The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-09-10
COMING Down.

Aho wings tfiucntAy nOmtH4ltu Deuetat
Scott. in the hope OF being enabled to re-
enact. iathe present canvass, tie scenes Of
1910. Avery extraordinary combination Of
circumstances enabled ihera then TO excite in
the public mind high state Of feeling in
favor oftheir nominees, and to elect them by
an overwhelming majority. Overlooking
those peculiar circumstances and temember-
ling the great popularity Of Gen. Jackson.
they enormously astfibutea the enthusiasm
of the people to their admiration Of military
men. They were confirmed in this error by
the result Of the canvass Of 1913. They,
therefore, supposed they had nothing to do
but to nominate Gen. Scott, 10 awaken a
perfect furor Of excitement, and march thro'
thecampaigawith scarce struggle, Every
act Of preparation on their part indicated
this expectation. Political lives Of Gen
Iefal Scott, written in the most extrayagant
style of panegyric, and great staring hand
bills set round with pictures representing
the chief scenes in his life, were struck off by
hundreds Of thousands and sent broad cast
over the whole country. Scott clubs, Lnn-
| dy's Lane clubs, Soup clubs, and we DO
not know but ''fuss and feathers clubs were
every where organized, with speaking. sing
Ing. caxoltingg and oil sorts Of entertain
lments, calculated 10 revive the spirit Of
'40p The newspaper commenced Eexefcis
sing in the most violent manner, in orderltc
get at once, if ossible. up TO fever heat, and
talked rapturously about Contreras and Cher
ubusco, Chepultepec. .Lundy's Lane aud "0id
Chip For time the actors in this farce
were too much engaged with their parts to
observe the effec! they were producing upon
the spectators. The Niagara affair, however,
to very considerable extent, opened their
eyes. That magnificent fzzle showed them
that, thus far, The enthusiasm was all among
themselves, They began to feel very much
like some young chap who has gone QUITO the
barn TO practice his next speech at the ~
ceum. and all at once discovers that some-
body has been all the while looking at him
through crack.
However, they were unwilling togive it
up SO. They sent out new showers of pic,
lures, and appointed big meetings all over
the country. They sent hand-bills as big as
a barn-door in every direction, Ionnouncing
in flaming capitals that half the big guns Of
the whig party. would be present. and ur.
ging everybody, end the rest of mankind 10
turn out, and re-light the camp fires Of 40.
One OF these can be seen over at the post
Office. But its all to no purpose. The peo-
pie obstmately refuse to go mad--they make
fun of the pictures, and they won't go to the
meetings.
In view Of these facts the whig leaders
have come to the conclusion TO give it up
In fact they say they didn't mean anything
from the first. They didn't erpcet TO see
any excitement-dont think there ought to
be any. AS for big meetings, they were al
together too smart 10 suppose they could be
gotten up this year--Every campaign has its
peculiarities. Big meetings were far 40, and
not for so. Hard work is the order of the
day for this campaign, and The meetings were
only appointed for business purposes,
Well, well, we are in no way inclined 10
quarrel with our opponents. We think
with them that this is for them campaign
OF hard york, and, we will add-mighty poor
pay. This much, however, we must say
We hauc heard a story about darkey, who,
having caught fine fat rabbit was expatis-
ting with great animation upon its qualities,
when all at once away darted the rabbit, and
Cufy coming to dead halt, and eyeing his
late prize as il scampered off. exclaimed "Eh!
you long=legged, big-eared, white whiskered,
red-eyed; you no so berry fat arter ull."--
And then, we do think that those are rather
large notices, for merc business meetings.