Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-07-31


offir;no additional reasons furnished by himself,
why he should not be elected to the once which
he seeks.
Again:
Whenever parties declare their principles, they
have a right to have man to carry them out
They have right to know whether the candidate
approves of those principles or not. If he says he
will not, then nobody is bound by the nomination.
Those are my opinions of party nominations.
General Scott has not done it. He has not de-
clared his appreciation of these principles in any
part of this letter. but the contrary, he has de-
clared that principles shall make no difference,
when it comes to the important business of be-
coming the alrnoner of fifty millions of dollars of
the public money.
1t was very easy for him to say whether or not
he agreed with those principles, and approved Of
them, as Pierce and King and Graham have done
He is painfully obscure where it was his duty to
be plain, but sufficiently certain where obscurity
would at least have been prudent"
We do not think that anything need be added to this
exposition, and we have no doubt that thousands of
Compromise Union wings in the South will think SO
when they remember that the Compromise Measures
were claimed as the of q Wing administra-
ton, approved and enforced by wing President.
We now come to the next paragraph in this remark
able letter. and before leave it, hope to be able
to expose its double meaning in a manner which will
put future controversy at rest. Here it is
''The political principles and measures laid down
in those resolutions SO broad that but little is
left for to add. | therefore barely suggest, in
this place, that should |, by the partially of my
countrymen, be elevated to the Chief Magistracy
of the Union, l shall be ready, in my connexion
with Congress, to recommend or to approve of
measures IN regard to the management of the pub
lie domain so as to secure an early settlement Of
the favorable to actual settlers, but consis-
tent nevertheless with due regard to the equal
rights of the whole American people in that vast
national inheritance; and also to recommend or
approve of single alteration in our naturalization
laws, suggested by my military experience, viz !:
giving to all foreigners the right of citizenship
who shall faithfully serve in time of war one year
on board of our public ships, in our land forces
regular or volunteer, on their receiving an honor
able discharge from the service
The General says in the first sentence that the prin-
cpes and measures of the platform SO broad that
but little is left for him to add Without pretending
to question this right "add" to National platform
by the candidate selected by the body making it, it
may we'll be asked, whether the party making the
party accepting the nomination, gives to the Nation
the principles and the measures of the party 1t is
believed to be unusal for the candidate add either
principles measures to the platform of the party
nominating him but it may be claimed, that Scott is
exception to all established rules, and that he has
the right, drawn from his military experience to give
measures and principles both, to party But let this
pass.
Gen. Scott says that he will be Ready to "recom-
mend to approve of measures that will secure to
actua settlers" favorable settlement in regard the
public domain. This in plain terms, is an endorse
men of the Abolition free farm doctrine advocated by
Seward, Greeley & Co., and announced as one of the
planks of the Buffalo platform, as follows
RESOLVED, That the free grant to actual settlers,
in consideration of the expenses they incur in ma
king settlements in the wilderness, which are usl-
ally fully equal to their actual cost, and of the
public benefits resulting therefrom, of reasonable
portions of the public lands under suitable lmita
tons, is wise and just measure of public policy,
which will promote, in various ways, the interests
of all the States of this Union; and we therefore
recommend it to the favorable consideration oil
the American People.
There pending before Congress two bills for the
disposition of the public domain The one, known as
the Homestead Bill the other, the Bill for the
equal Distribution of the Public Lands among the
States. These bills are Objectionable, and should
never receive the counenance of the Southern people
But no doubt can be entertained as to what Scott
IhiooAS' "HeH NC opedhs Vi 'dcIuai ASooH
the resolution again. and then dwhat Scott says OF
f''actual Settlers But this oneof Ms additions to
the platform, since nowhere find in it any reference
made to the "yast national Inheritance or the 'man-
agement ofthe public domain" Istremarkable, when
we remember it is known that SCOTS adviser and
supposed to be confidential counsellor is w H. Sew
ard, that he should "add this new plank to the Ma
tional wing platform Seward, by an adroit move
has Scott incorporate in the National platform
the panks drawn from the abolition Buffalo structure,
making, under the right of adding platform by the
candidate, of the Principles of the Abolition Par
ty, National in character,
Can the Courier explain this away! Was there
shadow of necessity for this "addition The plat
form says the Courier sis satisfactory, to the fullest
measures of wishes and demands" and yet Scott
added little, and why did he do it, lift were not with
view of concilliatng the Greeleys and Stewards
North Shall we be answered!
Scott says that he is also ready to recommend OF
laws" We confess in being deficient in having a
clear understanding of SCOTS meaning. If he means
to say that he would alter the present laws so to
permit those foreigners to citizenship only who serve
in time ofwar one year, then we apprehend that we
can make it manifest that he has least been consis
tent. He said few years ago.
81 now hesitate between extending the period
of resistance before naturalization, and total re
peal OF all acts of Congress on the subject-my
; mind incnes to the latter.
Concurring fully in the principles of the Phila