New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-10
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ohItO Bghihst our views Oy parry pre-
dice. whom the nomination of Gen. Scott
will unshackle and liberalize. Idly will
any attempt TO make them believe that the
Scott of Lundy's Lane and Chepultepec is
an enemy of his country's liberties and in
terests. He may be mistaken, as may
any one but they feel instnctively that
be does not mean TO be wrong, and they
will candidly consider arguments which
have made him lifelong, earnest Wing.
He will be abused, and already has been,
and all manner of ISLANDERS heaped upon
him, backed up by misrepresentation and
forgery. but all this will accomplish moth
ing, except in his favor. The hounds who
now decry him as pompous, arrogant, aris-
tocratic, &c., DETAINED Harrison as a gran
ny, a simpleton and q coward stigma
tized him as mum candidate, &C., and
were equally abusive of Taylor when a
candidate. No,O they vie in laudation Of
the humanity, good sense, genuine repub-
lican sympathies, &c. of both Harrison
and Taylor; and they will be doing so of
Scott after they shall have discovered that
no detraction can deprive him of the ad-
miration and confidence of his countrymen.
3. Say nothing in personal disparage-
ment of has riraL or riraLS. The friends of
Gen. Pierce are very anxious he should be
warred upon. They would like to have
the people think of anything else rather
than of Winfield Scots services and re-
nown. Their eagerness for this was con-
spicuously displayed in our own case. Just
after Gen. Pierce's nomination, a letter
concerning him, purporting to have been
written at his place of residence, was ad-
dressed to The Tribune, and, not having
been seen by the Editor, crept into our
columns. We first read it in the paper,
and forthwith wrote and published point
ed disclaimer Of its scope and imputations.
Wesuppressed the letter from all but our
Daily edition, so that it was never seen by
one fourth of our habitual readers. Yet, in
full view of its condemnation and suppress
sion at our hands, it has since been ban
died from one to another of the Pierce
journals, and several times rehashed in The
Herald, as a specimen of Wig and Trib-
une scurrility with regard to Gen. Pierce
Not single scoundrel of the scores who
have committed this virtual forgery on US
has stated the facts with regard to it, even
after they had been made notorious; and
most of them have represented the letter
as an Editorial attack on Gen. Pierce
Now, we never wrote one line respecting
his moral character except the disclaimer
aforesaid. His personal faults, if such
there be, have Hothing to do with our op-
posing his elevation to the Presidency.
His politics and ours are antipodes, and,
aside from his hostility to Protection and
River and Harbor Improvement, we re-
gard him as the bitterest, harshest, most
proscriptive Pro-Slavery Hunker in the
entire North ust the sort of man that
we wanted to see our Van Burens, Dixes
and Stantons obliged to support. ltserves
them right for pretending a devotion to
Human Freedom when they merely sought
to gratify'a personal spite. AS a politi-
clan and a candidate, Gen. Pierce is one of
the kind to whom our opposition is labor Of
love; butas aprivate citizen, we have moth
ing to say of him. And we respectfullyre
quest all correspondents motto say any thing
for our columns about his fainting, falling
from his horse, or anything implying dis
paragement of his personal character or
his military exploits. With that sort of
warfare we desire to have no connection;
and we know that it is disagreeable to
Gen. Scott, between whom and Gen.
Pierce the utmost personal cordiality
exists. That there is very great con-
trast between the services to their country
of these two men respectively, is clear
enough we believe their capacity for
future service is in direct ratio thereto; we
confidently trust to the Peoples discrimi-
nation as to which of them is more deserv-
ing of their confidence and grateful appre-
citation; but we do not care about their
voting against Gen. Pierce so long as they
are sure to vote for Gen. Scott. That is
the vital matter.
THE CASE OF PEREIRA.