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-28

is an emphatic warning against the danger of vestng
in the hands of any Sc. of men large and concen-
! trated moneyed power.
Pe,oLred THAT in order to bring back the govern
ment to the purity simplicity of democratic
administrations which is so essential to the Puohc
welfare and insure the success OF these measures
If t;litv and reform so loudly demanded by the peo-
pe we deem i: indispensable that the executive de-
ppartment of the government should be filled by
patriot of the good old democratic seho01 ,..-
oqnise such patriot. Born and.reared on the same
soil with the illusrous Apostle Of Liberty, his early
and steadfast adherence to the PWrc principles Ge-
ocracy entities him to the highest confidence OF the
people.
That the political principles professed by Gen.
Scott at the time covered by these proceedings were
strictly identical with those indicated by his organ
and by the resolutions above quoted, there IS the
most abundant and irrefragable proof He received
and read the Sun regularly and 1t was the only
out-and-out Scott paper in the United States Were
there nothing else to identify his principles with
those of the Scott republican, his acquiescence in
the course and object of that paper would be quite
sufficient. But his political whereabouts at that
time does not depend circumstantial evidence
alone He visited this city in that year to look at
ter his presidential interests in person. He sent TOR
the more prominent members of the Scott organl-
cation, and they accordingly called upon him at
the Eagle Hotel. He there expressed to them, DIS
tinctLy and emphaticalLy, has unqualified appro-
baton of the aOhole movement by whlch he had
been put forapard as a democratic candidate for
the presidency. He urged them to perseUere, and
declared in the warmest terms his gratitude to these
gentlemen for what they had done for him. He
said, if he ever reached the White House he should
owe his elevation to their efforts as this movement
had turned the eyes of the country towards him.
But knowing that theif democracy not of the
flexible order, and aware that the mass OF the DEM
ocratic party in this State desired the renomina-
ton of Mr.. Van Buren,, Gen. Scott did not deem
it prudent to leave his democratic supporters to IN
fer his principles from any number OF facts, how
ever significant so he stated to them, without
|equivocaton or reserve, that he democrat
that he alUays had been democrat-that &e had
supp rted and sustained every democratic admin
ist' alton since he upon the stage Of action
that lie looked to that party for his political tu-
ture-and that ats principles his principles.
These facts General Scott will not have the hard
ihood to deny. They are vouched for by men
whose integrity will not be questioned, and whose
veracity needs no support. Their names are at the
their credibility. 1t will be found as unimpeacha
bic as the documentary evidence which comedies
and corroborates their testimony.
But Gen. Scott in his overweening anxiety to inn
press his auditors with the thorough ness of his
democracy, forgot the prudence which dictated his
profession of faith or rather perhaps should say,
his ch; rlct Isle egotsm asserted its accustomed
premacy. He said he had upheld every democratic
| administration under which he had served" Gen.
Jackson's administration" which he knew all his
auditors admired, "he had carried through on his
back" General Scott said much more in the same
strain, which it is not necessary to repeat. The
sequel may be briefly told. These Scott republ-
cans had hitherto known their favorite only as a
military chieftain )" and viewing him through the
medium of a friendly press, they had seen in him
much to admire. But an hours conversation rev.
oil obO lie
gusted with his rrepressble vanity, his self-lauda-
ton, without regard to truth the fame of 9th
ers and the infrnaity which he manifested in ref
erence to his new position, those who saw him most
soon abandoned him. They were rapidly follow
ed by the rest of the first Scott party, and the
General himself with admirable regard for princi-
ple turned his back upon all his re cent professions
and deserted to the arhig camp!
1t will not be uninstructve TO pause here mo-
ment and contemplate General SCOTS various po-
litical mutations. He started on the presidential
race ahardnoney, anti-bank independent treasury
Democrat fresh from carrying General Jackson's
administration on his buck He was Jefferson
and Jackson democrat according to the then cur
rent party divisions. His history, his cherished
principles, his future hopes and aspirations accord
ing to his own explicit declarations, all identified
him with the democratic party; and the democrat
ic party of that day. allowing for the altered con-
dition of the country, occupied every intelligent
man must concede, substantially the same position
that it does now. The same remark holds true as
regards the wings. But General Scott then pro-
fessed democratic principles, and was democratic
candidate whereas he now processes wing princi-
pies, and is a whig candidate.
Inconsistent and tortuous, however, as General
SCOTS political course has been when tested by
principle, it has in respect been eminently con-
sistent-he has always made such professions and
formed such associations as, in his judgment, would
most likely result in his election to the presidency
In 1889 the then recent splendid victories of the
democracy its high state of discipline, its serene con-
fidence in its own 'destiny all indicated it as
the party which mere ambition should conciliate.
The hard cider campaign of 1910 Frustrated the
democracy and fixed General Scott for the time
being in the whig ranks. Subsequently the native
American excitement swept over the land, and, to
the superficial observer, threatened to revoutonize
the politics of the country. General Scott, true
to his aims, thereupon claimed the honor of having
founded this odious party. He who so recently
avowed his attachment to the principles of the il
lustrious jackson, the of foreigner, and the
true friend of the adopted CITIZEN meditated the
perpetual disfanchsement all who are alien born
Again: in his estimation popular sentiment had
changed its direction and the foreign vote had large
ly increased; General Scott now undertakes to Sc
cure it by proposing species of ''hasty" natural
ization, inconsistent with the whole tenor of our
legislation. And, lastly, this topic, he exposes
himself to ridicule by weak attempt to reconcile
his crude notions on this subject with each other