Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-06-17

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3 crate compliment to "Old Fogyism" to
e adopt for the Vice Presidential candidate
y one who can count his three-score and
: ten years, aud who is the very incarnation
: of all that is fogyish quite as much so
=, indeed as a political fossil, with the marks
n of an antedIuvian age
4 There are some striking features con-
nected with these events, which are wor-
thy of notice. Mr.. Scott's thirteen res
, pondents were all brought down at one
discharge. Not a man of them survives.
They were doomed victims from the hour
in which they consented to dishonor them
selves and to degrade the chief magistra-
cy by pledges, the execution of which
would have outraged the constitution, and
entirely revolutionized the governments
They willingly engaged to employ the
veto, to overthrow the law-making pow
er, and thus to establish partizan des-
potism. It was an ingenious contriyance,
that of Mr.. Scott, to cut down the tall
popies at one sweep of the political scythe,
SO that the heads of short ones might be-
come VISIBLE. He succeeded; and, as if
to mark the design the more distinctly, it
was the Virginia delegation which, first
of all others from the South, adopted Mr.
Pierce. Mr.. Marcy lacked one vote, on
| ly, of carrying the patriots from the "Old
Dominion While the nominee is thus
obliged to one Scott for his present dis
tinction, he will, before six months, be
no less indebted to another Scott for his
future defeat. There is an ommous sig
nifcance in that name Winfield, which
the plainest can interpret. More than
thirty thousand living soldiers Of all the
wars from 1912 down to that of Mexico,
and their descendants and immediate kin,
numbering one hundred and twenty thou
sand more, scattered like so many mis-
sionaries all over the Union, hail it with
enthusiasm and gratitude-hail it as Con-
stantine did the glory in the Heavens
al7aoler this s1g1e HOu Sjsah conquer!
As long as the two-thirds rule prevails
in Democratic Conventions, so long will
small and negative men only be selected
as candidates. The effect is, therefore,
to cheaper the Presidential Office by invi-
ting swarm of incompetent competitors
No aspirant of mark who has ever made
a figure in public life can be selected
The absence of distinction is q positive
recommendation. Under this order Cass
and Buchanan were excluded men who,
whatever be their political associations !;
are identified with the history of the coun-
try and at home and abroad are recog-
nized as distinguished leaders. They
have been hustled out Of doors, and pitch
ed into a corner as so much old rubbish;
while an invention of accident-a mere
skeleton Of candidate, without flesh or
muscles-is imposed upon the country as
the exponent of a party! They christen
this creation Young Hickory Of the
Granite Hills That is the cry and the
only recommendation. F"Old Hickory
could rise from the dead, he would re-
venge this insult to his memory; and if
he could have appeared at Chapultepec,
where the fall of General Pierce was sig
nalized, he might have put it beyond the
power of party to wrong name which he
cherished as the symbol of his character.
They are strange materials Of which
Hickory" is made nowadays. Mr..
Polk was "Younk Hickory" in his fash
ion. He made war, it is true, but took
care to be out of the range ofits artillery.
Mr.. Pierce was in battle, but fell early
in the engagcment-from his horse
So it is for this proWess he Is TO inherit
the title of {" Young Hickory" junior.
" The platform is Characteristic af-
fair. 1t endorses the Declaration Of In
dependence, reafirms the gutta percha
resolutions of '99 and '99, which have
seen such hard service for half century,
is silent on the Maine liquor law and the
Rochester rappings, and exercises the de-
parted sprite Of the National Bank, which
like some dark demon seems to haunt the
bed curtains of restless Democracy
These are the standing generalities-the
old land marks, as they are Familiarity
called
But it goes farther and declares that
there is no constitutional power to improve
our rivers and harbors, and that the gen
eral government should not lend It's aid to
protect that immense internal commerce
in which the prosperity of hundreds of
millions of dollars, aud the safety of tens
of thousands Of lives are annually inyoly
ed.
Again, for the benefit Of Pennsylva-
MIA and the manufacturing States, and by
way of putting the iron heel more efec-
tually upon the neck of suffering domes-
tic industry, already prostrated by Loco
foco legislation, the platform asserts that
"justice and sound policy forbid the Fed
eral government from fostering" it. At
ter affirming a bundle of truisms which no
body ever dreamt of disputing, and which
contain direct impeachment of the in