The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-04

Hon. J0HN n. Boris ON Tm EruR.-We pub
lsh very curious and very silly stump speech Of
John n. Bolts, delivered at Newark on Saturday
evening, in which he makes General Scott the
greatest statesman in the country the greatest con-
stitutional lawyer, the greatest scholar, and, in
fact, perfect walking dictionary; and he proves
him to be all this, and something more, by his sue
cess in the Mexican war. This species of logic is
just suoh as We might expect from the salibre Of
horse jockey.
But 1t is worthy Of note that, with all his efforts,
Mr. Bolts was not able to elicit one spark Of enthu
siasm. Nothing is more remarkable in this pc It'll
cal campaign than that the orators on either side
cannot get up the steam, by any ingenuity. Gen.
eral Cass took off his coat-everything but his
breeches-in Tammany Hall. And John N. Bolts
almost let his breeches down in his vindication Of
General Scott and whig principles; but it would not
do. The Virginia demagogue labored hard to work
the audience into an excitement, but it was like
whipping and squirting sullen ass, determined not
to advance an inch. 1t reminds one Of the song
which is part of the same elevated style as the
campaign songs Of the present election.
III had donkey what wouldn't go,
Do you think I'd wolop him Oh, no, no.
Mr.. Bolts informs that there are three classes
OF democratic papers-the very respectable. the toll
erably respectable, and thdse who have respect at
all Could he not have cassed the whig papers, and
especially the whig orators, in the way! few
of the Orators like Governor Hunt, might be placed
in the first class considerable number in the second
class, but the great majority, like Greeley and
Bolts, in the third having no respa,t ut ALL !"
While one of these demagogues is at this moment
Ibpg to the satisfaction Of the free sellers Of tho
Western Reserve Of Ohio, that General Scott is an
abolitionist-a man after their own hearts-the
other, in New jersey, endeavors to prove,
to men of different way Of thinking, that
General Scott is the warm advocate ofthose compro-
mise measures that Greeley and his newspaper have
ever ceased to dsnounce since the first moment they
were adopted by Congress, and that the General is
moreover, firm believer in the national whig plat
form which Greeley so often " execrates and spits
upon" Thus, while one stump orator makes Gen.
Scott blow hot, another makes him blow cold, and
the best of the joke is that the orators so stupid
that they imagine that the free sellers will not
the portrait drawn of him which makes him de-
cdcd friend of the Fugitive Slave law, and that the
Southern people, and the patriotic Union men of
the South, will not see the other picture, which ex
to believe the wing orators, General Scott must
have two faces, like Janus-one looking each
way. Is this tho sase! or, if not, which of the
two faces we to recognise rs the true one!
Between these orators, General Scott may we'll ex-
claim, "Save me from my friends" They are
completely using him up, and cutting of whatever
snail chance of success he had in this campaign
which is of very different kind from that he fought
in Mexico. Politics and craftsmanship are not mi
litay tactics: and to secure the votes Of the civil
lied, sagacious, thinking people Of the United
States, and to administer government in which
public opinion, and not force Of arms, prevails, re-
quires totally different qualifications than those of
military chieftain, who, with valiant troops, can
beat emi.savages, and keep them in subsection and
order by the power Of martial law.
POLITICAL CALCULATloNs.-.O Our contempora.
~ of the Times newspaper, in this city, makes
terrible effort to pass Jokes on the political
calculations which we recently gave on the pre-.
sent contest for the Presidency. Jokes are not
very fitting replies to arithmetic and it would
argue little more common sense in that quarter,
if they were to show, from the results Of past cleo
tions, up to the present time, that the predictions
which we made, as to the issue next November, are
either exaggerated incorrect. The general result
which we endeayored to draw from those tabular
calculations and estimates was that General Scott,
in The present combinations and multplications Of
parties, had no probable chance of being elected,
and that those chances, looking at the state of poll
ties in the country, in every point of view, were
altogether in favor ofPisrce. We also showed that,
during the history of the last thirty years, mere
personal or military popularity had less influence
over the various elections Of the past than other
deeply seated commercial, social, financial, and po
litical causes. Can our contemporary, in the abun
dance Of it, wit. and the multitude of its silly
efforts at joking, conravene the history of the past,
in all those essential elements Of political results
Would it not be much more appropriate, in jour
nal wishing to give its readers correct notions to
investigate the long array Of political facts which
VIC have published, and to attempt some rational
political theory, Swinging from correct considera
ton Of them !!
TIVE NEW BlsHor.--The Episcopal Convention
have, after considerable lodging, elected Dr. Vain
wright as the Provisional Bishop Of the diocess to
perform the duties of that office during the inability
Of Bishop Onderdonk to net, who suspended some
time ago for certain charges. We congratulate the
clergy and laity on their selection. The body Of
the clergy, comprising the Puseyite and High Church
party, were formerly opposed to this election, but
the aity of the diocess we're strongly in favor of
it, for the latter know DR.. Wainwright to be a
man eminently qualified to fill the position Of
Provisional Bishop. DR.. Wainwright Is an in
telfgent, hgh-minded, liberal, and accomplished
person, and utterly opposed to the fanaticism bgo.
try snd cant, which unfortunately prevail to so