General Scott

vVlien Mr. Giddmgs wan carivassmg bis district for a re-cloition last year, he was ca!Jcd on in a pnblic meeting of all parties to state who was his candidate for the Presidenoy; He promptly replied that General Scott was his favorite candidate - that Mr. Clay teas a good man, but ho preferred General Scott. Sinoe then, the General has wriüen to John Q,. Adams that l:e was nota slave holder; and as that declaration brovght upon him severe censure from Vjrginn, lus native State, nnd ronJcKxl litnr auopo'tnl ly tJ.o clci rvhuliïi;! generally, he has lalely wntten a letter definihghis position on slavery. We subjoin an epitome of itfrom the Marshal Statesman. - lt wil! be seen that he talks upon both sides - owns no slave himself, ana thinks slavery a bad thing, but does not bic me any body for holding slaves, and hlnícs the masters sïiouid melwrate the condilion of their victims as rnuch as they conveniently can, &tc. k.c, - Vcry comfortable doctrine; but it will not make him President. General Scott and Slavei-y. - The Panvill (Va.) Reporter contains a letter of Gen. S-otl, on the quecstion of slavery; connected with the Prcsiilcncy. It was wntten in reply to a Virginia correspondent and is copied into JVational InleWgencer, Lancaster Union, nnd we know not how many more leading journals. Though Gen. Scott declares he has no prospect of being made a candidate for the Presidency, and he shall not be one unless by a regular nomination, yet he chooses to err, if it be au ecror to speak, on the side of frankness and candor, and henee he speuks freely his views on ihe foolislily called "delicate" question of slavery. Gen. Scott states that in boyhood he received strong impressions in favor of gradual emancipa! ion from Jefferson's notes on Virginia,and from Judge Tucker's appendix to his edition of Blackstone's Commentaries. Who has not rece'vod similar impressiorts? The student of the liberal sciences must have always bathed at the fountain of FVecdom. The principies of al soience, all literature, and all law are opposed to slavcry, and we must get a new series of elementary principies beforc the yor.fhful mind will not take strong hold on emancipation. - Gen. [ 'Scott rettiins these impressions an-J would have advocated the bill to carry out practical emancipation in Virginia in 1341-2 had he been a meaibcr of the Lrgislature at thal lime. In his (Gen. Scott's) opinión, "Congress has no color of authority under the constitution, to touch the relalion of mas'er and slave in a state.'' The reverse is true with regard to the district of Columbia. "Ilcrc, wifli tlie consent of the owners, on payment oí 'just compensation congresa may legislóte at its discretion." Gen. S. thinks this legislalion should however be "sep by step with that of Virginia and Marylaml, or it would be dangerous to both races in those states," believing that "congress is bound by the constitution to receive, to refer, and to report upon petitions in relation lo domestic slavery;'' 'regrets the irritation produced by them in the southern states, whereby the adoption of any plan of emancipation has been greatly retarded.'' The General owns no slave himself, but nevcr attached bhme to mastfirs ior not liberating their slaves without the means of se ad ingtheni where they woukl be in saiety; is "pcrsuaded tliut t is n high moral obligaton of masters and slavcholding statcs to employ all mcnns not incompatible with the snfety of both colors to mei orate sJavery to extermina tion. This is going on not witlistandingr 't]iá. turbing causes,' oud no one has a right to interferein a comtnunity not belonging to ït. - Each community must decide tor itself. The woik of liberation caimot be forced. Cliristian philanthroyy is ever mild and considérate. Providencc doubtless design? to overrule the great evil of slavery to the benefit of the j ca.n rncc. Torn frpm their sa vage homes, [ sold to slavery; in cruel bondage the colorod I race increased far beyond the parallel of heathenism, is made ncquaintsd with civilized life, hears the gospel, Sec , which ncvercould have reachcd him in the dnrk regions of África. - Emancipation must come, and God will educe good from this evil, and make it the means of sending the gospel and the bles?ings of civilization over a vast continent." These are the j main views of Gen. Scott, ihe cpncluding remarks of which he merely "avggests to inspire patienc.e, hope and charity on all stdes." We have noliced tliis letter, becauee he is Mr. Gidding'a "favorite candidato," and we wish O'.ir reader-? to know how fat they can depend upon the j'idgement oí Giddings, Slude, Gales, hc. inshsiipng their anii-slavery course. Tiiis is a specimen of their consistency. The earneslness and zeal with which Giddings has advocated the aboljtion of slavery and the trade in slaves, in the Federal District, Ins rendered him notorioug tl.rougli the nation. Yet his "favorite candi Jate"' is utteily opposed to all practicable nctioii on the subject. Il is worthy of notice thal nbolitionists have no longer any occasion to question the national candidates on anti-slaverp topics. Iflhpyi do not s-eo the nercssily of a voluntary d j ration of sentiment, they will surely be cafcchised bv slave-Lo)ders.