New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-29
The Beginning of the End.

We mean by our caption to convey the idea
that now may be noted the beginning of the
end Of the Presidential campaign. What is
that end? We are not marvelously curious,
and can see no further into milestone than
our next neighbor. We may appreciate opera
tive agencies as such, but we can no more pre-
dict their consequences than man the pro
gress of o confagration. We are neither the
prophet nor the son of a prophet. We have not,
like Amos Kendall, omens or prophecies to guide
us in our course; and like the child in nursery
proverb, we open our mouth and shut our eyes
for what Providence may send.
But what will Providence send' We must.
frankly confess that we think Providence has
but little to do with either party. Providence
is neither wing nor democratic. Parties-and
we are a firm believer in the necessity, the use
fitness and propriety of parties-have but lit
tie Of the care of Providence. They are per
mitted to go their own way, and no predestina-
ton orders their course.
However, waving all questions of moral phi
losophy, there are certain matters of human
probability, which may not be unwisely cor
sidered. Comparing two children in the earli-
est stages Of infancy, it is difficult to say which
will be HerculesSor Tom Thumb A summary
Of facts may not, therefore, be positively disa-
greeable to either party
The democratic party has its intestine
troubles
The whig party has its intestine troubles
Which has the more to overcome Which the
less to conquer
We would wish that some political seer woule
answer US these questions @-,-
Let us commence with the wings. There is
Scott, brilliant military hero, one of the house
hold words in American history-a military hero.
towering above all contemporaneous comparison
a chieftain with Lundy's Lane, Churubusco
Chapultepec and the city of Mexico as all the
prestige Of popular enthusiasm. But upon the
correct civic questions of the day, upon the per
manent solidity of the compromise, and upor
the maintained harmony of the Union, there
are, at least in the Southern section of the Con
federacy, serious doubts of his nationality Of
feeling Will he stand by the compromises
and square' Stanley, Cabell. Fowler, Mangnm.
Ward and Jones say that he will. The country
asks merely that he endorse for his endorsers
That military chieftain should announce his
This is one serious trouble in the whig camp
Again, there is Fillmore. He has done his
duty, nebly, fearlessly, nationally. He has SO
enforced the most entirely sectional law en-
braced in the Compromise-the Fugitive Slave
law-as to bring down upon himself the male
dictions of Northern bigots. Shall he be made
avictim to their rage; The South naturally
feels that in his reelection there is vindica-
tion of its rights A Northern man. who, with
out interest, holding position by no favor, blu
by law, has dared forget the Northern popula,
majority, is not only monument in American
history, but signal light to all statesmen who
may come after him. In re-electing him, the
American people would vindicate their nation
atty.
There is Webster-the constitutional Gibral-
tar of our native land He is almost-so speaks
the melancholy experience of history-too greai
to be President of the Union The mountain
cannot be moved to Washington. Let him stand
in history, like his great compeers, Clay and
Calhoun, greater than any Presidential COM
petitor.
But our democratic friends have no cause te
rejoice In their ranks there confusion
and uncertainty, to say nothing of the gloomiest
apprehensons. Shall they take Cass, He has
q back history He is beaten candidate
That is a bad prestige. He was (and we sup
pose is) in favor of the semi-colored population
Of the newly acquired territories deciding upor
the question Of slavery no slavery. That il
not all The modern - Young America of de-
moeracy calls him an " old fogy." We do moi