Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-07-28

great military services. Now, although it is
due to Gen. Scott to say--as I believe it to
be true--that his military career has been
more brilliant than that Of either Of those dis
tinguished generals, or than Of any other gen.
eral since Washington's day; yet it is fact
that ought to be observed BY those who are
ciphering up the sum Of availability, that
somehow or somehow else-I will not un-
dertake to explain and define it--he has not.
in his personal character, those attributes and
qualities which make the people love him as
they loved jackson, Harrison, and Taylor
They admire him as military hero, but that
is the beginning and the end Of it. The idea
Of his availability viii turn out to be the
greatest possible mistake. lie viii prove to
be the weakest man ever run for the Presi-
dency lie will be more overwhelmingly de-
feated in my opinion, than any man who has
ever been placed in that position by any con-
siderable political organization. Why is it
that the whig party cannot nationalize itself
BY running him for the Presidency? Be-
cause Of tie auspices undey solick he has
been nsade a candidate, and the course he
has tt0ughrPy0per 10 pursue.
The distrust Of the Southern people can
not now be overcome, and when it is seen
that he can get no Southern States, no Nor
thern supporter Of his will have tho slightest
confidence in bis success; and he is indeed a
tyro in politics. who does not understand that
such belief as that would deprive his sup
porters Of that zeal and energy which is me-
cessary to success, even in those States at the
North, where, under different state Of things
he might reasonable hope for success. Sir, |
do not claim to be a prophet, but l predict
with entire confidence, that as soon as his
Northern supporters see that he can carry no
Southern State, and they cannot hope for Co
operation in that part Of the Union, they will
appeal to the anti-Slauery sentiment c0as-
mon ot,e people Of the NORTH. and give a
sectional shape to the Presidential canvass.
Fhey will elironv him into. such canvass as
that, and the cry viii be a repeal Of che fis-
gitiUe stare kalo, and kae support Of Gen.
Scott as The representative Of that idea.
Whatever may be bis individual sentiments
and purposes, that will be the direction Of the
canvass. Already we see that the editor Of
the New York Tribune heralds to his read
ers the nomination Of Gen. Pierce. by the
Democratic Convention, as follows;
1.-The Union does not contain bitterer or
a more proscriptiye pro-slavery bunker than
Frank. Pierce. For years he has been fore
most in sitting every aspiration for freedom
among the Democracy Of New Hamp-
shire He insisted that John p Hale should
be ostracised and crushed because he refused
to vote for the annexation Of Texas without
stipulation that some part Of its immence
unsettled territory should be secured for free
soil. The Post has more recently seen this
same Frank Pierce deprive John Atwood Of
his nomination for Governor, and drive him
out of the party for nothing else than express
ing a repugnance to the fugitive slave law.
In all New England. slavery and slave catch
ing have had no more unscrupulous thick
and4hin servitor than this same Franklin
Pierce"
Honor to Gen. Pierce, if the Tribune truly
states his position. as / believe it does. Now,
with what face can Southern man 60 before
a Southern audience to oppose the election Of
Gen. Pierce to the Presidency Of the United
States, if he shall be opposed by any man
who does not stand as unequivocallY upon the
same ground denounced BY Mr.. Greely in the
Tribune and described in the article from
which / have read. Why, sir, you may talk
about Bridgewater, and Lundy's Lane, and
Vera Cruz, and Cerro GOrdO, and all those
battles in vain. You viii get nothing in re-
ply but bitter laugh Of scorn and derision
from the Southern people when you stand up
before them and try to reconcile them to such
state Of lacts. with such miserable humbug-
gerry as that. They viii despise you, laugh at
you, and spurn you. You viii fail as badly
as Kossuth failed in his southern campaign.
The people Of the South cannot Be thus hum
bugged
believe, for those ndother reasons. which
will endeayor to state if my time allows me.
thai the nomination Of General Scott, aolo,
under existing circumstances, s0haterer yeso-
luton may Be passed by The Conrenti0n,
whatever letter he may write, win result either
in the immediate disruption Of the Wing par
ty, or in its final abolitionizatioD. believe
he cannot get the vote Of a single Southern
State. He l0iH Be nominated, II no0si'ia-
ted al all, 5y a asectioaal v0te if indeed all
the representatives Of the South shall be true
10 the trust oon6ded 10 them and he who
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