The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-04
Gene raj seost SAD Tho svh'g Party-Sreat
CeclrDe IN tsunp0wd~r.

Cecfr1e an GunpOwder.
The Sappo wc,sr plot OF Seward ard company pro-
mises to iuyp out IS tad speculation as Tat of
Gu, Fawkes Seward, like Guy, hos boeu laying
in his comh7stiblcs 10 blow up the government but
the ,cret has leaked ont, and Eoveinber will be
very apt IN prove disastrous to him as 1t did to
his "il'ustroas predecessor " In plain Eogsh, the
mforiurs'e aboii.oc and free soil agencies through
which She nomination Of General Scott effected
ar Baltimore, ana which have usurped the control
Of Tho whig party, bid fair to breab down the whg
candidate, The yshig platform, and the wing party
nj. IN a heap together.
J hese has been most remarkable decline in gun
powder, bomb shells. ana " fuss and feathers, this
season. similar fab in cotton would revive the
couusrcisl and financial panic Of 1887, aud the
same pccessy soE general bankrupt law. And
the gaoeton arises wha. is The cause of this dread
ful letting doNn Of military enthusiasm Why i it
that the military enthusiasm which gave such tre-
mendous popularity and power to General jackson
which caIri,d into the White House
ola 1ippscanoe and Tyler too,n
with The rush of universal ju5iiee-whicn resulted
II the election Of General Taylor, against one of the
very cbles. ard most popular men Of the whole
couprry-wby lie it, that this consuming fire cannot
be kndled for General Scott :!
There are various causes operating against him
The election Of General Harrison ended Ia the demo-
crp'ic Administrations of John Tyler,hc election of
General Taylor worked out o rupture, wide and
deep, in The whig rockville as the poles. and
deep AZ the dark black chasm bet Scen the consttu
ton and Stewards " higher law" And Just as the
conservatives of the democratic party in 1857
volted against the corrupt administration Of Van
Boren and he leadipgstrDgs Of his corrupt nstru-
mcuts - now do see the conservatives Of the
wing p,rty revolving against the corrupt and humi-
liating leadership of Seward and his trained baud Of
unpripci.lci abolition demagogues. Besides. the
public car has become famiarized with the fife aud
drum and the public stomach has had surfeit of
bleed and carnage Had General Scott been nomi-
lated in 1870 when his Gains were advocated by
this Journal, he would have succeeded rs trium-
phantl, as Harrison. But since that day military
glory has beeome cid song. The freshness of the
slores Of Mexico was lavished upon old Rough and
Ready. while Gen Harrison and Gen. Jackson had
Ieaped TIE flowers Of the war Of 1872.
Nor ,as Gen. Scott those personal elements Of
popularity of Jackson. Harrison or Taylor. He
especially lacks that blunt, rough, plain, simple.
| honest simplicity which made old lack SO uaiver-
ealiy popular with the masses. On the contrary,
tho popular conception of Geu. Scott appears to be
that he is n vain. selfconceited austere man. stand
ing aioof from the crowd, and shrinking from con-
tact with the common people-feeng the same dis
gust ut the bare idea Of shaking hands with an
| Irish he'd carrier that uptown dandy feels in
| being saluted by bis tailor Broadway His
| subordira'cs in the army-his rank and file have
expressed the idea Of their great leader in the
scubyiguet hy which he is known among them. of
"Old Fuss and Feathers" How different in its sig
nifcaton from that other familiar nickname Of cod
| Rough and Ready -
But worse than oil, the unfortunate and suspi-
cious associations of Gen Scott With Seward and
company, and their prominency in managing his
case in the whg convention, and now before the
people, have chilled the popular enthusiasm to the
freezing point So the ate npt to evade great prn-
| cples in military hurrah is Frustrated Disafec-
| ton confronts the whg candidate every side
gunpowder is at discouut-Chapulscpe will not
do-the great principles and the great issues OF the
day and Of the age, will rise to the top. The wing
IA. tv and Gen Scot. have been already compelled
to face this music. The expected military farore
falls an ado, ton, stubborn thing, to the ground
1t don't answer. The country begins to feel the
import Of Presidential election, in reference 60
prnciples measures and the tendency Of things-the
diff Of parties, and the schemes Of leading dema-
gosues.
All these facts aud all these indications are good
omens- not with regard to the success of one man
or the defeat o. anotherbut in respect to the az.
cendancy Of great principles, and of living, vital
issues, over empty clap-trap, Chinese professions,
FIRE works, ard drunken orgies. VIVA. say Mr..
webb ard the sixty thousand conservative wings Of
New York? What say the Webster wings Of Nus
sachusetts! What say the Union men Of Georgia9
~. - O. L.. INrxaN
"slit upon and exccrate" the whg platform-but
principles are still the issue. So be it, Amen!
THE MAIEE Liquor Law IN MAINE AID RHODE
IsLAND.-Muine is in perfect Torment, arising out
Of the liquor law. The State Legislature, who had
passed. this law, took the step of nominating the
present incumbent, Governor Hubbard, to fill the
I Office Of Governor for the next term. The State
Committee, on the came day, ratified this nomina-
ton. The people, indignant q this invasion OF
their rights called State Convention ct Portland,
and there that convention rejected Hubbard and
set up Arson c. Chandler the candidate Of the de-
mocracy and in opposition to the liquor law faction
Governor Hubbard was severely handled for siguing
the liquor law. and the Legislature who passed it
also came in for sound castigation, and nre every
man CT them, doomed TO ignomnious expulsion as
soon as their present term OF Office expires. The
election OF Governor takes place the second Mon-
day Of September next, and ID viii then be tested
whether there is not powerful reaction in Haino
on the liquor question. The greatest excitement
and enthusiasm prevail.
Meantime, we learn that in Rhode Island tho law
has also become obnoxious to the people In New
port the hotels are nearly ruined. One Of the local
papers says the Bellevue House has not suffered
much the inference is that the others have, and it
is also the fact. The teetota fanatics may support
one hotel. But the fashionable vsiters at Newport
never frequented the Bellevue House. They always
rcsorttd 10 the Ocean House, which the great
hotel Of Newport and to the Atlantic, and other