Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-23
ISSUES BEFORE THE PE0PLE-No. "
THE WING CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

sooA " pe ueclueu Dy the IeOple OF the lnlteu
States, we have, in the views which we have pre-
sented to readers, confined ourselves chiefly TO
consideration of the great features of national and
international policy which distinguish the two poll
teal parties of the country and of which their
didates for the Presidency are respectively, the re-
representatives. and standard-bearers While other
Wing presses we're ably indicating the claims Of
the Wing candidate citizen illustrious for his
public services and private virtues man without
fear and without reproach-and contrasting them
with those of his undstinguished though respecta-
BILE rival, we conceived that comprehensive review
of the leading doctrines and practices which mark
the parties now struggling for ascendency in the
Government might prove useful to that large num-
Der of junior citizens who have upon the stage
of active life since the last quadrennia contest as
well as serve 10 refresh the recollection of their
elders, from whom the younger are likely to take
counsel We have shown, BY recurrence to indis-
putable history, that the Democratic party avows
principles and has pursued line of policy in the
administration of the Government alike detrimen.
tai to the national veal at home and derogatory
to the peace and dignity of the country abroad
pacious, aggressive, and unjust destructive of the
public character and the responsibility of Repubi
can Institutions We have shown, by like appeal
to the facts Of history that the principles and policy
Of the Wing party antagonstic to all these po-
litical views Of their adversaries, whether acobnca
in doctrine pernicous in practice; whether it be
the ruin Of American Industry in the name Of Free
Trade, the neglect Of Internal Improvement in the
nameof Strict Constructions Buccaneering in the name
of Liberty Interventionn the name Of non Iaterren-
ttoa unjust on weak nations in the name of Mani
fest Destiny the forcible annexation of their ter
ritory under the plea Of . extending the area Of
,freedoDn." All these heresies the Wing party re-
pudates. 1t chooses on the contrary, to cultivate
harmony at home and peace abroad; to respect the
rights Of all nations, whether weak or strong and
thereby secure respect for our own to develop and
cultivate our own resources and foster our domestic
Interests in all that advance the national wealth.
power comfort, and convenience to regard the
Federal Constitution as benefcent instrument de-
signed by its great authors to promote the general
welfare, (not to obstruct it D to make US powerful
at home and respected abroad; in short, to answer
all the great ends Of Government set forth clearly
and explicitly in the Declaration Of Principles, or
PLATFORM adopted at Baltimore on the 18th Of June
last by the Wing National Convention.
Having in preceding numbers on the Presidency
contrasted the respective grounds on which the can
ddates of the two great parties presented the
country and claim TO be tried, we propose now to
say something of the character and claims of the
candidates themselves we should say rather, Of
the Wing candidate, General ScoTT for in regard
to General PIERCE, worthy he is in private life
and respectable as a citizen, however we might
value him as a neighbor and friend she is one
Of the last men, Of equal responsibility, whom We
should make choice of to be the Chief Magistrate
this great country. His course in Congress on the
leading questions of domestic policy placed him in
that school Of politicians which denies to the Gene
raj Government every beneficial attribute. We find
him, accordingly, in opposition to every measure of
improvement, whether for the East or the West !;
and pursuing that opposition TO an extreme beyond
even the narrow construction Of President JACKSON
himself citizen with views SO contracted is Ger.
tainly not the man to direct the destines Of this
great and growing Republic. There is a progress
demanded by the country; not the progress Of FL
Jusfierism or Intervention, but progress Of physi
cal development and improvement; a progress Of
protection encouragement, and culture, in the arts
of peace and industry, and social elevation to all Of
which General PIERCE must by his political maxims
and afinities be systematically and inhexibly in.
imca and will, should he unfortunately succeed to
the Presidency, efectually oppose and defeat.
It was not our purpose therefore, to enter into an
examination Of the political career and pretensions
Of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, or
to enlarge upon the strong objections to him poiti
cally which we have glanced at We are content
to leave him in the hands Of his friends without
further comment. As they have been unable to
magnify him into great man, we have no DISPOSE
ton to make him out small one
We proceed now to the subject for which we took
up the pen to-day and that is the character and
claims Of the Wing candidate for the Presidency
WINFIELD SCOTT
When the Wing National Convention, in its de
liberate and honest discretion presented this emnen
citizen to the country the Wing candidate for tn
Chief Magistracy we anticipated Of course that h
would encounter the most strenuous opposition iron
the organs Of the other party; but we confes:
we were not prepared for such an opposition as tn
presses and drill-sergeants Of that party have di
played towards him We supposed that if there wer
a in the country whose illustrious services an
virtuous life could secure him from low and mali.
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