Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-07-16
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Gen. scott and the sShig Parsy--Great Decline In


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Gen. SCOTT and the sShig Party-Great Decline In
.s.@sss Gunpos.der.
!. The gunpowder plot of Seward and company pro-
misses to turn out as bad speculation as that Of Guy
Fawkes. Seward like Guy, has been laying in his
secret has leaked out and November will prove. as
disastrous to him as it did to his sustrious prede
ces or" In plain English, the unfortunate aboli-
ton and free soil agencies through which the nom
nation OF Gen. Scott was effected at Baltimore, and
which have usHrped the control of the wing party
bid fair to break down the wing candidate the whig
platform, the wing party-all in heap together.
here has been most remarkable decline in gun
POWDER bomb shells, and fuss and feathers, this
season. similar fall in cotton would revive the
commercial and financial panic of 1887, and the
same necessity for general bankrupt law. And
the question arises what is the cause of this dread
ful letting down of military enthusiasm! Why is
1t that the military enthusiasm which gave such
tremendous popularity to General Jackson which
carried into the White House
''Old Tippecanoc and Tyler too,''
with the rush of universal jubilee-whch resulted
in the election of Gen. Taylor against one of the
very abest and most popular men of the whole coun-
try-why is it. that this consuming fire cannot be
kindled for General Scott!
There are various causes operating against him.
The election OF Gen. Harrison ended in the democra-
tic administration of John Tyler--the election of
General Taylor worked out rupture, wide and
deep, in the WING ranks-wide as the poles and deep
as the dark black chasm between the constitution
and Stewards higher law" And just as the con-
servatves Of the democratic party in 1867 revolt
ted against the corrupt administration Of Van Bu-
rem and the leading strings of his corrupt insru-
ments SO now do we see the conservatives Of the
whig party revolving against the corrupt and humil
iating leadership of Seward and his trained band of
unprincpled abolition demagogues. Besides the
public ear has become familiarized with the fife and
l;o ooh- has oA ~
blood and carnage. Had Gen. Scott been nominal
ted in l840 when his claims advocated by this
journal. he would have succeeded triumphantly
as Harrison But since that day military glory has
become an old song. The freshness of the glores
of Mexico was lavished upon old Rough and Ready.
while Gen. Harrison and Gen. jackson had reaped
the flowers of the of 1912.
Nor has Gen. Scott those personal elements of pop
ularity of Jackson, Harrison or Taylor. He espe
ciay lacks that blunt, rough, plain simule honest
simplicity which made old lack so universally pop
ular with the masses On the contrary the popular
conception of Gen. Scott appears to be that he is
van selfconceted austere man, standing aoof from
the crowd, and shrinking from contact with the
common people-feeling the same disgust at the
bare idea of shaking hands with an Irish bod car.
rer, that an uptown dandy feels in being saluted
by his tailor on Broadway. His suhordinates in the
army-hs rank and file--have expressed the same
idea of their great leader in the Soubque by which
he is known among them, of 8 Old Fuss and Feath
erS." How dlnerent In It's Slgnlncauon from tina
other familiar nickname of IS Old Rough and Rea
dy!"
But worse than all, the unfortunate and suspi
cious associations of Gen. Scott with Seward anC
company, and their prominency in managing h
case in the wing convention and now before the
people, have called Unpopular enthusiasm to The
freezing int. So the attempt to evade great prin
ciples in military hurrah is Frustrated. Disafec
ton comforts the whig candidate every side
gunpowder is at discount--Chapultepec will no
dothe great principles, and the great issues of ht
day and of the age will rise to the top. The whis
party and Gen Scott have been already compelled
to face this music. The expected military Juror
falls abortion, still born thing 10 the ground
1t don't answer The country begins to feel the i'm
port of presidential election. in reference to prin
ciples, measures, and the tendency of things-th
drift of parties and the schemes of leading dema
gogues.
All these facts and all these indications goot
omens-not with regard to the success of one maj
or the defeat of another-but in respect to the as
tendency of great principles, and of living vital is
sues, over empty clap-trap Chinese professions fir
works, and drunken orgies. What say Mr.. Web
and the sixty thousand conservative wings of Ne,
York! What say the Webster wings of Massachu
sets? What say the Union men of Georgia ?
= Principles not men, So be it. Greeley may sp
upon and execrate" the whig platform--but princ
Piles still the issue. So be it! amen!