Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-07-15

article ont of the lot we advice them to let the
business alone this year, and 20 for that Repub-
/ ncan of the old schooi--WINrIrLD Scorr.
/ Southern Opposition 10 Gen. Scott A number
Of ultra savocrahc Southern journals bitterly
oppose Gen. Scott on the ground that his cleo
ton will be virtually triumph of Free Soil
principles over the domination of Slavery. For
instance, The Journal and Messenger Macon
GA says:
1--WE not only disapprove the nomination Of
General Scott, but we conceive it to be the duty
of every Southern man to use every Legitimate
means to effect his defeat. Party prejudice
would lead us TO support him, but regard for The
s1feiV and honor Of the South compcls us to OPP
pose. We do 1t with reluctance, but we shall do il
resoutely, without regard to the consequences.
/ We cannot submit tins question Of the support
Of General Scott to a Convention of the Wing
party, or of any other party, md agree to abide
by ITS decisions. We would as willingly submit
our consciences to the keeping Of another
The .NdshUlHc Union utters It's cry Of alarm,
saying;
1.-THE most vital interests of the South are at
stake in this contest. If the Scott and Seward
wing Of the wing party triumph, the Offices of
the Government will be filled with the enemies
/ of Slavery
The R,lieigh IN. c. Standard, finds cause Of
terror in the prospect of ST; it says:
We told you, Wings Of North Carolina
mouths ogo, that if Scott should be nominated
and elected, Sticard iroidd succeed him, and our
opinion in tus matter is confirmed by a New
/ York Wing of twenty-four years Standing
You hare already gone 10 the head Of the army
for your candidate REMEMBER THE FALL OF
THE RoMAN ENrrREm And remember those
other words, as true as they are startling. "A rote
for Scott noio,' IS a Uoie for Se'rud ~ So"
This doesn't exactly square with the opin-
ions expressed by the Massachusetts Free Soil
ers ,hc other day In their meeting Theodore
Parker, who wouldn't 60 for Scott anyhow,
thought he might 60 for Seward in 1850. There
seems to be some confusion on this subject in
the mind Of somebody.
More orhe same sort. A. H. Stephens R.
Toombs, J Johnson of Georgia, c, j. Faulkner
of Virginia, w. Brooke ofMississippi, A. White
and James Abcrcrombie Of Alabama, and NJ p.
Gentry and G. II. Williams of Tennessee (all
members ofCongress) have all come out against
Gen scorr for the following reasons:
"The only pledge or guaranty he offers for
his adherence tothe principles of the resolu.
tious' tof The National Convention are the
known incidents of long public iite" Nc
,inongst these known incidents" Of his
life, there is not one, SO far as we are aware Of,
in favor of the principles of thc Compromise
la one at least Of his public letters, he has cx-
pressed sentiments immca! to the institutions
lSaver) Of fifteen States Of the Union Since
the passage of the Compromise he has suffered
his name TO be held up before the people of sew
cral Of the States as a candidate for the Presi-
dency by the open and avowed enemies Of those
measures. And in the Convention that confer
red the nomination upon him, he permitted him
self to be used By the Free Sellers in that body
to deicat Mr. Fillmore and dr Webster, because
of their advocacy Of those measures, and their
firm adherence to the policy that sustained them.
"We consider Gen Scott the fa,orlte can
didate of the Free Soil wing of the WING par
/ ty That policy, if he should be elected,
would be warped aud shipped TO conform 10 their
( views, and 10 elevate them to power in the ad-
ministraton Of the government, can but be con-
sderod as a legitimate ard probable result"
This is excellent, very excellent. Each one
Of these gentlemen has for nearly two years be-
longcd either TO the Mutual Insurance and Mu-
tual Admiration Company, called the Union
party or has shown that he ought to belong
there, by adopting the fnality of the Compro-
misc as a political test They now announce
that Test and a little more they viii support
nobody that a free sod Vhig can support OF
course they don't fellowship the Wing party,
and their support for Gen. Scott was no more to
be reckoned upon than would have been that Of
the British army 10 1872, OF the Mexican Army
in the campaigns Of 1917. We are heartily glad
that the Wing party is safely delivered Of such
enemies, und that they have had the monliness
to put upon record he reasons of their hostility.
Gen. Scorr has said that he was raised in Viz
gna, among slave holding population, and
that there, from WAsHINGToN and JEFFERSON,
he learned to prefer Freedom. 1t is true, too,
that Northern Wings who were born and nurs-
ed as Freemen, and who, while they have been
taught TO respect, and viii respect all the rights
Of the people and states of the South, yet main
tain the principles with which they were born
we say II IS true, that muititudes of such Wings
did prefer Gen. ScoTr. They will support hun,
too, with none the less zeal, now that the at
tempt Is made to to crush him, because he has
dared to think as WAsmNGroN and JEFFERSON
thought; and crush him too because tree born
.Noihera men support him Never was the
black feather more boldly shown than in this
proclamation like the black flag of the pirate,
1t evidently means defiance and death to all who
will not surrender without firing a shot Foru-
nately the strength Of these ten wrathy gentle
men is not equal to their malice The North
will still vote for Gen. Scott, and the South will
not give him up. Indeed, if the Southern Whigs
'oere to give up Gen Scott on such grounds, it is
| by no means certain that the free states would
not elect him still 1t is a terrible game for the