The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-10-21
A General in Search of a Presidency.

The following description of Gen. SCOTS
celebrated tour of 1852, is from the Rich
mond Examiner
The tour of Scott through the doubtful
States will long be remembered in this coun-
try. The march of Falstaff through Cow
entry was doubtless brilliant thing; the
pilgrimage of Smellfungus to the PromOn-
tory of Noses was notable affair; the ex-
petition of certain King of France to the
top of a certain hill, with twenty thousand
men, produced, some little merriment; but
the tour of Scott as a magnificent failure, a
splendid burlesque upon all other tours,
claims lofty prominence. There is moth
ing in the Comedy of Errors, nothing amid
the wild vagaries of Mid Summers Night
Dreams, to equal the exquisitely ludicrous
features of the great Scott tour through the
! Western Reserve, and other sink holes of
AbQlitlonism and fanaticism. The mana
gers of that amusing firm, to which Scott
furnishes the feathers and Graham the tar,
finding that all their lies about Gen. Pierce
were cruelty beat down before they were
fairly out of the ground, started Scott upon
his pilgrimage, as Barnum would stuff pea
cock, with tail expanded and plumage all
adjusted in the most captivating manner
They prayed before starting on their political
adventure, to the Devil and other popular
idols Of the Wing party, that Scott would
keep silent, and merely keep "booiag and
booing" as the distinguished Mr. McSyco
phantpnc remarked
Having inspired him with morbid horror
of ink, and effected successful cure of his
cacaths scribendi, they believed themselves
safe They did not recollect that volcanoes
whose eraters are filed up by natural and ar
tificial means, never fail to find new vent
E for fame and lava, in a new and more dan
gerous situation. They did not remember
that the unclean spirit cast out Of a man
having wandered over deserts and parcheC
places, seeking rest and finding none, fail
, not to return to his ancient abode, bringing
! with him seven other devils more evil thar
! himseE-and that the last state of tina
man is worse than the first. Having put
paddock on SCOTS inkstand, and affixed on
> of Hobbs patent to his desk, they fell int
the fatgl error Of SuppOsing that his tongu
= also was secured by those graceful and be
: coming APPENDICES, and permitted him
:, undertake tour of baby-kissing throug
> Ohio aid Pennsylvania. But Scott has prc
II we'd unequal to the temptations of that tou
Men al stupid as himself met him at the d
Ipots, tlok sheets Of nonsense out Of the
breecltS g.che and read them to him.
This was more rlan he could stand I'll
sacred geese of Rome cackled on much lie
provoation-and Scott once released fro
. the restraints Of his keepers, has perpetr
r tai more deliberate and cold-blooded no
sense in farce weeks, than we believed ;
- ne fourth-utJ july orators vino Fave spak
n and will speak in this country could eifl
c. during the existence Of the Republic. Y
N allowed General Scott un uncommon capa
q ty for the written composition Of folly b
u If his latent talent that way in speech,
of had not the slightest idea, until we began
4 make the selection from his late CRATIC
re- which we publish to-day. We shall bel
he after regard Scott as more wonderful 81
cmcn of the race chronicled by Erasmu
ba than any immortalizcd in the Eneomiu
K .Norio. His genius for nonsense is real
cs tremendous. The calmness with which
= utters and prints a speech in the face of t
rs nation, of which any decent debating soc
On ty in minor college would be ash med,
,o really sublime.
IS When a man sets forth on his trave
It, whether to make himself wise or ridiculol
ne he should count the cost. A private ctiz
IN can spend his time as idly and foolishly
IL he pleases without question or rcbuke fro
he the press or the people. But Gen SCI
he processes to be in the employment of the G
a vernment. He travels as a Major Gener
lat He has not seen fit to conform himself to t
St usages of former Presidential candidates
IL resigning an important office. While he
es, Strengthening the ties which bind him to t
7as sts-electioneering like a co
ad mon sherif-making speeches like the raz
Ct strop man to small crowds around the hott
ad Uncle Sam, that most mild and indulgent
de- masters, pays his bills and gives him ej.
lad teen dollars per diem into the bargain
eb- Beautiful spcctaele Refreshing sight
as Presidential candidate stumping it over
to Union, and the Federal Government pay
of his expenses out of the public TreasuI
hy converting his duty as a soldier int
be- mere pretence for political tour! 1t is
as i'll omen for the country-yet it illustra
aid the truth that a power shapes our destir
md which ''out of evil still educes good"
ep- this disgraceful scene may be the instrum
low of opening the eyes Of the American pee
cal to the nature Of the issues, and the t
i character of the candidates, presented
ade their decision 90 that mine enemy VIC
asy write book, exclaimed long suffering j
EN- General Scott has served the Democracy
ion better by series of speeches unparalle
)ur- IN ancient or modern times.