Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-03
THE STANDARD.
RALEIGH, N. C.
SATURDAY. April q, 1852.
MORE DECEPTION.


The Raleigh Register, though il prefers Mr.. Fill
more, nevertheless comes forward to endorse Genera
Scott, in the absence Of all proof, as sound TIT
" compromise; and that paper goes so far in it,
game of deception as to publish the famous Washing
ton City letter to the Nashville Banner on the sub
ject, and to make remarks in connection therewitf
calculated 10 leave the impression on the minds of it,
readers that Gen. Scott actually endorsed the fugitive
slave law while pending before Congress.
Now see how easily this trick on the part of III.
Register can be exposed 1t is stated by this Wash
ington Correspondent Of the Nashville Banner, tina
Gen. Scott wrote TO Mr.. Clay and Mr.. W ebster Will,
the compromise" was before Congress, and informed
them that he approved of all the measures of Mr.
Clay's bill-the 6 omnibus bill '-and would give
them his support. Very well-this may all be true
but then be mbered that the only bill b,
which the South gained anything, ,Oas not included
in Mr.. Clay's " omnibus" The fugitive-slave law
was introduced as separate bill by Mr.. Mason, o
Virginia, and was never, at any time, embraced among
Mr.. Clay's measures. thus approved by Gen. Scott
Gen. Scott may have been in favor of Mr.. Cay's
measures, which We're regarded as an-Southern anC
which gave the free States decided advantage-nc
doubt he for these measures; but it is dshones
in any newspaper to attempt to produce the impress
sion that they embraced the fuglive-slave law, and
that Gen. Scott for that also.
A Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune notices these rumors of Gen. SCOTS sound
ness on the compromises to which much i'm.
portance has been attached by certain Southern prints
and adds:
"The report from Washington, published in one
more of the New York papers of w Wednesday last,
stating that Gen. Scott was upon the point of writing
letter approving the compromise, and Which Of
his friends Uerdant enough to suppose had
truth in ii, ,vih0ut the shadotU Of foundation. 1t is
of piece with the strange, startling extraordinary
announcements often made for the and
consumption of open-mouthed gullibility. And the
report is not only untrue now, but it will be
the end, howsoever often it may be revived If Gen.
Scott cannot be elected without letters, without
pledges, without Protestations, then he will not be
elected at all. The friends of Gen. Scott and the
enemies of Gen. Scott may we'll set their hearts at
rest this point. If public life of forty years has
not been sufficient to establish him in the confidence
of his countrynen, he cannot now secure that conf
dence by covering half sheet whole sheet of
foolscap with protestations, to be published the
eve of election, for the purpose OF aiding his
personal advancement. And man is more thor
oughly imbued with this sentiment than Gen. Scott
himself He will, therefore, attempt folly of the
sort. If he stand his services, his charac-
ter, his long public life, he cannot stand at all. If
these not sufficient to command the support pf his
fellow citizens, a sheet of foolscap won't him.
He stands the record of his country's history
as one of the most prominent and distinguished men
of his day. By that record he must abide. By his
past history must he be judged By that it must be
determined whether he is a nomination fit to
be made.'"
The truth is, Gen. Scott has been Intercepted on
the subject Of the compromise" and has expressly
refused to answer. This, of itself, is conclusive.
He declines to speak out in favor of a law, the
maintenance and faithful enforcement of which de-
ponds the existence of the Union; and yet he is
dorsed by the Raleigh Register sound upon the
" COMPROMISED and that paper stands pledged TO sup
port him, if nominated, for the Presidency!