Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-27


they not oyerwhelm our faintng Hero Let us
imagine, if possible, a few OF the Enquirer pa
in that contingency: II
"Pierce and Scott !! Good God-was there ever
ssuch contrast The infatuated Whigsa are surely
moon struck! Faulty and folly could no farther
go Did they really suppose that any intelligent
patriot, grateful forgreat services, could moment
hesitate which to choose Scott, the most illus
rous and brilliant Hero this country has produced
"a man who was giant in the days OF giants
'the ciepe of Jefferson-the friend and confident OF
those pure Republicans Madison and Monroe >
ae man who rushed to the battlefield at the first
Sound of foreign INVASION and who perilled his
'le and poured out his blood for the glory and in
'depence of his country the man., whose great
DEEDS in war and peace, fill the earth with their
srenown. Contemplate him from his carlies;
'reer. When mere boy, We find him animating
shis countrymcn to resist an insolent foreign foe,
'and drilling, and discplining, and leading raw
troops to the rout and confusion of Welingon's
1nvincibles. We see him on the plains of Chip
'peWa leading lnS victorious columns, and for the
first time in thousand years, routing superior
forces of the English at the point of the bayonet.
again, on the bloody heights of Lundy'S Lane,
1--WE behold him SURPRISING the most glorious featS
Sin the records of chivalry-and covering himself
'and his country with eternal honor. Riddled with
British bullets, when borne wounded and bleeding
from the field of fame, his fame, his farewell eX
'horaton to his comrades, was to "Chdryc ngain!"'
Ills mighty achievements i'll that trying night ex-
'orted from his commanding General the we'll
'nerlted compliment, that lie deserved the highest
honors grateful country could bestow No
'fainting No tumbling from horse back-savr
when his horse was shot under him-and then he
rose more furious and terrible than eve.
"No less wise, Sagaclous prudent and COM
prehensve i'll negotiations than daring i'll war, Ill
all the most delicate and serious domestic difficult
ties which have arisen SINCE he has been employed
by the great who filed the Presidential chair.
The might, and omnpotent Jacksonville greatest
and best-who knew men by instinct, entrusted 10
him the adjustment of that startling difficulty with
South Carolina-by which the very pillars of the
Onion! were threatened with subversion. His pru-
dence and his tact saved the Republic from civil
war and ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Van Buren,, Jackson'S
beloved successor, employed him to preserve the
peace of the country on the Canadian frontier and
again the difficulties growing out of the Maine
boundary. His great abilities wecc equal TO every
emergency. In all the great enterprises, whether
of peace war, in which, during the last forty
years. he has been engaged he has always bcen
Succcsslul-thns SURPRISING even the fortune for
which Cicero gorliicd Pompey. lie had known no
defeat, reverse; his career has hcen of glori
GUS trunphs 10 himself and Of invaluable services
TO his beloved country. -N-a.. 70
..And Pierce! who is he? Where did lie come
from! What did he ever dos Where are his
achievements in the cabinet or the field? Where
are his dispatches, his speeches. his measures!
Where are his victories and where are The grave
yards of his enemies? Echo answers where. His
federal partizans brought hun out great Generals
III
of Mexico. But what did lie do! What battle
did he win? The records aud his own letters prove
that lac never was in battle He fell from his horse
before he got lis brigade into position at ContrcraS
Inc kept his tent next morning until after, the
enemy was routed He then got well enough 10
join in the pursuit; but as soon as the enemy was
ovcrlaken, he tainted and fell! pretty hero
that! Again; on tile 18th September, al Molino del
Key, when ordered TO make q movement which
would place him Immediately under the guns OF
4. D he lvn taken suddenly ill and
compelled to leave the field. He kept his bed all
next day, while the battle raged but on the morn
ming of the litll, as soon as the lighting was over,
he reported himself for duty. proper General
that! if1he r.L ~ raI.3A1 Et. I'Ll.h "a
"But his infatuated partSans say he is an accom-
piiShed civilian Accomplished, indeed! Where
are the proofs oft !! Where are his speeches 3
What great measure did he ever orisnatci What
enlarged and comprehensive system oil poHcy cli
lie ever support O. ~ rsNr
AS the great ]. Randolph said on another occa&-
ion, You cant put your fingers on his serrices.-
And where does lie come from! From Yankee
land-the land of FcderalistS and blue lights HIS
father before him was an old-tushioned john Ad-
ans Sedtion law FcdcraliSt-who voted to prohib-
il Republican preacher from saying prayers before
the New Hampshire Legislature, because he would
not pray for the health os his Majesty, King John
Like ben, like chick And what do his party know
of him! What does Isaac Hill, the man who las-
ed him, say about linn? Didn't he call him
hcartleSS attorney, cold as frozen frog! Didn't
he say he 'docs lc0rSe than make merchandise of
the rs, and Cypress and ruin his neightors for Tie
sake Of gain7'' What sort of President Is that
for this great Democratic country? Shaking at
,orney! What did the illustrious J. Randolph say
about such characters! Hear him: ''t must
hare master, eire me one uchom can respect, Iufh-
err than KNOT KNAvIsII ATroRSErs.' But what
more did Isaac Hill say! We like to quote from
his own party. Hear him.
What would Frank Pierce have been in New
hampshire il lie had not been helped by the intlu-
ence of Isaac Hill This man, who has repeated
Is disgraCed himself and his State at " ashngton
by his drunken sprecs, and who, although now Pres
ident of the New Hampshire Temperance Society,
within tie last few weeks has proved that he has
not forgotten his old habits: this man who resigned
his Office of Senator for few months before tie
close of the session for the purpose OF taking up the
business of pettiogging and increasing law suits
and expenses of litigation at the capital of the State
(see his writ in another place. this man who con-
detnns radical tests in some places and supports
md defends radical teSteS in other places; this man,
who helped John P. Hale and Charles Lane 10
pIunder the Treasury Mt Washington of thousands
OF dollars; this man who has subscribed his name
TO hundreds of eeciioneerng letters by writing "F.
Pierce" as a Senator OF Congress, repeating lie
every time he thus writes it, that he now is what
lie not this has recently i'll effect, repeated
the charge from lying tongue perhaps for the hun
dredth time, that the opposition TO Henry Hubbard
III this State originates in the promise OF Isaac Hill
made at Washington 10 sell the State Of j. Hamp-
shire consideration for contract for blanks,
wrapping paper and Irvine - ANN, " .r,,,g1
"iIe kn0,rS the charges he makes against Isaac
Hill to be a base Misrepresentation and falsehood,'
&c. 2f= 1i .s .-.- a5r ~.
s'Here,we have this great Federal chief charged by
his own party with .disgraceful drunkenness-with
aiding in the plumber of the Treasury, with petit
6ggihg, with political duplcacy, and with deb
crate falsehood And lately, We hear, that he
had his jaws slapped ut card table in MeXco.-
Good gracious. What are we comingto! A fam
ting hero-a slammed iawed Nankee-a FrecSOl
pettilogger aspiring TO the seat Of Washington and
Jackson Oh monstrouS infatuation! Do the
deluded W hgstfor anolnent imagine that the free
men of This Countrywide chiyalrous, State Rights
Republicans of Nirginia, would submit obe gov
erncd by such Ruler? Their object must be to
bring Republican institutions into contempt and
ridicule. They must be restrained. Their folly
must be checked. The Republic must be saved