Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-10-23
The ..Enion. and Gen, Scott.

In courteous but rather sharp controver-
sy between Mr.. Calhoun and MIR. Crittenden
in the Senate some ten years ago, tbeigFeat
Carolinian complained that Mr.. Crittenden,
to sustain charge of Inconsistency against
him, had referred to a speechFor. vote made
or given several years before, MIR. Critten-
den replied with his accustomed felicity and
effect, and inquired whether the Senator
claimed the benft of a political statute OF
limitations; and if so how many years must
elapse before time could be plead m bar OF
allegations of that description. The period
was not determined upon But we presume
that charge of inconsistency or tergiversa-
tion would lie against a politician or a news
paper, guilty of a direct, palpable contradic-
ton within shorter time than six years.
Assuming that this proposition will not be
gainsaid, we proceed to convict the Washing
ton Union of the most fragrant and shame
less inconsistency. In April, the g5tioa used
these remarkable and emphatic words-"The
gratitude and Gdmirdtion Of a free people are
due to Major General Scott'' And again in
Is49, the Union spoke of Scott in terms of
encomium even more earnest and forcble
than those used by it in April l847 Indeed
it was quite indignant that Taylor had been
preferred to Scott as candidate for the
Presidency; and in an article written express
ly with a view 20 prove Scott's capability for,
and title to, that office, the editor thus can
didly delivered himself $40
Gen. Scott is an older soldier than Gen.
Taylor; one who is at least equally, if not
more accomplished, and who has distinguish
ed himself by more and as brilliant battles
during the war, who captured Vera Cruz
and the. Castle and the Capital of Mexico,
and one, too, who has more qualities of CT
william, and better known as a Whig''
This, we are bound to suppose was the de-
liberate opinion-the sincere feeling of the
Union. Well may the Philadelphia Amer-
can inquire if the noble old chief has commit
ted high treason, thurst larcenous hand into
the officers of the State, betrayed the coun-
try to a foreign foe, or done any other such
monstrous crime as should justly forfeit his
title to "the gratitude and admiration of
free people," and invoke upon his venerable
head the unmeasured and acrimonious exer-
tions of the very journal which, I've years
ago, sowarmly eulogised him? History re-
cords no act that can so impeach him.
And vet the columns of this same Uuion
now TEEN with the most scurrilous and inGe-
decent abuse Of the man to whom five years
ago, "the gratitude and admiration of free
people were due" On "Wednesday of last
week it contained an editorial headed "Gen-
eral Taylor and General Scott" from which
we extract the following paragraph: .r
There IS this wide difference between Gen.
eral Scott and General TAYLOR; Ihe former
thinks himself almost an AdpSEaHle Crich-
ton. He is sensitive about sstalesmanship,
and his organs are fooIng him stb he top Of
his bent by calling him a Scion; and yet we
would rather have trusted Gen TAYLOR, with
ali his admmitted deficiencies, than Gen.
Scott with his bombast, -conceit, and ever
present arrogance. Gen. Taylor had the CON-
mon sense OF abusiness man. &gH88
The disgust and contempt with which such
hypocrisy. must fill the mind Of every houor-
able man, whether Wing or Democrat, would
not be increased by any comments ofours
Yesterday one man was decried and tradu-
ceds aad another relatively extolled :; to day,
the relation of things being altered, he who
was DETAINED is euIogized. and che one before
eulogized, is aspersed and deprecated. The
Union presunnes strangely upon the forget
,fulness or forbearance of its readers.
Com. Advertiser.