The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-07-22
EDENSDJRG, TIJRSDIY, JULY y, 1852.

| is true. But ne declined to write any because
| it was comfortable to the policy, Of those who
sought to give it to him. Laughter. They
wanted silence, and he gave it to them We
demanded to know his opinions upon those great
questions Of public policy which we intended to
make paraff5siat TO all others in the eIe ction.-
We could not get them. My friend from Ten
! nessee, Mr.. GENTRY, and from Florida, Mr..
CAEELL,] and, according to Scott's own state
ment, many others, were clamorous before the
nomination, demanding to know whathe thought
about them-what were his opinions upon them
did he approve them-and would he carry
them out IN good Faith. They heard no voice
from him, sir; and it could not be brought out
an there was but one reason why it was not
got. We were told that when he should obtain
the nomination we should receive it, He would
not write letters to secure the nomination, but
it would be fair, open sailing when it should be
made. How has he answered those questions
Il accept the nomination, with the resolutions
annexed" take it cum onere. Laughter /
There is not a single line in the whole letter
which expresses his approval of the Compro-
mise, or commits him to its faithful maintenance.
1t does not require much writing for a man to
say whether he likes the platform or whether
he would carry out its principles or not. But
he took great deal of writing to get around
it. lie says, accept it. There is no declara-
ton here that it should be the policy of his ad
ministration but, on the contrary, he says
he does not intend ''to reduce This party1
by prescription to exact conformity to- his prin
ciples, whatever they are.
Mr.. CAMPBE IL, of Ohio, (interrupting.
desire to know Of the gentleman from Georgia,
Mr.. TooABs,l iaasmuch as he is assailing the
letter Of General Scott, whether he did not send
a telegraphic despatch to the State Of Georgia
calling upon his friends there to oppose the nom
ination before that letter of General Scott ap-
peared?
Mr.. TGO2fBs. Certainly, sir; I did
II Laughter My dear sir, would give GU my
whole history if I had time. daughter.
do not carry my principles in my pocket I
shall shun question whenever l am asked,
and no has ever to hunt for my position in
politics. deem it to be the high duty of every
public man to declare his sentiments, and my
rule has been, that whoever is voter has a
right to my opinions and he can get them when
ever it suits his convenience. This IS what I
understand to be the true principles of repres-
entative government, and l would scorn to rep
resent men upon this floor, or in the highest
Office in the world, by concealment o. my opin-
ions upon questions of public policy.
did not intend 10 support General Scott in
any event. l thinkshim unfit for the Office un-
der any circumstances, and dangerous to the
country, in the highest degree, in his present
position. 1 am now offering additional reasons,
furnished by himself, why he should not be cleo
ted to the Office which he seeks. The reluctant
members of the convention are told. ''You
went to Baltimore, and you are bound by the
action of the convention" But wish to show
them that this is not a sound principle of party
action, and that you have the right to demand
Of your candidate to stand up to general rules
, Of honor and good faith. Whenever parties de
clare their principles, they have a right to have
candidate to carry them out. They have a
right to know whether the candidate approves
of those principles or not If he says he will
not, then nobody is bound by the nomination
Those my opinions of party nominations.
General Scott has not done it. He has not
declared his appreciation of these principles in
has declared that principles shall make no diff
ference when it comes 10 the important business
of becoming the almoner of fifty millions of dol
lars Of the public money.
1t was very easy for him to say whether or
not he agreed with those principles and approx
ed of them, as Pierce, and King, and Graham
! have done He is painfully obscure where it
was his duty to be plain, but sufficiently certain
where obscurity would at least have been Pru-
dent. His additions to the platform are GER
tainly not to my taste. He has put two addi-
tional planks to it. Laughter That is lit
| tie singular, as his friends seemed so much op-
posed to this kind of political structure. Gen.
Scott is for charging and making the platform
! broad enough, not only for you ana me, and this
country, but also to cover his own past errors,
and get himself out of his past committals. 1t
became necessary to him 20 re-write part Of
his own political history. He had certain COM
initials to the tenets of an exploded party. His
! former opinions of our naturalization laws were
not agreeable to a large class of our countrymen.
| He therefore proposes to alter them He pro-
poses to give ''to all foreigners the right of cit
| zenship who shall faithfully serve, in time of
war, one year on board of our public ships orin
our land forces, regular volunteer, ON their
receiving an honorable discharge"
am opposed to that position, and think he
viii find the great body of the people are oppo-
sed to it. l do not think he cares much about