Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-09-13
LocofocO Dragging.

hOCoAoCo nNuSSA"Ss
The nomination of General Scott by the Wing
Convention at Baltimore caused CONSERVATION
and dismay to our opponents. For weeks after
that nomination, the judgment prevailed through
out their ranks that they were beaten The sounds
of wo were unmistakable. AT length rally was
decided upon by them. They determined to make
an effort to breast the current that was plainly
to carry all before it. They justly considered
that unless stand was resolutely made, the rout
was plainly to be overwhelming The cry, there
fore, was, Gan is not lost" Wait the assembling
of the Pttsburg Convention. That may turn the
scale in our favor. Wait the result of the North
Carolina election. Something may "turn up"
there. The Pittsburg Convention came. Hale
was nominated. Glory! hallelujah exclaimed
the Locofoco press The North Carolina election
took place. Good! again. Something has "turned
up" Our political Micawbers were in ccstacies.
Hale's nomination, and Reid's election in North
Carolina, were rcckoned sufficient stock in trade
for them to commence extensive political opera
tons upon. This they have done with a tremen-
dous swagger. Forthwith they believe in Salt
river no more. AS a spendthrift, who, after get
ting reduced to his last shirt and his last shilling
Unexpectedly finds himself stumbling upon
windfall of cool hundred, considers himself
made again, and forthwith buys a new suit, re-
deems his gold-headed cane at the Jews, and
launches out upon the pavement the 'dashiest
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small capital so do our Locofoco friends. Re-
duced to the greatest straits they got fortunate
| streak of luck, and it has elated them beyond
measure. They have been in jolly tickle now
for hard upon a month. They believe that Reids
election indicates that North Carolina is in doubt
and that Hale's nomination gives Ohio to Pierce.
And thus they affect to believe, and we imagine
many do believe, that Pierce's election is secure.
Regarding Ohio as the great battle-ground, and
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vent Scott from carrying that State, they revel
in complacent anticipation of inevitable triumph.
That New York will go for Scott by Is, 900 ma
jority, and that Pennsylvania will give him even
greater majority than this, it is deemed almost
useless to deny.
4 Upon their sandy foundation is reared the vast
fabric of hope, and expectation, and Boosting,
that Just now fills the Locofoco newspapers. It
i is a fabric that the first autumn blasts from the
North already shakes, and that the November
gales will scatter in q thousand fragments, and
leave no wreck behind. There is no ground for
believing that the old, steady Wing State Of
Il North Carolina is about to cavort into the arms
of Locofocoism.
In regard to Ohio our Locofoco brethren are
not less surely doomed to have their green hopes
frost-nipped. And with their hopes Of Ohio will
20 the last remains of all that has turned up ;
to give them the f1eeting encouragement that has
: temporarily envened their spirits, and relieved
their depressed and despairing anticipations.
General Scott has always been great favorite in
J Ohio. His personal popularity will give him
thousands of the votes of men who usually vote
, with the Locofoco party. 1t will be found to be
emphatically true Of Ohio, as it will be found
true Of every other State that noseless under
current of prodgous strength, its source lying
in the secret convictions of the patriotic masses
will swell his vote everywhere beyond all ord
nary expectation But setting aside these con
. siderations of general nature pointing so EN-
: phatically to this result, we have the cool ant
: deliberate calculations of the most judcious ant
E careful observers and prognostcators, that under
I any circumstances the Western Reserve will Civ,
to Scott not less than 900 majority calcula
ton that gives the State to Scott beyond per
adventure.
How ludicrous, then, appear the jumping con
= illusions of our sanguine political Micawbers
who habitually believe, even under the most des
perate circumstances, that something must "turl
up" in their favor--that Hale's nomination actu
ally secures the vote of Ohio to Pierce, and tina
therefore the battle is already won! The conclu
: sion in both its parts is simply fools conclu
stony Y Tribune