The daily union., 1852-10-31
whs Planned the Scott Campaigna

The worst generashp that we have seen 10 long time
is the in which the friends OF Scott have
aged his campaign for Presden-he worst and the most
-advised campaign that history has recorded.
The first great blunder after his nomination, TO lei
him loose upon the country He has returned with a
barren sceptre in his grippe he has back 10 Wash
ingion OF heart and hand. He found the country
cold when he went abroad-he left il colder. His
speeches fell like succession OF wet blankets upon
the hearts of the people. They bad not single
quality TO recommend them, and have been condemned
without an exception and yet General Scott talked
without ceasing nhicting his loose, disointed, and
laughabe laudaions Of himself upon every crowd he
met. AS collected and printed in the New York Herald
they make volume for the caricaturis, and will be The
theme OF rdicue for all coming time. The tour Of Gen
eral Scott was useful, however, if TO himself at leas
to the country gave the people chance TO see him
1t furnished the bes, for proving his than
incompeency for tine highest civil station. Men will
not advocate palpable absurdity Men will not be.
come enthusiastic for manifest unhness and incompetent
cy; and rest assured American voters will not besow
their votes upon candidate whose exhibitions TO the
county awake the deson Of his opponents and the egre,
OF his friends Thus the great after General Scos
nomination was The first and the fatal bunder. This
alone would have made his defeat inevitable II his
friends had perpetraed the host OF frauds and OF focs
which now stand against them in the memory OF the
country.
| The next great blunder OF General Scott and his
friends the attempt TO unsay all that they have sad
and still believe against the adopted citizens To op-
pose the rights of that portion OF community is a
fundamental whig doctrine and you nigh we'll attempt
to arrest the march OF time, oblteraie the faithful
memory Of the past, seek TO from the heart Of
the whig party that which ID deeply engaven there.
Hence when the wings the friends OF Scott declare
that they are the friends Of the adopted citizen nobody
believes them Their batteries OF the Irish brogue
and the German accent are rightly believed to be
falsehoods by those TO whom they are addressed
and thus, while they make nothing by this motion among
those whom they applaud they lose strength with every
other section of the country. All classes desplse their
appeals, but none more so than those TO whom they
addressed.
| But while thus noisy upon question in regard TO
which they cannot Impress the country that they are
sincere, they have from the first been thrown into
most equivocal position the compromise measures.
Here their attitude is the attitude of ridiculous ncon-
sistency and double-dealng II is remarkable that du-
ring the entire electiooeerng trip Of General Scott,
he has never once referred to these measures Of
tranquility. He is as silent now, when these meas
sres have been universally concurred in, he was
when they were pending in Congress. when his name
was used by the sectional leaders as a powerful
element against them Instead Of q manly, cordial.
straightforward approval Of the policy that suggested.
and the principles that prevailed in the compromise
J ures we have seen him throwing himself exclusively