The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-15

THE PARTY PAPERS CUTTING THE THRokTs OF
TnEK Own WITNESSES = The antics of the party
press in reference to the Presidential election are
Of the mbst amusing character. The democrats
and their organs have consciousness Of sue.
cess, which they cannot account for. Like p.o-
pie who have got the cholera, they know that
they have it; or-like persons who have the rhcuma-
tism. they feel it in their bones, though they can
not tell how it came there They are satisfied of
the fact, without giving themselves much trouble
to ascertain the cause to get certificates to prove
1t to them. 1t is quite enough for their satisfaction
that they have curious sensation within, amount
ing to moral certainty The wings and their organs,
impressed with ather different kind of feeling,
are wonderfully busy in getting up certificate, of
character, and various other documents. to prove
first, that they ought to win the Presidential cleo
tion, ard secondly, that in point of fact they win
win it, beyond 'the shadow Of u shade of doubt
Among the certificates of character they have
brought forward for Cen Scott is from the Duke
Of Wellington, which they have pronounced to be
perfectly conclusive to the superior eligibility
and fitness for Office Of his brother general Of the
Apglo.Saxon race at this side of the water But
the beet Of the joke is that OF the small wing
papers in this city is cutting the throat of his
own witness, and at the same time cutting his own
throat, like hog swimming down the stream.
Down the river there Piled with wind and tide,
pig with vast CELEBRITY;
And the devil look d he how the while
II cut it's own throat There quoth he, with smile
Goes h symonds newspaper prosperity"
The Presidential election will see the last Of it, and
then IL goes down, to rise no more. The Duke Of
Wellington in one Of the recent ucubrations of the
New York Times, is described as coward. "Silly
pride, and c0uard'ce and cruelty dis6gurc bis years
Of early manhood IS coapses of valor;" and
Symptoms Of asphyxia on the Geld Of battle
this is the language in which tho writer sosaks Of
the British "sero Of hund,ed fights" ind tho in
ference Is that this sham boro is also iar every
coward is-ying boing tho natural Offspring Of fear
This is precisely the reasoning Of tho whg journals
with regard to Pierce They say no was coward
the field Of BATTLE end pretended that he tainted
Tic Duke had aleo HE fointirg fits and, of courto
lied about them Ills ycraii5y as witness Is
therefore impcachcd on the well known legal prin-
ciple-f5lsus IN uno, (otsus IN omnibus False
in one thing, false in everything" IL is curious
enough, too, that tho ssmo Journal, In another
article. while admitting the great general
chin Of the Duke Of Wellington, denies that
bc IA n great man. Without entering into
the question whether Distinguished parsonage
Who has filed the world with bis "a NC Is not great
,osp becsuse he is not great in all thiogs, can.
no. help observing that this is a mos, unfortunate
Lird Of logic for the ttmts ; for, admitted that
General SOFT i ersa' q. nerG-even the greatest
nov living Wflip e'or was The samc prior 70 biz
death, hat o roy iodi0e,eps 81 esman. and il ~
other re- pct except rs y wirarp chief, great
nan Egg On rii 9eort my 10 very iod,Ir