New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-24


rior intelligence of such luminaries MS Majors
Kelly and Ranney. The former has written us
three very racy letters, in every one of which
he intimates that we shall be forgiven our anti
Scottish upon the ground of g Young Ameri-
canism,' but that such &c old fogies'' as our
neighbors of the Bee and the Bulletin shall not
have pardon granted ON any terms. We are
saved by virtue of juvenility and inexperience.
Our neghbors are lost, because, old nags upon
the course political, they knew nothing of the
required PAGES, and .bet'' their reputation
against the winning candidate They We're
entirely too confident; ace were positive without
ultraism-sev without acrimony. We con-
slider ourselves, sins pardoned, the Scott organ
of New Orleans, and our neighbors of the Bee
and the Bulletin, &C nowheres'' in the race The
President of g The Scott Association" has writ
ten us three s'private and confidential letters
for publ cation-and we consider our position
assured with the wing Scott dynasty. The
Majors letters are altogether too racy and
we are the Scott organ-eyen before the Delta
and this is glory enough.
But seriously, Scott approving the Compro-
mise resolutions-and specially, Scott approx
ing the strongest of all national resolutions the
resolution of the Wing National Convention in
reference to the Fugitive Slave law, is quite
another man from mum Scott, the supposed as
sociate of Seward and Greeley. He does not
sleep in the same bed or feast at the same table
with them; this is plain, or he would never
have endorsed the unprecedentedly strong
Southern resolutions Of the Wing National Con-
yention. He has come out like q sun from
behind cloud, and our friends (our friends, of
course) Majors Kelly and Ranney, are the
colossal figures upon the foreground revealed.
The life of Gen. Scott is full Of all the incl
dents of a soldier and an officer. Born in Han
over county, Virginia, about the year 1886,
and educated to the profession of law, he early
sought the field of battle as more congenial to
his tastes and genius.
His gallantry at Queenstown, at Fort George,
at the battle of Chippewa, at Lundy's Lane, at
'Chapultepec, Churubusco and Vera Cruz, re-
quires neither eulogy nor comment. His SER
vices in organizing the army, and in negotiating
q treaty Of peace with the Republic of Mexico,
are we'll known to the country. His calmness,
GOODNESS and discretion in the Black Hawk war,
and in the Canadian patriot troubles, are mat
tiers Of historic record In these lie was no less
the diplomatist than the soldier.
We know that charges can be brought against
him. They are all 50 fully mixed up with poll
teal matter as to be totally unavailable. At
lacked us a General, he has invariably vindi-
Gated himself as a soldier: and it was but yes-
terday that &C the Iron Duke,7' wellington,
spoke of his campaign in Mexico, as one full of
gallantry, wisdom and Generalship. As q SER
yant Of his country upon the tented field, he de-
serves WE'LL As brilliant General and fear
less soldier, he has claims upon popular sympa-
thy and admiration.
We confess frankly that this nomination has
greatly disappointed us, Even now, we feel
stunned and dizzy in disappointed hopes. We
had thought Webster or Fillmore or Crttenden,
approved statesmen, would secure the nominal
ton Of the wing party. We were seriously
affied in every superintendent our
pen lags in its wonted duties.
But we know that good and true wings have
always endorsed Gen. Scott as a firm friend of
the Compromise measures; we know that he
spoke in behalf Of those measures at Castle Gar
den, New York, and we know that in accepting
the wing nomination for the Presidency, he
pledges himself to religiously uphold and main
tain them. In this view, no shadow darkens the
light cast by Lundy's Lane, Chapultepec, Cher
ubusco, and the battle of the city of Mexico,
upon his triumphal march to the White House |
Even in the matter of pledged fealty to the Com
promise he gave in his solemn adhesion only
In ,nl l.:
his possession. As u matter ofprinciple, and as
against democratic candidate, he may, under
all the circumstances, calculate upon the sup.
port of the wing party of the Union. If he was |
slow to answer the formal demand of Southern
ers, he has at last spoken their language, and
with no faltering in the accent of single syl-
liable.