The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-19

LINDENwALD, Sept. IA, 1859.
ought 10 have made IN earlier acknowledgment
Of the receipt Of your obliging letter inolesing
but farmers life and advanced age are not favor
able to punctuality in suoh matters.
My best thanks are due to your associates and
yourselves, as well for the compliment you have
bestowed upon me. as for the kind terms in which
it il expressed. The value Of your good opinion is
not little increased, in my estimation, by your
being . portion of the democracy of State which,
though young In years. has already become old in
the support of democratic principles and the purity
and sincerity OF whose politics have never for u
moment ceasedts respect and admire.
:, The political party against which you have en-
you much honor, is powerful in its numbers, tho
means at its disposal, and its partizan tact. But
long experience has shown, that these can all DO
overcome with proper exertions on our part There
Is, besides, much In the present condition OF our
opponents which is calculated to strengthen our
confidence.
The subject Of slavery which. from the general
concurrence of opinion between the slaveholding
States and the democracy of tho north other mat
ters opponents have always heretofore been able
to turn against US with great effect, has now, by
their own consent, been Withdrawn from the can
vass
That of n tariff imposing duties for the purpose Of
protection out Of which they have heretofore made
successful in these parts has been too thorough
y and too justly exploded in public opinion to be Of
much service to them now. The extensive embar-
easements in the business concerns of individuals,
ana in the finances Of the government, which were
a few years since brought upon the country, and
the panic in the public mind which they produced,
presented tho most prolific subject for the exercise
of their political skill. By efforts equally extra
ordinary and debasing, they induced majority of
the neonle Of the United States, intelligent and
patriotic as tnsy are TO hold their owp
responsible for results which were tho conse-
quence Of their own improvidenoe, stimulated to
madness by reckless bank issues. In the midst of
suoh scenes, when men are SO easily tempted to lay
the fruits OF their own rashness at the doors of
others, and when party camors applied to the bust
ness Of men find such ready access to their bosoms,
they succeed in overthrowing an administration Of
the federal government for supporting measure
which, in brief period, by the force Of its intrn
sic merits slenced the cavils Of its opponents, and
has since, through the coed sense and good feelings
Of all parties, been raised to eminence in public
favor which even party spirit dare not approach
The times have happily changed, and the condi-
tion Of the country has changed with them. Thanks
to the returning good sense and prudence Of
people, concurring in the judgments of enlightened
statesmen in other countries, bank mutations, and
the impostions of taxes in the shape Of duties to in
sure portion of the people against the casualties of
trade at the expense of the rest have been placed
being placed under the ban of public opinion in
the most enlightened and commercial countries in
the world. The native energies of citizens, un-
fetteTed by vicious legislation have been employed
in bringing into successful operation the vast
ces OF our country, and ours has become land Of
unequalled prosperity and plenty. r..
The influence Of military achievements over the
minds OF men in the selection Of their civil officers
is another, and if may judge from their three last
Presidential nominations, the greatest reliance of
the wing party 1t is, | think, quite certain that
this infatuation can no longer be made available
So far from aiding General Scott, the attempt to
revive ii is destined to have contrary effect. Re-
citals of his military achev emonts, which, when
made with no sinister designs, filed the hearts and
minds Of our people with feelings of gratitude and
delight. will now be listened to by sober minded
man 90 10 kho,., in
the bestewment Of their votes. In the present
awakened state Of public feeling upon the subject,
but few will be found feeble in intellect as not to
through the arce or so poor in spirit as not to
spurn it. General Scott will, in all probability, be
defeated, and the fact that an infatuation which
carried two military candidates into the Presidential
chair, exploded In the case of third, who was
Infinitely their superior in everything that consti-
tutes the soldier and hero. viii be regarded as
striking, not to say melancholy, instance Of tho
folly and mischief Of calculations founded on such
decisions
Our opponents being thus deprived of their acous-
toned aid from topics heretofore stirring and eff
fectual, and evidently at fault in the invention Of
substitutes stagger also under the effects of the in
startling corruptions which have crept into their ad
ministration of 80 many branches of the public
vice, and left without anything to screen them
against the odum which has for more than half q
century rested upon their politics, it will be the
fault of the democracy themselves if they do not
give them an old fashioned rout.
Our skies are brgbt-oar union is complete.
Our candidates could scarcely be more acceptable.
The assaults which have been made upon Gene
raj Pierce have but recoiled upon their
thors Our hopes are, moreover. built upon
the irrepressible energies of party which has q
stable foundation in the hearts of the people, and
which, unlike that Of our adversary, has al.
ways been in good odor with them-a party which
has been but thrice defeated in fifty years in a
Presidential election, and then only through divi-
siops in its ranks, unatural state of public
mind, which we may well hope never to again
party which, even those occasions, the moment
opportunity Afforded it to bring the cause of
its temporary discontinue to the test Of n moro
mature reflection, again to power its natural
position
1t was both honest and wise in you to enrol your
selves under the broad banner of such party, and
every enterprising young man, who desires honora.
BILE distinction in public life, and to make himself
useful in his day and generation, should do likewise.
That your labors in the democratic cause may DO
crowned with success, and that prosperity and hap
piness may attend the members Of your club. is the
earnest wish Ct your friend and obedient servant,