Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-02-25

tenceS-(a low Wofu1 says the DlctlOnafy
aye, aud low THING, too, but of wondrous po-
tency in the worlds affairs showing more than
aught else, with how little wisdom II Is gov
erned;" and this is the time for it to flourish
lust now, in the wear anteceding the PreS'den-
tidd-the twelfth, that will be, in our annals
Already are the Denocracg-meaning the press
gang and small traders who have 1.-THE Party"
in charge, (the very name, or their assumption
of it, conspicuous instance of the thing re-
ferred to,l getting ready their "Humbugs"
General and particular-the general calculated
for the Union at large, the particular for U.s. the
devoted Southern portion oft. But yesterday
Ganeral Seott,s was n name to be honoured
His deeds were the boosted property OF the ma
ton. His fame belonged to the world. His
patriotism, his genius, by the confession OF all,
adorned his country, and embraced IN their
rance her highest interests. But, then, he was
only General Scott Now, his attainment of
the highest power is not beyond the calculation
of political chances; the power, besides serv-
ing and benefting the land in other ways,
of withholding from these disinterested gentry
the anticipated loaves and fishes; of intercepting
the occupation of the hig places of the nation,
nv that rabble which erst to its disgrace and
shame,
-"Have safe
AT the unguarded helm OF State
And straightway he becomes, not the pride ofthe
nation, but '.tte candidate from NeD jersey
ga vain military fop, equal only to managing ar
miles,, Thus. to faint him in the estimation OF
the excitabIe South, with the infection OF that
supposed AboIitionism which pervades North
ern opinion-to make him in the home OF his
birth suspected Of being susplelous'-to
fix on him in advance the odium of the worst
political crime which the mere locate OF his
soiourn to the iarndiced vision of prejudice can
suggest: that TO arouse the imagined jealousy
of the people towards military chiettains'-
lust as if some Wings emulous of a decency all
their own, were to designate Mr.. Buchanan as
.sthe candidate from Moyamensing," or salute
Mr.. Dickinson as mailing 'J1vm Sing
Sing 1t were to be wished that in the
fashioning of their wares for election times,
sslMessieurs," our friends of the "Democfacy,"
would practice little novelty in those which
they furnish for Southern consumption. Other
nostrum vendors change at least the names and
tastes of their patent mixtures but OF this, Its
authors seem to think
cage cannot wither it, nor custom stale
Its infinite variety.
1t is the hereditary lie with which Henry
Clay was prosecuted through successive gene
rations. 1t was applicable alike to Harrison,
who owned no slaves, and to Taylor, who owned
his hundreds-Taylor, who they protested to
Io,1r h
in the institution of slavery for the prospect of
the Presidential pay, while all would be safe
in the hands of his rival, whose daily and nightly
PRAYER was for the abolition of slavery every
where 1t made Mr.. Van Buren, ga Northern
man with Southern feelings 1t was used to
curse Summers with double damnation while
George w. Thompson and Governor johnson
were beyond exception, and worthy of all ac
ceptation All remember the nauseating gar
bage elected by those same worthless att the name
of the honored Patriot now at the head of this
Government-whose wise, prudent, firm and pa
triotic administration of it, has hushed even the
voice of faction while it has achieved for its
author lasting renown. In short were the
Wings to name for their candidate, (if that were
possible,) an infant unborn len centre sd mere as
the lawyers say) it would not be too much to
assert that these careful guardians of the in
terests of the South,'' would espy nascent
danger in such candidacy, to her " Peculiar
Institution"-and it would go hard, if they did
not charge this merely legal " entity" with be-
ing conceived if not born in the original sin OF
Abolition-or convict it for the vice OF some OF
its ancestors or relations-as the wolf In the Ia
Bile slew the lamb-for no misdoing of his own
but on the score of his supposed hereditary
crimes.
Nor are the "Humbuggers' to be less busy
on the national theatre In the great organ of
the party, 1.-The Democratic Review" for Jan
uary, we have the Grand Programme of Politi-
cal Exercises for the year. 1t is entitled
Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-two and the
Presidency" In a style of silly grandilo-
quence, which the author plainly mistakes for
fine writing we are informed that ''what the
ides of March were to the Roman despot and
the threatened republics of antiquity, the year
1859 is to the modern system of republican
peoples, (sie y and antagonistic Governments
throughout the world the doomed date for re-
tribution, for punishment, for popular struggle
and suffering, and let us hope, too, for popular
triumph And we are told that ''the year
1852 has come to be universally regarded a
hberator and an avenger'-and this, by some
''strange ruling of the worlds soul'-''pre-
Observation-Disclosures in dates and events
-&c., &c.,-that it blooms up upon mankind,
whether monarch or plebeian, as the Brutus Of
Years! as gigantic Brutus, armed with pow
er to chastise, to kill, to hurry to death Ty
rants, &c.-whereupon 1.-The hearts of the Peo-
pies everywhere awake from their dormancy."
at beats the roll-ca of insurrecton-and so for