The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-11-25
The Triumph and its Teaching.

cratic party has swept the country, and the
whole country, and that it stands in an atti-
tude OF sovereign power altogether unexam-
piled IN the history of any party, organized
as party, in the United States; for it is SO,
far as this aspect of the matter is concerned,
quite immaterial whether the wings have
saved for General Scott the electoral uotes
of Massachusetts, Tennessee and Kentucky,
or whether Vermont alone forms the " col
umn" which Gen. Scott now "leads," mas
much as each of the above-named States, if
carried by the wings, has been carried only
by the almost total destruction of their usual
wing majorities. Certainly in no one State
but Tennessee, and, as we feel fully assured,
not even there, has Gen. Scott a majority of
the popular vote. In the great centre Of the
country, on the other hand-in the four
States of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
aud IHdiana-with sole reference to which
zen. Scott was put in nomination, the peo-
pie have risen up in mass against him, and
given the entirely unexampled majority for
the democratic candidates of one hundred
thousand votes, and perhaps more! This
popular verdict is final and conclusive; there
is no appeal from it; and the only question
now is, What does it mean, and what does ii
teach
First and foremost, then, we think it means
that the main public sentiment in this coun
try, which calls itself conservatism, has re-
pudiated and abjured forever, both that sec
tional policy, of which Mr. Seward is the
Especial representative, and also that mere
military ec}at which was supposed to consti
tute the whole of Gen. Scott personal avail
ability.
1t is avouched as a fact, that Mr.. Web
ster sent, as his 'dying message" to one o
his chiefest friends, the expression of hi
conviction that "after the second day of No
vember, 1852, the wing party, as nationa
party, will exist only in historyw TIL
people have now signally verified thoa
weighty words. The wing party lies to-da,
in broken fragments all over the land;
wreck which great tempest has scattered
and the question rises in every rejecting
mind, What shall be the next form ant
name in which the selfstyled conservatism
of the country-that conservatism whicl
has always opposed and feared the demo
cratic party-shall now organize? Toward
! LIC SO4uGlUu VI CI4lS uCoGIOA lltt4C luUlC Ca
be seen than that any such organization, VI
like the wing party of old, must ALLURE SEE
tional fanaticism and prejudice as one Of il
means Of power, and must include in It
creed distinct recognition Of the sanetit
of "the common brotherhood" and the Oh
legation "of the common bond" among til
States Of the Union. In other words, n
party can live as a national party, nor escar
annihilating defeat as a sectional part
which does not make fundamental in its O
ganization the policy of peace and iustic
between the north and south THIS is
great step forward in our national polite
1t is truth worth almost the whole tremeI
dous and most perilous sectional strugg
which its establishment has cost
In this point Of view, we recognise, as
especial Importance, the immense popul
reclamation with which Sewardism has no
been rebuked and repudiated in It's home
the Empire State. Had this been othe
wise, the glory of this great victory had be,
incomplete. 1t is true, that, in her gre
election of last year, the noble old Keysto
State had placed herself in the front of t
battle for the peace of the Union, and g
riou8ly fought it through; and the Nigh
majority by which she has now sustain
and fortified the national position she tn
assumed, attests and signalizes the profour
ness and the power of her patriotic devoti
to the Union and to that time-honored den
cratic policy in which alone the peace of
Union can be secured. Yet, in spite of
this, the commanding voice of New YC
was needed, in its whole power and sign
canoe, to give assurance to the country Il
sectional aggression, as a predominant {
ment in our national politics, is no lOn
to be endured. All honor to the united
;, mocracy of New York, which, through
all policy and in the power of its union,
< at now given that full and final assurance.
OF has struck down brewer, in his own stro
IN hold, that bold, GRITTY, and INSCRIPTIONS I
VI ty leader, who, through his sway over
I'M wing organization in his own State, has b
'ere enabled, for the fist time in our history
be- organize and cont1ol the Whig party of
usl- country to all the fatal purposes of sect
yet al agitation!
~ It is most gratifying and cheering to \
-. the fact that the democratic party Of
I lan North has risen with resistless power, a
ny ny by its own vote, done enough to place in
IL. Inc presidential chair the candidate designa
ets' first by the South herself US the represel
an - tive Of justice and peace, and loyalty to
po whole of the constitution, in the relati
TOW oow existing between the two sections of
cay s:y country This is deed fully worthy
~; ~ best and grandest days of our republic
10y The South will doubtless accept it and
ola' spond to it as a new guarantee of the b.
e 1':' fcent and patriotic power of that democ
~, ic principle and policy in which not only
'Sey peace of the Union but its prosperity an,
: good government, are involved.
HSa Washington Union, Noe.