Daily American telegraph., 1852-08-06
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
General SCOTT a statesm an,

The opposition press are trying to make capt.
tai for their party by representing that General
Scott is no statesman. They profess to know
that military glory has no charms for the Ameri-
can people, but that civic experience alone has
the merit which will receive a cordial acknowl-
edgment in the ensuing election This sounds
well, but comes with as i'll grace from the men
acho dared not submit the name of any Of their long,
tried statesmen and dipLomatistS 10 The nation as a
candidate for The Presidency. They select an indi-
yidual who had never been conspicuous-Whose
obscurity was his best recommendation, noml-
nate him, and then announce to the pubic that
he is a statesman and a soldier, worthy OF the
highest Office in the peoples gift Perhaps ne is! .
but why risk him when the fact is not known?
'sBut the Wing candidate has not the quahf-
cations is the declaration of these same prints.
The Albany Argus will have it that he possesses
no merit as a civilian; other presses follow it up
by averring that there is no credit due him as q
soldier, but it all belongs to subordinate officers.
To this last objection we shall not attempt to
respond the more sensible journals Of the Dem
ocratc party are ashamed of it themselves. But
in the former imputation there is tangible point
upon which they have more temerity to take
issue. Hence Gen. Scott's lack of craftsmanship
is bazoned forth, and every village politician
feels himself perfectly capable to decide this mat
ter. None are so despicable in their ignorance
but that they feel competent to measure the ca
pacity of the standard bearer of the Wing party.
Gen. Scott, it is true, has not spent his life in
cabinets, halls of legislation, or diplomatic mis-
sions he is essentially military man. 1t can
not be denied, however, that he has been entrust-
ed with public business which required talent,
such as an efficient statesman should possess;
and that he transacted honoraby for the country
creditably to himself Though he has never en-
ployed the influence of his high Office to control
elections, he has always been attentive to those
political matters which intimately concerned the
welfare of the nation.
For upwards of twelve years he has been men.
toned as probable candidate for the Chief
Magistracy of the United States. His opinions
have been asked from time to time upon the i'm
portant questions of the day, and freely given.
The press and the people have freely commented
upon them, and no one imagined that they did
not display powers Of discrimination which would
do no discredit to any of our public men. But now
that the matter has passed to something serious
and the Wing champion has been named for the
highest Office, we are assured that the paid scrib
blers of the opposition have found out that he is
no statesman! The real difficulty, we opine, is
that he is too much Of one for them They shed
crocodile tears over the coffin of the slandered
Clay; they deplore the ingratitude which Fill
more and Webster have received: they arraign
the incompetency of Gen. Scott; but they fear
that their pretences and assertions will not be
believed.
The people will, however, decide the matter in
their own way. They have.known something
about the Wing candidate for forty years past
have tested his abilities; and, from present indi-
cations, we judge they will give him opportunity
to demonstrate to our Democratic friends that
his civic abilities at least equal to the station
in connexion with which his name is mentioned
At all events his abilities will not suffer in COM
parison with those of General Pierce
Syracuse STAR