The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-11-11
The whis Party and Gen. Pierce.

The Wing Party and Gen. Pierce.
Daniel Webster, q short time before his death,
called his confidential friend, Peter Harvey,
ESQ. of Boston, to him, and asked him whether
Rufus Choate intended supporting Scott. Mr.
Harvey answered, Il do not know, but think
not" .Wen," said the lamented Webster,
..Choate has youth ard talents, and tell him for
me not TO mar his future prospects by taking a
step in support of Scotland tell him, as n'y dy-
Snq message to hin, that after the I'd day of No
vember next, the wing party, as national par
ty, will exist only in history" The name OF the
highly respectable gentleman who vouches for
the truth of the above, can be given.
The utter prostration, and indeed annihila-
ton, of the whig party at the Presidential cleo
tion, shows conclusively that Mir. Webster was
no ..false prophet" The discordant and dis
membered fragments Of the whig party may,
possibly, in the course of few years attempt to
unite, and may succeed in uniting not however,
on national ground, but on sectional. Before
the late election there no brotherhood exls-
ting between the Northern and Southern wings,
and the defeat of Gen. Scott has widened the
breach Before Il re union can take place IN
the whig ranks, the leaders of the whig party
in the Northern States, Seward, Johnston, Vim
ton and Grcely must become followers. So
long as they continue TO hold their present pos
itions the Fillmore, Webster and Clay wings OF
the South, and many even in the North, cannot
and will not join with them. Their principles
are disliked, and their designs against the con-
stitution have, through the late election, met
with withering rebuke and overwhelming de-
nunciation Gen. Scott still occupies his posi-
ton as the 'Greatest Captain of the Age" and
every Democrat is ready and willing and proud
10 acknowledge his greatness n military
ehieftain. and although he stands unscathed and
bears with resignation the onslaught of the De-
mocracy, the party that nominated him is shorn
of its strength and its principles and profess
ions condemned by the popular voice. The De-
rnocracy defeated Gen Scott not, personal or
malicious grounds, but on principle-they did
not war against him but against the principles
of the whig party whose nominee he was In
this they lave discharged solemn and impera-
tive duty, and we hope that the day has gone
by when merely military man can be elected
20 n high office through the gratitude affection
Of the people, when nominated by a party
the principles and tendency Of which, we as
Democrats believe, to be dangerous and des-
tructve.
FRANKLIN PIERCE defeated his opponent by a
large majority of the popular vote. Not that
he is greater man in all things than Gen. Scott
but simply because the majority of the Ameri-
can People believed the principles of the Demo-
cratic Party to be best conducive to the happi
ness and welfare of the country True, that
previous to his domination, he not gene
rally we'll known as Gen. Scott, but when the
record of his life was examined, it presented to
the gaze of all beautiful consistency, and an
attachment and continual faithfulness to the |
Constitution and to the tenets of Democracy
that reflected honor upon him and gained him
the esteem of all. 1t exhibited no flaw, no wan
derings from the beaten track, 10 sectionalism /;
but o true and uniinching devotion to ''the
faith that is within him." And he will make a Il
President of whom the Nation may justly feel
proud, and in whose administration the people
may confidently rely and feel safe, satisfied that
his actions will tend to have ''the blessings of
government, like the gentle dews of Heaven,
fall equally upon ALL /
As specimen of the feelings of the wing t
party towards Gen. Pierce, we extract the fol- S
lowing article from the New York Times, lea a
ding whig paper, written since the eection:-- +
General Pierce is man of character, of 7
good abilities, and of fair experience in public O
ife He has never figured conspicuously in the :
prominent positions he has occupied, though
his may be due quite much to circumstances e
Is to himself. That he has manly susceptible IL
ies and tie ability to give them prompt and fit
ing expressions. his speech at Concord on the t
eath of Mr.. Webster fully proves. His course
q the Senate would indicate him belonging n
D that school of Strict Constructionists which d
earches the Constitution for prohibitions, rath- =
r than for the powers and means of advancing u
be general good and We presume that he will IL
ct upon its principles in the administration of Al
ublic affairs .
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