The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-08

COnycnt OF tnon Ierp0ctiS0 S"uoA-
dates, the most unworthy and discreditable means
have been employed by the politicians and journals
Of both parties, 70 defeat each other In the great
contest for spcila which be decided ~ the polls
in Noyen bey next. The partisan press throughout
the country-numbering some three thousand news
pnpers Of oil sections and partiesy-have ever since
udu]ged in mean and malicious attacks on the per-
sonal character Of each Of the nominees slnstead
Of seeking popular votes by an honorable and high
toned line Of eonductby bssing their appeals for the
support of the people the principles and platforms
established as their political creed-they descend to
tie base and contemplate policy of endeayoriDg to
blacken tho private character Of each Of the candi
dates The whig journals more particularly
violent and bitter in this mode Of warfare, and
dcayor, in every possible way, to rdicule the public
acts and Witty the private character of the candi-
date of the democratic party; while, on the other
hand the democratic journals generally treat General
Scott with much more respect, and seem to be in
fiuenccd by more ccmmendable ideas Of the
tesy due t. him, even though some Of them are oc-
casiopally tempted to fight their adversaries with
their own weapons, by calling in question the ca
pacity and bravery Of General Scott, and prying
into his domestic relations and private sentirsents
nation of this mode of carrying on the political
contest for the Presidency. We have denounced the
unworthy attempts, made by some ofthe democratic
journals to ipjure General Scott on the score Of his
private life, domestic concerns and religious senti
nents; while have also held up to publ, disap-
prevail the malicious examinations INDUCED in by
some Of the whig journals and politicians of this
city and elsewhere, in representing Franklin
Pierce as a drunkard and pol5roon. We
consider this mode Of carrying on the war as
base and paltry dscreditable to both parties, and
utterly unworthy of journals having tho slightest
pretensions to respectability or independence.
| General Scott and General Pierce are both men
whose public and private characters have been such
as to have recommended them to the confidence and
esteem Of the delegates Of their respective parties,
who were commissioned to select out Of their great
a candidate for the highest Office in the nation.
| Their nomination by the conventions of the two
great national parties should, in itself, be coua-
pete guarantee that their character was above re-
proach. Tho public career Of General Scott is
universally known throughout the land, and has
won for him the honor and admiration of the whole
people and though General Pierce has not had
the good fortune of being placed in position
wherein he might have attained suAh celebrity, yet
in his native State Of New Hampshire his public
acts, as legislator and politician, have rendered
him eminently popular.
Both candidates being thus men whose past life
and public character have pointed them out to their
respective parties as being in every way worthy Of
filing the Office of President of the United States
it is mean patry and dsgraceful policy to attempt
to render them unpopular by vilfying their private
character and prying into the secrecy of their do
| mcstic and social relations And we regret to see
such system pursued by the press and politicians
on each side. The wing journals, North, South and
West, TEEN with scurrilous abuse of General Pierce,
| the democratic candidate. The Commercial Adrer-
ttser Of Buffalo, while indulging in laudation Of
the glorious career Of General Scott, sneeringy says
| that "tho military renown Of the other might DO
summed up briefly in two summersets and a swoon."
| Tho Hartford Daily Couram insinuates that Gen.
eral Pierce played the coward at the battle of
Chapultepec. The Detroit Daily Tribune asserts
that he never fought battle and never was in
one; and the Louisville Journal publishes an ex-
tract accusing him Of lodging the enemies shot
behind ditch at the battle of Contreras, and "a
etiously adds that she might have done tolcraby
we'll in Mexico if he had only some one to ride in
front of him on that terrible horse of his" In
addition to this scurrility and abuse of the demo-
cratic nominee, one of the leading Southern jour
nals-the Richmond Whig-goes so far as actually
| to manufacture and publish document purporting
to be manifesto from General Pierce, applying 10
the wing candidate the opprobrious epithet of
"cowardy traitor" The following is the article
SO fabricated and which, it will be seen is calcu
lated to ipjure most materially the character of
General Pierce, and to render him extremely un-
/ IL
| of General Scott
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. l.
HEApaJARTERs. June 2j, 1852
As the campaign has now fairly opened, and hostile
bards are evelywhere arrayng themselves under the
lead Of that cowardy traitor Winfield Scott the New
Hampshire Regiment Of Militia is HEREBY ordered 10 hold
itself il readiness las my main reance) for active
vice II is expected that the decisive battle will be
fought about the 4th day of November next. In the
meantime IL will be well to prepare any emergency
having especial reference to safe retreat in the event Of
BROADER GENERAL FRANK PIERCE
This is the style of warfare resorted to by
the whig journals and poticians-even By those
of the South, from whom moro chivalry might
have been looked for-to asperse the personal cha
racter Of General Pierce, to say nothing of the
still more scurrous abuse launched at him by our
polite and philosophical contemporary Of the Tribune,
in holding him up to public scorn habitual
drun kard.
While the whig journals pursue this unworthy
course, the democratic party have also commencedt to
initiate their system Of tactics by attacking General
Scott in similar way, and accusing him of rank
ardice in having refused to accept the challenge Of
General jackson, in 1916 The Plain Dealer, Of
Cleveland, selecting this incident his text says
that 'the Knight Of the Yellow Plume could not
muster the nerve, in his younger days, to look
Old Hickory in the eye ut the short distance of
twelve PAGES; he showed the white feather on that
occasion" Other democratic journals and politi.
clans seek to tarnsh the reputation aud injure the
popularity Of the whig candidate through his do
mestc relations and ideas the subject of religion;
but it must be acknowledged that the democrats