Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1862-10-29

tianity. By order of
Brig. Gen. SAXTON, Commanding.
Meeting of the New York Democracy
John Van Burcn (the Priucel addressed
the meeting:
On the Sd of March, President Lincoln
about to be sworn into office, found himsel
in the city of Washington, having reached i
in disguise Laughter )-covered with Scotcl
cap Renewed laughter )-aud wrapped with
blue cloak--for the first time in the history
of this country the President found himself al
the seat of Government. And it was through
the active eyertions and great discretion Of
Gen. Scott and Gen Wool that he was ena
bled even to take the oath. And on the I'D
day of March, as he was about entering upon
these duties, before he took the oath, a letter
was a,ldressel to him, which now propose
to read to you, AMI ask you to notice be-
cause have not time to return to ~ the
wonderful spirit of prophecy and extraordina.
ry Judgment as we'll as unquestiona5lc patri-
olism, that animates every word and every
line Of this letter. would SAL, however,
that wns not authorized by Gen. Scott to
make this letter public. The letter WAS in
form submitted 10 Secretary Seward, bu; wa
iai.l bsrre the PRESIDENT anil reached him
thus in q proper official mode:
WAsulNGroy, March 3. 1861.
DEAR SIR: Hoping that in a day Or two
the new President will have happily passed
through all personal daagers and find him,
self installed an honorea successor of the
great Washington, with you as the chief OF
his Cabinet, beg leave to report in wriin.,
wha, have before said to y'u orally, This
supplement to my printed " views" (dated in
October last on the highly disor'led conl-
tion oi cur $50 late) happy and glorious
Union.
To meet the extraordinary cxisencies o.
the times, it seems to me that am guilty Of
no arrogance in limiting the President Il field
o! selection to one oil the four plans ol pro
crlure suhjoined:
|. Throw of the old and assume new de-
sisnation-thc Union party. Adopt the con
cli4tory measures rror,scd by Mr.. Crittcn-
ieu or the peace conve"tion-iapPlaus' :
and, my life upon it, We shall have no new
case Of secession: but. ON the contrary, an
ea.ly rrtnrn ofmany, if not all, Of the States
which have already broken oil from the
Union. Without some equally berign meas.
ure the remaining slavehol,:ing States will
probably join Tie Mont :omrry C"nIyrracly
in less than sixty iays, whea this City i;.l;'g
included in foreign Country, would require
permanent garrison of a; least $4,000 troops
to protect the Government within it.
stop mere to call Your attention to tic
fact that Mars lanl did no: ,in the Mon'g"m.
cry Confcdcracy. aid yet, with Maryland
ON our side, tonight it requires a garrison OF
ljl, l,oC0 men to protect Washington. Ap-
plause
,. Collect the duties on foreign goods out
side the ports of which this Government has
lost the command, or close sucl, ports by act
Of Congress ana blockade them.
(.And this, unhsprily, was the course that
WAS entered upon.
3. Conquer the seceded States by invading
armies. No doubt tbis might be done in two
or three years by young and able General
"a Wolfe. Desais or n Hoche, with 100000
disciplined men-es,innating third for gar,
risons, and the loss Of yet greater number
by skirmishes, seges, battles and Southern
f,yers. The destruction of life aad property
on the other side would be frightiill, however
perfect the moral discipline of the invaders.
The conquest completed ut that enormous
waste of human life to the North and North
west with at least s25O,0O0,O0Q added there
to, and chi bono ? Fifteen devastated pro-
yinces, not to be brought into harmony with
their conquerors, but 10 be held for genera
tions, by heavy garrlsons, at al expense Ii'aG'
ruple the net duties or taxes which 1t would
BE- possible to extort from them, followed By
protector or an emperor.
4. Say to the seeded States-waywards sis
tars. depart in peace.
In haste, remain, very truly, yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
Hon. Wa. II. SEwArD, &C., &c. &c.
General Scott, on the 8 Of March. having
pat the President in condition TO be sworn
in-snd beirg perhaps the only man in the
United States who could have d one that-no.
tiied him that if lie entered upon un attempt
to conquer the secaded States, that, in the
Grst place, he coall nn' do it; that it would
require young general like Dcsalx, Il
lIoche, o: a Well; that he who had, moi ma
ny years before marched to the capital CT
Mexico with an army oftwelve thousand men,
fighting nine pitched battles on the way,
meeting no cheek and corquering an bonor-
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