Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-09-09
scraps from Prentice.

New Hampshire has now two Presidential can
didates-Hale and Pierce-and they may 50 di-
vide the vote Of the party that the State will 60
for Scott We don't need the vote of New Hamp-
shire but if it be given to US, we suppose We
shall have to accept it graciously.
The Washington Union says that "Whigism is
the same everywhere" Democracy, on the con-
trary, is the same in no two places
While in the army Gen. Pierce was above the
reach of censure.-W Wash. Union.
| He seemed to keep himself out of the reach Of
everything that could by any possibility hurt him.
We feel that we can now go forward to our des-
tination with nothing to obsruct our progress.
WASH Union.
We suppose you can. The New York papers
say that "the Instructions at Hell-Gate have
been all removed"
The Democrat thinks that we know more about
Gen. Pierce in Mexico than he knew about him
self. Probably we do. He had great many
fanting fits there, and was of course good part
of the time is condition of unconscousness as
to himself and everything around him.
A Locofoco clergyman in New Hampshire tes-
titled that Frank Pierce is. pious, but Franks
own organs in that State seem to admit that he
isn't. The Scriptures command men to "pray
and not to faint" but Frank faints and doesn't
pray.
The New Hampshire Patriot says that General
Pierce "gives his enemies no quarters" We
don't know that he gives his friends any quar-
| ters. lie gave them only one when they wanted
| to purchase Sunday school library for his ma
tive town, and that deed was considered so re-
markable that the Locofoco pamphleteers have
published it for his gor6cation.
| General Pierce's grandparents were Irish.
Buffalo Courier.
| All Locofoco candidates get to be Irishmen or
Dutchmen, or get to have Irish or Dutch fathers
and mothers or at least Irish or Dutch grand
fathers or mothers, just before election. The
Locofocos, according to their own account, havnt
offered US an Anglo-Saxon candidate during the
last quarter of century.
We are no alarmists but indeed it is time for
the South to be getting scared. The Democratic
organs have been publishing all along that Frank
Pierce said to John Z. Hale, eff you head an
army to march against the South, you will have
to march first over my dead body, for will head
an army to oppose you;" but it now appears that
this thrilling dialogue never took place. The
South has no guaranty whatever that Jack Hale,
if he turn General and raise army of New
Hampshire Yankees to march upon her, will have
to pass over Frank Pierce's body in order to get
at her. As she can no longer rely upon this
means Of safety, she ought at once to put herself
in state of defence before General Jack shall
preciptate himself upon her. She should at least
throw up n breast-work and dig an entrenchment.
Where's General Pillow?
We suppose we shall very soon see the state
ment called for by the Senate Of the amount Of
public money that Gen. Scott has received. The
Democratic organs will then be able to satisfy
themselves whether he has been overpaid for his
services. We do not know exactly what they re-
gard as the pecuniary value Of his principal
achievements in behalf Of his country, but We
presume they will tell us. What do they think
is the real value in dollars and cents of the battle
of Chippewa? What of Lundy's Lane9 What
of Queenstown? What of Vera Cruz, Cerro
Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Chepultepec, and
Molno del Rey? What of the removal of the
Cherokees the pacifcaton of South Carolina,
the settlement of the border difficulties, and the
| adjustment Of the Northeastern boundary trou-
bles? If Gen. Scott has received more money
than these services of his arc worth, we really
hope the government will sue him and make him
refund the overplus.
1t is curious and amusing fact, that while all
the Gen. Pierce editors are trying to excite pre-.
ljudice against Gen. Scott because he declared
himself willing, eleven years ago, for the annex
alton of Canada there are none Of them--no, no
one-that win deny being in favor Of the sam
measure,