The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-29

WAsnMGr0Ns June ~, l0O1.
General Seots's Propagate Esinates Of tie Opswiag
Campaign.
"ws mus. watt" said distinguished whig to
us yesterday" We must wait Ave or six weeks
yet before tell anything Of this Presidential
contest. there is spontaneous rising Of the Pee
pie all the country for Scott. - there was for
Harrison in 1910, or for old Zsck Taylor in l64S,
then the whigs may do sopething-then ws may
surely count upon SCOTS election. If there IL no
such spontaneous enthusiasm, then Scott will - in
evitably defeated. Five or six weeks, to my mind,
will settle the question" Now, it strikes US that
there is sagaoity in this view of the subject.
As the two parties now stand, tho democrats have
certainly the ascendsncy, and large majority over
the country. They have majority Of Fifty in the
House Of Representatives, propcrtionats majority
in the Senate, and Of thirty-one Governors Of the
States no less than twenty. eigh. arc democratic
All that the democrats, therefore, have to do is to
maintain their ground, hold their own. and the elec
ton is theirs. 1t is manifest, too, that there is
more harmony among them than in 1913, when the
vote either Of PeDnsy lvana New York would have
elected Gen. Cass; and when the combined vote for
Cass and Van Buren,, in New York, exceeded by
nearly twenty thousand the vote for General Taylor
Now the Cass and Van Buren, factions arc united,
and occupy platform not a whit stronger against
the abolition agitators than the whig platform.
The wings therefore, have nothing to expect from
free soil democrats in New York, or any where else
because the position of Gen Scott on the fugitive
slave law Is emphatic. He has, to use excsma-
ton OF the late convention, he has been smoked
out, and has had to come down and toe the mark
And. whether he does it readily reluctantly, he ia
bound by his pledge. He il pledged By his plat
form, which he has accepted, to discountenance"
all agitation Of the slavery question whenever
whereser. or however, it may arise. The loose
materials OF the liberty party, tho abolition party
proper and all the odds aud ends of anti slavery
tanaticsm, cannot shelter themselves under the
deusion that the platform of Scott amounts TO
nothing. He has accepted, and is bound by it;
aud II soldier knows the Uni port OF pledge
Hence the movement for an independents free soil
Convention ut Pittsburg, on the lith August, and
another Buffalo ticket, aud another Buffalo platform
then and there to be sct up and promulg gated, for
the support of the free democracy" whig and
democratic free soicrs. throughout the whole North.
This ticket Will doubtless be set up. and AS the ma
joity OF tho anti slavery fanatics Of the North
oi 1big instincts, the loss of those people will be
probably to the extent OF some ten fifteen thou
sand, beth III New York aud Ohio 1t is manifest
that this Pttsburg ticket will result in Ohio pre-
cisely III lc4S that Is in the loss OF Ohio the
wings; and the last Annual State Election in New
ork very clearly indicates the rrodigious gains
which will be required for Gen. Scott to overcome
the less Of even tive thousand abolition votes.
In the South, in the very best view of the case,
such is the limited prospect FOR Gen Scott, that
giving him all his most sangune friends expect his
election is absolutely impossible without the States
ct New York and Pennsylvania. Accordingly, us
Gen. Scott occupies the same PLATFORM aniis pledg
ed TO the same principles Gen Fierce, the former
must depend almost entirely upon his military
glory 10 make up the large deficiency in the pop
lar vote.
Here, then, the incoming of tho DECLARE
ton that can tell nothing 81 the probable result
OF Ih's campaign until five !, six weeks shall have
..n. ft.y ..,,,,.,
III. Popular excitement tor Scott. IL il is limited.
tame heavy and urhil work, be is already defeat
ed hut # there sLal spring up Spontaneous en-
'husias m all over the country wild hurrah-tne
general outburst OF n grand political earn' ~!
like he coon skin and hard cider campaign of 1870
" heh
''old Tippecanoe and Tyler too,'
were carried into power by perfect avalanche Of
popular srplause or If there shall be the hearty
Ieslonse from the masses of the people to the non
nation of Scott, which hailed tho name and fame
arc romance, and plain aud simple character OF
sold Rough ana Ready, then the election of Scott
may be achieved.
This, then, is the conclusion. Tho hopes, then,
of The whg party. of the election of General Scott
depend upon the revival of the enthusiasm of 1870
or the popular fnrwc of 1913.
But N 1910. completely demorazed, so utterly
corrupt in ts lavish excuses of public plumber, had
The aoDiL istratiun become under the management
Of Van Buren,, that Clay, Webster, or any other
whig coulu have defeated him : Anything for a
change II emit be worsc-lt may be better, was
tie cry 81 the people In 1913, Gen. Taylor
a iarty caudidate-as . Al whig, but not an ultra
shig The accepted even q democratic nomina-
non r. Souh Carolina, and had the advantage
OF tvo platforms-one for the North, and for
the south In the North he known be opposed
10 the extension OF slayery-in the South. he was
knuwn 10 be an extensive STAKEHOLDER, and consc
Quenuy natural advocate Of Southern institutions
But Gen Scott has neither the advantage of a oor
rupt democratic administration like that Of Van
Buren,. the most corrupt IN the history OF the govern