The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-10-20
General scott and the Irish.-The 81. Patrick's
Legion.

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birth Until he was made candidate for the presidency,
General Scott was known TO be the most violent and pro-
scrptve Of nativsts and his hatred OF the "foregner
the blind aud impolent rage Of his followers, but
considerable steadfast and resoluie feeling Of disrust
and prejudice which contemplated papable purpose
and some practicable result He did not suffer the "hre OF
Indignation" his soul without effect but he
transferred the heat OF hatred that ragged in his breast into
ian address designed TO rally anallve-Amercan party
He was moi content 10 wage warfare of words against
the 'foregnersit was his habit 10 FIRE blank Gait
ridees-but with true military severity and drectnes
of purpose he set about TO effect the abrogaton of the
laws OF naturalization He did what other politician
OF the native American party has done he mamred
plan for the exclusion Of the foreigner from enjoying
The right and Liberties of citizenship in this country
and he developed his system in act OF Congress- which
be commended the federal legislature by elaborate
argument and an urgent appeal.
The labors OF General Scott in the native, American
cause prompted they by The warmest zeal, and
extending through period of nearly ten years duration,
had given him the position OF chief OF the
can party. Nobody disputed his title to the poston-it
was universally conceded that he had won his honors.
This position he proudly maintained, without exhibit
ing the slightest disposition 10 aposa,ize from the party
of which he the acknowledged leader, until that
party had sunk into lnsigncance and It's creed become
byword and reproach. When il had been determined
in the councils Of abolition that General Scott should be
its candidate for the presidency il became necessary that
he should purge himself OF the odum OF the condemned
creed of the natviss Then, for the first time. do we
hear that General Scott is not what he was in 1885
and in lsi4-ihe bitter and proscrpttye enemy OF
the foregn-born citizen Then, for the first time, is
the country appzed OF that mighty revulsion in the
feelings of General Scott by which he 10 be the
vindicive foe, and becomes the best friend OF the
foreigner The sudden conversion OF the cruel perseeu.
tor OF the Christians breathing fire and slaughter" into
the jealous apostle, not more surprising than this
expected and instantaneous melamorphoss OF invee
navist into the most liberal lover OF the foreigner
The agency of supernatural powertbe exhibition Of
signs AMI wonders-was necessary 10 soften the heart
Of the unbeievng pagan but, do recognise in
the conversion of General Scott the Intervention OF
miracle. be excused for suspecling that whilst
his conversion is as sudden, il is quite sincere
that of Saul of Tarsus.
Ii does not require much skill in reading the hearts OF
men to discern at the bottom OF the heart OF The whg
candidate that of native Americanism which in
times past fred him with Indignation against The for.
egner Who believes ia the sincerity OF General SCOTS
recantaon OF native -Amecanism Will the intelligent
foreigner be oarneyed By his professions of love for the
rich bogue and the foreign accent And yet by what,
these professions-made for the occasion, and
stamped as epurioushas the wing candidate ate ted
the sincerity of his born love for the foeigner 1t
is not only the manifest motive which prompted his re-
cent recantaon of native Amerieansm, nor the sgnih
c.nt circumstances under which was made, which sug
ge is a suspicion Of lis hollowness Who is the conf
Dental counsellor and political Mentor OF General Scott
VIM II. Seward-,he who expressed to the governor
OF Virginia willingness TO exchange the Irishmen of
New York S9E the free negroes OF Virginia Now by
the OF The presidential partnership between Seward
and Scott, the latter furnishes the military auaiIbiy
while The former supplies the political creed OF the
cern, is logical and just 10 infer that Sco with
Seward in his estimate Of our foregn.b born fellow. ct-
Nor is this all. When man undertakes TO prove
himself innocent OF charge by argument palpably
absurd impossible, he rarely escapes condemnation
Now, how does General Scott attempt 10 acqut him.
self OF the suspicion of being still natiVist To
what cause does he refer his abandonment OF his
long cherished native-American creed! To a cause
which in active operation forty years ago
as at The moment OF his sudden conversion. The
herosm OF the "foreiEner had been illustrated by Mont.
gomey and De Kalb the boodest battle. fields OF the
revoution-Scoit himself had witnessed his vaor and
his fidelity in The OF 1912; set in 1914 the "foreign
ei the object OF the dstrusI. the hatred. and the
persecution OF General Scott and not until 1915, when
General Scott had become suppcant for the favor OF
the "foregner" did he begin 10 appreciate his good
qualities aud recognise his services The solitary
son assigned by General Scott for his reputation Of ma
tive Americansm the gallantry Of lrshmen n The
Mexican war-as il they had not displayed their gal
lanry in The OF the revolution and Of 1912 The
wing candidate must give better for the faith
which he now Processes. This looks very much like
hollow petex got up to smother temporarily the "fre Of
Indignation" which, though hidden, burns intensely
in the breast OF General Scott that famous
ming in the Astor House paror and which on a pro.
pious occasion will burst forth again with all ils
ancient fury. Let no, the na;urazed citizen trust the
newborn love OF the old nativis II is too recent, too
much the creature OF circumstance and in every respect
too suspicious, to deserve implicit confidence The fIe
ity of that friendship is always be disused which
springs from interested motives and for its hollow pro.
LESSONS demands reward
In his anxiety 10 concis,e the favor and the
support OF the largest class OF foreign born fellow
offensive the rsh-the wing candidate not only
compliments their rich brogue, bat eulogzcs their char
acter in a style at which they themselves will laugh In