Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-07-07
Gen. SCOTS PIatform,

4 ne wings III uiiS IeSiou uoD't seem 10
beyery we'll pleased with the platform up
on which their National Convention has
placed them and their candidates, and they
are searching about 10 find something writ.
| ten by Gen. Scott before he got into the
hands of Seward, Greeley & Co., which
shall furnish his views on governmental
policy, notwithstanding the platform Of the
convention has received the sanction and ap.
proyal OF Gen. Scott both before and since
his nomination. We find in some Of our
whig exchanges letter written by Gen.
Scott dated the 25.h Of October, 1851, de>
fining his position. fn that letter he de-
clares himself in favor Of certain measures
OF the extra session Of Congress of 1910
which the wings themselves have long since
abandoned and declared obsolete. But Gen.
Scott still sticks for the old abandoned
measures Of whiggery. Hear him:
LEADING MEASURES or THE LATE Ex-
IRA SESSION OF CoNGREss -Hl had had
the honor Of vote on the occasion, it
would have been given in favor Of the
| Land Distribution Bal, the Bankrupt bill ,
and the second bill for creating o Fiscal
Corporation-hasi9g long been under a
convection that in peace as in war, some>
I thing efficient, IN the nature ofa Bank Of
the United Statss, is not only necessary
and proper" but Indispensable 10 the sue
cessfal operations Of the treasury, as well
as to many Of the wants Of our commerce
and currency.
Such is the platform Of the great whig
leader, ayowed by him no longer ago than
last October; and they are the plundering
measures which he would fasien upon the
country if he had the power 10 do it. The
people have never failed 10 express their
| disapproyal and detestaiion Of these meas.
ures in the most emphatic manner, and so
| frequent and emphatic has been tha, con.
demnation, that the wings themselves have
been forced 10 abandon their advocacy.
But Gen. Scott still clings to them as the
cardinal principles Of his political faith.
Blu. the whig papers, in publishing the
said letter of Gen. Scott, 10 show his prin-
ciples and profound statesmanship, are
very careful 10 suppress the paragraph
which we have quoted above, and in doing
so, they virtually acknowledge that they
cannot approve his principles, and exhibit
great fears lest they shall will become
fully known.
After such hearty endorsement Of the
dead and rotten measures Of old federal
whiggery, there is but one or two planks
needed 10 perfect the "Scon platform
the endorsement Of the narrow contracted
principles Of Native Americanism aad the
peculations and plumbers of the Galphin
horde. The first Of these the General has
supplied. Iu letter written by him to
George Washington Reed, Fsq.. and 9th.
ers, of Philadelphia, on the 10thof Noyem.
Der, 1s41, he claimed the high honor Of be.
ing one Of the prime movers in getting up
that rch-burning faction. Ills We've
upon that subject, he says, "had their ORR
gin in the stormy election in the spring Of
ls36'-some I've years bsfore-and had
become pretty we'll settled when be wrote
that letter. And what were his views?
Here they are, as expressed in That letter:
II no,o hesitate between estsnd;ng the
period of residence before naturalization
and TOTAL REPEAL OF ALL ACTS
OF CONGRESS ON THE SUBJECT.
My mind inctines TO THE LATTER" !"
So, here we have the Scott platform
Distribution of the proceeds Of public
Lands, Bankrupt law, United States
Bank, and Natsve Amsricanism.
1 @ The Free Soilers have changed the
time Of holding their National Convention
from the 4th tolhe 1lth of August, and
the place on Cleveland to Pittsburgh.
o. Several cases Of Cholera have re.
Gently occurred al Cincinnati and Colum,