Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-11

what particular article of the democratic creed they
desire to oppose? Do they in fact offer any other
reason why you should vote for their Presidential
candidate but that he has been great and sue
cessful military leader? If this were sufficient
reason for his election the writer of this article
would say at once he is entitled to the office. The
writer is not of that class of politicians who villfy
and traduce a public servant because he may be in
the way of the accomplishment of some of his own
wishes. He is proud of the wing candidate for the
Presidency as one of the greatest captains of the
age and honors him for having faithfully used
those military talents which God has given him for
the glory and success of his country. Nor will he
detract from his private public reputation in mat
tiers not Immediately affecting his fitness for this
Office. But the writer is opposed to the election to
the Presidency of
GENERAL ScoTT.
And first on the very ground that the wings pro-
pose to elect him. to wit, that he is great and
successful military leader, and would never have
beer thought of for that Office but on that account
From the first it was feared that our institutions
would be of short duration-that they were weak
in themselves and would be exposed to violent as
sailants from within and without. Among these
dangers, and among the most prominent too, was
the known proneness of mankind, like the silly
mo tn, to be attracted by glare and briiancy, and
like it to rush into the embrace of that which daz
zled it, even to its own destruction. Republicans
of ancient days have left us the sad lesson that
while they, with sinewy and fearless hearts,
strove to the death against every foreign invader
like the infatuated worshppers of Jugernaut, they
would PROSTATE their bodies before some idol-chief
tain and shout aloud his praises while he was crush
ing them III the dust and sweeping away every
thing else that dear to their hearts, So strong
were the fears of the late. Henry Clay upon this
subject that in one of those eloquent bursts in
which he was wont to express his strong convictions
I,o T inAo fha
vine displeasure, and it be necessary to chastise
this people with the rod of vengeance would hum
bly, PROSTATE myself before Him, and implore His
mercy to visit our favored land with war; with pes
thence, with famine, with any other scourge than
military rule or a blind and needless enthusiasm
for mere military renown." Is this all empty dec
lamation? Was Mr.. Clay, who has since been the
admiration of the whig party, mere ranting tor
stage effect to promote the election of his avorite
candidate? No. believe if he ever spoke sin
cerely it was then, and never were his words more
full of important truth. What would be thought
of man who, knowing the proneness of one with
whom he was dealing to yield to the influence OF
Intoxicating drinks should induce him to drink for
the purpose of cheating him out of every thing he
possessed-and not only so, but to cause him cor
ruptly to barter away the rights of others? How
much more guilty is he who, aware of the human
weakness of yielding to military renown, shame
essly avas himself oft to induce his fellow citizens
to vote differently from what they would otherwise
do and at the same time corrupts the public mind by
removing that dread of military usurpation, which
is only security against it-who traitorously
leads ellowcitizen to the betrayal of his country!
And yet has not such been the course of the whig
party? Has there ever been man more exclu-
sively military in his claims to the Presidency, than
Gen. Scott The boast of his friends is that he
has been trained almost from his boyhood in mill
tary affairs and if any evidence be required how
exclusively military his views upon almost every
subject, we have only to turn to his plan for i'm
proving the naturalization laws of the Union. OPP
posed he is to naturalization in general two years
service in the army navy of the United States
to confer the privileges of citizenship Experience
has taught all men that service in camps as com
mon soldier is not one ofthe best preparations for
civil life through which man pass still less is
that on board Of ship of war. And yet General
Scott would make them pre-emnent qualifications
The disqualifying effects of military life for civil
service is fully exempli6ed in these notions of Gen
Scott; for they certainly would not have entered
the head of man who did not look upon war a:
the natural common occupation of our people
and place military service before all others. Sec
ondly, we are opposed to Gen. Scott because he j:
the nominee of the Wing party. We not 0
those who suppose our political adversaries wrong
in every thing, that they are necessarily wrong
in any thing but their political principles But W.
do not believe that they would select man whom
they did not think, if elected, would administer tn
government to suit their views who would not fee
bound to distribute patronage to place politi
cal power in the hands of those who had chosel
him. Their Convention was numerous and consisted
of able men from all parts of the country, and W,
doubt not the leaders took care to advance as fa
possible the principles they profess in the selec
ton of their candidate; though they were very
careful in their platform not to set forth any prn
ciple to which the soundest democrat could object
Thirdly, we oppose Gen. Scott because of polti
cal opinions expressed by him personally, whic
we hold as dangerous in the extreme.
NORTH CAROLINIAN.
Mr.. KERR-H1s DEFEAT. The whig press @
North Carolina have been uttering amentauo owe
the total thew have received In the State eect