Litchfield enquirer., 1852-09-16
The Campaign.
State
 Central 

Almost daily we are met with the aues,
 tions-' What aEe Scott's prospects ? How
 goes the battle /" &c. These are certainly
 interesting and important queries to men of all Parties-snd he is wise man who can answer them with positive certainty. The 'wislr is said to be often the parent of faitl,' and experience teaches that we are all prone to believe what we are anx. lous should be true. A democrat, draw-
 ing his inference from former ypccesses,
 will tel you tha. there is no possible change
 for the defeat of Pierce and King. A whig,
 looking at the relative merits of the two
 tickets, is equally positive of the success of Scott and Graham. Even lha fraa. snil-..,
 "Hn an eye on a more remote future, are sure ot an ulliNate .riumph.'
 Amidst such completing views, we shall not attempt to play the prophet, or prO- nounce our edict with the spirit of an ora. cle. We may, however, express our opinions, apd give the reasons cn which those opjnions are based.
 In the first place, (as we have have al> ready hinted,) the comparative merits of Scott and Piefce-or rather, permit us to remark, there is no comparlson between the two men, so far as their leser,s and their fitness for the Presidency are con . cefqed. To be sure. Franklin Pierce has been member vf both branches of Con> eress-and so have hundreds of others who have never been heard of since, and indeed were scarcely heard of while they were members' His efforts while in Congress appear .o have been directed mainly against the River and Harbor Bills. and e.gaa,nst pay ing the widow of President Harrison years salary--for which efforts the voters of the West will call Ain, so snind aboas election time! We have nothing to say either for or agains, Pierce's campaign i9 Mexico. We are perfectly willing to take it for granted that he did his duty. as really as d'd every officer and sSldier in that WaE
 General sso,.'s history is familiar to every schoOlboy in the lsud. es well as to every intelligent man in Europe. For forty years his name has been household word from the Atlantic to the lakes. Bred to the Bar, he ~as commissioned by Mad. isOn as Lieutenant in the Army. He rose so rapidly in public esteem. tha. before he was thirty years of age he was promoted by Congress to the rank of Major General, and was invited to place in President Mad. ison's Cabinet as Secretary of War. His subsequent career in the field and as a civilian is too well known to need 6 recital here. Suffice it to ssy--.hat his great in- iellee.. his long experience and intimate knowlsdge of pablie affairs, his irreprOach> able private cheraclsr. and his patriotic | to the interest and honor of his | sll poiut him out as Ghs man whO OUGHT to 6e President.
 Again although there ia litale or 10 po- 1 lllical excitement. it is evident thaI ahere | s adesP and wids spread aader-eusrene 'f shsaghs sad feeling In the public mind, which is slowly aad silently wording sai ls bsnsAeen. EeAults. Tae wprking- men h the manufacturing dls.gis.s. Sho have Oag been dslndSd with the promise ef . protective tariff lrom tho dsEiOovals, have Uncovered the swladls. and determined o glys lhs whlgS . iAlr trial. The thOu- Iands sf foreigners who have hitherto bssA lapsd by the empty nsms. .Of 'dsmOeracy,'