The daily union., 1852-11-11
From ths New Yosk Sunday Times, independent
Just what Everybody Expected.

he New Yosk Sunday Times, (ndependsnt)
just what Everybody Expected
Ii ssld that Daniel Webster, his dying bed proph
ssacd thai the wbigs, national party. wouiu soo"
cease 10 exist On Tuesday last that prophecy was iul
allied. Ths wing party. which was bapixed oy rnnp
Hone, which opposed jackson beat Van buren, was leo
by The gallant Clay aud supported by some OF Inc nooest
sirils OF the land is no more This is historical fact
already the record.
Ii is not difficult to trace the OF this RESULT for,
ON looking back the policy OF the whig party Tor the
last few years the just ranspired seem
fectly naturahe only wonder is that they did not
happen A few men--such Seward, Weed, and Gree
leycubbcd together, and used the party for their own
personal advancement With that view they introduced
aboiionsm. and nearly every other ism OF these latter
days. until the parasites choked The life out OF the party
itself The eachery to Clay, by the nomination Of Har-
rison, humble county clerk in Ohio, the first
Of these patriots Then. in 1884, they stabbed Clay be-
hind his back. while before his face making great show
OF friendship and zeal In ls4s TO the emphatic Ian
gusge OF his friends. Cay murdered in the
house OF his friends and the of the outrage be-
came familiar to every citizen the Slaughter House
Convention" In 1852 they literally killed off their last
great champion by nominating gentleman eminent alone
man OF and whose whole political life open
to charges OF inconsistency waveTng and gross contra
dicton. AT time when new and distinct issue was
raised Of Union and the constitution against abolitionism
and the higher law, the who. of all others
passionate devotion The Union and who. by universal
consent, and by OF pre-eminent abilities on many
memorable occasions, displayed at The forum and IN the
Senate had for than quarter OF century worn the
proud title Of Defender OF the Constitutonhis man,
far ahead OF every living member oil his party nnelect.
services, and merit, thrust aside aud for whom
statesman No. An old and well-tried whs, who had
done yeoman service for his party No man free
from sectional bias and in way identified with aboli
tionism and its kindred enormities' No, But for a
military hero fresh from the field of battle. whose nom-
nation urged the ground of expediency alone,
aided. abeed, and procured BY this very abolition clique
OF Seward, Greeley, & Co.
Now, there thousands of men in the whig ranks
who, TO their eternal honor be recorded, loved their
country than party, and whose OF justice and
common popriety revolted at the outrage They could
not be csjoled with brilliant victories in Mexico, nor
pleased, like children, with fine pictures Of plumes and
uniforms Ii was in vain to tell such men of SCOTS
patrioism--no doubted that for every homes,
American is parot--but it most suspicious cir
cumstance TO find him in the OF the rankest wooy
heads in all the northern States The sterling original
wings passed by the Broadway House, whose familiar
walls had often -esounded to hearty cheers for Clay
Webster and Fillmore but where nothing heard
save the drum and the fife, and nothing but list of
the cardinal principles OF the whg party displaced by the
huge transparency OF general in full uniform, surrounded
by the sanauinary motto. Chippewa and Churubusco,
Lundy's Lane and Mexico"-subjecis upon which the
American people never had doubt but which seemed
novel arguments for making the commander of their
mics the first OF civil rulers All who did not feel su-
ciently assured of Scotts political principles or who
doubted the expedency of investing the epauleed hero
with the robes of Chief Magistrate, were secuted and
sneered at. and told TO leave the party that they were
wanted that Scott desired ukewarm supporters
and that the people would conduct him the chair of
State out of sheer gratitude
General Scott himself took the stump, and made some
forty most unlucky and ldgested speeches This was
the last move, and proved fatal AT of sun on elec.
on day the whg party scattered to the four Winds
without common leader, aud--we had almost said
without a common principle
The result not altogether democratic triumph ;
for, viewed from some points, it victory achieved
by the conservative, Union, constitution and law abiding
portion Of the whg party the black flag of abo-
onsn. That nag brought into their ranks, and
its bearers insisted on leading the van but those who
drove it out. although they lost the day. vindcsted
their attachment to the Union, and shed the highest
honor themselves, by sacrificing their party 10 their
country.
This is the plain. unvarnshed truth and it is sngu
lar chapter in the history o. parties. We presume that
hereafter military will be less ambitious OF the pres
denta chair and politicians such great slickle for
expcdency, with The sad fate OF General Scott before
them. who, although respected by the whole
American people, and universally admitted TO rank
among the first OF living captains, has been beaten in
presidential contest by majority entirely unprecedented
political annals.