New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-30

defeat the great party which for gene
'ra,ion had admired, con6ded in and hon
sored me, because it did not honor me so
much US thought due to my talents and
public services :" How would that look
engraved on the great Defenders tomb
stone l-or on the hearts of those who may
view it
Mr.. Webster has a great many friends
and admirers, thousands of whom preferred
him for President to any other living man.
They were ready to make sacrifices and
put forth exertions In his behalf. But he
will be sorely mistaken if he supposes
fiftieth part of them are or will be willing
to Support him where the only possible
triumph to be achieved by SO doing is that
of Pierce & Co. over the Wing party.
Nine-tenths Of those who would have given
hundreds of dollars and weeks of labor to
elect Mr.. Webster, will not only abandon
but execrate him if he now allows himself
to be used to defeat the Wings.
We know it is said, a" Perhaps the cleo
ton may be carried into the House, and
there Mr. Webster stands a chance"
Humbug The House that (if any is to
choose the next President is the present
House. voting by States, whereof sixteen
are necessary to choose. Gen. Pierce is
perfectly certain of the votes there of
Maine, Connecticut, New-Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Delaware, Virginia, South Caro-
lima. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas
Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Arkan-
sas and Calilornia-Serenleen at least, with
Ohio and Wisconsin if needed to elect
him, and nOtabove ten States at the outside
for any Wing candidate or any dozen such.
The Pierce men could afford 10 pay well
for having the election carried into the
House, where they are certain of choosing
their man on the first ballot, and by any
reasonable majority. All the new routes
now temptingly opened before Mr. Web
ster lead to one destination-the defeat of
those who have hitherto admired and sup
ported, and the triumph of those who have
Systematically hunted, hated and denounced
him. But one path of honor, peace, self
respect and desirable fame presents itself
he will choose as he thinks fit
At all events, whether with or without
L al, 1icootar tho WhI0
party will move on to the fulfllment of its
benefcent destiny. 1t will still be the
party of Peace as opposed to that braggart
and bullying spirit which would magnify
every misunderstanding with another Ma
ton into an occasion of War-of Order
and Tranquility Is against Turbulence and
Anarcby-of Prote ction to Home Industry
and that policy which seeks to diversity
and multiply employments and produc-
lions, against that which regards War aud
Punishment as the only concerns which
can rightfully engage the attention OF
government. 1t will still seek by River
and Harbor improvements in natural and
harmonious concord with the Protective
Policy, TO bring markets nearer to the doors
of each producer, or render the transmits
sion of his products to remote markets
more cheap and facile, and still deem the
education and refinement its own people,
the cultivation and improvement of its own
territory. far more desirable than the SUBJ
ugation of other peoples, the acquisition
Of new barbarous empires, devoid of and
demanding every kind of physical and
moral renovation. With this party or
against it, Mr.. Webster must act, or not
at all: the choice may be of some mo-
lnent to others, but is it not Of infinitely
more to him
If We were his trusted adviser, as we
never sought nor aspired to be, we should
point him to the course of Col. Benton as
an example. Col. BIS talents are not
equal to Mr.. Webster's, but his industry,
assiduity and instructive sympathy with
the popular instincts, render the compare
son of the two one worthy the considera-
ton of some future Plutarch. Each stands
high in his own good graces; each has
been long in the public service; each was
long eminent in public regard and in party
attachment; each has happened, in the
ever shifting phases ofpolitics, to be thrown
out of the path to the Presidency. Col.
Benton's fall, consequent on the overthrow
of the Van Buren, dynasty and the triumph
of the Compromise, seemed more decided
and stunning than any reverse Mr.. Web