The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-22

Nnere are 70 De gwen and received (Cheers He
NOT promise public lands for votes but he has
whole territories and brought them In for the use OF k
poor This is his statesman ship; and in the age wher
men look for practical results in this age of progress
say, this Is the kind Of statesmen the people want
Ihey don't want any ofyour funkeys-those men whose
lives and characters heard of before Take
FIaklin Pierce don't want to sisnder the gentle
man. He is as good perhaps many of He has
been where General Scott has been in the councils of the
nation in the Senate and in the House Of Represents
tives On the battlefield where great were
done by others did he do anything HIMSELF Never
called vote for while they turn about and abuse the
old hero Scott What fors Then Of them I'd the
audacty to call him coward-coward. The man who
called him coward smeed guupo Yder any shape
except that OF locofoco match Now fellow citizens
allity those who prefer that who has never per
formed anything for his country should be promoted
him who has done everything let them vote for Franklin
Pierce. IL you prefer who is opposed to- the in
terna improvement of the country, vote for Frsnkn
Pierce If you prefer man who will at once run into
all kinds OF extravaganza and flibuseipg among the
nations OF the world forsaking his own country to
stand on foreign land, vote for Franklin Pierce
In word if you prefer who has no claim whatever
on his countrymen except merely that he has bfen
minated by convention then you may vote for Frank
lin Pierce-but if you prefer man of high deeds If you
prefer man who has done something for his country
who has claim upon your gratitude for those services
you prefer man honest in heart noble sci timert
patriotic in action vote for Winfield Scott (Cheers
There are some men like some birds which have seem
you find them just before storm flying low but scream.
clouds, but the moment the lightning flashes and the
thunders roll they disappear and hide themselves in logs
or empty barns What the eagle-the American eagle,
loves is the storm and when the lightning flashes the
thunders roll he mounts tbs breeze and bares his
breast to the storm Ii you prefer the owl which boots
at night at Tammany Hail. to the eagle which scars
abroad in open daylight for Franklin Pierre but IL
you prefer your countfys banner-yes your c0untrys
banner-I put it that for every star has bee made
brighter by his acts and every stripe broader by his
noble and patriotic actions-vote for General Winfield
Scott
there were loud cries from all parts of the room
tor song but instead Of song another speech fol
lowed.
VI ~
Speaker of the Assembly introduced the ting
by the President He said The people of the United
the constitution for their benefit 1t drawn up
and adopted by party who had good old but it
has disgraced itself in modern times We have had
many party names but we ought to look less to
than to the things signfed The foreigner who cones
here has been accustomed naturally to look upon
democracy the enemy despotism in his own couu-
try and the word is familiar to him Ia bis native
guage But the modern party calling itself democra tic
in this country has been corrupted The early democrats
taught that the people made the constitution for them
selves Downto Van Buren, and through the regime
OF Jackson this doctrine prevailed till in 1887 it left
for Van Buren in his inaugural addre put forward
new doctrine, that the constitution not made to
create protect systems eff agriculture aud
manufactures If not fer these Objects ask what it
made? In that address Van Buren, declares
tt governments must not govern much. This
is not adapted to this free land This document de-
cares that the people must take of themselves for
the government had enough do take itself
That was the talk hen- is the talk now This is the
British system 1t is not American j would ask why IL
is that Consul is stationed at the expense Of the
tion in every port where the commerce of the United
States extends? Why are our armed thips commis-
stoned the high to protect our commerce
Why are light houses erected along the coast
to protect our commerce. Why is there distinguishing
tonDage between the ships of the United States and those
Of all other counrles Only abolish the distinction
tween ships and those of other nations. aud let in
slips from England ana Holland into every port around
from this Francisco what would become
= ~ ltt lcsrtzny that at present marks this mighty
,.l4ti4t eilopclis? II would speediy vanish aud
