Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-10-02
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HINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
OSE PRESIDENTIAL TERN.
No. 4.

eI.ctin1 q citizen to the Presidency more tldh
once. whatever may be his merits or however great
the public exigency. why Should tnere oe an;
such provision! If the people want man sec
ond. third or even fourth time, why should they
not have him If there is to be any restraint up
on the people in the exercise of their right OF eec
ton where there is not necessarily any connect Oh
interest between different sections or different Glass
es in the country, far better would 1t De 10 Say
that no man who had been four years IN military
life should be eligible to the Presidency OF Tile
United States, than to limit the number oil !ii,ies
for which citizen may be eligible. What EVIL mas
ever crown out of the reeligibility OF citizen 10
the Presidency What evil is likely to grow OUT
of it!
LEADING MEASURES OF THE EXTRA SESSION OF
1871.
For all these Gen. Scott is an advocate, consist
inp of Bill for the Distribution OF the fuohc
Lands. the Bankrupt Law, Bank of the United
States Concerning the last :" he has long been I'M
der the convicton that in peace as we'll as IN war
something efficient of that nature IS not only nee
essary and proper but indispensable to the opera
tons of the Treasury, as we'll as to many OF the
wants of our commerce AMI currency
These are some of the political opinions OF Oen
Scott. They are precisely the reverse OF those OF
Gen. jackson upon the same subjects, and a set
of political opinions more oOJecton'oie III ticii'
selves we cannot well conceive
Fourthly, we are opposed to Gen. Scott because
he has no qualifications for the office beyond his
military renown For this we have only to listen
to the voice of those at the South who now sup
port him, previous to his nomination
Filthy, we are opposed to Gen. Scott on account
of the circumstances under which his nomination
was made One of the evils which liNlty OF
constitutional construction has brought upon US,
and one of the greatest that can well be conceived,
is its effect upon slave property at the South lnvo-
wing not only its insecurity and dmuniton OF VALUE
but even converting it into Il most dangerous enc
my and threatening us with all the horrors OF SER
vile war. \ party ut the North has seized upon
this state of things and is using this dreadful ele-
1nent for the accomplishment of its own schemes,
whatever they NAV be. At the head of this party,
CONSPICUOUS for talent and influence stands William
H. Seward of New York. The present President
of the United States has not fallen exactly into the
views of this arch agitatOr, and Daniel eOster has
opposed him with his great talents, for which he
merits all praise from the American people. Both
of these distinguished men had much higher quail
ifcations for this great office, IN the estimation OF
all men, than Gen. Scott, except so far as military
fame and accountability to William II. Seward and
his party constitute qualifications. And this last,
not long since it was thought by some who now
support Gen. Scott, a sufficient motive for OPP
posing him to the last. Under these clrcumstan-
ces he is preferred to both the noble men We have
before named, against the exertons of the whole
South, and through the acknowledged agency OF
Seward and his friends. Why should Southern
men now support him? We do not charge Gen.
Scott to be himself an Abolitonist but the lead
ing Aboltionists evidently prefer him to Northern
men however distinguished, and we think that fact
itself calls upon to beware. But taking all our
objections together we think the n sufficient to pre-
vent any Southern man, and especially any sound
Democrat, from supporting Gen. Scott.
FRANKLIN PIERCE
is the nominee of the other party, and our choice
for the Presidency. First, because he is the nomi-
nee of the Democratic Baltimore Convention. This
was body of intelligent men, from every part of
the Union, who would not be likely to be deceived
themselves and could have motive to deceive
us. The Convention certainly believed him sound,
competent, and worthy to be trusted. You know
personally some of the men who composed that
Convention do you believe they would attempt to
deceive you be likely to be deceived themselves
Secondly, history informs that he accredited
by the people of the district of his own State, in
which he lived, by sending him to Congress from
1888 till he was promoted to the United States
Senate, by the Legislature of the same State in
1887; that he continued in the Senate until l842,
when he resigned of his own accord, after having
filled both stations with signal ability. This a
democratic district and democratic State, and we
think their opinions of his talents, his soundness
and integrity thus expressed, together with his
standing, in those days before the American public,
pretty safe reliance for us.
Thirdly, we have his letter of acceptance 1ledg-
ing himself to the support of the democratic plat
form, fully and particularly of the measures known
as the compromise.
Fourthly, we support Gen. Pierce because, as
matters now stand, either he or Gen. Scott proba-
bly, must be President, and every vote given for the
will tend to defeat the other and therefore, in
contributing to the election of Gen. Pierce we con-
tribute to prevent the election of Gen. Scott, which
we should consider great evil 20 the country, for
the reasons We have before given.
But there are objections raised to Gen. Pierce
by the other party. This was to be expected and
if he is worthy of the support of republicans, we
may naturally expect that he will be obnoxious to
the other party Their real objection to him is his
republicanism. But this they do not urge because
it is already sufficiently known to the Wings, and
to urge it would but the commend him tc
us.
FEDERALISM.
On the contrary, of their organs attempt
to prove he was Federalst. Why do they
this? Would it be a valid objection to him witt
them if he was Indeed, would they not rather
he were so now! They only hope to make some weak
democrat believe it, and indeed, with the strange
inconsistency with which their artful logic some
times betrays such unfortunate wights, rather tc
vote for who is federalist now who was once
a democrat, than for one who is democrat now
who whig. But the change is ground
less that Franklin Pierce ever was federalis mol
ist in fact very seriously urged. But what matters