Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1852-07-15


The following. nhie q ne copy from an able and
briIlan, afsieEe i she Louisville Journal, mani-
tests &c spiril WIN 1kick he news of DE nomi-
nation q Gen. Winfield sS0si vas received IN
Kentucky
Tnk BALTnMoRE NastIEaTIos-- aE y VIC eAN "
ntDafE. 4-rhe electric telegraph has communicates
The intel IL tie nomination of Gen. Scoa 8
The Wing candidate TT he next 4 resideney and
81 this anhnnciation has nnquesGionahiy impeEt-
ed large portion Of il own eiseirleily to the peo-
pie of The Bnited States. The worst fears aud me
darKesi sTffchensions Of our political opponents
are realized il has for Some time past been man
fest that The Dem0ctacy d the country earnestly
Deprecated he nomination IF Gen. Scout and
tremhled al the bare thought 81 i, Ieesing and
knowing that If il should be their late e have g
contend With that iflusirious and uneonqneraele
ola hero. their utter ana overwhelming prostEaiian
ia the coHfct WoaC be as inevitable as me Ialhii-
nienl Of the DEGREES Of late Hence it's that they
have been raising he loudest esamoFs SaInss See
and procaaiming how easily they gould beat HIM
whilst they have heated MIR. Fillmore and Mr..
Webster with comparative forhearaRces and cree.
bestowed on them occasional praise
The people of The United States elee. / snarew
Jackson ID the Presidency for his
The people Of the Uhitsd sta.es elected William
II. Harrison for he milils..y services The people
81 the United Safes Seced Zachary Taylor for his
lntb.ary sesysces. A naional convention, the ac-
credit organ Of The great Wing party of the coun
~. has now nominated w infeld Scot who in his
military services has far surpassed not only each
but a1fof those three, and i would be grange, il
would BE perverse, il wyad be ungEateiul IL
would Be- anomalous. ii The people of the United
Safes after having bus elected them. should re
Jecthim de is A0tQ1iy their superior in military
services and military alent hut incompa their
superior IN political attenuation, and in all he
knowledge necessary to a great and successful
statesman He has probably yasteF fund of po
litical and general knowledge than any other man
10 the country. He has no equal in familiarity
with history either ancient or modern. We have
heard men in the present. Executive Cakinet speak
with admiration OF bis extraordinary Information
and express their wonder at his having been able
thus to store and enrich his mind amid all the de-
mands upon his time, presented BY his important
laborious and most arduons professional duties
He is man who whether ID military or in civil
life, will always be greatest upon the greatest ocea
sions.
Proudly. az. most proudly stands the Whig
candidate for the Presidency, in contrast with the
nominee of the Democracy. There is pnlv con
trast, for there canbe nocomparison. Surely there
can BE no comparison between the claims OF Gen
Winfield Scott and hose Of Gen. f. Pierce apon
I the snfirages of American treemen for The Chief
Magistracy of the Republic; the one known, and
anmireds and reyered By all the civilized nations
Of The earth, and the oihersnnknown, even w name
10 his own countryfpen, until nominated for Office
by political convention, simply on account Of the
Inability Of its members TO agree uponsany promi-
nent man. We read that an eagle, soaring in his
psi1e Sssfp.ace, was once -awsseI at and killed by
monsing OWL but Spch ataing will hardly haPpea
I aseeuna time.
And now felloMtwhigs, We who have upborne
your glorious banaer for The last quarter Of CEN
tury. arouse yourselves for the condici thai is be-
fore ron. You have glorious platform and a glo-
rious candidate, and you can have ,;lorous vic
tory Hurrahi hnrrahll hurrah fer Winfield
Scott. the chiet.ain who never was vanquished, and