The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-13

be the pext Pyes;Sspt Of Me United 6sasee. 1hs
depocrstic marty. Whatever may be hair loeal dir
pu.es upon local sielets and local questions. ere
united upon their Presidential candidate, from Caps
Cod 10 Gan fsncisco, and from the great lakes 70
the Gulf Of Mexico, as they were never united
before They are hungry and hopeful, and con6dsnt
Of the result; while the wings are distracted and
divided between principles and unpowder-betwsen
the constitution and the higher la~, and are thas
reduced T. the most desperate extremties. Because
the nomination Of Gen Scott was the nomination Of
Seward and his faction, the democrats expect to
sweep the whole South, including Maryland, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Nor Is
this the limit Of their expectations. From the
reunion of the hunkers and barnburners, old Mar
tin Van Buren,, Prince John, Benjamin F. Butler,
and all, they are confident Of New York; from the
free soil nomination of Hale, they are still moro
confident Of Ohio; while from the movements Of
the conservative whigs-" the solid men Of Boston"
Gen. SCOTS prospects may be considered doubt
ful-v.ry doubtful-even in Massachusetts,. In
fact it is manifest that the isms of modern phi
losophers and infdel reformers, and abolition dema-
gogues, have so far demoralized the whig party,
that there is longer any adhesion in its elements
but that it lie breaking up and that its rapid disco
rate basis, North and South, are consequences
which are now inevitable, and may be expected to
follow close upon the heels Of the Presidential
election.
Such are the unmistakeable signs of the times.
The military reputation Of General Scott, the great
est living military cheftain on the American oonti-
nent, to mos: extraordinary degree, has proved
political abortion. When guDpowder capital can-
not be revived, even by the wonders and the thun-
ders of Niagara Falls and in full view Of the heights
Of Chippewa, Queenstown and Lundy's lane, then,
indeed, as Presidential article is saltpetre at
discount. The whole country demands something
more. The last experiment with tina. good, honest
old man, General Taylor, was enough. He was
great general, quite successful rs General Scott;
but the Presidency not his vocation. Free soil
and abolition demagogues c1ept in and controlled
his cabinet, through his kitchen cabinet, while Gal
phins and GaIdners, and Chickasaws, swept out of
the treasury thousands, hundreds Of thousands and
even millions of the public money. Yet General
TAYLOR was honest-honest as the day was long.
He was, however, unequal to the important de-
mands Of the high civil station to which he had
been elevated and hence he died with resolution
Of censure hanging over his head in Congress, for
certain rascaties of which he was rs Innocent md
ignorant as King Kamehameha of the Sandwich
islands The result is the wonderful falling off in
mere military popularity, which has been illus
trated in this campaign The people want some
thing more.
Thus is everything, on both sides, consp;ripg
against the wings and in favor of the democrats
There never WAS campaign in which the latter
were required to do so little; and yet, in the prac
cal work Of the canvass, they have displayed
sad want of tact and common sense. They have
permitted the wings to make up the issues in their
own way, and they are exhausting their ammu-
milton upon subject that cannot possibly benefit
them in the slightest degree, while it enables their
opponents to avoid the discussion Of questions that
would materially affect the result. The friends Of
General Seott at the outset determined to make the
canvass hinge upon the military exploits of the two
car didates. They were satisfied that nothing ALSO
lu,ely nothing. could be made out of his silly
Trajectory, and conflicting letters. To revive the
military enthusiasm Of lS4o and ls4S their only
hope They knew that the military services Of Pierce
would bear no comparison to those of SCOTT; and
they we're quite as well satisfied that the crude i'll
advised unstatesnanlike opinions of this srratc
didate would bear just as slight comparison with
those Of the SAFE sagacous, and talented Pierce II
services and Craftsmanship of both. And With
what remarkable facility the democrats have been
led into the snare The whole struggle has sunk
into a miserable sauabble about the bravery Of
Pierce, = the extra compensation which Scott has
received.
The attempt to arouse military tirorr has PROV
ed miserable failure. The pictorial documents,
got up by Greeley, representing Scott in the midst
Of smoke and fre, urging his troops, have turned
out worse than his peoulations in ainc quartz, aud
copper stock tobbing. Hypocricy has met its re-
ward 1t was not proper that those who so bitterly
denounced the war, and "gave aid and comfort to
the enemy" should sing hosannahs TO the chiestan
whose garments were dyed with blood in Its prose
cution. Some regard shosld be paid to deceney in
politics as well in ones personal appearance The
thing was too barefaced--it bad too much the a2.
pea,ance Of eating ones own words
Blu. the democratic leaders are Indebted to tbs
common sense Of the people for an explosion OF the
bumbus, and no. TO their own sagacity. The masses
arc simply disgnsted with men who are military
chieftains merely. They have had touch OF this
quality once too often already. They now want
ability, experience, and discretion. They wish TO
test the civil, not the military, qualifications OF the
candidates And yet democratic editors aud
stump orators do not seem to understand IL: for
they ere wasting their ink, aud fttiguing thor
lungs, In drawing comparisons between Genera!
Scot. ard General Pierce, men-ofwar upon
tie battlefield. We have over aud over again
reminded them OF the folly Q. such course
As early as June, before either Of the Baltimore
convsn.ioss hsd made their nsmnations, we pub
Eshed in this paper, four political letters, written
at varens times, by General Scott. They ought to
be upon the table Of every democratic editor In the
Unior-,hsy ought to be in the saddle bags every
i,ineran, democratic politician. John Van Buren,
carries them with him, because he knows what he
l. about. Tbose Letters discuss a great variety Of
questions. One Of them goes into an examination
o. PARTY polluos-the judiciary-the executive veto