New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-10
ABOUT ELECTING SCOTT.

!Scott's election, and say IN reply,
/. DO Whaterer you can TO make ham
BETTER KNOWN TO the people. 1t is COM
mon to say, erery body knows about this
or that, when in fact this every body Is
to be taken with very large allowances.
There are One Million Voters in this cOun-
try to-day who know little more, even OF
Chippewa, Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie,
than the names. The very best thing you
can do, therefore, to aid Gen. SCOTS cleo
ton is to set people to reading the history
Of our Country. We do mt care whose
histories they read, but greatly prefer those
published with no reference to Gen. Scott,
and no thought of his being a candidate
for the Presidency. They cannot be so
short as to exclude all mention of WIN
FIELD ScoTT's achievements they cannot
be so partial and prejudiced as not to show
him alike heroic in War and eminent in
preserving Peace-a soldier who never did
any thing to involve the country in conflicts
and perils and a statesman entrusted by po-
litical and personal adversaries with the
most responsible, critical duties, and nobly
fulfilling them all. Procure, then, three or
four copies of the best recent compends of
American History and ask your neighbors'
and especially the young men. around you,
to look them through and read what is re-
corded of Ensign, Captain, Colonel and
General Scott throughout the history of
the last forty years. That quiet reading
will be worth five thousand stump speeches.
Simply because Gen. SCOTS career can
not thus be brought home to every voter,
his friends have prepared Life of Scott,
condensed into thirty-two large, compact
pages, with twenty-six spirited lllustra
tons of the most remarkable events therein
recorded, which we are enabled to sell for
cash at 50 per hundred. This ought to be
in the hands of every voter who has not
the same facts already before him in a more
elaborate and expensive volume-or in
several volumes. We value this mainly
as an Indictment to further inquiry and
reading. Gen. Scott is not among the men
of whom lives have to be written because
they are nominated for office the History
of his Country is his biography. But, as all
cannot procure or will not read that His
tory, he who procures hundred copies of
this synopsis and hands one to each towns
man or neighbor who will accept and read
it, will be doing the best practical work
now on hand-a work which cannot fail
to tell powerfully on the result of the can
vass. And we appeal to every State, Dis
trict, County, Town and Ward Committee,
to take steps at once to put a copy into the
hands of every voter. Begin by organizing
an efficient and thorough system of Distri
button, which will insure the complete supply
of a township whenever you shall have the
copies to distribute. If your township has
four hundred voters, do not begin to dis
tribute till you have four hundred copies, so
as to profler one to each voter who will
accept and read it. Should any refuse,
preserve the copies so rejected, for which
there is abundant call everywhere. AS
vet, the Committee have not been able to
fill promptly the cash orders; but, by the
close of the month, they mean to be issuing
at least $4,000 per day, which will come
nearer the mark. So far, our share of
the supply has not begun to meet the de-
mand. We shall have at least 10000 per
day from and after next Monday.
.. Ask your neighbOrS 10 consider calmly
the points Of difference ,ohich Row separate
the t,oO parties. In the rival Baltimore
Platforms, there are points of substantial
agreement which fail to embody our con-
victions, with those of thousands more
but the points of essential difference are
reduced to two, viz. The Tariff and Pub
lie Improvements. The Wing Platform
affirms the right and duty of so imposing
Duties on Imports as, by well considered
determinations, to protect and foster the
development of our own National Indus
try, which the antagonist Platform circuit
ously and shufflingly denies-condemn
Protection in effect without daring to do so
in plain words. AS regards Public I'm
provements, the Wing Platform affirms the
duty of improving the navigation of our
important Rivers, as also the accessibility
and security of our Harbors, Lake as well
as seaboard, which the hostile Platform
denies in like quibbling' prevaricating man
ner as with regard to Protection. 1t does
not say in terms that all lamentations