The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1852-10-20
4 4 PER 3

II appears that Gen. Scott, now on his
grand electioneering tour, receives $500
per diemi The Washington Republic Of
yesterday, which has been ciphsring out
the fact. gives This as The amount; so that
the public t~reasuryis called upon to pay
the expences Of a candidate whose associ-
atoms with the abolition wings Of the free
States are as public and as notorious as
the designs Of those agitators.
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS A DAY! TO be paid Out
of the public treasury to Gen. Scott in or
der that, by his elevation to the Presiden.
cy, the unscrupulous men Of the wing par
~ maysbe restored to power, to inaugur-
ate, in all probability, another era Of Gal
phins and GARDENERS. "a. WI
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS A DAY! to be paid
ont o fthe public treasury as the expenses
of the Seward nominee, who travels
through the country asking votes like a
candidate for sheriff of a county, and who
makes speeches to any crowd he meets,
like an itenerant lecturer.
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS A DAY! to be paid
out of the public treasury to a candidate
for President, that he may the more effec.
tually arous the abolition elements of the
North against the South.
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS A DAY! TO be paid
out of the public treasury TO a candidate
for President, in his efforts to convince the
adopted citizens that he is not a n~ativist
any longer, Notwithstanding the natives
decidedly advocate his election.
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS A DAY! 10 be paid
out of the public treasury to a candidate
for President for making speeches in no.
tells, %denouncing the accusation of politi-
cal opponent as "a liza liza false and
groundless lie."
We should like to hear Of the Democrat
ic candidate for President who has ever
attempted any such performance as this.
Nay, we should like to be pointed TO the
wing who has ever hazarded his reputation
by attempting a candidacy for the Presi-
dency under such circumstances. There
is an absence Of all dignity, of all proprie-
ty, Of good taste, Of ordinary respect for
the feelings Of the people, in the whole az
fair, well calculated to arouse the indigna-
ton Of the masses, and TO cause every
lover Of his country TO blush at the specta-
Gle it presents.
Gen. Scott is resolved to be an excep.
ton to every other candidate for the Presi-
dency who has preceded him; and TO
stand alone as the only man who ever iiv.
ed in this country that accepted a nomi-
nation at the head of the army. that threw
himself into the hands Of the foes Of one
half of the States, and that paid himself
out Of the national treasury 10. the most
public and humiliating electioneering.
Gen. Washington resigned his position
as commander-in.chi ofthe army before
he accepted the Presidency, and another
was appointed to the place he had
filled.
Gen. Jackson was not at the head Of
the army when he was elected.
Gen. Harrison had long resigned his
position in the army before he was elected
to the Presidency.
Henry Clay even resigned his place in
the Senate OF the United States, when, in
1914, he became the wing candidate for
Gen. Cass resigned his place in the
Senate of the United States as soon as he
was nominated for the Presidency by the
Democratic party.
In violent and repulsive contrast 10 all
these examples, Gen. Scott holds on TO his
commission as the CommanGer-in.chief Of.
the American army, uses its patronage as
it may be used, travels about the country
in the hands of abolition agitators and
partisan slanderers, and pays himself out
the treasury at the rate Of eighteen dol.
lars a day. Shades Of Washington. Adj
ans, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jack
son, Harrison, and Polk, what a comment
is this upon the examples you presented to
the country!-W Washington Union.