Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-20
The Maine Election and it's


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result OF the elections, thus far, is in the
Isl degree encouraging and augurs favorable
at the November elections. Maine has
& spoken, and if the certain election of one
80. u her Congressman by the Wings, the defeat
OF tie Democratic candidate for Governor, and the
largely increased Wing representation in her Leg
stature, may be taken proper indicie of the
fJture; then, WINFIELD ScoTT must carry even the
phalanx Northern State in November. The pco-
lie of the North Eastern Frontier know too well
the proper estimate TO be placed upon the distin-
guished services of ScorT, in the important and
successful settlement of their boundary question,
to sulfei themselves to be cajoled and deluded by
the late representations of his political adversares.
They know too well the lengths to which party
blindness and party bitterness will carry political
partizans, TO give 10 the foul ISLANDERS on the
character and capacity OF ScorT, with which the
party press is teenng, to suffer themselves TO
be.deludcd or led astray by the Syren tones with
witch it is sought 10 beguile them. They mean 10
think and act for themselves; they intend, at the
polls to look the long life devoted to his country,
to his early enlistment and great achievements; they
will accompany him to Lundy's Lane, to Queens
towns heights and Chippewa, and they will re-
member those achievements. They will follow
him to the Cherokee nation and admire and reward
his peaceful proves and successful achievement
among the down trodden native sons of America.
They will him there the conqueror without
bloodshed, the OF arms clothed with mercy and
kindness. They will accompany him to the North
West, see the stern warrior bending, with
parents kindness, the sinking forms of his
soldiers, wasting away before the raging scourge
of uncomfortable disease They will see him
again in council, with the wild sons of the forest,
and while holding in one hand the flame of war,
STILL with the other, beckoning them to peace, and
ultimately bya victory, great because bloodless;
winning them from and acquiring the vast North
West for the abode of the white man. They will
look also to South Carolina; they will remember
the days when the wild howl of disunion was heard
throughout the land, when the common sons of
revolutionary sres were whetting their Swords TO
the dread conflict, which, had it occurred, would
have botted out at blow the fair fame offreedom;
and they will see WINFIELD SCoTT; while Clay was
calming the troubled waves of the Senate and re-
kindiing the fires of hope i'll the dropping bosoms OF
his dispairiue countrymen as an armed General, on
the shores of Carolina, preventing, by sprudence,
the wild outbreak, and leading the nfuriac Hotspur
band again into the folds of reason and fraternal
Union They will go further. They will turn to
the annals of the Mexican campaign, and though
they will see, even in the sending OF SCOTT to
Mexico, the foul effort to oveslaugh and destroy
the rising and brilliant fame OF TAYLOR, by emp
pling and lettering him. in the midst of his brilliant
career; still will they see the mighty genius OF
ScoTr towering, like his own majestic form, above
the nets and tolls of delay and detraction, and
marching Onward, over the dead bodies OF ms toeS
uuretarded by the most unwavering and constant
efforts of the Administration TO lnjure and deame
him. until, after succession of the most brilliant
and astounding humphs, over enemies in front and
rear, recorded in our national annals, he planted
The starry flag of his country on the Capitol OF the
enemy. They will there pause and contemplate
his mighty deeds and review his proud career, IL
Illustrating, as it does, the page OF ms countrys
history for half century and they Will ask rhat
has been his reIrard from the minionS Of poircr?
And what will be the answer! 1t will be one
which will make their patriot blood boil within
them. 1t will be one, which will make them GRIM
and blush for the honor and purity OF Their
country. attempted ignominy and disgrace Will be
the answer. They will see him for the third time
arraigned like traitor before n Court Martial,
dragged thither by the hrelings of waning admin
stra,ion for the sole purpose OF ecpslng the sun
light OF his achievements. They Will see the con-
Gueror of Mexico, in the very heart and capitol OF
the enemy degraded from the high post, which he
had covered with conquest and glory, dragged be-
lore court, composed of his inferior officers, there
10 be tried upon charges preferred against nm by
All inferior officer, whom he had dared to reprlmand
for having disobeyed orders, while that inferior was
suffered to go, unried for his offence and rewarded
by the enemies of the great commander. They
will look into that trial, they will perceive the
fnsness and littleness of the charges, and the
mastery vindcation of the accused, they will see
the gray veteran rise and shake ofwih lions power,
the yelping ours, baying around him and for the
third time coming forth from the smoking furnace
of persecution and party hate, like the three Is
raetes of old, unframed and unscathed, his virtues
and his greatness blazing forth with increased e-
fulgence. They will see the vindctve spirit which
had followed him, as the Jackail follows me hon,
for the purpose of feeding on his achievements and
destroying him if unwary withered before the
scowlof his insuled integrity and faded away Tor
a time, again to reappear when occasion should
offer. THAT occasion has again appeared and the
same men, who would then have supplanted the
conqueror of Mexico with the stall-fed, arrogant
and self-opnionated gnsometer from Missouri, are
now endeavorng to overslaugh him before the
American people with the bloodlcss hero OF New
Hampshire. The people of Maine and OF the IN
IN are now TO Try the issue The appeal has been
at last made from the judge to the people, and they
and not hreling sycophantS, must decide the ques-
ton II is for them to say whether they will stand
tamely by and see him who hns thus served his
country. to whose brilliant services in peace and
war ali the leading Democrats of the country, at
the time of their performance bore disinterested
testimony The appeal has been made from the
hreling minions of power to the peopie,anali tiey
have any regard for long and brilliant services 1or
continued andlifeiong devotion to his country and
# they are disposed to do justice to HIM, WIT mas
ms been persecuted and unrewarded, by all ms
abers theywiII in November next stamp the seal
If tkifr condemnation upon his prosecutors anu
by giving TO WINFIELD SCOTT the
nigh position for which he is nominateu 40 nm
hat Justice which has heretofore been DENIED NM,
md SHOW 10 The, ewes OF the world that the great
,ody of the, American people will reward dlsun-
services, despite the fiat OF aeina-
oalies and the SANDER and, de amahon OF SELFISH