Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-09-29
For the Standard.
GEN. SCOTT AND HIS "ABUSERS."

Mr.. EDITOR ! hardly ever look Scott pa
per but see mournful accounts of the shocking
ner in which he is g abused by the Locoiocos."
Now, if l remember the facts connected with his
nomination, and the sayings of prominent men and
respectable papers of the Whig party just after that
melancholy event, the worst things said about him
have been said by Wings.
The worst that has been said Of him that he
has been sold to Seward & Co.; and have abun-
dance of Wing authority for that. For instance, the
Mobile Advertiser talked about the I" Seward Scott
party just befor the nomination, and supports
Scott! The Chambers (Ala.) Tribune says 1--WE
shall support Scott. He has been thrust upon
the South by set of men who are her enemies. He
has not the confidence of any portion of the Wing
party here and he holds held opinions which the
South cannot safely assent to-" E. G. Cabei, of
Florida, in speech in Congress the 18th Of June
last, said I" Scott had paddock on his lips and his
principles in Stewards breeches pockets, and ne
| stands before the country the candidate of the
" "higher-law party" The same sentiment has been
uttered by Toombs, Stevens, Gentry, Faulkner, and
host of others. former leaders of the Whig party.
Now, pu, it to any fair man if any Democrat has
ever uttered written worse things Of Gen. Scott!
Should not any Southern man blush to cast his
vote for the candidate of the - higherlaw party!
But let examine the reasons Of these gentlemen-
these Whig gentlemen, for coming TO conclusion 80
injurious to Gen. Scott. First, then, the New York
Tribune Times, Boston Atlas, Albany Evening jour
nal, and other Abolition prints placed Gen. Scott in
nomination as their first choice. months before the
Conv ention assembled Second, in the Convention.
for fifty ballots he got not single sape State. Third,
sixty SIX members, comprising the very men who so
strenuously insisted his nomination, refused to
vote for the platform. Fourth, the principal Scot,
organs in the free States openly repudate and spit
| upon - the platform .!
| THESE are the reasons why Iphigs charge General
| Scott with being the candidate of Seward & Co.
And are they sufficient ! How is it with the
s. Yankee lawyer' and .s iainting General" the
| Al; call hs
noble and brave FRANK PIERcE-bIave before the
enemies of his country both at home and abroad
Why, the Tribune-the leading Scott organ-says
is notorious fact that Gen. Pierce has for years
been foremost in prescribing osracising and running
down men of his own party in New Hampshire, in.
GLIDING it's nominees for Congress and for Governor,
because of their armed repugnance tn e extension "
sluvery and to the ugireslure law.' And yet in the
face of those notorious facts Gen. Pierce Is pIonounc
ed Freesoier by Southern Wings! Yes, the man
who run down. Hale and hunted out and broke
down Atwood, because of their repugnance TO the
extension of slavery and the fugitive-slave, is
Freesoiler! But Pierce, say these Southern Scott
men, is Freesoiler because he was born and rails.
ed - in free State, where every body, say they,
must be Freesoier or be false to his section or his
| instincts! Whv, what does this argument do with
Webster and Fillmore? They We're both born and
raised - in free States.
The truth is, the South never had better friends
than Levi w oodbury, Frank Pierce, Harry Hibbard,
and Edmund burke-ail new rlau'S"'e '"en' anu
all true the Constitution and the Union If the States
Overwhelmed for time by coalition between the
Wings and the Abotionists, they held on to their
principles and since the death OF oodbury, Zen.
Pierce has been looked to the great leader of the
New England Democracy. No man, any where, IS
tuer than he is to the equal rights of the States or to
the Constitution of the country, all his votes prove
l-he is what he was, and he can be relied upon, IN
my humble opinion, in any and every crisis. So
thought Virginia, so thought North CaroIina-and
hence he was nominated. He wiA be elected.
| B..J..