The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-21

that their only nope OF success rests u pom their
assumed ability to beguile the people with IT.
relevant issues, or to cheat them by perverting
the true ones. With regard to internal i'm
proyements and the manager of the pub
lie lands, their central organ has preserved
profound silence in view Of the fact that
the party have two faces upon both ques-
tons. They are convicted by the publ
cations of their own Executive Committee
of sustaining a candidate who is hostile to
the peculiar institutions of the South. They
pretend special love for Catholics, while their
nominee is the leader of party that brand
Catholics with political inferority from which
the free negro is exempt Failing in all other
efforts, they expend their strength now in SLAM
dering and abusing General aScoTT, and in
manufacturing and circulating forgeries and
misstatements designed to operate to his preju-
dice. They have made this canvass ga can
vass Of Frauds" and trust to their efficacy as
weapons levelled at the unreasonng and the
uniformed.
The candidates and the parties standing
thus, what is the prospect2 Is an unknown
man to be thrust into the Presidency by shams
and frauds; or shall General ScoTr be elected
upon the strength of his character and the prin-
ciples and policy of the party whose candidate
he is?
If Dragging were voting, FRANKLIN PIERCE
would be elected. But inasmuch as Dragging
is not voting, and is generally found to prevail
in an inverse ratio to the strength possessed ),
we answer the question differently, and say
that after all FRANKLIN PIERCE will be defeated
We know that the recent elections are cited
as certainly foreshadowing different event;
but we also know that their results were in
conformity with Wing calculations, and that
in truth they strengthen the hopes of the
Wings in relation to the Presidency. There
is nothing in them to discourage US. They
prove that Ohio and Pennsy lvania are obtain
able for Scorr, and it only remains for the
Wings of those States to perfect their organi-
cations, and to begin the November battle with
conviction Of their ability to determine its
result.
In nearly every State it is believed that Cen
eral SCOTT will receive the full Wing vote.
The only States in which any other event has
been anticipated are those in which the more
Jealous friends of Mr.. WEBSTER have stood
aloof, with him as their nominal head. But
the WEBSTER organization, as a distinct affair,
is welnigh dead everywhere. 1t has been
abandoned in North Carolina; journals that
have supported it in Georgia are hosting the
SCoTT and GRAHAM banner; it is regarded as
too weak in Massachusetts, to prevent the vote
Of that State being cast for ScoTT; and in New
York every day adds to the confidence with
which General Scorr's friends contemplate the
last appeal. We mean no disrespect to Mr..
WEBSTER when we say that the organization
hitherto kept up by his friends has been the
sole obstacle to Wing unity. That organiza-
ton, it is now apparent, cannot add to his
honor, and cannot prevent the election of Gen
eral SCorr. We hope yet to announce, there
fore, that Mr.. WEBSTER has employed his
personal influence to restore the party to com.
plete harmony. His character, not to say his
duty, forbids any other anticipation.
We repeat that General Soorr will receive
what may, for all practical purposes, be called
the full Wing vote. But he will receive
more. He will receive larger proportion Of the
German and Irish vote than any Wing ever
nominated. In all sections he will receive the
votes of Democrats who have served under
him in battle, and of others who recognise in
his life and services claims that rise much
higher than those of ordinary partisanship.
In the West he will be strengthened by tho
suffrages of Democrats who have grown dis
gusted with the pretences and the practices of
pseudo Democracy. And in the South he
will have the support of Democrats who have
lost all confidence in 4 candidate that has Sc
cessionists and Freesoiers for his staunchest
friends.
Reviewing the campaign and its candidates.
the events that have marked its progress and
the signs that hover round its close-we feel
that, without pretending to prophecy, we may
reasonably and safely calculate upon the tri-
umph of the Wing party. The candidate, the
principles, and the accidents of the campaign
are in favor of the Wings; and nothing but
dereiction of duty on their own part can de-
prive them of the victory now within their
reach.