The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-07
The Whsg Primer Elect ns ~ Thursday
next-Trouble OF che Xard Organa.


wcrepublsh to-day, from the Tribune, the leading
organ of W. IL. Seward, savage article; and from
its little tender, the Times, another savage article,
upon the arrange cnts made by the Wing G neral
Committee for the wing primary elections Of next
Thursday. The committee refused to order q regis
tration of whig voters, and ordained that the cleo
tons for the ward delegates, who to appoint the
district delegates to Baltimore, shall take place
Thursday next, between the early hours of six and
nine O'Clock in the morning. Such are the arrange
ments of the Wing General Committee; aud the re-
fusal to order registration, and the arrangement
for closing the polls at the carly hour of nine
o'clock in the morning, are denounced by the
Seward organs Cheat and +" fraud
and swindle," and as pretty sure to turn over
the elections to &" locofoco DULLES and rowiss."
doubtless a registration Of tn wing voters in
every ward would have made the elections COM
rarativcly smooth and easy-douhtless the absence
of registration viii be apt to kick up row; but
Scott is fighting man, and if his party in the city
are the strongest. or even the weakest, let them
initiate his example, and fight it out. 1t is impos
sible that all the DULLES should be opposed to Scott
We should rather suppose that the fighting men
would be on the side Of the greatest fighting man Of
Scott men and the Seward and Scott organs feel
that they are in the minority, there is no occasion
for these sudden expressions Of abuse, and wrath
and tribula ton.
On the other pont-that the time fixed for the
elections is too early in the morning for the health
and comfort of the sold fogies'-we cannot con-
cur. Old Ben Franklin says that
early to bed and early to rise.
n ali mani aat Inv nv ANDY tsat
And physicians, philosophers, ard poets, from time
immemorial, have concurrcd in this opinion. In
certain localities, where the early morning mir is
charged with malaria from stagnant swamps and
marshes, or rank and decomposing vegetation,
it is not judicous in warm weather, to rise before
the sun has dispelled the exhalatons Of the night
soy nine O'Clock in the morning. In our Southern
and Western States, we have no doubt that thou.
sands Of eople have persisted from their fatal mis-
application Of this maxim of early rising. The
people of South Carolina are well aware of this
fact In the lowlands Of that State, the whites, in
the hot season, retire thin doors with the fading Of
the evening twilight, and do not come out until the
sun has cleared the air, in the morning. Of the
ious vapors Of the night. 1t has been said that
the fatal illness Of President Harrison superin-
duced by his early rising, and his early morning
walks along the banks Of the stagnant Potomac,
before the sun had inhaled its nocturnal exhala-
tons President Polk suffered from chills and fevers
at the White House, from his hay its of early rising,
exposing him to the vapors from the river. Presi-
| sident Taylor would have lived longer, per-
haps, in some other locality. President Fill
| more avoided the ague in the summer Of
1850, by lodging in cottage upon the heights Of
| Georgetown; and in the summer of 1851, by hi:
excursions to the Virginia Springs and elsewhere
In all localities therefore, subject to the miasma
from swamps, stagnant water, Drank and poisonou,
vegetation, the maxim Of early rising is fata
maxim, and we are surprised that it has not been
corrected, even to this day.
But. II it might prove unwholesome to hold al
election in the rice districts of South Carolina Al
six o'clock in the morning, even at this early stage
of the warm season. the objection cannot be apple,
10 New York. We have here no surrounding swamp
aud lowands Of putrid vegetation; but the brecze
| from the ocean and the winds from the Highland
would come to us pure and bracing throughout thu
wear, but for the dust and filth Of the city. Tn,
| maxim of Franklin is the maxim Of life and healtl
| in these ATTITUDES, and a walk on the Battery a
sunrise, even in midsummer or the dog days, bring
wholesome appetite for breakfast. Wo know
this fact from personal experience. Besides at sia
o'clock in the morning the heat and dust and stencil
Of our filthy streets not SO oppressive in the
middle of the day. We maintain, then, that the cal
for the whg primary election Thursday next at six
o'clock in the morning. so far from being "a cheats
| or "a fraud or ga swindle,'' or bad arrange
mcut for the health Of the old foges oryoung oges
is good, judicious, and wholesome arrangement
We have no doubt that larger proportion Of oul
population will be up and stirring in the open air.
at six o'clock next Thursday morning, than has
been out SO early for many long day. And we
doubt not it will have n good effect in convincing
many, who will try the experiment, of the advanta-
yes of the early morning air of New York.
| In political view, however, these wing primary
elections are Of the greatest Importance. In the
whig convention at Baltimore, it is highly probable
that Mr. Fillmore will carry the entire vote Of every
| Southern State in the Union. 1t will only, then,
require a few scattering votes from the Northern
States, for Fillmore or Webster, to prevent the no.
mination of Scott unless he shall come up to the
full endorsement Of all the compromise measures
specifically, and thus utterly demolsh the platform
and the schemes Of Seward and the abolitionsts It
may be, indeed, that the four delegates from this
city to the convention at Baltimore, will hold the
balance Of power between Fillmore ana webster on
the one hand and Scott on the othcr-a power
which will be equivalent to the ruling of the
yention, its candidate and its platform. The Sew
ard organs, we suspect, aware Of this. They are
evidently alarmed. They have reason to be. They
fear that the compromise measures in this city
more powerful among the wings than Seward and
'sthe higher law 1t is to be hoped that such will
prove to be the fact. The prosperity Of this city
its foreign commercials dome site tradc--ts bust
ness Of all kinds, all dependent upon the Union
and the constitution, and good faith to our compro-
misses with the South. We trust the city wings win
maintain these great principles, and repcl the abuse
Of the Seward organs, by defeating them ut the
polls The election Of four anti-Scott and anti-Sew-
ard delegates will have great moral effect upon
the Baltimore Convention; but, best Of all. il may
have the positive power Of separating Scott from