Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-07
Still the Ball rolls on.

rIOlu QuaIttIS pour III tnt HloSi 6EduiyiHS
surances of the onward march of the peoples can
didate and the peoples principles. The Democra-
tic papers are sounding the alarm over the land
and complain that there is neither organization
enthusiasm in their ranks. This is as it must be,
precisely. Whenever man Of medium quaifca-
tons is presented for the highest Office in the gift
of the greatest people on face of the globe, man
who is distinguished Ly no great act, whose
mark is impressed upon no page of his country's
history and whose votes have been always given
in deposition to the onward march of our people,
we can expect nothing else than apathy in their
ranks and defeat to their candidate. When Gen.
Pierce was nominated his friends thought his title
enough and that with the shout of " Democra-
Cyl and the name Of "Generar' he would go
through in fine style. But sad mistake! His lau-
Tels are no where found. In ths great battles of
Mexico, where Scott Shields and Others won i'm
pershablc renown, where American valor shone
forth brighter than ever, unfortunately for the
would be hero, he "hors du combat" From
all the records, far they have been produced,
Gen. Pierce does not appear to have been in sin
gle battle, SO shat his military honors of the
things that never were. But with the singular
versatility of tactics which distinguished their hero
in Mexico, they have entirely changed their tune
and hardly Democratic paper can be found
rash enough to uphold the military claims of Gen.
Pierce. Now and then one of the "unterrifed'
prints in the extreme South raises the cry of "our
Generel," but it drops the effort in instant find
ing like Cousin Sergeant Joel that there is "hur-
rah" in him. As sample of the game of brag
sometimes attempted we will give in our next the
flourish of the Miledgeville (Ga.) Union, and the
butchering comments of the Richmond W hig there
on, and then a small fragment from General
Pierce's reports of the Mexican Campaign.
But at last comes the mastery manoeuvre of all.
,ltat,
roes." "Oh, what fall" Ye men of the Jack
sonian era, where are your shades! Can you stand
by and hear this sentiment freely breathed, with
out having qualms of conscience for having in by
gone days supported the hero of New Orleans p
What change from the good old days when "hur-
Tah for Old Hickory the hero of New Orleans, )"
the watch-word of victory TO the whole party. Then
it was tiny bull has gored your or" now il is "your
bull has gored my o." Now it is General,
then il was yours, and hence the remarkable re-
pugnance of the Democracy to "military heroes.''
For our own part, we never did and never will ad-
vocate n man for civil Office military man mere
ly, but we have always found that the great chief
must have other great qualities, the elements
which compose the grea general must be blended
with other great intellectual qualifications and
not stand alone.
Look to all the great generals of the past,
(and by great generals we do not mean those who
like MARSHALL Ney, could fight merely as valorous
machine, but these who can plan, conduct and
lead 10 successful result, great military opera
tons) and you will find them great in other res
poets, and capable of leading mind wherever it is
found. Such man We have in Scott. Great as a
General, the greatest OF his age without question,
great in the ats of peace, (or when not in the
tented field, he has been always engaged in great
civil duties, and has resided chiefly at Washington
city among the heads of the nation,) and great in
all the essential elements, necessary to qualify
him to fill with distinction, with credit alike to
himself and the nation, the high position to which
the sovereign voice of the people will call him by
acclamdtion in November next. Compared with
Gen. Scott in all the requisites Of greatness, Gen.
Of the giant and the pigniy, the mountain and the
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