The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-07-21
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70 prevent all mistake and misapprehension,
we the Undersigned, members of Congress, adopt
this method of making joint statement to our
constituents respectively, and to all who may
Iake an interest in the subject that we cannot
and will not support Gen. Scott for the Presi-
dency, as he now stands before the American
people, for the following amongst other reasons.
\ He obstinately refused, up to the time Of his
nomination to give any public opinion in favor
of the series of measures of the last Congress
known as the Compromise; the permanent
maintenance of which with us is question of
paramount importance Nor has he since his
nomination, made any declaration of his aPPro-
vdI Of those measures as a final adjustment of
the issues in the controversy.
1t is true the resolutions of the Convention that
nominated him as clear and explicit upon
this question as need be, but Gen. Scott in his
letter of acceptance, which contains all we have
from him on that matter, does not give them the
approval of his judgment. This he seems studi-
ously to have avoided. He accepts the nomina-
ton with the resolutions annexed" That
is, he takes the nomination cum onere, an
individual takes an estate, with whatever
only pledge and guarantee he offers for his g adj
herence to the principles of the resolutions
are the known incidents of long public
life," &c.
Amongst these knoaon incidents" of his life
there is not one so far as we are aware of, IN
favor of the principles of the compromise. In
one at least of his public letters he has expressed
sentiments inimcal to the institutions of fifteen
States of the Union. Since the passage of the
compromise he has suffered his name to be held
up before the people of several of the States as
a candidate for the Presidency by the open and
avowed enemies of those measures. And in the
Convention that conferred this nomination
upon him he permitted himself to be used by the
FreesOilers in that body to defeat Mr.. Fillmore
and Mr. Webster, because of their advocacy OF
these measures, and their firm adherence TO the
policy that sustained them.
To Join such men and aid them in completing
their triumph over, and sacrifice of. the true and
tried friends of the constitution and the faithful
discharge of all its obligations is what we never
do The dictates of duty and patriotism sternly
forbid it.
We consider Gen. Scott as the farorite candi-
date of the FreeSoil wing of the Wing party
That his policy if he should be elected, would
be warped and shaped to conform to their views
and to elevate them to power in the adminlstra-
ton of the Government, can but be considered as
legitimate and probable result; and believing,
as we do, that the views of that faction of mis-
chievous men are dangerous. not only to the just
and constitutional rights of the Southern States,
which we represent in part, but to the peace
and quiet of the whole country, and to the perma
nent union of the States, we regard it the high
est duty of the well wishers of the country
everywhere, whatever else they may do, to, at
least withhold from him their support This
we intended to do.
ALEXANDER H. STEVENS, of Ga.
CHARLES JAS. FAULKNER, Of va.
w. BROOKE, of Miss.
ALEX WHITE, of Ala.
JAS. ABERCROMBIE, of Ala.
r. TO0MBS, OLGA.
JAS. JOHNSON, of Ga.