The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-01

came into olsss. He has dnes eAasgsd his mind.
Hut General Scott Is . man Of his word-he
changes not" his principles are cosviotions He
is however, progressive in his idsss; for in one
fortnight after this letter. he writes another dated
Nov. 10, lS4l, in which he declares himself in
favor Of the abolition Of the naturalization laws,
and the exclusion Of all foreigners from voting
number Of his countrymen assign him, or give him,
prominent position before the public, he will
methodxe bis views on the great questions pro-
posed by the nativist committee Of Philadelphia
That is, he will put them into the practical shape
Of bill for Congress- which he win have introduced
and backed by all the influence Of his government.
And If the bill should pass, General Scott will as
uredy sign it, and carry 1t out in the letter and spirit
thereof What these views are he expressly states
all foreigners to be excluded from voting, though not
perhaps, the right to hold possession of real estate.
This will chiefly affect the Germans and the Irish who
will cease to be citizens, to have voice in the
making of the laws by which they are governed,
in the disposal of the taxes which they pay, or in
the election ofthe officers and magistrates appointed
by the constitution to administer justice and execute
the laws. The practical operation Of this principle
will be to throw the power completely into the pos
session of the North, by shutting of the foreign
particularly the Catholics and the Irish-from
the assistance Of the democracy. consequence
of this will be that the Catholic spirit and anti
Catholic spirit will be evoked, and the one will be
arrayed against the other.
His next letter is highly important. II is letter
on the annexation Of Canadait is equally decisive
and equally necessary as part Of his system of tao
ties. 1t is not enough to cut of power from the
South--but power must also be added to the North
A good general not only diminishes the number of
his enemies by despatching them by all possible
methods, but takes good care to recruit his own
forces. By tho annexation Of anti slavery Canada
the accession Of strength 10 the North would be
tremendous.
Theee two measures are but auxiliary to the grand
design which the General lays down in his letter on
slavery. In that letter he says
am persuaded that it is high moral obligation Of
masters, and slave holding States to employ all means
not incompatible with the safety Of both colors,
horate slavery, even to determination"
In other words, ultimate abolition. That is plain
enough. The following, though not so clear, is
pregnant with meaning. and very suggestive
From the promise made to Abraham. some two thou.
sand had elapsed before the advent of Saviour
and the Israes the chosen people Of God for wise
purposes, suffered to remain in bondage longer than the
Africans have been on our shores . ' do but
suggest the and consultations Of slavery Inspire
patience, hope,' &c.
How were the Israelites brought out of bondage
st last! By high hand and an outstretched arm
by the destruction Of the FIRST born Of Egypt and by
the overthrow Of Pharaoh and his host in the
Red Sea. We do not say that General Scott
templates massacre in every house in the Southern
States But it is an undenable fact, that this pas
sage in sacred history is the standing text from
which the abolitionists Of the North-blaek, white
and gray-preach future vengeance, bloodshed, re-
boion, and anarchy, when the slaves, aided by the
North, grow too numerous and too powerful for their
masters and tho white population Of the South. If
General Scott did not mean that the parallel should
be complete, his alusion to the Of the Israel
ties in Egypt was most unfortunate But VIC will as
that he only meant abolition by moral andlegL
means, which arc very different from the instrument
tally that delivered Israelrom the house ofbondagc
We will assume that General Scott had gradual
abolition, and not violent couple main, in his eye
His first STEP therefore, with the aid Of his party
will be to repeal the Fugitive Slave law, for ne g
nores tho veto power. The next will be to
Canada; the next TO abolish the naturalization laws,
and finally to aid and influence the abolition of
slavery all the United States and territories
The nomination, therefore, Of General Scott,
which is already settled, "cut and dried in the North,
ia the beginning of tho end. In the event Of his
election, there will be total change in the ad-
ministration Of the government of the country
Emigration will be diminished foreigners will be
DISTINGUISHED and discouraged, and the Irish and
Germans in particular will be placed under worse
disabilities than those under which they groaned in
their native land. There will be complete rcvolu-
ton in the action Of the government, and the long
threatened separation between the North and
South will at last explode in open rupture.
There will he terrible commotion in Con-
gress and throughout the country Gencral
Scott himself, will be the executive to carry out
these designs; and as President and Commandor-n-
Chief, he will enforce the new laws with all the mi
itary and civil power Of the North and at the point
Of the bayonet. He is not a coward to shrink from
the performance Of his daty, whatever may be the
consequences. He was never born to yield or re-
treat. The end Of all will be, that terrible and
bloody separation of the Union will take place or a
military republic, somewhat like that Of the Romans
or the French, will be gradually established and our
present institutions will be remembered among the
things Of the past.
The Baltimore Convention OF tho 10th will, there
fore, do well to reflect before they take the step
that will lead to all the other steps we have emu
merated. If they are prepared for the last let
them take the FIRST. AS for General Scott, it is per
fectly useless to ask him to write another letter.
he cannot make what he has written moro plain,
and he is not the to retract anything. Mother
is he an " abstractionist." " His principles are
convictions, and he will bravely carry them out.
The programme laid down in his letters, which We
publish to-day, is, therefore his Interchangeable plat
form, and the Interchangeable platform Of his party.
llis motto, like that Of Pontius Plate, is" What
j have written, have written"
A NEw REFORM MOVEMENT, OF THE MAINE LAW
BRAND. We insert elsewhere in our columns,
very curious memorial in PREPARATION to be presented
to the Legislature in Massachusetts,, and very pro-