Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-03-03
Hen. II. 2, CD lIlry.

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Below We. publish brief extract
taken from Mr. Gcniry's speech, de-
liyered in the town of Franklin, in.
Williamson county, II short time after
he Presidential election, last fall
Dir. G. felt himself called upon to
make this speech in self-delence-
he having been the subject Of attack
BY many of the Wig party, for re-
fusing to support Gen. .SeoH for the
Presidency. BY this extract. the
reader will discover that Mr. G. re-
;fiirms the position he took before
the election: that Scot was the Scar
ard candidate. Other portions of
this speech make revelations touch
ing the conduct of lean Jimmy Jones
and otherwhigs in reference to .S.oA'S
nomination, by no means creditable
to the Head or heart of the veriest
whig dcmagogue in that party. We
may, having nothing better t6 pub
lish, hereafter favor our readers with
other portions Of this useful docu-
ment:
Gen. Scott lent himself to WnG Il.
Seward and the contemporaries
wings Of the North, and was welded
BY them ''as warrior yields his bat
tle-axe to cleave down into the dust,
Webster and Fillmore and every
other Northern patriot who sought
TO persuade the n orthtrn mind to ac-
cept the compromise measures ''as a
final settlement Of the sectional con-
troversies witch they embraced =
lie gave his name, and all the inllu-
ence which attached to it, to those
who laborcd to reopen the fountain
ofbitter waters which the compro
mise measures were Intended to
close. Unfortunately qnxious to be
the President of the United States,
he gave up the fame and glory which.
Justly attached to him as a general,
10 be Used by unprincipled politi-
clans for the vilest purposes Of fac
ton. Doubtless be intended, when.
President, to save the country from
their Vaccinations, bat his power in
this respect would not have kept
pace with his good Intentions The
press of the southern States, the pub
lie men Of the southern States, called
upon him to speak, bat he would
not speak. Seward and his pRrty.
babe him be silent, and he was ST..
lent That silence WAS the sword
that cut do#n and destroyed Web
stes and Fillmore, and all those
northern men who had sustained the
compromise measures. That silence
sent to the Baltimore Wing Conyen-
;ion (with the exception Of a small
number the whole North united in
favor Of the nomination Of General
Scott as II e Wing candidate for the
Presidency
Will any nau in his senses flil to
sep thof thd motive of this obstinate
silence was to accomplish the o5-
iects which it did accomplish Let
not the public intelligence be iHsuIc
>ed by the declaration that Gehefal
Scott was restrained from responding
10 the loud demands madeupon bin
by considerations of dignity and pro
rriety His name on two former of-
clsions had been before The Ameii-
can people for the Presidential can
didacy. Was he then sileneed by
spasms Of dignity or propriety? No
On the contrary he seemed to be al-
flicted With an epistolary pruriency,
which could find its qualification On )
ly in a multitude Of letters express
i've of MS views on public questions :
But now, when a word or a line from {
him would have silenced the clam /
orous demands Of fifteen States, and +
the compromise wings in all 1the Il
States-when word or line from o
him would !.;lYc-enabled Webster or {
Fillmore to strike down Seward ard
us coadjutors, and bring the north p
I'm whig party into harmonious CO. /,
,peratioa with the southern wings D
Ipon the basis Of The compromise l.
measures, he withheld flat word or lc
inc from Webster or Fillmore and ev
ave HIS SILENCE TO SEWARD, and thus 4
4labled him to conquer and trump 90.
'bese are the stubborn truths that |.
tand out in bold relief upon the po-
tical records of the time Were y
bey exprlng ed or annihilated BY the Ip'
roceedings Of the Wing G}onven- i
ga which assclRblea al Baltimore, ~
!, fbe lf,tB davIef June, 1882, and 6nf