Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-26
Sewdrd Influence.

The common cry in Virg against G enera
Scott, among his political opponents is that he ii
under "Seward influence" This was the cla-
mourbefore his n omination and from certain peo-
pie who strive ''to justify their deeds unto them
seyes,s' it is still family echoed. But it is fas,
dying away and will, like distant halloo, be
heard no mere From the general tone and
style of SCOTS character, we should be inclined
to think that he was little likely as any man
we ever heard of to fall under sinister influence
Whatever jealousy may suggest, malice invent or
creduity believe it must be perfectly clear to eve
ry unclouded mind, that he who is preposterous-
" represented as the puppet of tricky politician
must be possessed of great force of character.
Educated to civil profession, he was, after at
tanning the period of complete manhood, trans
| fered to the theatre of arms. In this new de-
| partment he quickly signalized himself and dis
played that degree of energy and talent that has
placed him at the head of his profession on the
| Western continent, and on an equal footing with
the most renowned Captains of the Old World
On all the great occasions of his life he has ever
taken the lead, and as long as he acted upon a
stage on which low intrigue is OF allowed to play
its dishonorable part, no ever whispered that
the loader Of the American Armies could be
subjec ted to any improper influence. But SO soon
as it became probable that the people, in whose
service he has so freely bled, would transfer him
from the field to the cabinet, then the work
of misrepresentation began. But no rejecting
mind can credit the old nurses tale. VIM. Fl.
Seward is pointed out as the Mephistophiles who
has thrown around the Wing candidate his
maign SPELL and told that Scott's
nomination was a Seward triumph. Let
look at this. The Senator from New York
is, readers are we'll aware, a rank
and rancorous enemy of the Fugitive Slave
Law and occasion defended resist
ance to its execution on the ground of ''higher
law" He is the peculiar rival and the personal
foe of Millard Fillmore, and has acquired some
ascendancy at home by throwing himself into the
arms Of the freesoil Wings. He is full and
fair type of that malignant faction in whose mere
trcious embraces, we are told, Scott has lain
But is this true! Seward hates the Compromise,
and more particularly the Fugitive Slave Law
he has been its arch-enemy. Scott has, in the
broadcast and strongest language, adopted that
Compromise which Seward hates, and moro pnr-
ticularly the Fugitive Slave Law. Does this look
like Sewardism :! The Senator from New Yo TX
we have remarked, is the personal enemy of Mil
lard Filmore-he hates him for his virtues; he
hates him for his superior cess, and he hates
him for the love of his countrymen. On his part
the upright Fillmore cordially dspises the impo-
tent malice of Seward. Whilst the Compromise
measures were pending before Congress, Scott
become membero of the cabinet. Seward was en-
gagged in the bus mess of agitation--he was in his
own element, and left no means untried, fair or
foul, to defeat the passage of the pending Compro-
mise. But Scott moved in unbroken column,
with the Cabinet and threw the weight of his per-
sonal and official influence in the scale of those
measures. Was this Sewardisml Seward aud
his satellites worked against the platform. and
voted against it; but Geu. Scott has endorsed it
and now stands upon it as containing the true
position of his political OPP inions and we suppose
that ought to stulify ourselves by calling this,
too, a proof of Sewardism. In respect to the
Compromise, Scott and Seward have ever been
striving for opposite results This freesoil party