Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-09-22


plomatist" Has not Mr.. Doub seen. the letter of
Judge Tarpley, of Mississippi He is personal
friend of Gen. SCOTS and what does he say of him:
"With high appreciation of his military fame,
it is obvious to all that his intellect habits and mode
of life are wholly unsuted to the Office to which he
aspires. He will talk to you about war; battles Mex
leo, Canada, Lundy's Lane, and Chippawa and you
have the delight of listening to the spirited and in
teresting egotism of vain old man, whose whole
conversation is made up of I, me, and myself. But
when you approach those great constitutional ques
tlons, upon which depend ihe destiny of the ton,
those delicate, but clearly defined relationships ex-
listing between the federal and State governments in
stead of those coosal thoughts and luminous expo.
stions which fall gracefully and impressvely from
the lips of Mr.. Webster, you have the merest COM
mon-pace twaddle, made up of thoughts often ndi-
gested, and sometimes contradictory, consisting of
opinions and prophecies of twenty years standing.
remarked, that Gen. Scott had no political anteee
dents, and that Philadelphia lawyer could not con-
vict him, before jury of the country, of being
Whig."
Does not Mr.. Doub know that such, and much
more disparaging and contemptuous, was the opin-
ion which the New York Tribune and Albany
Evening Journal, now the leading Scott papers in
New York, entertained of him few years ago {?
VIGOROUSLY vain, as he is, beyond any man of his
time jealous, arbitrary, egotistc, and illtempered
and uniformly second best in his hundred or more
personal quarres, Gen. Scott could not find twelve
sensible men in the United States, unprejudced by
party interests, to award him the character with
which he is graced by the communication before
us. The idea, for instance, of placing mans rep
utation as civilian on the pompous and bonn
bastic proclamation of Gen. Scott, to the poor mis-
cradle, ignorant, halfstarved Cherokees, command
ing them to leave their homes or be shot, every
mothers son of them, by an army of forty thous-
and brave soldiers, is somewhat too ridiculous if I'M
partially considered, for minister of the gospel to
hold up as evidence, in political discussion, of SUI
perior civil qualifications But enough of Gen.
SCOTS diplomacy and ciOilianaism. If Mr. Doub
wishes information complete we refer him to the
Fillmore and Webster journals at the North, gen
orally from which he will learn that he himself,
(Mr. Doub,) as evidenced by these articles to the
Star, is as great politician Gen. Scott though
he may not be so great warrior. AT present,
however, it is his .Sea0drdism that MIR. Doub pro-
posed to discuss. After that is done we may per-
haps find occasion to review the Generals diplo-
matte performances.
And now a word or two in regard to General
SCOTS position the Compromise question. In
truth and righteousness" Mr.. Doub has again
quoted private conversation between Gen: Scott
and Gov. cleveland, a notorious Freesoiler; also
the traitor Giddings Gov. Jones, (save the mark
Parson Brownlow y and Mr.. Graham-all private
conversations to prove that Gen. Scott was in favor
of the Compromise measures.
Iii not denied that Gen. Scott was first brought
out by William Higherlaw Seward and his abo-
lition followers, that his name was hoisted by
them as a candidate for the Wing nomination, be-
cause the rival candidates, Fillmore and Webster,
had approved the Compromise. This well-estab-
lshed political truth Mr.. Doub has too much can
dor to deny. We might borrow his defiant Ian
guage and say, he has not dared to deny it. But
it is argued this is not sufficient evidence of Gen..
SCOTS opposition to these measures. All, indeed; ;
and if it be not, will MIR. Doub go the step further
and re-assert that it is not suspicious Does
he suspect there is nothing wrong, nothing rotten
in Denmark ~, when William II. Seward is seen
preferring, pressing, and actively canvassing the
claims of man, who in the language of General
Scott to the Mississippi Delegation, told him while
travelling through New Jersey, that he was dead
for the Compromise measures, and dead against
every man aUho as opposed to them, or either Of
then'2 Is there no suspicion awakened in
seeing Seward thus take up man, so dead for a
great public measure, that he had staked his polit-
ica fortunes against, especially when that the
question which had divided the Wing party into
two factions, of one of which he was the acknowl-
edged chief!
But again: Suppose it be true, as Seward in his
letter to Jas. B. Taylor in July last says, that he
then fixed his preference for Gen. Scott, and that
Gen. Scott was dead for the compromise, we res
pectfully ask Mr.. Doub how it happens that Gen.
Scott has not, like other public men, stated his po
sition over his own name? During all the dis
putes between Wing partzans, before and since his
nomination, why has he not written the one word
-yes no-and made his position finality"?
Why did he not, in his letter of acceptance, come
out frankly, above-board and like soldier, instead
of accepting the nomination, with the resolutions
annexed! He solennly promised the Conven-
ton, through Mr.. Archer, that if nominated he
would give his views on the Compromise meas
ures will Mr.. Doub inform the public why he
has not fulfilled that pledge? And yet Mr.. Doub
nothing suspicious in this view of his con-
duct; but on the contrary, the very charge of its
suspiciousness is by him denounced as baseless
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