~ tt.. N'n.o he beegared and ruined. We must,
5g.l..,!r i5,,,t 60 industry Government Is iusti-
tto tor itc - - ltI Of the people in all their ne
ltstF at, HuiE y ttandipg honestly aud boldly
II atom ess4'!e snequiVocal Language that it is
n1proyem nts-that not only is it the duty of tbs
general government to regulate commerce between
this country and foreign nations but ia the sev,ral
States. But how the government do this except by
erecting lighthouses and harbors in inland seas, People
dispute the tutionsy this doctrine who under
stand Of the subject than Christians do OF
the Catechism They it hardship that the south
SGp NO Sen to e s
government to do everything required for this great
republic and free nation; That is the doctrine at
S acS R M s e gG0e S tns a
of Tammany Hall have discovered that 1t is unconsti-
tutional Does not this show that there is something
wrong" something rotten in the State OF Denmark y
1t reminds of the rotten potatoes being half an
Irshman (and that the best half Of me love that
most when is mesy and smiles in the dih There is
nothing like good potato when it is properly cooked
and served up with good butter But question the
proprety Of eating that escuent when Is the
heart In the locofocism has got the rot
We know what issues We are the American
party-they are the British party We advocate the
claims of and of principles which not adyo
Gated by the Londen Times and the Manchester Era
miner and advocated by papers for secret nearer
home In the first place lei me review claims and quail
caons the democratic candidates for the Presidency
If the history of the United States aud its distinguished
men bad been written six months ago, his name would
have teen left ont of it lie never would have been
thought of The only thing that ever gave him prom
celebrity. bis accident al nomination at BAL
tmore and, when you see how the democratic party
have come out for man who never rendered any
vice TO the country IL s evident that modern democracy
is degeneraed Who were the men that the party had
in their eye at Baltimore? They were Marcy, Cas-.
Buchanan, the Little Giant OF Illinois and the big
giant Sam Houston of San Jaointo memory. How were
these disposed OF just with as little little
boy would show lot OF puppies in basket Laughter
Yet these gentlemen all quietly give in their adhesion to
that was thought OF aud Cass took off
his in Tammany Hall The heat however. not
from on but from grief at his defeat and the
success Of the New Hampshire man (Grest laughter
Mr.. Pierce is. doubt respectable msn~i good
neiehborgoes to church reguatly-and is uuexeepton-
able in all the relations Of private life But wha has he
done rs statesman lie went to Congress and there
he did not rise above medocrty-nay. lie did not
even rise up to it. lie has said oone ching
thai distinguished him while in the senate OF the United
\ States lie resgned-for what cause ! will not
now inquire. But in that body OF intellect tual
giants be had noinfiuence whasever. How about
his votes he always voted against internal improve
ments, and sgainst pensions TO soldiers widows He
voted against pention to the widow of General uarri
SON. his votes have been all egative and
never yes He is man Of the Martin Van Buren school,
but little worse for Van Buren in favor of some
Improvements. while Pierce thinks that government
instituted only for the offices He got prefix to his
name but how did ne get it! Not by heroic deeds but
by Jenny Polk signing his name to piece of paper
He went to Mexico, riding his horse-and am at a
loss to distinguish between the merits of the horse az
the rider. They both resembed the old horse de.
scribedn the Book of Job-they smeed the battle aar
oil - (Rosrs of laughter for several minutes But
General Pierce ana his horse were yerv unlike
the horse of job in other particuars-they
did not 20 iorth Ike him to meet the armed men
but both turned back fIom the battle (Renew-
| ed laughter and cheers What act has Pierce ever
done TO entte him TO be the candidate of the people?
Now, ask who Winfield Scott is! lie is the man
who forty years ago defended his country against the
deadly assaults OF powerful foewho at Queenstown
Heights displayed the chyary Of the fodipr and The
skill Of general; and Mt Fort George amidst the burn
ing magazines tore down with his hands the British
Tag that waved over Its battlementsthe that
the plains Of Chippewa drove the disciplined aud veteran
forces Of Great Britain from the battlefield at the point
of the bayonet Ike chs before the whiT~nd Rnd strew
ing the mound with thor dead tho who met