Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-21

the world There has never been, from the time
of Alexander to Napoleon, man on the face OF
the EARTH that possessed such power over a nation
of enlightened men. The mere utterance OF a
few words from Daniel Webster has established the
destiny and the fate of the nation. There never
has been, within the annals of history, intellect
that put forth instantaneous, so universal pow
err; and yet this magnificent, this splendid Wing
party says he was not available. Whom the gods
wish to destroy, they first make mad. We are not
acquainted with an act of such supreme folly as
the nomination of Scott. There is something stu
pendous about it. 1t is like the fall Of Caesar, with
out the grace of his dying. One single stab was
enough to send this "sheeted ghost to hell" and
not even a Brutus was required in the slaughter.
But, the honest truth is, the Wing party, which
has so long prated and preached to us about the
eoquence of Webster, and the patriotism of Clay,
has ended in fuss and feathers, and smoke, and
humbug. While Henry Clay was travelling in
the greatness of his strength, admired not only by
this nation, but all mankind when his portrait was
Autographed in Europe, engraved on steel in Great
Britain, multiplied by the thousand in other parts
of the world, and even when the celestial Chinese
had put him on their tea-boxes, and good likeness
es at that, without foreshortening, Americans were
as unconscious, or rather will say the Wings
were-of his merit, as they were of some wonder
full man in Japan, or other distant part Of the
world. They left the glorious and magnificent
statesman with his clear head, warm heart, and
splendid genius to become another convert to that
oft-repeated Islander, as we have always termed it,
that republics are ungratefu So, too, with Dan
iel Webster. Everybody says, he is a great man.
but you cannot elect him." What confidence these
Wings must have in their all-decency party, when
they do not dare to nominate the greatest man the
sun shines upon! They want the gutter argument,
and like the dog in the fable, they lose the meat,
and the shadow too, for they put up man who
has never had claim to the office, and never will
Gen. Scott and, then hurrah for Chepultepec.
1t ought not to entitle to become Presi-
dent of the United States because he happens to
have won victories with the aid of the best educat
ed, and most enlighted legions, that ever followed
a conquerors banner. In the pamest days of his
power Napoleon never marshalled such soldiers.
He had more men, he had more cannon, he had a
prestige that almost omnpotent; but never,
in three hours, did he work among his enemies
such ruin, worked, not by Gen, Scott, but
by his fellow citizens-each fired with the pre-
cision of a kentucky sportsman-cach one of whom
shot with the intelligence of an educated man, and
the patriotism of one who likes his country. Strip
Gen. Scott Of all his flstian and humbug, and then
hunt for his claims to the Presidency. Bennett of
the Herald, says he will make a great President,
Gf he ever makes any, for the newspapers. Tee-
graphs will flash his political vagaries from ocean
to ocean. He will, doubtless, propose to build
new line to the Pacific for the special benefit of his
poor NOulu HIVE
very little news OF any Importance to communicate,
unless it that the American Republic had been
sold out at auction, the Romans, in the days of
their degeneTacy, put up their purple under the
auctioneership of the Pr;etorian Guards. Away
with all this The Herald of the Union " was
established especially SOLELY entirely and heartily
to maintain the great political compact of 1850.
Clay, one of the veteran patriots who brought to
that consummation the aid of his genius and pow
tho eli hot
the ideal of Democratic genius, and of the Repub-
lie of liberty, has been thought unworthy of her
civic crown-wo might say some btterer words
than these on that subject. And Webster, whose
Herculean genius was brought to bear upon that
magnificent consummation, has been " laid on the
shelf" But there is great consolation in the re-
Election that, while both the Democrats and the
Wings have deserted their leaders, the Wings alone
have deserted their principles. Pierce as our read
ers will see, by referring to another column, is no
unworthy representative of the great doctrine we
have inherited from our fathers-the Union for the
sake of the Union, and what it cost-the nation
atty of our thirty-one republics stretching so far
that nothing but the glorious sunrise can light one
border, and nothing but the sunset CLEANS can ter
minte the frontier on the other.
We are sorry to write these Words but we can
not withhold them; and, moreover as we are will
ing to appeal to the better Judgment to the sober
second thought of all the great and true national
Wings OF this country, and we should not be afraid
to await the decision they would award. Where
is the national Wing in this country, from Maine
to California, that has hazarded the opinion that
Scott the choice of his party. Bill Seward
has done it: so has Horace Greeley. These are
the Ephesian wretches that have already lit the
torch and flung it under the columns of our polti-
cal temple. These are the demagogues who have
agtated merely for the sake of agitation, that have
reduced craftsmanship to this degradation; that
have played that game which, but for good Wings,
and such Democrats as Cass Houston, Douglas,
and others, would have ended the history of our
Union, and in the fine language Of Webster, even
the young American eagle would have fallen from
heaven, when soaring to the sun, struck by the
fatal dart of disunion. These are the men who
pretended to find in the domestic institutions of the
South abundant cause for agitation, when God in
Heaven knows that every blow levelled against the
STAKEHOLDER by these fanatics, has fallen upon the
head of the slave. These are the men who would
begin by burning down the temple of liberty over
the ashes of Washington. They are the descen-
dants of that race of political vipers who seventy
years ago, showed their heads at the North and in
the South, and tried to stop the consolidation of
the American Republic. This same question
then agtated by the very class of men who
have agtated ever since, and it is for personal ee
walton that the scoundrels keep it up.
| We wish too that we could exempt the South
from word of censure here; for it SO happens
that at the very last she gaze just voes enough to
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