Vermont Watchman And State Journal

Gen. Scott's public services commenced at an earlier date than those of Mr Webster, and he has been tried in peace and in war. No man, living, with the exception of Lord Wellington, has exhibited such transcendent military talents as Gen Scott. He, like all scientific generals, is also an eminent pacificator. and in the negotiations in which he has been engaged with an antagonist and belligerent powers, has shown himself an able and skillful diplomatist He is a man "without fear and without reproach," such one as the American people might be expected to select as their chief ruler. His recent nomination by a vote nearly unanimous, in Pennsylvania, and the entire unanimity with which he has been nominated by the whig members of the New York legislature, place him in a point of consideration more commanding than any other candidate. It may well be expected that, under such circumstances, Vermont will concur in this nomination, especially since for many years Gen. Scott has been the preference of very many of the whigs in this state. If our recollection is not at fault, the Vermont delegation at the presidential convention held at Harrisburg in December, 1839, voted on the first ballot for Gen. Scott, but subsequently voted for Gen Harrison.
This, too, was in a convention in which Mr Clay was a candidate, and in which he received on the first balloting, if not a plurality, a vote about equal to that of Gen. Harrison. We believe not only that Vermont will cheerfully adopt the nomination of Gen. Scott, but that he will receive the election of President of the United States. The notion that southern whigs will not fall in with his nomination grows, every day, more and more a mere notion. The whigs of states where the whigs will be in the ascendency will concur.—
Hartford Mercury