The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-11
CINCINNATI, Ohio, December, ls47.
Iietc Of Politics in Ohio-Fustian and a Fesc

We live in wonderful age Fifty years ago,
Arthur st. Clair stood up in the halls of the
American Congress, the sole delegate of the
Northwest-the representative of the back
woodsman-the fur trapper of Mad River, the
pioneer of the Wabash, and the bee hunter of
the almost impenetrabe swamp. This was the
primitive age of the republic-the dawning of a
new era in the western world. Now, instead of
a solitary delegate from vast wilderness of
country, the same region can boast her represent
tatives of sovereign States, from Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan, with population of mil
lions OF happy, prosperous and contented people.
| st. Clair and Wayne, Hartman and Harrison, and
their associates OF former years, have been ga
thered to their fahers but their virtues still live,
! and are held in grateful remembrance by those
who have succeeded TO the heritage left us by
those worthy exemplars of an enterprising race.
In a political point OF view, the great West is
! now regarded with especial favor by the keen
sighted politician, whose aspirations seek limit
only within the walls of the White House at
| Washington. As enc of the great sections of
the Union, the West Is destined to exercise
powerful influence in the next Presidential cam
paign; and in order that you may understand
more fully the present aspect of the political no.
rlzon IN this quarter, will, in imitation of the
great Lexington orator, endeavor to add my
knowledge upon this point, TO the common stock
| of intelligence of the country.
During the revolution in France, the National
Assembly divided into several sections,
bearing the soubriquet Of Jacobns, Girondiss,
and the Mountain La Ohio, the whig party is
divided into an equal number of sections. The
most formidable Of these are the adherents of
| Senator Corwin. They undoubtedly number
large majority of the rank and file; and not
withstauding the anti-American sentiments Ut
| tered by Mr.. c., in his celebrated speech on the
Mexican war, he nevertheless has host of warm
and devoted friends, who cling TO him with a
| devotion and love that partake of filial cha
racter. This can be accounted for in no other
1 my !, t,at M ,ol l..
reer in life a poor boy, and, from driver Of
| oxen, and little old gray mare with straw
| collar and a rope bride, has won his way from
obscurty to renown, by the force of native talent,
| aud the energy of an honest heart. AS a man,
| Tom Corwin is certainly model of good nature
| -amiabe and socable, with a more than over
| flow OF the milk of human kind ness in his COM
| position. In his manners he is a plain, unso-
phisticated republican, void of all os entation
besides, he is one of the most effective stump
| speakers IN the United States Like the celebra-
ted Garrick, the actor, he is endowed by nature
with face, one half comic-the other half ira
glc; and by the contraction of his muscles, his
oddities and grimaces. he can make a crowd
weep and laugh pretty much as he pleases. Here
are pleased with his antics. from grave to gay,
! rom lively to severe" and 60 away we'll salts
| he'd IN listening to the stump harapgues OF
tom, the Wagner Boy" They shout his
| praise and consider him of the b'hoys
| This Is the secret OF his popularity and his
strong hold upon the masses IN the Buckeye
| State.
The old bunker division of the wings still
| cherish faint hope that through concatena-
ton of events, produced by division and sub-di.
vision, and constant collision, their old favoritc
courser, "Harry of the West" may be again
placed upon the political race course. There Is
| something open and manly. candid and above
| board, in the character Of Henry Clay, that
cures for him the attachment of the great body
OF The leaders in the wing ranks and next TO
Corwin, l have not the least doubt but Mr.. Clay
Is thu choice OF fourffths of the wings of Ohio,
| for the next Presidency.
Judge Mclean has some few warm personal
frleCds in the wing ranks, mostly located in this
city, and at the State capital, who would rejoice
! to see him made the standard bearer of the
wing party. OF. this number, Judge Wright, Of
this city, the editor Of the Gazette, is the lead
ing wire-worker. While Ex-Governor Sew
ard, of New York, was here. some year or two
ago, the active friends of Mclean were busy
coquetting with him, in order TO form coai-
ton with the aboitlonisis, anti-renters and
the Irish interest of the Empire State. This
| combination, 1t was thought, had been consum-
mated; hut the recent givings-out Of the Auburn
Adrertiser Gov. Stewards organ) denouncins
| the Judge not possessing "whig sympa-
thies," has operated here as a wet bianke,
| thrown over his prospects. 1t is well known,
| moreover, that Judge Mclean was once Cal
houn man, subsequently, a Jacksonian, and lat
| the wing party. therefore, look upon him as
hybrid in poitics-snd for fear of being again
"Tylerized, the Judge, Notwithstanding the
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receiving wing support in Ohio. You may put
him down as completely shelved
Generals Scott and Taylor never had any
hasty plate Of soup OF the one, and the mo-
party notions of the other, have placed them be-
yond the category of avallables. None other
will be supported by the wings of Ohio You
may safely set it down as G fixed fact" that
the first choice of the whigs OF Ohio for Presi-
dent, is Tom Corwin; and their second choice
| is Henry Clay. Scott Taylor or Mclean, they
will not touch. On this you may safely rely.
| With respect to the position OF the democratic
| party, they appear to be at sea without compass
or rudder. The friends of General Cass. COM
| posed chiefly OF the soft money copservativepor
tlon Of the democratic party, are jealous and ac-
tive, and Will make strong effort to give him the
vote of this State In the democratic nat ona nomi
mating convention. The old friends of the sage Of
| Lindenwald are secretly at work, and should
not be at all surprised If the next 9Th OF January
convention at Columbus, galvanize him into po-
lltcal existence. His defeat in 1910, many say,
| must be atoned for: while the fraud of 1914 has
created in his behalf strong feeling of sympa-
| thy. His warm friend, Hon. John b. Weller,
| will, undoubtedly, be the democratic candidate
for Governor, with good prospects Of success !;
| and truth to say, Martin Van Buren, would re-
ceive a better vote in OHIO, than any other de-
| mocratic candidate that can be brought in the
| field in 1913. With his non-commltalism,"
the friends OF the Wilmot provlso Numbering
| large majority of the rank and fle) would be
satisfied, without asking further questions. But
they will not support Cass, Buchanan, Dallas, or
| Woodbury., without an open and distinct avowal
| in favor of the white mans resolution. Bu-
chanan's letter to the Berks county committee, in
favor Of the Missouri compromise, mas ruined
his prospects, if he ever had any, with the de-
mocracy of Ohio: On the PRINCIPLES of that let
Ter, he would find majority OF 900 rolled up
against its author. HIS fate is sealed. Ohio,
more than any other State in the Union, has rea-
son 10 be proud OF her position as a free State
To the ordinance Of 1877 (emphatically the Will.
mot proviso) is she indebted for her present
and in industry: To look at Ohio on one side
OF the river, end then al Kentucky on the other.
the nrincinles of the WilrEoi nrnvisn NAV he seen