The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-25
THE APPROACHING CANVASS.

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THE APPROACHING CANVASS.
Occupying position ofentire neutrality, we
shall look down upon the approaching fght,as
a man might have done from hill in the
neighborhood, on Austerlitz or Waterloo En-.
tirely out ofdanger, we suspect We shall enjoy
the ekirmage" far more than those upon
whom devolve the heat and sweat Of the day.
That the contest will be fierce one, nobody
seems to doubt. Already there are indications
which cannot be mistaken. The opposing
forces are wheeling rapidly into line, and
bringing their big guns to bear. In short
time we shall hear the roar Of the latter, and we
shall hear little else for many month to come.
1.-THE leaders escape with whole bones, they will
be the luckiest ofmen. For our own part, though
we should like very well to be the biggest man
in this great nation, with So, 600 year to sup
port our dignity. we would not consent to be
80 at the expense of encountering the fire of
abuse and detraction which will be kept up
from this day to the first Monday in November.
A friend on a visit to old Marshal Lefebvre,
the Duke of Dantzig, who had fought his way
through FIRE and smoke to the peerage, ex-
pressed his great admiration of the honors he
had achieved, and intimated that he would 60
through anything to obtain such. "Would
you be willing" said the veteran, Ito stand
ten PAGES off, and let me FIRE at you all day
long, with gun heavily loaded, on condition
of being made what ami" "By no MEANS"
replied his friend, " for should certainly be
killed, and then the honors would be of no
use to me-" WE'LL" rejoined the Marshal, g it
was at such risk that won my honors."
The moral risk which Presidential aspirant
runs is fully as great. He may thank his stars
If he be not proved TO be a monster of iniquity,
before the end; at all events, he will find that
he is a much worse man than he had ever sus-
pected.
When Charles H., after his long exile. land
ed in England to assume the crown, he was
saluted by SO many demonstrations of enthu.
siastic joy, that he expressed himself astonish-
ed at his own popularity. We suspect both
the candidates will feel something like the
merry Monarch" on this occasion. They
have never had the least idea that they were
30 deeply beloved by the one party, and SO
bitterly hated by the other. If any of our
friends wish to make huge and sudden for
tune. now is their time. Let them convert all
they have into cash, borrow all that their cre-
dit will allow, get every bank that will take
their PAPER TO discount for them, take the whole
sum and lay il out in white wash and lamp
black. They should buy in about equal guam
titles, vet we think there would be no great
danger in giving the preference to the darker
material. There will be an unlimited demand,
however, for both. Your true political painter
never condcscends to mix his colors. He leaves
that to less experienced artists in his line--to
mere daubs, who have not gotten beyond the
rudiments Of the art. Ii is either black and oil
black, or white and all white with them.
a. There must be great deal of convincing
argument in a nomination. The Democrats,
to man, have found out that General Pierce
was, from the first, the man. the very man, the
only man, who ought, for an instant, to have
been thought Of by the party. They arrived
At this conclusion upon the 49th ballot. On
the SSrd ballot, the Wing party arrived at the
same conclusion with regard to General Scott.
Both parties seem to have been struck BY a
light from Heaven. The scales fell from their
eyes in an instant. The illumination was as
like cash of lightning, with the excep-
ton thai il did not expire so suddenly
We shall hear strange things of both these
candidates in very short time. Pierce was
first in the field, and has, therefore, the advan-
tage over his adversary of two weeks advance
abuse. He has already been proved 10 be
cot, and though nobody, as far as we can learn, |
has seen him drunk, that does NOT make part. |
Gle Of difference. They are fast proving him |
coward, and NJ doubt they will succeed,
though i he be 30, Why be was not brought
before court martial and shot, or why il was |
hrst discovered BY those who took very good |
ere NOT to be on the spot where alone Il could
have been ascertained, we do NOT undertake -
say. We wonder IL he can be positive that he
never stole . horse, for If he ever did. be win
Be sure to hear oft.
Thsy have not fairly begun on General Scott /
yst, but ell IL good time. He will, no doubt,
. proved quite an old granny Of . General, no |
lfresogisf, snd vary little Of tactician. His |
marches and battles viii Be criticised 81 many |
Cslensl ofniIiiia- snsny Pluck Of de bul- |
wark ~ = fss nafion-snd viii Be- proved 10 b
,ofnplsls failnres. Ifhe coma out with re-
,utatioa sbovs that d n IDIOT, f. viii - ! far
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