The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-09

tipguished wbig Senator was heard to say, few
days sfier the nomination OF Gen. Scott, We can
form no judgment now Of the election-we must
wait five or elk weeks. If in that time the whig
party revive the old enthusiasm of 1910 or '4S,
then NO shall have living and unfailng assur-
anee of success; but if we fal to kinde up the old
military fever, then are gone The five or six
weeks have elapsed every expedent to revive the
guppowder ti0me Of 40 and '4S has proved chill
Ing abortion, and he who runs may read the hand
writing upon The wall, that "the whg party has
been weighed in the balance, and found wanting"
ar is rapidly breaking up,
Beginning with the ratification meeting at the
Broadway House, every attempt to get up sue
cessful gathering for Gen Scott has been most
signal failure. The jubilee at Lundy's Lane was a
vast failure to the wings, to the railroad compa-
pies to the hotel Keepers to the man with the big
tent, to the fancy men, and to the Canadians;
for they expected another invasion Of at least fifty
thousand men, to open the campaign in Canada.
The Stanly meeting in this city, the other evening,
was confessed,y o failure; the subsequent little
ella ss- meetings about town, including the Aashin-
the pan at Williamsburg, were worse and worse.
And the same heavy incubus of Indifference 70 tho
military glory of Gen. Scott, appears to extend
over the whole country, from the st. Lawrence to
tho Rio Grand, and from Coney leland to San
Francisco. Why is this Is it because military
glory is threadbare it on account Of tho Gal
phins, the Chiosssaws, and the Gardeners or the
aboitionists, or free farms, or Intervention, or
Cuba. or guano, or Goldfish, or the weather! What
is the eyil7 What are we to do to save Scott, to
cave Seward, to save our bacon, and tho pablo
plumber of Hfty millions yearl
The evil is without remedy. Il is the evil Of
natural decay. Parties-political, religious, and
socal-like Goldfish and oabbages, have their day.
They are subject 70 the same universal law Of
nature. They sprout, they blossom, they are deve-
loped, and they die. The whig party has bossomed,
and run to seed, and is now going 8 the way Of all
the earth" It is in the process Of dsintegration,
decomposition, and dissolution in fact it is break.
ing up like Methodist camp meeting In the midst
Of o settled rain, or like Newport and Saratoga
when the season is overt is going at auction
g going going gouev' And yet while standing
upon its last gs, We see oil sorts of quacks, with
their quack medicines and quaok pamphlets and
tracts, urging the sale of their nostrums the only
means Of saving the whig party. Even in it's dying
struggles these greedy fellows intent only upon
fleeing the party Of its money. Here they 60
cheap as dirt, and full Of blood and carnage Cir,
culate the documents and pay up, or Scott viii DO
defeatedv' What hope can there be for party
whose fuglemen are governed by such Inscriptions
rnpacity?
Very well. We must put the best face upon this
business. We know that the whig party has run
its carecrthat it has nothing more to do-that it
is embarrassed, and harrassed, and broken in body
ard spirit, with the rank mutiny Of Giddings and
~. - Al Dnc ri %hU
all pcrvadiDg distrust Of Seward in the South-with
! the Vaccinations of the liberty men in New York,
and the free.soilers in Massachusetts,; and, worse
than all, with the terrible logged and sullen
silence of Daniel Webster upon the nomination Of
Gen. Scott--we know al this, but what We do!
The experience Of two gunpowder Presidents is
recoiling upon the whig party. Defeat stares them
| in the face With their divided and disorganized
forces, they have to cope with tho unterriGed and
hungry democracy-hungry, rallied and united as
they never were before-moving North and South
| in solid phaanx, like Roman legion, for Pierce
and King, their Baltimore platform, and the forty
thousand offices, and the public plumber Of full fifty
millions year
What is to be the end Of all this In the defeat Of
Gen Scott, what else we expect, but the formal
dsbandipg and dissolution of the whig party; and
what next but the merging Of the Seward interest,
bag and baggage, into the great free soil abolition
party of the North Such are the consequences
to great party from pandering to al the political
denominations and catch penny humbugs of the day
Let the wings Of the South stand their ground, and
let the Webster conservative union wings Of tho
North, and of Wall street, look about them, and
calmly inquire, in this crisis, whether they had
not better rally upon Webster and the constitution,
than sink with Seward and the higher Law.
GAS AND GAsrRoSoxY.-There are some people
in this world who have not the slightest con.
ception Of what modesty is OF who, if they have
any idea on the subject, think it quality with
which they have no manner Of concern. OF such
class Of society are those gents who, on every
occas on Of public banquet in this city, start up
whenever ",he Press is proposed We have some
half dozen Of the genus, and arc ready to acknow-
ledge and bear testimony to their complete inno-
cence Of such fault excessive modeety. There,
for instance, is one gentleman named Dana, who
has some sort Of connection with an abolition and
socialist paper in this city, who is to DO his
legs after this toast is given, before his corpu
lent and less active rival in the same business Mr.
Goodwin, who also is some kind Of Gttachk to an
other abolition sheet. These worthy gentlemen are
seldom prevented by any obstacle whatever from be-
ing present at public dinner; and the FIRST named,
on late occasion, was modest enough TO transfer
the credit of gowmande,ie, which was his own
nducement to be present, to the press at large, for
which compliment they must certainly feel indebted
to their selfoonsttuted representative and orator
These eloquent convives have few other imitators
in the same line, Of some Of whom, however-like
little Raymond, for instanee-it must be said that
they have somewhat better justification in setting
themselves mp as respondents to the toast inasmuch
as they really connected with the press Of New
York.
Blu. these orators who go ready on all occasions
spout most amazing in honor of the press
Of New York, do not in fact. constitute any either
Of the proprietary the business men Of that in