New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-19
WILL SCOTT BE ELECTED.

We meet this question day after day,
and find it addressed to us in letters from
different parts of the country. Most of
these letters say, We shall do we'll here,
but are afraid of losses in some other
quarter. What is the prospect! ?
These letters we cannot find time to
answer, and do not feel hattered by being
thus addressed. Good friends we will
tell you through The Tribune all we know
on the subject of your inquiries, and do
not relish the cool assumption that we
have another set of opinions beside those
we publicly express. We have stated
fully and clearly what States we believe
will vote for Gen. Scott, with those we
consider doubtful and those we expect to
chronicle as voting against him. Those
who read The Tribune know more of our
opinions and their grounds than we can
give in hasty private letter.
Since our Niagara estimate was printed
the friends of Pierce have gained an I'M
expected advantage in the nomination of
John P. Hale at Pittsburgh. That nomi-
nation endangers Ohio; it was made on
purpose to give that State to Pierce. All
the men who voted for it did not mean
that, but the men who contrived and
fixed it meant nothing else. But Mr..
Hale does not mean it, and we do not be-
lieve he will consent to be thus used. He
peremptorily declined before the Conven-
ton; he will decline again as soon as he is
afforded a chance to do so. He neither
wants to be candidate nor to aid Pierce's
election. The use made of his name is at
once at war with his personal feelings and
his public convictions.
But suppose he should be dragooned into
suffering his name to stand at the head of
the Pittsburgh ticket-what theni Will the
intelligent freemen of Ohio be guled by
so shallow a trick into contributing to the
triumph of principles they abhor! What
use can there be in, what end do they SUBJ
serve, by it ! Nine-tenths of those who are
led off after the third party drum were
supporters of Harrison and Clay, because
they earnestly believed the principles they
advocated most conducive to the nations
welfare. Gen. Scott stands now in the
place of those departed Patriots-repre-
sents the same principles, and contem-
plates the same ends. Then why should
the Western Reserve consent to play the
cat's-paw to South Carolina, and so cast her
vote as to rejoice the soul OF Toombs,
Faulkner and Brownlowl What does
she gain by this course for Human Free
dom What is to compensate her for the
sacrifice of Protection to Home Industry
and River and Harbor Improvements
There will of course be some votes thrown
away in Ohio, as there were 5000 in 1874,
and yet Mr.. Clay carried the State by 5000
majority. Scott is more popular with the
masses in Ohio than any other man has
been for years-he was the all but unanimous
choice of her Wings in ls4S, and again in
50, and he will receive thousands of votes
never before given to Wing candidate,
and i all her Wings do their whOle duty,
he can carryhe State in spite ofhe cOnspir-
acy against him. He is the man whom
the people of Ohio cant for next President;
they will have to be bullied, watched de-
nounced as traitors and vigilantly dragoon-
ed, to make them vote against him. Let
his friends but do their duty, and he will
carry the State, defeating all the machina-