Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1852-09-08
LETTER FROM The HOy. w. A. G:sttIsM
CANDIDATES; far she VICE PRESIDENCY.

Our leaders. if they have not utterly dis
regarded and east aside all recollection Of the
reasons assigned IN the Card of Stephens,
Toombs. & Co, for their determination not to
support Gen. Scott, will remember, that the
alleged basis of their refusal -as presented
hy their argument and Obvious purport of
the card-whether BY suggestion or sup
preston was, that there was nothing no
incidents OF his life TO show that he was
in taror Of The principles of the Compro-
mise"
This charge, We have said, was made in
lie absence Of the slightest proof Of any
hostility on his part aad in the face OF the
positive statements Of those who now oppose
him such as Ex Governor Cleveland Cabell
and other members of Congress who state
it to have been notorious, that he urged, ac-
tively AID anxiously, its passage We have
stigmatized this attempt to defamc tried
friend Of the Uuion and the Compromise "a
friend before J'ebster came into lis support
IN Congress and before Fillmore ieds called
npon to sign and execute the Lars AN
honored and aged servant Of the Republic in
peace and 10 war. With such testimony as
We now lay before our readers, tho conduct
Of those cannot be too strongly rebukcd who
had every opportunity 10 Washington tc
know, that the impression they have sought
to maze. as to his opinions and course, is IN
inst and untrue,
HILLsBoRouGH. August "a, 1852.
Thomas LoRISG. Esq Editor of the Nil
mington Commercial:
SIR: | have not seen recent numoer o.
your paper. but learn, througl. tho Ralegl
Register aad ilills5orough Recorder. that
you have placed vt the head If your columns
the name Of lion DANIEL WEBSTER (ol
President. with mine Cor Vice President
Whilst | am gratefully sensible os the cenl-
plimant you design to mysclt b. this course
and do not doubt your disposition to dea
with the eatre subject in spirit of candor
locn it proper to deelssc. publicly that i
does not meet my appreciation
70 this am impellad by two ccnsidora
tons
First. General Scot. was regularly aut
unanimously nominated as the Wing eandi
date tor the Presidency. by the convention
which assembled at Baltimore, after deca
ration Of principles Which, believe, meets
the appreciation ofthe country BY the sam'
BODY, | was, ia like manner. nominated fo
tho Vice Presidency Both. Of these caudi
dates have accepted the nominations viii
tho principles declared BY :be convention a
the rule Of their uctiou on tnc enbjects en-
braced in them. Good faith and honor
therefore. require that after such acceptance
on my part shall not sanction tie use 0
my name to sny other ticket.
lsut. secondly | understand that your oh
lection to General Scott consists mainly il
on apprehension that he viii not do justice t.
tho South, bya faithful adherence 10 tht
Compromise of 1850 On that point hay,
this statement TO make: | arrived ia Wash
ington. upon invitation Of President Fillmore
TO the Navy Department. on the last day .
July 1850. On that day the Omnibus
bill SO called. reported by Mr.. Clay from th,
Committee Of Thirteen. was rejected. and th'
whole subject Of dispute thrown open for agi
tation anew found General Scott acting
as Secretary at War. in which situation he
continued for several weeks; and happening
TO take lodgings at the same hotel, | was ii
daily and intimate intercourse with him from
chat time until the contamination OF TIL
Compromise by the passage OF its variou
provisions. in separate bills. No one in mi
sphere cf acquaintance felt more deeply tn
Importance Of the crisis. none exhibited NOR,
real in betl'f or these measures, b. 1rsn'