Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-30
n THE IMPENDING EVENT.

The great electoral discussion of the measures
and of the men that should attract the popular favor
to the Presidential candidate of this Party or OF that
may be said to have closed, and to need, perhaps,
only summing up. As eldest counsel on our side,
we may be allowed to assume that privilege AT
any event. we are about to exercise it in regard to
that part of the Court and Jury whom we address
our own particular readers.
We shall not, of course, attempt to re-state all
that has been alleged on either side First, because
that would make us too yoluminous, and, secondly,
because great deal of what has been said is not
actly what we should choose to repeat. We shall
confne recital to what has been justly, weightily,
and decently said.
1t was, from the beginning, altogether apparent
that, in the pending contest, the parties the poll
cies, the measures, and the men opposed to each
other were in general as different possible, IN
nearly all points, whether doctrina practical, or
personal. They offer not merely comparison, but
contrast.
The Wing policy and principles are strongly and
nobly expressed in the person, the merits, and the
fame of their candidate. So are those of their ad-
versaries as fifty expressed by the absence of those
merits and that renown in Gen. PIERCE. Thus the
are on either side properly matched with men
that aptly represent them The ends of the Wings
have been national only; broad liberal, benef-
cent conservative, pacific and such their general
policy, such the character and the services of their
candidate. This is equally true of the other side
the end at which they aim is party, not the coun-
| try; and he whom they bring forward can be said
only to have served, or to be likely to serve, party
The Wing policy promises encouragement to the
useful arts to public works, to the spread and the
inauguration Of law of order, Of industry, of public
and of private good and happiness of prosperity and
quiet at home, of peace and good will to nations
abroad The Democratic policy forbids all those, and
more than threatens all these. The Wings aspire
to cultivate, as the supreme duty and good of ma
ton, the great arts Of peace but to cultivate them
under the arm of one who can, if need be, shine in
those of war; and WELD those dreadful forces which
people must sometimes use, for safety or for
honor: the so-called Democracy would impose upon
us man whose civil abilities are, as well as his
civil doctrines, negative and who promises us any
thing but peace, while he is still less fit for war
On wise administration not empty doctrine; on
all the practical good that the right powers of Gov
eminent can be made to reach, not barren self
disqualification from their high trust on giving all
needed perfection to our sway and our laws at
home before attempting to force them upon weaker
nations around us on giving stability to the
boundless but most undeveloped good we already
possess, instead of rushing and trampling over it
in pursuit of every folly that style itself Pro-
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fest Destiny, the Wings intent. For such great
purposes they have placed themselves under the
standard of one who has accomplished great and
surprising things, that will stand mark to other
nations and times For the reverse of all this the
Democrats have just fifty placed themselves under
the standard of one who has never accomplished
any thing, and of whom the most suspicious hope
to be entertained u.s. that when he shall set about any
of those ill-omened plans which Senator DOUGLAS
and Young America have prescribed to him, he
must fall through with them, and fail in those per-
ncious designs from lucky want of ability to
carry them out.
AS Of political and Of physical benefits, so of that
less substantial, but not unprized good the nation
glory. The object ofcone party has ever been to
add to our public rcnown; and, Gen. ScoTT having
done far more for that than any other man alive,
the Wings will add to the countrys praise and the
Governments dignity by placing at its head man
honored the civilized world over Our adversaries
on the contrary, can have no hope nor aim of this
sort They must mean to give Gen. PIERCE repu
tation only, not to add to that of the country
We might here close our review, but the subject
opens other considerations of high political conse
quence, one Of which we commend to the reflection
Of our readers
When Alexander the Great was asked on hi.
death-bed whom he wished to succeed him in hi.
empire, he answered. " THE MOST weRTHY.'
When the fathers of the American Republic wer,
framing Constitution for the preservation Of it,
Liberties, they cherished the hope that the People
would con6de the administration Of the new Gov
eminent to THE MOST WORTHY" In the opinion
Of the authors of the Federalist the great contem
porary expounders of the Constitution, there wal
(said they ga moral certainty that the Office o
President will seldom fall to the lot of any mar