The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-24

in Rochester Yesterday. The streets were crowded
with people, and the procession was the largest ever
witnessed III that city.
The extensive mandatory Of the Union Compa'
nv of MARYLAND, at Canton, near Baltimore, was
DESTROYED by fire yesterday. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
The remains Of Bishop Chanche arrived in Balti-
more yesterday, and were met by grand funeral
procession. To-day he viii be buried in the Ca
thedral cemetery by the side Of his sister, which,
ii is said, was his last request.
The government of the United States, determined
to maintain in all honor, the treaty between this
country and England, have issued instructions to ].
Prescott Hall, Esq, U. S. District Attorney, to
operate with Charles Edwards, Esq, as Counsel for
the British government, in the case Of the extradi-
ton Of Of Thomas Kane.
Presidential Politics Observation-Disclosures
Superior to GunpOwder.
The idea has become very prevalent throughout
the country that gunpowder popularity is absolute
ly irresistible. 1t is prevalent mistake, and will,
sooner or later, prove to be practical delusion.
Under the imaginary effect Of the victory OF New
Orleans in establishing the impregnabe popularity
Of General jackson, the wing party have looked up
their military cheftains, and their success in two
experiments for the Presidency has induced them
to set aside their most PRACTICAL popular and expe-
rienced statesmen, for the adventitious chances OF
another purely military candidate. Now,w we briefly
propose to illustrate the fllacy of this policy and
by a few prominent historical facts, running
through the political cycle Of the last twenty-five
years. to show the uniform supremacy of principles
and public measures-poitical, financial and COM
mercial-and the secondary influences OF mere mill
| tary popularity.
Recurring, then, to the causes-commercial,
financial political and sectional-which contributed
most prominently to the election of Generals jack
son. Harrison and Taylor, it will be seen, at
glance how very little, in reality, their military
reputation had to do with their remarkable sue
| cess The fame Of Gen. Jackson as the hero of
New Orleans, was very well known in 1924;
and yet though he ahead of his competitors, he
was carried up, with Adams and Crawford to the
| House of REPRESENTATIVES The electoral vote was
Observation-Disclosures SO, Adams 81, Crawford Al,
and Clay 37-the three highest only being admitted
| into the House. There, the vote being by States,
one vote to each, by concentration of the friends
| Of Clay upon ADAMS, he was elected President
| the vote was Adams l3 States, Jackson 7, Craw-
ford 1t is unnecessary to reiterate the effect which
the charge of &c bargain and corruption" between
Adams and Clay had in the defeat of the former at
| the next ensuing election Mr.. Clay, fearless in his
conscientious integrity, accepted the post of Secre
tary Of State under Adams, which gave sufficient
cooring to the charge, not only to defeat Adams in
| '2S but forever to exclude Mr.. Clay himself from
the Presidency. In the campaign of '2S, distin-
gushed democratic politician, now deceased, is said
to have declared that Sc if the administration of
! John Quincy Adams pure as the angels in
heaven it must be defeated, because Of the alleged
"bargain and corruption with which it was
brought into power The first election Of jackson,
then, mainly from this cause, resulted from tho
concentration upon him of the friends Of Jackson,
| Crawford, and Calhoun, aided by the battle cry Of
| " rerenchment and REFORM.
! The triumphant reelection Of Gen. Jackson in
1882, over Mr.. Clay, was not the result Of military
popularity over civil and political experience. I'm
der Jackson's first administration the country had
| been prosperous and the treasury fourishinr: Int
a ,vlnDIe war had been declared against him for
his veto of the bill to recharter the United States
Bank. He threw himself upon the people against
the moneyed power Of that monster corporation, and
sustained by all the State banks in his position
The result was the death warrant to the bank and
Mr. Clay's whole American SYSTEM for in the
second administration Of Jackson, that whole sys-
tom was utterly demolished.
! In the campaign of 1886, the principles and the
! policy of Gen. jackson were transmitted as tho
principles and policy of Martin Van Buren,, the de-
mocratic candidate. The State banks, with the
aid of the government funds transferred from the
United States Bank, had extended their paper cir
culation to an inordinate amount, the immediate
effect Of which was, however, unparalleled de-
gree Of fictitious prosperity, and the most unbounded
/ IN ctr .obbipo obov ar1
Iation. The State banks were all with Van Buren,,
as the inheritor Of Gen. Jaelson's policy. Specu-
lation was rampant-the country was run mad with
its imitation Of bank rags and resolved headlong to
60 it, neck or nothing And what was the result!
The wings ran several canddates-Gen. HARRISON
Mr. Webster, and Hugh J.. White; and yet Van
Buren, was elected over all of them combined, not
withstanding the fact that old Tippecanoe" was
as much the hero Of the battle of the Thames in
that as in the next succeeding election. As in the
case of Gen. Jackson in 1923, SO it was with Gen.
Harrison in 1886. His military reputation was
oyershadowed and borne down by the superior
weight Of great principles and measures, an acci-
dental combination of parties, and from the pros.
pectiye policy of the administration to be elected.
We come now to the grand political whirlwind
and tornado Of 1910. Gen. Harrison, in that cam
IalSn was eltcteu ONeI an DuIeh Wy thV 'hHJoii'y
Of ga electoral votes over co, and by nineteen
States out Of twenysix. But it was not the paltry
battle Of the Thames, the paltry Indian fight at
Tippecanoe, that did it. They had as little to do
with the overwhelming result Of 1910, as had the
battle Of New Orleans with the decisive election Of
1882 The United States Bank having been annihi-
lated, root and branch, and the government depo-
sites having been distributed among the State
banks they had, as we have said, taken the hint
given them by General jackson, and had expanded
their circulation, in 1886 and 81, to the explosive
point. There too much wind, and gas, and steam
in the boilers. thousand millions of paper credit
was, pri,na fdcic, formal notice Of an impending