Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-29
Pennsylvania and Ohio.

| We commend to the attention of our readers the
following article from the New York Tribune
The view taken of the position of affairs in Ohio
and Pennsylvania, will attract the notice OF all OBJ
serving men. 1t is of special interest at the pres
| ent time: Il
Having spent the eight days preceding last Sum
day in Ohio, and since passed through the State OF
Pennsylvania, we have had opportunities to know
something of the spirit in w mich their State cleo
tons have been prepared ior ana contested anu Oh
the portens of those elections.
| Pennsylvania is naturally one of the best Scott
States in the Union-oue Of the easiest to carry for
the Hero of Chippewa by large majority. 1t is
deeply interested in the production OF iron, which
has been greatly depressed under the tariff oil lo46
and though little better now, is certain to be de-
pressed again as soon the ironmasters CT Great
Britain shall be impelled torednce their prices
General Scott is personally and widely beloved IN
Pennsylvania, while Pierce has not a PARTICLE oil
strength there but what was given him by his NOM
ination at Baltimore. A full vote and fair AMI
mated contest insures the State to Scott by large
majority. tt.a. .Hifrs.H %. au-rh.
Resting in the consciousness OF strenth his friends
have as yet done very little in the way OF the or
ganizaton and concentration oftheir forces They
have gone to the State election split up into halt
a dozen local factions Temperance and rum, sa-
very and anti-slavery, with dozen other side is
sues, have served to distract them. They went m
to this weeks contest as thoroughly dsorganized as
a party could be. Thus in Pittsburgh, where we
spent Sunday and Monday; everybody was anxious
as TO whether "Joe Barker should or should not
be chosen Sheriff;while nobody seemed to know or
much care what would be the result as to the Stat
officers. Temperance was certain there to injure
the Wing legislative ticket, which was pledged to
the Maine Law, while the fact that our ticket in
Lancaster was against the Maine Law caused it to
be cut there badly. These two counties (Allcgha.
ny nd Lancaste will give at least three thousand
more majority for Scott than trey have given for
the Wing tickets. And so it will be throughout
the State, if the Wings now take hold in earnest,
organize every county and township thoroughly,
| hyiny heir bola in ha
A I'VE passed nearly through the State on the day
Of election, and everywhere heard the same story
THE State functionarieS working for dear life on
the lines of State Canals and Railroads, but the
Wings treating the contest of no national mpOr-
lance. For instance, in one ownship canvass OF
the voters has been made, and there just siIfy-
one Pierce men within its borders; and these cast
ffty-nine votes on Tuesday, while that same town.
ship has sepenty:fpe Scott voters who did not go
near the poll. 1t was much like this throughout.
Merchants were away on business, whom nothing
would induce to be absent from the Presidential
contest, and nearly all were intent personal rath
er than political ends. There are twenty-five thou
sand Wing votes in Pennsylvania which have not
been poled at the election. l. .st#a.a
We might have carried Philadelphia county tri-
amphantly, and perhaps save the State ticket, by
consenting to q coalition with the Native Ainerl-
can party. BY eecting l.. c. Levin to Congress,
aud one or two OF their county ticket, we might
have taken tie Test of the county ticket saved one
or two members OF Congress, and sent our State
ahead. But the Wings had done So they would
have been accused of lavoring Natiycism, and Gen.
Scott would have been held to answer for 1t. 1t
was better to lose ground now than to risk the alien
alton of the adopted citizens at the Presidential
contest 1t perfectly certain that the tenn of
probation required OF immigrants by our Naturali-
cation Laws, never can, never will be extended.
The single effect OF keeping up the Native party is
TO give consequence and position to q lew lndiVd-
uals at the expense of setting tens Of thousands of
adopted citizens against the country'S tue interests
and their 1t cannot be that the majority Of
those who have been Natives will consent to be
used for these purposes much longer.
We do not seek TO disguise the peril which the
heedl. ssnrss and follics of friends in Pennsy
wanna have created. Their adversarieS will OF
course shout, exult hurrah and burn powder, as it
is their perfect right to do. Their game from the
first has been TO bully, bet, and brag the fainting
voters that Pierce must be chosen, and thereby Sc
cure their end. If the canvass be spirited and the
votes all polled, Scott must be chosen,-and we
think they know it. But ifthey can frghten tenth
of our voters into torpidty, they may perhaps out
number the residue. To avert this disaster, the
the most strenuous, concerted and immediate cxer-
tionS requisite. We believe the Wings OF Penn
ISylvana oil thelr responsibility, and Will
manfully confront it. H.l.'#-
Ohio, on the other hand, has done nobly, main
ly because lcr Wings have pursued radically diff
fcrent course from that followed by their Pennsyl
vana brethren. They have made little display,
held few large meetings, but have quietly organised
i'll most of the counties, with the best results
Ohio gave more than IL, 900 plurality for Cass over
Taylor, and more than twenty five thousand last
year for Governor Wood over Ninton; and there are
some twenty five thousand Hale meIt i'll the State,
of whom at least twenty thousand were formerly
Wings nearly all of whom hate considerably
worse, and miSrepIesent us quite as badly rs the
most enveuoined supporters of Pierce and KING
Against these formidable odds tie Wings of Ohio
have been steadily and quietly at work for some
two months, and though they could not hope to
bring out all their forces at State election in which
lnn Gov I,.pic a c chosen.
they have done enough to demonstrate their ability
TO carry the State for Scott. The late Legislature
cut up the State into twenty-one Congressional
Districts, whereof only four. gave pluralties for
Taylor AS while tipo others gave pluralties for
Van Buren,, which, it was calculated, would be
changed to Locooco pluralities by the natural fall
ing off of voters from the Freeso to one OF the 9TH
er of the great parties. But our returns already
show the election of j. Scott Harrison (son Of the
late Presidency in the list, Lewis d. Campbell in
the HID and indicate that of Samuel Galloway in
The XIIth-a Wings chosen from districts adjust
ed expressly 10 elect Locoiocos. And why these
triunphs Mainly because there is II full uotc
polied though not full as will be that for Pres-
dent on the I'd of November. And, though our
friends in Ohio, having no hope of the success OF
their two candidates for State offices of no political
Importance made no serious or concerted effort IN
their behalf, vet we are confident the full returns
will show large gain upon the votes poiled against
us for some years past
The moral of these elections is simply this
I-WoRK inSurcs success, and in It's absence the
best candidates and best causes may be defeated.
We never supposed General Scott would be elected
without effort, in view of the hungryness and des-
peration of the politicians working against him;
we have believed, as we now believe, he will be
elected by means of effort, and because his friends
will make the needfnl exertions to secure his tn
umph. Weappeal to those friends every where TO
prove that our confidence in their energy and zeal
has not been exaggerated.
HAUL down your Scott Flag"
So say the posters for the Locofoco meet
ing; so say the Locofoco press of this CITY, We
say, NO, NEVER! Scott never permitted the flag
our country to be hauled down by British or
Mexican hands, and the friends of that great