Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-21
Editors Correspondence.
From our Baltimore Correspondent.

From our Baltimore Correspondent.
BALTIMORE, July 20-10 p. M.
1t is enough to make the heart of honesty sick
to read the numerous ISLANDERS put forth by un-
blushing and unScrupulous Democracy against
General Scott. A reader of Democratic papers,
if he believed them, would suppose him the viest.
most cowardly, and debased parsonage living.
Why, in the name of Heaven, will political aspi-
rants lie so unblushingly 1t would seem that the
deepest and most malignant venom of mans COR
rupt nature is let loose in epithets too vile for
Billingsgate against the brave old patriot. Lii
bells and SANDERS most foul are coined and reite
rated, until they become a stencil in the nostrils
of Democracy. Notwithstanding General Scott
has served his country in the most trying scenes
his names and deeds being identified with the
brightest pages of her history for fifty years-yet
at this peculiar period of his life he must be vii
lifted and derided with blasphemous calumny.
Men for whose benefit he has fought and shed his
blood on the battlefield, before they were born,
are now his libellers and revilers And this they
do merely to cheat him out of that crowning civil
honor to which his glorious deeds entitle him as
just reward.
But, gentlemen, we may judge of the moral
effect of these SANDERS by comparing them with
the calumny which has been heaped upon other
pure patriots by the same men, and for similar
ends. l suppose they have not forgotten that
spotless patriot and splendid statesman, HENRY
CLAY whose spirit but few brief weeks ago
went home to Heaven. Do they remember the
infamous charges brought against that venerated
man by these same defamers of General Scott
Had he been without friends good and true, even
his eventful and unblemished life would scarcely
have rescued his character before the world from
the loathsome degradation to which these reviers
would have sunk it. But when he was dead, they
shed tears, eulogized him. and fegned to repent in
sackcloth and ashes for the foul wrongs his char
acter sustained at their hands. They confessed
their guilt, and joined in the universal cortege of
lamentation.
What mockery-what hollow-hearted friend
ship We're it possible that the sage of Ash
land' could arise from the dead, and be placed
now in the position of Gen. Scott, Whig can
didate for the Presidency-judging from their
disposition to calumniate the conquerer of Mex
ico~-l am almost inclined to believe that his
Democratic eulogsts would again be found trans
formed into calumniators. There is no guaranty
that they would not Who, then, can attach con-
hdence to anything such false-faced hypocrites
may say in regard 10 our present candidate
They are the kind of beings Pollok had in his
minds eye when he said, with one hand they
put penny in the urn of poverty; with the
other, take shilling out
After pleading guilty over the bier and tomb of
Henry Clay to the unmitgated calumnies heaped
by them upon that great and good man, almost
to the breaking Of his noble, generous heart, who
will, who can be SO lost to human judgment
when they attempt the same thing in regard to
General Scott, as to give them credence?
CUEsApFAKE.