Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-09
A JUST PARALLEL.


the Hon SAMUEL +. VINToN, respecting the wing
and Democratic candidates for the Presidency.
is much, says Latin adage, dadoto taaddTs,
to be praised by the praseworthy, and our Marietta
contemporary does. well to attach great weight to
the calm and fair statement of the respective merits
cipa, not military-of Generals ScoTT and PIERCE
made by Mr.. VINToN Than this irreproachable
statesman, our national councils, in which he has
for near thirty years borne most useful and honor
able part, have rarely contained a man more yalu-
able at for soundness of purpose practical wis
dom, and the remarkable moderation and candor
with which he always regards not only the measures
but the persons of foe and friend alike. Always
fair and truthful, and with the best opportunities
Of forming just judgment, the personal testimony
of Mr. YINToN is in this instance as discriminating
as it is correct and this must be acknowledged by
all unprejudiced men who have had also the oppor-
tunity of fifty judging the two candidates. Our
Marietta namesake speaks as follows:
Mr.. VINToN, in his remarks at the Wing meet
ing on Thursday, said that he had known Gen.
SCOTT intiRateiy for twenty years lie had been
privileged to meet with him probably hundred
times in the company of the ablest statesmen of
this country, and with the representatives of for
eign countries. He considered Gen. SCoTT to be
of the best read in the civil and political history
of the country whom he knew He had frequently
been surprised at the ness and accuracy Of the Generals
knowledge in regard to the early Legislative history Of the
United States and of the several States He seldom met
in these conversations of intelligent statesmen gentle
man of as correct information upon all subjects pertain
ing to the civil adminstrationof the Government Gen.
lie knew a mar who nd a re-
spect for the laws and civil authority of the country He
believed Gen. Scott to be in every respect entirely quail
fed to perform the duties of the office of President with
high honor to himself and with great usefulness the
country.
He had also known Gen. PIERCE several years. having
been member of the House during Mr. Perces term of
service in the body. Mr.. Pierce quiet, gentle
manly in his department. and maintained friendly
lations with his fellow members. But he
sidered by his party, by his warmest friends as
man Of mark and nobody sought learn his views
any great of public policy He put for
ward to advocate defend party measures, nor
placed by party Speaker committees where important
work was expected. One thing alone expected of
him. to wit that he would "vote to a scribe what he
considered to be New Hampshire Democracy.
Mr. VSroN contrasted the history of Scott and Pierce
not much military as cvilians-statesmen-a
from his own knowledge of the two men, she had no
hesitancy in saying that the civ quafcatonshe would
presume his audience that his military ca
pacy equal to that of Gen. Pierce but the civil
qualifications of Gen. Scott vastly superior those
| Gen. Pierce-Hdrietta Iateligeacer.
| Nothing can be more strictly within bounds than
all those assertions of Mr. VINToN-especially the
last For not only will the known and proven
civil qualifications Of General ScoTT bear the most
advantageous comparison with those of his admit
tedly respectable competitor General PIERCE, but
may be fairly measured, now that Mr.. CLAY is nc
more, and his great compatriot Mr.. WEBSTER ex
cepted with those of any of our living public men
Even his friends, in the enthusiasm which hi
dazzling military exploits excite, forget that Genera
SooTT was originally man of high civic education
that he has for full twenty successive years sat fac
to face with this Government of ours in all il
changes has, with that constant activity Of mine
for which he is so remarkable, and patriotic interes
in which none surpassed him, canyassed in private
along with all our leading men of both sides, al
the public questions which have agitated or can vel
agitate the country has come to know personally
the value Of every body public servant who has
done or Is mt for any thing OF Importance and, be-
sides all this, has participated in many of the most
important public counsels of his time, whether
Wings were in power or Democrats in power. Gen.
JACKSON confded to him most dangerous and crit
cal matters, in which he was to play, and did play
the politician so ably as to have no need to play the
soldier So did Mr.. VAN buren, In short,
nothing among US is ripper or ampler than General
ScoTT's political experience, and few could have
better proited by it. Though 50 well read a man
that we have often, considering his active military
life been surprised at the extent Of his reading yet
his craftsmanship is more practical than theoretical
All, therefore, we repeat, which Mr. VISToN has
said Of his civil qualifications is strictly true If to
this add as all General ScoTT's personal history
proves we may do with equal truth, that he is one
of the most humane and kind-hearted Of men, and
at the same time one Of the most moral conscien-
tious, and just, the reader will have what we can
vouch to be faithful portraiture Of the personal
character Of WINFIELD ScoTT.
The Liberty Party Z" is in trouble already A
split occurred at Syracuse on Friday, the GooDELI
kolI, e.