The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-06-26
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT,
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM,
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
GEN. SCOTT NOMINATED /!

the important event TRANSFERRED at Balti-
more, 1.-THE w. N. has thus had the luck
to inform St. Paul and the country above
Galena of both Presidential nominations)
brought to our town the glorious news,
that the war-worn veteran of an hundred
battles had received the nomination of the
Wing National Convention for President
of the United States. To ourselves. and
we believe we can safely say to nine
tenths of the wings of Minnesota, this re-
suit, although not unexpected, is in the
highest degree gratifying. At least this
proportion of our political associates in
the Territory, preferred Gen. Scott to all
other candidates named. Not that they
had the less attachment to Mr.. Fillmore
and Mr.. Webster, and the model Wing
administration Of which the one is the
head and the other-to use homely but
expressive phrase-the wheel-horse )"
not that there is Wing in Minnesota,
who would not, had he voice in this
election, glory in helping to elect either
OF these statesmen and patriots President
for the next four years, and to accomplish
that end would have worked with untir-
ing zeal and energy from now till the day
of final trial; but they have felt an abb
ding confidence in the tried hero and pa
triot, Scott, and that the country owed
him, perhaps more than any other prom
inent Wing, thus much, which if it ever
intended to pay, it must 20 about it
now, or nature, in its ordinary dealings
with mankind, might cancel the debt
Gen. Scott is sixty-six years of age, and
through the kindness of Providence and
the strength Of an iron constitution, has
escaped the fatal result of that most fatal
disease contracted in Mexico, which has
stricken so many bright names from the
roll of our gallant army. He has been in
the most robust health for the last two
years; but it would have scarcely been
deemed proper to bring him forward for
the Presidency four years hence, at the
age of seventy. Therefore, now was the
time, and the only time, to give the coun-
try an opportunity of rewarding, by its
highest honors, the man who, more than
any other that has ever lived, has contri-
buted to the glory of our arms, and caus-
ed the American name to be respected,
and American prowess and valor to be
feared, throughout the world.
He will be elected. You may set that
down. The people uiU reward the tried
and scar-covered veterans, who have per-
illed their lives upon their country's bat
tle-felds. Politicians may calculate, and
figure, and gas as much as they please
talk about the Democracy of New York
and elsewhere being united upon Pierce,
man to whom the country owes nothing,
and all that sort of thing. Let them
unite. The PEoPLE-the great heart of
the American nation, will take care of
Scott. AS it was in the days of Jackson,
and Harrison, and Taylor, so will it be
now. You may carve out your line of
policy, and erect your party platforms
make them of whatever timber and how
ever broad and high you please you may
bring ont your new man." against whom
you aver nothing can be said; 1--WE shall
see) you may cry Democracy" till your
Threats split, and you are as hoarse as the
Alpine hurricane; the heart of the people
IS still there, immovable as the lines of
br'stling American steel at Lundy's Lane,
or the fierce dogs of war that Numbered
at the base of Cerro Gordo and the gates
OF Chepultepec, and you cannot suerye
1t The breadth of a single hair.
"Fuss and Feathers!' We will take
you at this contemptuous cant phrase, as
we took you at the {" log cabin y of Har-
ris0n. We meet again at Phillip, after
separation of twelve years. Fuss
and Feathers let it be, then. You, BY
one OF the foulest conspiracies against
war-worn hero, and faithful patriot, that
ever blackened the annals of nation. dis.
graced General Scott in the presence of
conquered foe, at the city of Mexico in
lS47, but you cannot disgrace him by
such low-fung epithets as this before his
own countrymen, upon whose hearts is
engraven his every noble deed of valor
and tried patriotism, from Queenstown
10 ''ie rails OF the Montezumas. The
gallant Old hero has kicked up a good
deal OF "fuss" during his life, we all
must admit, and has worn the e feathers -
OF all the colors of different rank as he won
them, commencing with the pure whit.