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

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psbhc opDiep OF the wbigs 80 ]. woah seem
Was the answer Yet Mr.. Stevenson was the man
cbeeen to wsbsoms Mr. Webster when be lately
made bis trinDph. entry into Boston that .fuEsra,
procession Of = living man, 80 hr Chhord snesr
sngiy called it, The Wsoser papers OF this city are
i nov supporting Mr. C i1ods domination with even
more zeal than 10 ea bib:ed by the Scott journals
as IL they were anxious 10 atone for any temporary
! display of panliness they had msde on the Presi-
Dental question by disgusting obsequsousDess
| The Scott are not backward in expressing their
contempt for snch conduct On the whole, am re-
uctantiy forced to the conclusion that tho Webster
men viii 80 act rs to show that they slack the gall
to make oppression bitter -s~t
Mr. Huntington, the whig nominee for Lieutenant
Governor, Is respectable ply sician Of Lowell. Tho
wings rs devout,y wish to purge the Commonwealth
OF tho coalitionists rs Macbeth did to purge Scc..
land Of the English, and 80 they have called in q
doctor 20 their aid. He 10 staunch supporter Of
the haino law, in his office Of Mayor Of Lowell,
and was nominated partly to conciliate tho temper
ance men, while Mr.. Clifford takes the other side
Of the question. Mr.. Hunts sgton was defeated Last
year when one Of the whig candidates for Senator,
from Middiesex, BY some 2, 800 majority. He and
Mr.. Clifford viii lack from ten to fifteen thousand
votes Of being chosen by the people to tho Offices for
which they are candidates; but they may be sue
cesstul for all that. Their own party is utterly
powerless TO elect thom, but their elevation may be
accomplished through the dissensions of their oppo-
nents. If the Democratic Convention should act
indiscreetly, or the ultra temperance among tho
free sollers should insist upon their views eooring
will be chosen by the Legislature. A union, not
more complete than that OF Inst year, between the
opponents of the wings would leave Mr.. Clifford
whore Mr. Winthrop was left in lS5l-nowhore
The Free Soil Convention will mse: on the 18th,
1T Lowell Horace Mann, s. G Philips, j G. Pal
trey. Gen. Wilson, and Charles Allen, are the most
prominent persons for that party's guoernatoria,
nomination General Wilson i desired BY the do
moeratie portion of the party, and VIII bs nomi
mated If that portion choose to put him forward He
has more weight and power With the free sellers
than any other man among them. They Eaaw, as
do other parties, that 20 HIN alone is due the two
successive defeats of the wings in Massachusetts.
Had Ia opposed the coalition, il never could nave
been successful. The hatred which tbs wings show
for him hae bad the effect OF making BIN popular not
only with free solcrs but also with democrats u
is, therefore, nothing strange that he should lve
been strongly urged by his party 70 allow biuiself
to be nominated for The Office OF Goveraor; ana Sho
ever shall be nomnated by the free soilers sill be
elected, If the coalition should be continued, and
| ehould carry the State.
| The democrats have an excellent chance Of &C.
caring the electoral vote CT this State BY prudent
action IN their convection, they secure from five
20 ten thousand votes Tor General Pierce, which
| otherwise VIII be given for Mr.. Hale. There are
thousands OF de nocraGc free sollsts, VINO tGlc wei
Mr. Van Barren ii 1873, who Sc,ld gladly Vote for
| the democratic caDdi late now, provided they
not nsultiDgly repulsed from the democratic rarity
These men, added to the iui democratic vote that
| would be secured by the prospect of carrying the
State, would make the vote for General Pierce
amount to 65 900 at least, and perhaps to more.
With Webster ticket against him, General Scott
cannot receive above 600 votes: and without
such ticket, he cannot look for above 63, 900,
which Is moro than General Taylor received here.
Should no Webster ticket be nominated, thousands
OF wings would not vote all, and not few would
vote for General Pierce who is known to entertain
towards MIR. Webster mono other than the kindest
feelings M. Websters frends would be much better
treated by democratic administration than they
would be by nominally headed by Scott, but
really controlled by Seward with Greeley for chicfof
he t.ta Il.
the hands If the Democratic Convention, which
ought to he held responsible for it.
The man who shall undertake to correct all the
bluDders of your neigbbor Greeley, whenever he
endeayors to regulate Massachusetts politics, will
have no sinecure. He probably thinks that the
Scott cause is very well conditioned here that it
can bear little damaging, and SO he tries his hand
| at the business. His two column article Of the
| Both August-What will Mr.. Webster do has
| worked mschievously already; and his proposition
| that Mr. Webster should 60 back to the House Of
Representatives from Boston, ages the friends of
the grea. statesman, who look upon it insult
| to their leader who, in such POSITION would have
TO either be tho chief supporter Of General SCOTS
administration, or the chief opponent of that of
General Pierce. whose election over the former gen.
| tleman he is well known to desire. Beside, Mr..
Webster has no. been resident of Boston for years
and that city is divided into TWO districts to each
! Of which some few other places have been added.
| Mr.. Webster is a citizen or the free soil town of
Marshfcld, in the coalition county of Plymouth:
and Marshfeld lies in congressional district mode
up OF towns that last November gave ~ majority
for the coalitonists, which will not inprobably
be increased to 1900 at the election ,I - in
bune draws between Colonel Benton and Mr..
| Webster is worthy Of the old gossip of
| Charonae, to whom be refers. The resemblance
is as great between the men. as that which an in-
genious gentleman discovered to exist between
Macedon and Monmouth Even if all other points
were susceptible of adjustment the recent action Of
the Wing State Convention has placed q great gulf
between Mr.. Webster and the wings The truth is,
that the regular wings are glad to be rid of the
Secretary at any cost. AS one Of their best lenders
said to me on Friday, che has been thrown off, and
be will not be taken back if the voice of the party
| shall be attended to-"
Mr.. Banks has sent letter to the Boston dtl1s,
in which he says that Mr.. Webster never told him
that he (Mr. W. desired the election of Gen.
Pierce, and that he hoped never to see Massachu-
not deny that he told others that Mr. Webster said
His denial is Of little consequence, however, as
to the main fact, for Mr.. Webster said the same
words, both to democrats and to wings, before he
left here last and he has also reiterated them in
Washington. 1T is preposterous to suppose that he
holds to any other sentiments seeing that, great as
he is, he is but great man, and subject to all
| human influences.
| We arc likely to have great business in Boston,
this fall. never saw the city more full of life,
! energy, and hustle. Every body is employed. The
highest wagest are given to all kinds Of mechanics,
ard other members of the industrial classes. There
| was some talk, the other day, of strike among
carpenters, masons, &c. But thus far, it has not
| come to any thing Boston is rapidly changing its
character, and from staid old town. il becoming
an uncommonly FAST city, in which very few,
but the rich and tic poor reside. The former have
their elegant mansions at the worst parts Of the
! place. while the latter have their abodos in the
worst quarters of the city. The middle classes, to
very great extent have moved into the country,
and every year sees their number become less,
relatively 70 the whole population.
Judge Russel's decision the license question is
approved by all men, except the :" ultra" temper
arce people, who know no law except their own
mad will. II does him credit NJ jurist. II is
worthy Of being noted TIN bis appoint nent was
made under the influence Of the men who passsd the
liquor law. ALTOONA.
Cur West Point Correspondence.
| CozZESs HOTEL,
| WEsT PoIST, Sep Z, 1852.
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