Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1852-08-25

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general Scott and the svhig S,arty
-Grcat DECLINE irs GunpUxydep.
The Gunrowder plot of Seward and compa.
ny psEnises to turn out rs bad a specu.
lationf as that Of Guy Fawkes., Sew
ard. like Guy. has been laying in his combus,
tibles to blow up the government, bat the Sc
cret has leaked out. and Novemher.will bevery
aptto prove as disastrous 10 HIM as il did to
his "illustrious predecessor" In plain Eng.
lish, tie unfortunate Abolition aud Free Soil
agencies through which the nomination Of Gen
ssott was effectedA Baltinore.and which have
usurped the controlof theyMh party. bid fair
TO break down the Whis candidate, the Wing
platfssssdahd tAs whig par,y-all ma heap
together.
There has been most remarkable decline in
gunpowdcr. bomb,slieiis ssfuss and feathers, !"
this season, A similarf.al in cotton woald're
yaiyayl,e commercial and financial ranic ofsss7,
asT q, us~s necessity tss asalgs 4 sassErfs
cause Of this dreadful letting down in military
enthusiasm which gave such a tremendous po.
pularity and power to Gen. ckson, which car.
Nied into the White House
\ "old Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
wNh the rush of universal jubilee--whch re.
suNed in the election of Gen Tayler, against
oneN the very ablest and most popular men
OF thA whole country--why is it, that this con.
,;,tA 4, -
Thera are various causes operating against
him. Tn election of General Harrison ended
in the Den,ocratic administration of John Ty-
ler--the election ot General Taylor worked out
arupture, wide aud deep, in the whig ranks
wide as the poles, and deep as the dark chasm
between the constitution aud Stewards "high-
er law" And just as the heconservatives of the
Democratic party in 1867 revolted against
the corrupt, administration ol Van Buren and
the leading strings Of his corrupt instruments,
| so now do we see the conservative of the Whg
party revolving against the corrupt ana humil-
iating leadership of Seward and his trained
band of unprincipled abolition demagogues.-
Besides, the public ear has become famillarized
with the fife and drum, and the public stomach
has had sLrfeit Of blood and carnage. Had
| General Scott been nominated in ls40, when
his claims were advocated by this journal, he
would have succeeded astriumphantly as Har.
rison. But Stree that day military glory has
become an old song, The freshness of the glo
ries Of Mexico was lavished upon old Rough
and Ready, while Gen. Harrison and Gen
jackson had reapcd the flowers of the war o
1872
/ Nor has Gen. Scott those personal elements
of popularity OF Jackson, Harrison, or Taylor
He especially lacks that blant, rough, plain
simple honest simplicity which made old Zacl
SO universally popular with the masses. o.
the contrary, the popular conception of Gen
Scott appears to be that he is a vain. self.con
celted, anstere man, shrinking from contac
With the common people,-feeling the same dis
Y gust nsn1 talh azxsv handvma@
Irish hod carrier. that an uptown dandy feel
in being saluted by his tailor in Broadway
His subordinatcs in the army-his rank and FL
| --have expressed the same idea Of their grea
leader in the souJriqua of " Old Fuss and Fea
TIERS" How different its Specification from
that other familiar nickname of cold Rougl
and Ready"
| But worse than all, the unfortunate and sus
picious associations of Gen. Scott with Seward
and company, and their prominency in mana
| ging his case in the whig convention, and now
before the people, have chilled the popular en-
thusiasm to the freezing point. So the attempt
| .
| to evade great principles in military hurral
is prostrated Disaifcction confronts the whil
candidate on every side-gunpowdc is at I
discount-Chapultepec viii not do-thc great
principles, and the great issues of the day and
of the age, will rise TO the top. The Whig par
! ty and Gen. Scott have been already compelled
to face the music. The expected military tu
rOre falls an abortion, Still born thing, to tht
| ground 1t don't answer. The country be
| tion, in reference to principles measures, ant
the tendency Of things--the drift Of parties ,ane
the schemes of leading demagogues
! All these facts end all these indications ar
good omens--not with regard toihe success o
one or the defeat Of another--but in respect Il
the ascendancy of great principles, and of liv
| ing vital issues, over empty clap trap, Chimes
PROFESSIONS, fire works, and drunken orgies
What say Mr.. Webb and the sixty thonsant
conservative Wings Of New York? What sa,
the Webster Wings Of Massachusetts,? Wha
say the Union men Of Georgay Principles
not men" So be it. Greedy may "spit upo'
and execrate" the whis platform'-but princi
pies are still the issue. So be it. Amen ~
| y Herald.