The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-09-22

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We will do the abolition wings. now 10 constant com
uiee here, who surround General Scott the justice to
.ay that they are bold gamesers and do not hesitate al
hod measures These men include Truman Smith,
lconneclicu,,) Fitz Henry Warren. Qowa0 MIR. Good
,eh. tMassachuse,ts) and Henry d. Moore tPennsyl.
yana all well known for years in Congress and through
out the country as among the leading agitaors IN the
North against the South They have seen the doubt and
the gloom which have settled around the cause oil Cen
sra Scott ever since his nomination by the Wing Con-
yention and although they knew right well that ne SUI
iered much because OF his association with them ihey
did not seem il right 10 separate themselves IRON MN
wisely recolecting that il he relied upon The South Tor
votes he was gone, and that bis ohly real nope was
among those in the North who have formed The bone and
.new of The organization against the South. Aud these
leaders of sec,ionalsm knew that there wings in
,be South who cared nothing for the honor OF the
South, and hence that they would be sustained, so
tar as these men in the South could sustain them.
in any movement they might make in the North to
consolidate the abolition wing forces upon General
Scott They know and feel that while there are wings
il the South weak enough to regard General Scott as
satisfactory TO them, and faithful TO their interests
,bsv can appeal to those wings OF the North who have
ohsced TO Scott as false to the South TO be governed
!, Tho example Of their southern brethren Thus do the
.o,hern wings become the meansof Strengthening the
os AZ the South in the North, and OF consolidating the
,,ou., If The abolition wings should General Scott be
elected President Of the United States.
Hence il was agreed by the National Wing Committee
here to send General Scott into Pennsylvania and from
into Kentucky, and thence doubtless INTO
other States ON an eieconeerng tour II natered moth
ov that he had committed himself against such practices
for had not all his former pledges been broken. except,
possby, his pledges to the e.Amecans An occa-
sion was offered when, under an act OF Congress. he
might visit Kentucky to discharge official duty as
acting commandment chief OF the army HIS abolition
advisers seized upon this petext for an eleconeer-
ing tour and he forgetting all his speeches against such
performances, agreed to go. Gen. Wool, democrat,
formed part Of the excursions but he soon saw the po
zeal character OF the movement and took the direct route
TO Kentucky thus well refusing to become ran-bearer
TO Gen Scott Gen. Scott took more circuous route
stopped in Pennsylvania was received BY politicians OF
his own party made wing speeches. and became SOFT
Of curiosity among the people, whose votes he asked
from railroad stations and hotel balconies He forgot that
he was or an official Grand and that his expenses
paid from the treasury He forgot that be was pledged
against such vists-and voluntarily pledged, too. He
seemed to recollect only that he in The hands OF
hs 1yisads-Wm. F. Johnston, R. T. Conrad, and Ed
ward S,anly-and that ii was his duty to help him
self BY helping them. at any hazard. And he did,
The spectacle presented by this tour of General Scott
is a rare spectacle II is new in our politics The whg
party in all former campaigns have yet approached
the example now set to the country by their chief
Never before has there been unblashing, so dis.
graceful, SO bold an attempt TO prostitute the presidency
into the dust General Scott is paid officer OF the gen.
eral government His own party. only few years ago
denounced and despised the example he is setting
for il was ore of the first avowals OF principle By
General Harrison that oce-holder should interfere
in elections The democracy then took ground against the
application OF any rule that might arrest freedom o.
speech or OF thought in this epublc but in the presen
ins,ance we have General Scott using the public money
hello the abolition influence oil the North. We have hin
throwing himself into the OF the foes OF the Soutt
in Pennsylvania, and then paying himself out OF the pub
lie treasury
General Scott is probably in Kentucky to-day He viii
come redoent with abolition oiors He will go TO III,
arms OF Prentice from the embraces OF Johnston He will
give the hand to the southern wings which only re
Gently pledged to the northern sectionaliss. He will tall
a, smoothly for the South il he not wholly
entirely committed TO the foes OF that South And. ate
ALL he will return to Washington assured that he ha
spent the public money in sincere egor 10 promote the
public interests.