Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-10-01
Bro,vnloss,s Life scott, the PIcfare Book :
Revised.

Brovvmlosss Life OF scott, the PIcfure Bosak
Revised.
Parson BRowsIow, who was recommended to the.
Secretary Of State by majority Of the Wing mem
bers Of Congress from Tennessee as proper person
to print the laws of the United States accounts
of his orthodoxy as Whig and the popularity OF
his paper. and whom Mr. WEBSTER endorses in his re-
ply TO Senator MANGuM is now publishing an au<
thentc LIFE OF ScoTT from which we select the fol-
lowing chapter, commenting it to the attention of
our readers, asking them while they read it to bear
in mind that it is not locofoco Slang but the pro
duction of one who prints thelsws OF the u States
:. BY AUTHORITY from Wing administration:
CHAPTER III.
Pixies life of Scott "the picture book" is going
out into the country by ship loads, an atrociously
false biography in all material respects lntenoeo 70
deceive and humbug the people This production
was cotton up by the Central and Executive Com
mttee at Washington, whose members are each and
all oficeseek having the promise OF reward IN
the event of Scots election. j. D tlke, the writer
of this "picture book is the notorious Abolition
ist who was beaten for Congress IN Maine, by Full
le Democrat in the last contest in that StA-e Pke
| is the Washington correspondent OF Greelys Tn
| bune the organ of Northern Abolition Whlggery
Pike the biographer Of Scott is an Abolonlst OF
as deep and hateful dye, as the notorious Garrison
or Hale and was no doubt selected as the writer OF
| Scotts Life to reconcile Northern Abolltonists to
the Southern Platform Three large job Offices arc
engaged in New York in working of these Lives
from Stereotype plates and Greedy superintends the
! factory There is ono other set of plates at Gin
cinnati in an Abolition Office. Tens of thousands OF
these picture books " being ground out for the
use of the Free Sellers of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and
Michigan. The headquarters of the concern at
| Washington. is the National Era office, the great
Central Abolition press of the Union where we are
informed by letter, power press is engaged night
and day, in turning them off from one set of these
stereotype plates
Our object in setting forth new Life of Scott is,
to supply various important items, left out of Pike
compHafion. That work represents Scott like WASH
ington, as fighting the battles of his country for
mere glory and patriotism, without any kind OF
compensation. Washington did command our ar
mics through the whole war of the Revolution with
out receiving dollar Of compensation Gen. Scott,
on the other hand, has received out of the public
Treasury in forty-four years of military career,
! TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN THOUS-
AND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS! This is COM
pensation enough for the services he has rem
dered in "A years, because it is an average of S.
623 90 per amman, or SIG so per day Why do
we assert this Gen. Scott entered the service on
the Sd of May 1903, Captain of Light Artillery.
He remained in this rank for six years. during which
time he received pay and perqusites, So 124 w.
On the 25th of July, 1914, he was brevetted a
Major General In that capacity, in times Of peace,
he received in pay and perquises $4:4l2 per year.
Since 1874 out of the thirtyeght years, the country
has been ut peace twenty-eight, during which time
Scott has received for indication $50; 24O! On the
25th of june 1871 he was created Major Gener-
al. his pay being the as it was while brevetted
But his compensation during times Of arar, or while
in active service, was always increased. Out of A
years. he has been engaged eighteen years in active
service it is Termed and during that time, he has
received in salary, forage, subsistence. &c. S8,412
90 per annum-in gross Sl5l,4 90! For his
whole Al years. two-thirds of which time was spent
in card playing and visiting the fashionable water
ing places in the country, he has received from the
United States Treasury s247 400, or a QUARTER
OF A MILLION!!!
! While Gen. Washington accepted his commission
the express condition that only his expenses
to be paid, Gen Scott has received about fire for
tunes, and is entitled to no more. But in 1885, he
conceived the idea, that in c0nsequenee of being
fat salary, by having himself placed the Inuald
Pension Roll, which would have yielded him an
nual pension of several thousand more. According
Iy he drew up his petition and laid it before the
House of Representatives accompanied by numer-
Gus hard oahs, setting forth that he had been woun-
ded in the shoulder! This petition he urged with
his usual ZEAL in person and when enquired of if he
intended to retire, and live his pension, he
nounced NO, but that he wanted the pension in ad-
dition to the SIXTEEN DOLLARS PER DAY, he
was then receiving! In response to his petition,
the Committee: majority of whom were his politi-
cal friends reported adversely.
Thus it will he seen, that Cen Scott was not sat
lShed with an enormous salary tor life, or during
good behaviour but wanted to bleed the Treasury
of the people, in the shape of huge pension! A
bout what we might expect of q general, who would
use the funds of hi, poor soldiers, when but Cap
tain of the Army
In next Volume of the Life of Scott, we will
make further disclosures engrossing interest, and
which The picture book" Of Pike: Greedy & Co.,
have omitted
From the North Carolina Standard.
The Canvass Of Frauds.
/ This is emphatcally- far as the Scott-Seward
leaders concewncd-the canvass of falsehoods
and frauds. To enumerate all these faIsehoods and
frauds would require far more space than we could
furnish, even if we were to devote whole paper
to the work; we must, therefore, be content with
exposing the most glaring and leave the minor
falsehoods to be corrected by the Judgment of the
honest and Intelligent masses.
The following letter, addressed to the Editor of
this paper, by William Butterfed, Esq, the Editor
of the New Hampshire Patriot, speaks for itself
N. Fl. PATRIOT OFFICE.
Concord, N. H. Sept. H. 1852
Dear Sir: copy of the North Carolina Tele-
graph Of the 9th inst. Published at GoIdsborough,
has been shown to me this morning, from which |