The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-09-23
me- breakine up Of the Whig party.

n ulBblHAulauSu wing Dcu1boA Was hS1AN
to say, few days after the nomination Of
Gen. Scott, We can form no judgment now
of the election--we must wait five or six
weeks. IF in that time the whig party can
revive the old enthusiasm Of 1910 and '48,
then we shall have a living and unfailing as
surance Of success; but if We fail to kindle
up the old military fever, then we are gone. J"
The five or six weeks have elapsed-every
expedient to revive the guLpowder fisrore Of
40 and '48 has proved a chilling abortion,
and he who runs may read the handwriting
upon the wall, that the wing party has been
weighed in the balance, and found wanting"
and is rapidly breaking up.
Beginning with the ratification meeting at
the Broadway House, every attempt to get
up successful gathering for Gen. Scott has
been u most signal failure. The jubilee at
Lundy's Lane was vast failure to the wings,
to the railroad companies, to the hotel keep
ers, to the men with the big tent, to the fan
CIV men, and even to the Canadians; for they
expected another invasion of at least fifty
thousand men, to open the campaign in Can
ada. The Stanly meeting in this city, the
other evening, was confessedly failure; the
subsequent little class-meetings about town,
including the fash-in-the-pan at Williams
burg were worse and worse. And the same
heavy incubus of indifference to the military
glory of Cen Scott, appears to extend over
the whole country, from the st. Lawrence to
the Rio Grande, and from Coney Island to
San Francisco Why is this? Is it because
military glory is threadbare, or is 1t on &C
/ count Of the Galphins, the Chickasaws, and
the GARDENERS; or the abolitionists, or free
farms, or Intervention, or Cuba, or guano, or
Goldfish, or the weather? What is the evil?
What are we to do to save Scott, to save Sew
ard, to save our bacon, and the public plum
der of fifty millions year2
The evil is without remedy. It IS the evil
of natural decay. Parties-political, reli-
gious, and social-like Goldfish and cabbages,
have their day. They are subject to the
same universal law of nature. They sprout,
they blossom, they are developed, and they
die The whig party has blossomed, and run
to seed, and is now going the way of all the
earth" tits in the process of disintegration,
decomposition, and dissolution; in fact, it is
breaking up ike Methodist camp meeting
in the midst of settled rain, or like New
port and Saratoga when the season is over
it is going at auction going! going! goner'
And yet, while standing upon its last legs,
we see all sorts of quaeks, with their quack
medicines, and quack pamphlets and tracts,
urging the sale of their nostrums as the only
means of saving the whig party. Even in
its dying struggles these greedy fellows are
intent only upon fleeing the party of its mo-
ney. Here they gO-cheap as dirt, and full
of blood and carnage. Circulate the docu-
ments, and pay up, or Scott will be defeat
ed" What hope can there be for party
!, whose fuglemen are governed by such unscru-
pulous rapacity?
) Very well. We must put the best face
upon this business. We know that the wing
party has run its career-that it has nothing
more to do-that it is embarrassed, and har-
raised, and broken in body and spirit, with
the rank mutiny of Giddings and the wings
of the Western Reserve of Ohio-with the
all-pervading distrust of Seward in the South
f with the Vaccinations of the liberty men
in New York, and the freesoilers in Massa-
chusettS; and, worse than all, with the terri
bic logged and sullen silence of Daniel Web
9 ster upon the nomination of Gen. Scott-wt
: know all this, but what can we do? The ex
! periencc OF two gunPowdcr Presidents is re.
E coiling upon the whig party Defeat stares
r them in the face. With their divided and
! disorganised forces, they have to cope with
/: the unterrifed and hungry democracy
/ cry, rallied and united as they never were
t before--moving North and South in a solid
: phalanx, like Roman legion, for Pierce and
= King, their Baltimore platform, and the for.
ty thousand offices, and the public plumber Of
/ full fifty millions year!
What is to be the end of all this? In the
: defeat of Gen. Scott, what else can we ex
;. pect, but the formal disbanding and dissolu
t ton of the wing party; and what next but
+ the merging of the Seward interest, bag and
Y baggage, into the great free soil abolition
: party of the North? Such are the conse-
O quences to a great party from pandering to
4 all the political denominations and catchpenny
Y humbugs of the day. Let the wings of the
. South stand their ground, and let the Web
ster conservative Union wings of the North,
o and of Wall street, look about them, and
+ calmly inquire, in this crisis, whether they
! had not better rally upon Webster and the
e Iconstitution, than sink with Seward and the
: higher law. T. Herald.