The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-29
The CampaIgn-Review OF the Field-The


The CampaIgn-Review OF the Field-Thc
Prospect.
On Tuesday next, the people Of the United States
will wind up the of 1852, in the election Of
Electors for the election Of President and Vice Pre-
sident Of the United States. We rejoice with the
public that the trouble will now so soon be over.
The second day of November will settle the whole
question: and before daylight of the third WITH good
weather, we shall know which side is up and which
side down.
The heavy work of the campaign is done. The
merits of the two principal candidates have been
amply discussed-their acts and writings, and
speeches, and principles and opinions, good, bad
and Indifferent, have been thoroughly canvassed;
and all the musty records and traditions, and ru-
mors of the last hundred years, have been dragged
to light, for purposes of adulation or abuse The
country has been deuged with documents from the
two central committees at Washington; and if half
the accusations which Truman Smith s. Co., or A.
G. Penn s. Co, have promulgated for the informa-
tior of the dear people. true, neither General
Pierce nor General Scott would be entitled to
higher degree of public confidence than hs psniten
tiury. The newspapers have teemed with the most
atrocious doggerel which ever inflicted upon the
pubGc-the most abomirable stuff and balderdash
which has ever disgraeed the muse of political fus-
tian. Committees of vigilance and of enrolment,
and all sorts Of party clubs and cques, have been
working like sappers and miners, to undermine each
other and blow each other up-the land has
swarmed with stump speakers and electioneering
missionaries, among whom General Scott, in his
late Blue Lick expedition, moved like CULVER
among the DEMONSTRATING the newspapers
as Don Quixotte fought the wind-mills charming
the fiery Greeks with his love of that rich Irish
brogue = winning the High Dutch and the Low
Dutch with his partiality for the vernacuar of
Vaterland sharing the Inequalities of w. II Sc
ward carrying the war through the Jerseys in a sin
gle day, and astounding with admiration even the
Philadelphia Quakers with his warlike e'oquence.
The pamphlet factory of the Fourrierte establish
ment Of Nassau street has dused by thous ands for
cash, its precious tracts of Why am Whig,"
The Miseries of Ireland,'' Robinson's preposte-
rOus mass of trash on New Hampshire and the
Catholic question: the counterfeit I" Irshman,"
and the pictorial Life representing Gen. Scott
gaoping over heaps Of slaughtered men, and riotiug
in blood and carnage Mass meetings have been the
order of the day and the order Of the night, and
transparencies and torch. light professions have
wakened The early sleeper with their clamor their
brlliancy, and their all-pervading smell of tar aud
turpentire.
In the meantime, the independent movements Of
the Webster men in Georgia, North Carolina, Phila-
delphia, New York and Massachusetts,; of the State
rights men of the extreme South; of the great
free soil party, with their ticket of II tle and
Julian of the Gerrit Smith and Fred Douglas
party Of the so called industrial societies. of the
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given pih and pungency, confusion and complexity,
"fuss and feathers bristles and claws, to the
general wranglpg of The campaign. The move
ments Of the two regular armies have been all the
interesting from their constant annoyances by
the guerrilla parties lodging about among the
eharparal
The questions chiefly discussed in the party press
have been Gen. Scott's native Americanism, and
the battle Of Lundy's Lane; Gen Pierce's coward
ice in battle, as proved by his fainting when his
horse fell upon him; his bad position on the Ca.
tholic question, from having been born in New
Hampshire, and his treachery to the South, in
having defeated the election of an abolition cand-
date for Governor. We have also had protection on
Pennsy lyania iron, and British allies, rivers and
harbors, women's rights, slavery and abolition,
Cuba and Canada, soup, and, finally, perfect gold
placer for the newspapers in the philanthropc tour
Of Gen. Scott to the Blue Lcks, at the public ex.
pense for the benefit Of the poor old soldiers Of the
regular army. Such have been some Of the most
prominent features, movements and transactions of
the campaign.
And yet, notwithstanding all this turmoil and fury,
and "nose and confusion and wriggling and
twisting, and clamor and clap trap of the politi.
clans, and their committees and documents, and
stumpers, and doggerel, and mass meetings, and
professions, the great American people have been
wonderfully self possessed, quiet, orderly, and i'm
movable; they have shown in very striking de.
gree. that guppowder, bombs, guns, drums, bomb.
shells, and 'fuss and feathers" have become drug
in the market We have had none Of the magnif-
cent carnival scenes OF $40, with strings of log
cabins and chicken coops, and canoes on wheels,
and cider barrels, and barrels of hard cider, aud
trees borne alot with their branches fall Of rae
coons and possuns, and troops of yourg girls
al in white, in trumphal ears, singing the songs Of
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too,' and cluster. Of men
covered with the skins Of wild beasts ike satyrs
and horses, and oxen AID asses and maiss c.g Ened
with evergreens, stretching along the tiya feaIs
Of the rural districts for miles and nsi.ss u the
wonder Of the old women and the ds4gE. Of
the children No, we have had nothing Of tia.
sort in this campaign Of 1852. I. has NJ: even
been marked by the sharp fighting, and betting
and spirit, Of the great contes; u 1874; nor has It
even been characterized BY The s1biasd snthusiAsm
Of the independent, no-party election 81 Gea Taylor
in 1913. The people have bssn g-l.., AID have re.
NAMED comparatively quiet, netni.tsta1ding the
sweating Efforts Of the stunpeTE All he party or
gans TO frighten them from their propriety.
The public mind, horever, has not been idle noe
Indifferent in regard 70 the great issue which is 10
be settled On Tutsisy next. The local elect ,ns
which have taken place since the nomination Of sn
Scott In Iowa, Missouri, Scrth Carolina, Vermont.
Name, Psnnsy lyania. Ohio, Indiana, Maryland
bs'assfs. F.ogiia and Connecticut, indicate also,
the geHxt2 grh IL public oYso;o, "a q .,o,d,