The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-27
Personalities OF the Campaign-Carrying the
War into Africa.

A new feature and new ally in the great |
Fremont cause have R.tely been brought down to
his city from Abbey. They consist of the Alba
~ Register, and its editor, the Rev. Joseph A. |
Scoville, form rly the private secretary of John
= Calhoun, '.atterly the confidential wire-worker
u Live Oa' George Law, but now resolved to
larry the war into Africa for Fremont and free
iom' ID the magnificent political revolution
'omp ehended in the Fremont movement. Hav-
ng oeen democrat, having been Know No
~ ng, and being thoroughly conversant with all
lie invisible machinery and all the trickery of
both these parties, Scoville knows exactly how
to poise his artillery SO as to strike them every
clip between wind and water. Hence the aston
shing sensation which the first few numbers of
The Et0ss,sg Register, since its transfer to this
ity, has created in the lodges Of the Know No
things and in the coal hole of Tammany Hall.
The Register thus fills an opening created for
just such an organ here by the peculiar
tactics Of the Fillmore ard Buchanan jour
nais. When the three Presidential cand-
dates now before the people were first
pitted against each other, there was sort of
general understanding on all sides thai the pr-
vate life, the family affairs and personal charac-
ter and history OF each candidate should be treat
cd with respect, however hotly the war might be
waged upon their official acts, qualities, defcien-
cies and offences. This arnistice of decency,
however, was very brief one. A few days at
ter Fremont's nomination, the aichmond En-
guirer led the way 10 the violation Of the truce
in one of those ferociously scorrilous assaults
upon the editor Of the New YoR, HERALD. which
are so common with our malignant but impo-
tent political enemies Like cross cur chained
to a post, they waste their wrath in idle snap
ping and barking for they cannot reach us
The wretched slang of the Enquirer was echoed
by the Washington Union the Philadelphia Penn
sylrdnian, and other leading Buchanan organs,
until most of the democratic pack were in full
cry, with the seeessonsts and abolitionists after
Bennett.
Next. finding that their barking at the HERALD
and its editor was but waste of time, they turn
ed upon our popular, independent, constitutional
candidate. Fremont. A little penny paper at
Richmond, Virginia, professedly neither de-
mocratic nor Know Nothing, was en-
of personalities against Fremont. Ground
being thus broken, the temptation was too strong
to be resisted, and the Richmond Enquirer, the
Washington Ilaion and other democratic journals
claiming to be respectable, repeated the charges
and insinuations against the parents of Fremont
first tried by experiment III an outside journaD
and dwelt upon them with undisguised satisfac-
ton. This base system of electioneering has
since continued with constantly increasing ma
Iie~--yy o. fremont mas advanced in the esti-
nation of the people, until, by all odds, he has
become the best abused man in the United States
since the days of General Jackson-Jackson him
self not excepted.
Mark the transformation which has thus been
made in the character of Fremont. The protege
and the young lion of the democratic party, the
cientific explorer, who was the boast OF all par
les and all sections and universally regarded as
an honor to the country, has suddenly become
from the later discoveries of our Buchanan and
Fillmore journals, Senators and stumpers, the
most despicabe Of inpostors. They represent
his father as vagabond and q libertine; his |
mother as an aduteress, and himself as bas- |
tard an alien, a cheat, mountebank, ferocious |
duellist. coward an aboltionst, a STAKEHOLDER, |
a Roman Catholic, Jesuit, a Know Nothing, a |
millionaire, bankrupt and Jeremy Diddler. |
Lately the burthen Of this peculiar labor Of love
has rested upon the shoulders of that most shame
less, reckless and degraded of all Know Nothing |
Fillmore organs the New York Express and for |
several weeks II has Substantially enjoyed the |
monopoly of this dirty work.
The Fremont journals Of this city, having |
higher interests and higher objects in view than
personal abuse and defamation, have found it diff |
icult to meet these calumnia.ors with their own |
weapons, except in the way Of joke or of play |
full ridcule. In this way for example, have we |
treated the mock-heroic but unfortunate love |
adventure Of Mr.. Buchanan, and the great |
grog question at Wheatland;' but such halfway |
with The enemy have only served |
to sharpen their appetites for the garbage |
to which they have taken. In this exigeucy |
down comes the Rev. Joseph A. Scoville |
with his Register from Albany; and setting up his
battery here in New York the first broadside |
which he opens upon these Buchanan and Fillmore /
carrion crows scattcrs them as Bragg's battery |
scattered the Mcxicans at Buena Vista. His exc /
cution induces Us also to repeat the immortal OBJ
servation Of Gen. Taylor-"A little more grape |
Captain Bragg"
Mr.. Scoville absolutely surprises us with bis
revelations. Who could believe. for instance, that |
the amiable and exemplary Mr.. Fillmore is, withal
Of Joseph Surface; that bis late Eu- |
ropean tour was much more remarkable fordelight-
ful adventures than Sternes Sentimental Jour
ney,' and that, Of all things in the world with all
the horror Of the exPresident for the Shortcomings
Of the Roman Catholic church, he should be dis
ripleof Tom Paine. Again, who would suppose that
the Damon and Pythias Of the Know Nothing |
camp while publishing to the world the financial
Affairs Of Frcmont-his debts. his notes and his
luc-bills-are themselves among the meanest of
III men in their business and financial operations