The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1862-11-22

expense quauruple the net duties or taxes, Wnlc0
it would be possible to extort from them, follow
ed by Il protector an emperor.
4. Say to the seeded Staes-wayward sisters
depart in peace.
In haste, remain, very truly, yours
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Hon. W. II. SEWARD.
Enthusiastic cheers.)
General Scott, on the 81 of March, hav
ing put the President in condition to be
sworn n-and being perhaps the only man
in the United States who could have done
that-notiied him that if he entered upon
an attempt to conquer the seeding States
that, in the frs, place, he, (ScotD could not
do it; that 1t would reqars a young Gene
raj, like Desaix, a Hoche or a Wolfe; that
month";, marched to the capital Of Mexico
with an army Of twelve thousand men, fight
ing nine pitched battles on the way, meeting
no check and conquerin, An honorable
peace, was unable, with three hundred. thoul
sand men, to attempt to conquer the seeded
States ia two or three years. He WAS in
formed that i, would require three hundred
thousand men, and tonight, when we are
only half way through in point OF time, we
have one million five hundred thousand.
He was told that it would add two hundred
and fifty millions Of dollars to the nationa!
debt; and to dav. when we are only a year
and half through, that debt probably ex'
ceeds twelve hundred millions. The Secre
tary of the Treasury, reported it last May,
at four hundred and ninety milions-double
the amount that it was feared by Scott would
be required to comp etc this conquest. Now
fellow'citizens, with their eyes open, so far
as they could be opened by this great sol
der, this attempt was entered upon to con-
ouer the seeded States Those who under
took to advise the President, and whom the
public must hold responsible knew better
than this veteran patriot. lie WAS an old
fo2y He was n martinet, who was talking
about an army Of three hundred thousand
men to country which never had twelve
He was an f. F V.->ne of the fast tlying
and fleet footed Virginians, AS we were told
(Applause) But the result shows that it is
four times worse already than he ever an
licipa ell. Bat fel ow citizens, this is not
incurable. The resources of this country
are prodigous. Ny own strong conviction
is that it is not yet too late to remedy the
difficulties into which we have been plunged;
bat d. sincerely believe that it can only be
done bv listening to the counseIs OF those
who are veterans in the tiehl-who are pro
fcient IN the art Of war-an1 to begin by
displacing from the command those who are
mere political of1irers, and putting in places
Of trust soldiers and true patriots. (Appau e)
Now, such being The fact, what is presented
to us fer oar support at the approaching
election! militia major, who never was
IN the field except once As an aid de camp,
who does not claim to be "A soldier, is pre-.
seuled As candidate for Governor; and
propose to canvass briefly the claims Of
Jane, Wadsworth to ths support of the
people of the State at this time. In the
first place. why was he nominate y l. WAS
brought about by a combination of AbpIi
lionsls and political strikers (Applanse)
He was nomina' ed, in the first place, for his
enormous wealth. The Mariposa mine has
run dry. (Langher) The last Democrat
that was taken from our ranks had been fed
upon by those harpies until he is in our
courts pleading his privilege of exemption
from arrest for debt. |; became necessary
to transfer those eeches somewhere, and
they were sent to battne on the Genesee
flats. daughter and cheers.) | have no
unknd feelings towards General Fremont
recoect when he was candidate for
President-traversing the United States and
endeavoring to show he ought not to be
elected and that Mr.. Buchanan should
meeting great many good natured men
who knowing my business better than did
myself, said to me- IF yon had OF aban'
doned your principles YOU might have been
where Fremont is now" (Cheers.) "We"
said |, "you are complimentary, but hasv
Suppose you stand still until see where he
is, and then | will he able to tell you wheth
er would like to be there. daughter and
cheers) Careful observation for six years
since has satisfied mo that have no desire
to exchange aces with him. (Laughter.)
His career, in my humble judgment, (,nd
say it with regre') is a warning to Demo
Gratis | am now in an assembly of men of
that political faith, as well as their political
opponents, and would say that no Demo
crat, from Henry Clay down, including Mr.
Rives, Mr. Tanadge, Mr.. Fremont, Mr.
Tremain, Mr.. Dickinson hisses ever suf
ferel himself trb be seduced from the Demo
cratic ranks by the hope of political prefer
ment, viii lhout sooner or later, finding him
self politically, if not pecuniarly ban krupt
Cheers and laughter. When the United
States Senatorship comes to be disposed Of
if the Democracy of this State do not carry
it. as feel convinced they will, Daniel
Dickinson will Fl d that the United States
Senatorshp that has been held out to him
as a tenn tatiou for his course, is taken from
him and given to one who has served Ion
ger in the ranks to which he has recently
allied himself. AppIause | believe Mr..
Dickinson has changed his mind since the
nomination of Mr.. Wadsworth IN regard to
the course he should pur ue. | am told
that after Mr. Wadsworth was nominated
he wrote letter Of several pages to gen
tleman in the Western part of this State, in
which he said that he could not separate
himself from the Democratic party, and