The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-14

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vatise elements Of the country viii rally. Hi
| escutchecn is without blot or stain. Hi
| loyalty 10 the Union and the institutions Of
the country is beyond all question. lie
| combines frmness with moderation, and with q
lofty sense of justice and integrity he has an
| iron will which cannot be swerved from the
interests Of his country, or bent to the selfish
purposes OF any of the demoralized factions Of
the hour. He is still vigorous in body and
mind, while he is of that mature ripe age
which has treasured up the fruits Of wisdom
and experience. He is the very man for the
time He returns fresh from the Pacific, where
be settled the troubles which threatened US on
the boundary question at the Northwest The
same patriot dspelled the clouds which hung
over the horizon on the Northeast, when the
boundary question Of Maine lookedso dark and
lowering; and he was the man sent by Andrew
Jackson to arrest the progress Of multi
fication and disunion at the South In 1882.
Again in 1887, 1t was upon General Scott
the government and the country depended to
face the storm which was breaking forth on
our Northern frontier in consequence Of the
Canadian rebellion. And who was il settled
the war with Mexico and brought it to happy
termination The same great paoifcator, the
hero of Lundy's Lane, whose name is entwined
on the immortal page Of our history with the
hero of New Orleans
Let, then, the last survivor of our great men,
who, like Washington, is ''frst in peace, first in
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let him be nominated at this perilous juncture
of the republic, and his name will be re-echoed
from Maine to Texas by every friend of the
Union. Scott Union meetings will be held all
over the country, and an enthusiasm will be
aroused far greater than that which so
triumphantly elected General Harrison in
1910 and General Taylor in lS4S. By
birth and blood General Scott is Vir-
ginian; by residence he is a Northern man.
He thus combines in his own person the inte-
rests and the sympathies Of both North and
South. He is the most fitting representative
of Union.
What ought to be done, therefore, at the
Union meeting on Monday next, is to nominate
General Scott for the Presidency. There is no
probability of the corrupt managers bringing
forward such name; but if some honest, in
dependent citizen will do it of his own accord,
we venture to say that he will be responded to
with .furore which will be irresistible The
true friends of the Union, whether North
or South, or East or West, may depend on
it that Scott is the name to conjure with at
the present time, and that he is the man with
whom to win the battle of the constitution in
1860. He is the greatest patriot of the country
Let him be nominated on Union and conserva-
tive platform, and the victory over treason and
disunion is as sure as that day follows night
This is living practical issue, and General
Scott is just the man to fight it, and conquer
There are no other issues now in existcnce
and the party names and organizations, based
on old questions the fossil remains of past
generations no longer any political pu
pose or meaning: their only bond of union
now being ''the cohesive power Of the pablic
plumber" These must give way before the
new conservative and Union party, to be
founded on the necessities of the times.
The CONSPIRACY or THE NORTH AGAINST THE
SouTH.-We publish in another column state
ment of Thaddeus Hyatt relative to the John
Brown fund.- which appears in the Tribune and
other sympathizing papers, showing the pro-
gress of that work. We also published the
other day an account of Browns funeral, the
eulogies passed upon him, and the vast sympa-
thy with his principles and his fate, and we
could print column upon column of like mat
ter, showing how widespread is the feeling
in favor Of this conspiracy against the South.
Brown is lauded in sermons, mourned in con-
vehicles, apothsosized in newspaper articles,
all over the Northern, Eastern and North
western States. He is described as the "mar-
tyr-hero," the champion of freedom, the
"hero of 49," and his bloody career in Kansas
and at Harpers Ferry is exalted into the mis-
sion Of a second Saviour. Yet the fact is
attempted to be denied by the republi-
can party, in Congress and out of it,
that there is no organized movement
against the South in existence in the
North except the small band of the
Garrison and Phillips school. Such is
the declaration now made by representatives
and Senators from Northern and Eastern
States, who, when they are met face to face
with their Southern colleagues in the halls OF
Congress, are backing out of their participation
in this very movement. What does all this
laudation of John Brown mean, then? and
what are the facts concerning the growth OF
the antislavery agitation?
The anti-slavery sentiment first assumed an
organized form at the time of the Kansas
troubles. The Emigrant Aid Society, of which
Thaddeus Hyatt was secretary, was one part
of the organization. It sent men, and money
and arms, to Kansas, to stir up civil war
there; it furnished rifles to John Brown
to do murder upon the pro-slavery set
tiers; Colonel Forbes was sent there to drill
and train the anti-slavery border rufians,