Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-08-30
Scot, n, ChnrIeston in 1sss-'ss.

But less discretion on the part of Scott, in the
momentous and delicate business with which he
was charged would have precpitated fatal ca
tastrophe. Regarding the propriety and prudence
with which he acted, we have the reliable testi-
mony of Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Esq, who went
to Charleston as the bearer of certain resolutions
of the Legislature Of Virginia, intended to restore
pacific relations between South Carolina and the
Federal authorities. That gentleman, in letter,
thus speaks of the conduct of Gen. SCOTT:
al was at Charleston when be arrived and as
sumed the command, which he did without parade
or fuss. No one who had not an opportunity OF
observing on the spot the excitement that existed
can have an adequate conception of the delicacy
or the trust. Gen. Scott had large acquaintance
with the people of Charleston-he was their
friend; but his situation was such that many, the
great ma jorty of them, looked upon him as pub
lie enemy. He thought that the first drop of blood
shed in civil war between the United States would
prove an mmedcablc wound, which would end in
change of our institutions. He was resolved,l II
was possible, to prevent resort to arms, ana
nothing could have been more cjudiclous than ms
conduct. Far from beidg prone to take offence, he
kept his temper under the strictest guard, and was
most careful to avoid giving occasion LOT oHehce;
yet he held himself readyto act Tilt would become
necessary, aud he let that be distinctly understood
He sought the society of the leading Nuifers, and
took care never to say word to them on the sub
iect of political differences: he treated them as
friend. From the beginning to the end ms con-
duct was as conciliatory as 1t was hrm and ancere
evincng that he knew his duty and was resolved to
perform it, and yet that his principal object and
purpose was peace. He was perfectly successful,
when the least imprudence might have resulted in
q serious collision"
No one who rightly appreciates the facts of this
most critical passage of American history, can fail
to understand the trying position in which G len
Scott was placed in relation to it. Bnt his extra
ordinary sagacity, self-command and devotion to
the Union served him on this, as on all similar oc
casions in his eventful life; and the result illus
trates the infinite resources of his mind, no matter
what the exigency may be that calls upon him for
counsel or action. In the present instance, he
made himself the agent of peace, while he was
ostensibly the agent of war; with all the insignia
of offensive intentions and authority, he contrived
in fact to be recognised offering the olive branch
to the misguided spirits who were n,open revolt a
gainst the sovereign laws of the nation; and with
magazine beneath his feet, which the least spark of
indscretion might have kindled into an explosion
that would have rent the fabric of the Union into
atoms he succeeded in ayerting the jealousy, which
his own presence in the scene was fitted to excite
andin calming the local agitation which had pre-
cluded the influence of national and patriotic SEN
timents.-North American.
FINE ToBAcco.-A lot of fine tobacco, grown by
d. P. White, of Taylor County, Kentucky, was
sold at Louisville, on Tuesday last at $500, s25,
and 1926 per bundled pounds. 1t was purchased
by city manufacturers.