Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-07-10

New York Correspondence d the Gasette.l
NEw YoRK, June 25ti, 1862.
The political campaign has opened !
right good e%arnest. both parties using the
Utmost exertions 10 secure..lie best pos
,ions. So far the Democrats have bee
exuiting III no measured tones over the
unanilnity In shouting harrah for thei
candidates, while they have been unspal
ing In their lamentations over the absefc
Of consolidation Ia the Wings. In illi
they are making more fuss than there !
any necessity for, and The result will prov
10 them that the Baltimore Convention
knew very well what Il was about. II
very true that louder shouts have beef
given for Pierce than Scott but IL mus
be remembered that the sport was tnor'
as a rejoicing at a nomination having beet
made, than from any elation they felt IL
the selection OF the candidate and this
very naturally, for I suppose 1t Is fair te
presume that not oie.twentieth OF the U
States had ever more than heard OF Mr.
Pierce. Il Is true that he had been Il
Mexico, aud was a General, and it 10 also
very true that be has been In Congress-
but IL is equally true that he never had
any separate command IN Mexico, Qol
General Pillow, al the Philadelphia ratif.
cation meeting, was very particular In say.
ing q where he served with distinction uli-
der nv c~ommand,') and In Congress Il
was never pretended that he took any lead
In anything, and only voted with his party.
Therefore Ii Ia, I say, that lie was 90 little
known, and that the rejoicing came from
the delight at the Conventions not break
ing up ID a row, as at one time there was
every prospect Of its doing.
Gen Scott, on the contrary. 10 known
TO every voter ia the United States. He
has been identified with our history for
nearly half a century, and not a page In
eur public records but contains his name
In every position he has shown himself
equal 10 The trust coniided to him, and as
n military chiefain has raised himself at
least upon a par with any living General
while in civil life he has always been es.
teemei for his sound sense and Judgment,
and has for many years past had friends
urging his claims upon the country TO the
elevation Of its Chief Magistrate.
The grand objection that the Democrats
will raise against him at the South. will
be his connection with Seward. This Is
mere clap.trap, and can only be excused
upon the ground that everything 10 fair In
war. That Seward supported him, is I'M.
questionably true, but It's magnifying Mr..
Seward Into a very great something II II
is admitted that he can nominate any man,
in the first place aud 1t is carrying the
joke very far to assert that any man whom
the people would elect would suffer him.
eelt to be dictated to, aud his administra.
ton controlled by, one individual. Besides
all which, there Ia no fear, even If Gen.
Scott had been nominated by Mr.. Sew
ard, that he would be controlled by him
He stands cmphs,ically upon the platform
erected by the Baltimore Convention -
This Ia the only controlling power which
will operate upon him, and to this plat
form no Que objects mote %strenuously than
Mr.. Seward. II has already made the
Frec.soilcrs, Abolitionists, &c. &C., who
voted generally for Wings, consent to form
o new party, and run an independent can.
This surely should be evidence
enough for the South. to prevent them
from ilaring up and boiling at an imagina.
ny danger. To any unprejudieed person
would really seem that a man born in
Virginia, and a resident all his lste In the
immediate ~neighboriood Of slavery, should
be more inclined TO favor it than one who
has lived in the abolition atmosphere Of
New Hampshire, where such men as Hale
in getting sent to the U. States
There Is plenty Of work to be done this
ummsr and fall, and the Wings must be
up ana stirring. They are now in a most
decided majority.--they can elect their
President il they choose. All that is want.
NJ is activity and vigilance, for them to
by q tremendous majority. Let
hem 20 at 1t with a good will at all
events let them be satisfied from their own
observations, before they throw off a man
who has done nothing but serve his %coun. ]
ry oil his life. and who has been always
oosed upon as one Of its greatest men.
Yours, SC. LOCUS. !
Terrible Catastrophe.