The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-07-24
PERSONAL ABUSE OF GEN. Sc Off,

had we been told one month ago, that
the bocoioco papers would indulge in
the low, coarse, vulgar personal abuse IF
Gen. ScorT with which from one ex-
tremity of the land 10 the other they
are now reeking, we would not have
believed it for a moment. Had we been
told that he whose whole lite has been
a struggle for the maintenance of the
rights and honor ofthe country, and the
liberty of its citizens, would ever be &C.
nounced as lending his aid to the subver-
sion of the Union, that he who has
faced death in thousand forms, who
was ever found where the battle ragged
fercest, who never wavered or Jagged
behind, though his fellow soldiers fell
around him at every step, should be call
e. coward, -that pigmy scrlblers,
who, while the gallant ScoTT was fight
ing the battles of his country and driv-
ing back the hired minions of British
tyrant from our soil, were
"Mewling and puking in the nurses arms"
would have the impudence to say that
he deserved no gratitude from the Amer
lean people, but had received sufficient
reward in his salary for all his services,
we say had these things been told us
month ago, we would not have BE-
lieved them. We would have answered
that America has no son so lost to every
sense of honor and shame-no son with
heart black enough to conceive, or
tongue base enough to utter such infa-
NOUS ISLANDERS. But impossible as it may
and does appear, such is the case. AL
most every Locofoco paper we pick up
teens with the most violent personal
abuse of Gen. ScoTr. He is called a
coward, traitor to his country, an en-
envy to the Union, and so far does their
malignity lead them, that scarcely a
vulgar epith"t in the vocabulary Of
BiIIingsgate but is pressed into service.
That in this personal abuse the oppo-
sition presses are not sustained by the
great mass of their party, we are well
aware. They are Americans, and they
love their country's defenders, they will
not and do not sanction these wholesale
ISLANDERS, and thousands of them will
show their disapprobatlon at the polls
in November next.
The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer
says: gentleman of New Orleans, who
was fellow passenger of Gov. Quitman
a few days since on steamer bound up
the river, asked bls opinion of Gen Scott:
''Sir," said the Governor, in reply, "the
American people have never done Gen. Scott
justice! The more that mans character and
claims to distinction are canvassed, the higher
will he the stand he will take In the admiration
and gratitude ofhis countrymen."
This is the testimony of one of the
most ultra Locofocos in the country,
and is an efectual reproof to the viii
famous ISLANDERS Of the party press.
The Philadelphia Pennsyluanian, now
one of the foremost in circulating abuse
against Gen. Scott, charging him with
cowardce, and embezzling money be-
longing to the soldiers; in l847 had the
following in relation to his military
achievements:
''1he military genius and foresight Of Scott
shone out conspicuously on the sleeps of Cerro
Gordo. With signal tact ne planned the de-
tails, and with singular prescience prepared for
the defeat which his soul must have told him
was at hand The country will blot out all of
| his civil history that is subject to criticism or
complaint, and will greet him as one OF her
wortblest and most distinguished soldiers.
/ 1t is impossible 10 over rate his recent perform
ance at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo. He first
scizes the key to the high road to the Capital,
next storms the very Thermopya of the conn-
try, and is doubtless by this time, nearly, if not
quite, in the Halls of the Montezumas-lhere to
consumate the exciting drama. And all this in
| prehensions and gloomy predictions ALL Hon.
OR TO SCoTT and his officers and men.''
In this manner are the Locofoco pa
:ers met at every step, now by the bold,
/ honest declarations of members of their
own party, again by their own assertions
made when Gen. Scott was not, as he
now is, the candidate of the whig party.
But that the thought Is humiliating, that
there is an American citizen SO base as
to defame the Scared vereran, we would
say to these slanderers, go on in your
work! For we know that it will react
against themselves.
LocoFoco Observation-Disclosures
ing the opposition expressed by the Bal
timore Convention toward the Distribu-
ton of the proceeds of the Public Lands,