Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-09
From the Augusta Chronicle.
Endorsing Mr.. Fillmore in 1859.

The following card, which appeared originally in
1852, is not without interest in the present day.
The chief ground of opposition to General Scott,
as set forth in the card is that he had not given
satisfactory assurance that he approved the Com
promise measures of 1850; which were made the
test by there sgners. Yet in 1856, only four yea,
after, four of the signers, Messrs Stephens, Fauk
ner, White, and Toombs totally abandon the prin
ciples of the Compromise of 1850, and make the
Kansas bill the test, with its squatter sovereignty
and alien suffrage features, both of which were re-
pudiated by the Compromise of 1850.
Another reason assigned is, that General Scott
was believed to be opposed to the Compromise Of
1850. Yet, four of the sgners now support Bu-
chanan, knowing full well, that he was in Wash
ington during the progress Of the Compromise
measures, urging with all his influence, the ex-
tension of the Missouri line to the Pacific ocean,
and of course opposing the passage of the Com.
promise measures. ... a.sa IL ..s
Another objection is, that he General Scott
had permitted himself to be used to defeat the
choice of the South, either Fillmore or Webster,
and was regarded by the signers as "the candi-
date of the Free-so wing of the Wing party
Buchanan used for the same purpose in the
same way, in the Cincinnati Convention, and tri-
umphed over the Southern favorites in that Con-
vention. lie is, therefore, the favorte candidate
of the Free-soil wing of the Democratic party
Buchanan was virtually nominated by the North,
In consideration of these objections, the signers
refused to join the Scott party and aid them in
completing their triumph over and sacrifice of
those true and tried friends of the Constitution,
Daniel Webster and Millard Fillmore. The die
tates Of duty and patriotism strongly forbade it!
Brooks, of Mississippi; Abercrombie, of Ala
bama and johnson, of Georgia, still stand by that
true and tried friend of the Constitution, Milard
Fillmore the others are the supporters of the
o;r,po
But to the card-read it Southern men, and de.
termine whether General Scott could possibly have
been more inimical to the South and her institu-
tions than James Buchanan-whether MillarI Fill
more who is endorsed as the true and tried friend
of the Constitution, is not more to be relied on
than the open advocate of squstter sovereignty
and alien suffrage:
"WAsHINGToN July 8, 1852
"To prevent all mistake and misapprehenson,
we, the undersigned members of Congress, adopt
this method of making joint statement to our
constituents respectively, and to all who may take
any interest in the subject that cannot aud will
not support General Scott for the Presidency as
he now stands before the American people, for the
following amongst other reasons:
"He obstinately refused, up to the time of his
nomination, to give any public opinion in favor of
that series of measures of the last Congress
known as the COMPROMISED the permanent main
tenance of which, with US, is question of para
mount importance. Nor has he, since his nomina-
tion made any declaration of his approval of those
measures as a final adjustment of the issues in
controversy. a..a
at is true the resolutions Of the convention
that nominated him are as clear and explicit upon
this question as need be but Gen. Scott, in his
letter of acceptance which contains all that we
have from him on that matter, does not give them
the approval of his judgment. This he seems stu
diously to have avoided. He accepts the nomina-
ton with the resolutions annexed That is. he
takes the nomination caan onere, as an ind yiiual
takes an estate, with whatever membranes It
may be loaded with. And the only pledge and
guaranty he offers for bis adherence to the prin-
ciples of the resolutions are the known incidents
Of long public life,' &c.
Amongst these known incidents Of his life
there is not one, far as are aware in favor OF
the principles Of the compromise. In one at least
Of his public letters, he has expressed sentiments
nimical TO the institutions of fifteen States of the
Union. Since the passage of the compromise he
has suffered his name to be held up before the peo-
pie Of several Of the States as a candidate for the
Presidency by the open and avowed enemies of
those measures. And in the convention that con-
ferred this nomination upon him, he permitted
himself to be used by the Freesoilers in that body,
to defeat Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Webster because
of their advocacy of these measures and their firm
adherence to the policy that sustained them.
To join such men, and aid them in completing
their triumph over, and sacrifice OF the true and
tried friends Of the constitution, and the faithful
discharge Of all its Obligations is what we can new
er do. The dictates of duty and patriotism stern
ly forbid II.
We consider General Scott as the fsvorite can