The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-10-21

his recent electioneering tour, his recent al
fusion in Ohio to the famous Mexican bride
has capped the climax of public degradation.
To have embarked upon so desperate and
disreputable an expedient as that Of the itin-
Grant demagogue, and thus to have compro
missed all the personal dignity and all the
public propriety of Presidential candidate,
by the most silly egoti1tical, and meretri-
eious appeals to the assembled popuIace was
bad enough, but when such "vaultlng ambl-
ton" and prurient vanity prompts Gen.
Scott to urge his refusal Of bride as
claim to the Presidency, he forfets the re-
spect of the most liberal, and the charity of
the most tolerant, by most unprecedented
and demoralising instance of political pros7
titution According to the telographc ac-
count he stated that he was offered a bonus
of 100000, with an annual salary of
$3.50, 900 to accept the government of Mex
leo with view to its annexation to the Uni
ted States, but that he was opposed to the
scheme and rejected the offer. Had he
have Indignantly scorned the bride and re-
buked those who offered it, irrespective of
its object, his reported language would have
afforded less ground for the implication that
such an offer from CANADA instead of Mex
ICo, would have been entertained, strong
advocate as he is for the annexation of tbd
"northern BRETHREN" who harbor fugitive
slaves from the United States.
We repeat that this whole journey of6cn.
Scott, with its aims and incidents, violates
all the propricties of bis position, and scan
daGses what is left of political decorum in
the country, and that such an outrage upon
the public dignity should meet widl over
whelming rebuke We quote what follows
as justly expressive Of the views whih eve
ry virtuous citizen must entertain o. such
an innovation upon national usages.
For the first time in our annals wchave
candidate for the presidency taking he field
in person and within a month of the election
traversing the Union urging his military ser
vices and thus appealing to the military en-
thusiasm of the people for support. In this
effort to bcgeta military mania to carry their
Chief upon huzzas into the Presidency, the
whole body of electioneerers are combined
Washington solemnly resigned his sword to
Congress at Annapolis and retired to Mount
Vernon before he allowed suggestion of his
elevation to civil office. Gen jackson al
though long out of the army retired even
from the Senate of the United States to the
Hermitage on his announcement as candidate
for the Presidency Harrison, for 80 years
out Of military employment, did not venture
among the people to plead military serrice as
a qualification. Taylor, although h, held
his commission, held his peace and did not
make a display of himself and his warlke ex-
ploits, to obtain a victory by military accla-
nation. Scott is the first man who ever as
pired to the chief magistracy, who has ever
entered in person, this sort of recruiting SER
vice. If successful he will introduce a new
element into the political struggles of this
country. Military leaders in person with
their arrays will take the field on both sides
as, in the contentious at Rome for the Con-
sulship, in the degenerate days Of the COM
monwealth. Political partizans will become
disciplined forces of the champion candidates.
And in the progress of this system Of carry
ing elections 10y military influences, We shall
have our Sylla and Marus and Trumyirates
to make the high places in the republic, prizes
to be won by the blood, not by the votes of
the citizens This mode of commanding the
public sufrages has been pursued by the sue
cessive military candidates who have obtain
ed control in the Mexican and South Amer
lean Republics, and Louis Napoleon, who is
at this moment entertaining France by an ex-
hibi,ion of his person, by a succession of elec-
pioneering fetes and pouring out largesses to
the people, has given the greatest modern ex-
ample of the success of military means of
masked army prowess in controlling the suf-
RACES Of great nation.
Gen. SCOTS progress is undertaken to stir
up the epidemic enthusiasm which the CON
tagiono of military renown is apt to propagate,
especially when the prc$umng Hero, carries
among his followers, the expectation Of that
power, which is to dispense all the emolu-
mcnts and honors of great Republic A
General, pressing the conquest of rich city
could not excite his troops to greater effort
than leading the attack himself and Offering
! it upto plumber. AGeneral leading an cleo
pioneering campaign in person and mingling
with those among whom he promises to share
the power, patronage, honors, and emolu-
ments of the government, administers the
same sort of stimulus to his eager partizans
This is the last card of the whig party fol
the Presidential power. 1t is their only hope;
and as we see from their newspapers and
scraps of letters written for the purpose, this
new mode of infaming zeal is to be urged tc
the utmost. It cannot succeed, if the dem
ocratic party are aroused to resist the preto
rian hands which it is Gen. Scott's mission