The Yazoo Democrat

WHAT THEY USED TO THINK OF HIM.—The virulent abuse of the N. Y. Tribune, the Albany Evening Journal and of those whig papers that would not bend their necks to the Seward influence and support Gen. Scott for nomination by the whig convention, has, it would seem, induced some of the abused papers to hunt up and expose to the world what Mr. Greeley and Mr. Webb thought and said of Gen. Scott but a few years ago. Mr. Greeley in 1848, called him a "conceited coxcomb," and Webb said "there is weakness in all he says or does about the Presidency."

The New York Express, a leading whig paper, that supports Mr. Fillmore for nomination, says, that in a letter to a politician in the interior of New York previous to the appointment of delegates to the National convention in 1848, Mr. Greeley wrote in this wise:

"Send a delegate to the convention, if you can for Clay; if not for Clay, for Corwin; if not for Corwin, for Seward; if not for Seward, for Taylor. But last of all for Scott. Scott is a vain, conceited coxcomb of a man. His brains all that he has are in his epaulettes; and if he should be elected President he would tear the whig party into tatters in less than six months."

Mr. Weed in the Albany Evening Journal of March 20th, 1848, said:

"In the character of Gen. Scott there is very much to commend and admire. But the mischief is, there is weakness in all he says or does about the Presidency. Immediately after the close of the campaign of 1840, he wrote a gratuitous letter, making himself a candidate, in which all sorts of unwise things were said to return and plague his friends if he should be a candidate. And since that time, with a fatuity that seizes upon men who get bewildered in gazing upon the 'White House,' he has been suffering his pen to dim the glories achieved by his Sword."

That, reader, be it remembered, is whig on whig, was got up by whigs, and given to the world by whigs. If they keep on in that way they will not leave the democrats anything to contend with, as, like the Kilkenny cats they will devour one another.—Cin. Enq.