The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-08-04
Our New York Correspondence.
New YoRK, July %, 1852.

Mr.. EDIToR -
Everybody knows the fable Of the
shepherd boy who cried wolf wolf
when there was no wolf and who finally
acquired such reputation for lying
that. when the ravcnous beast really did
attack the flock the boys cries for assis-
lance we're utterly disrogarded. SO it is
with the Locofoco party. Their leaders
have been crying out, upon the stump
and in the halls of legislation, for the
last twenty years, that British influence
was at work interfering in our elections,
for the benefit of the Wing party when
they knew the charge was false but
their followers believed them, time and
again, and rallied to the polls, as if they
were thereby going to annihilatc this
much dreaded British Interference.
1t would seem, however, that there has
been, all along, some reason for dread
ing foreign influence in our elections !;
for the thing has at length become a re-
atty. But, strange to say, it is thrown
into the Locofoco scale, and that makes
all the difference in the world. In vain
does the honest press of this country
point out to the Locofoco rank and file
that the London Times, the London
Duly NcacS and other leading journals
of England, advocate the election of Mr..
Pierce. whose triumph they are assured
will contribute to the triumph of British
commercial interests in vain is it point
ed out to them, that the British are e.
ven now harrassing our hardy fishermen
by the insolence of their naval officers
in order to intimidate the United States
into the adoption of the Democratic"
doctrine of entire free trade. The wolf
is now upon them; but they have been
so long humbugged by their leaders,
that they turn deaf ear to the alarm,
and submit themselves like lambs to the
slaughter
England is opposed to Gen. Scott /;
and millions of her money are at the ser
vice of the Locofoco politicians, to defeat
his election, because she bears him Il
grudge for his victories over her armies.
in the War of lsl2-l4, and because
she remembers his letter in favor of the
Annexation of Canada Gen. Scott is,
therefore, prominently, the AmericaH
candidate; and, as such, he cannot fail
to rally the vast majority of his country
men to his support. Nothing has done
him so much good. as the abuse which
has bcen,and still is.poured out upon him
by the English and Canadian press
am not partial to the nomination of
military men to the Presidency; but, if
there ever was time when it seemed
advisable to place man Of great militia
ny reputation at the head of the govern
mcnt, it is now. when we are threatened
with war with England war which.
once begun, will never terminate short
of the entire expulsion of every shadow
of British power from this continent
There is also terrible Indian war
looming upon our Southwestern from
tier The telegraph has conveyed in
formation to this city, this morning, of
the massacre of eighty soldiers, and five
officers of the United States Army, by
{ the Camanches. Fort Arbuckle is threat.
ened, and general irruption of the In
dams upon the white settlements is appre-
hended
| Among the officers killed was Cap
tain Marcy, a son of Governor Marcy OF
this State, late Secretary-of-War under
Mr.. Polk. Under these circumstances
it would be folly not to place at the head
of the nation, the greatest soldier IN the
nation, " the noblest Roman of them all,
Place General Scott in the Presidential
Chair, and the people at home will be
inspired with confidence that their fire
sides will be protected from the ruthless
invader and the enemy will hesitate
before he dares to make the assault.
Although the English affect to treat
with contempt our rivalry with them or
, the ocean, they are yet confessing ouI
superiority, by their actions Two En-
glish ship-builders are now at the Aston
House, sent to this country by a eompa-
ny of English capitalists that are about
to start line of steamers to some port
in Africa The object of the visit OF
these gentlemen is to inspect the steam
ships of the u s. Mail Steamship Co..
running between this port and Aspinwall
and those of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Co, which run from Panama to San
Francisco These two lines Of steam