Year: 1860

surprised at the u MON cans s ~ the
Atlantic States. Under different cir
cumstances we would rejoice to see
movements having for their real OBJ
ject ,he pacifcation Of the Union.--
But rs for these we have lately read
of, we have no faith in them at all.
10 our mind they only prove that the
Administration has found the Urion
in bad way for its success as par
~ hereafter, and that these meetings
are gotten up with the idea that they
may by some chance help to defeat
the Republic ans. The evidence that
such is the case is quite evident
Charles O'Connor, leading Demo
srst Of New York, takes part in the
movement, and that ribald, old pros
titute, the New Fork Herald, is loud
moutled for General Scott for the
Presidency, but now supporting Bu-
chanan with all its might. These
signs tell the secret Of the Union
meetings we hear of SO plentifully
these days General Scott is brought
out for the Presidency with the fact
staring everybody in the face that
he cannot carry the electoral vote of
single Southern State. The New
York Herald, itself in 1852, did more
than any other one newspaper to de
stroy confidence in Gen. Scott among
the people of the South, by pursuing
and denouncing him as the friend and
ally of Seward. Seward was to lie
made Secretary of State if Scott sue
ceeded to the Presidential chair said
the organ of James Gordon Bennett,
the renegade Scotchman. Scott was
e frecsoiler, a turkey cock, and fool
in 1852. Pierce was the best man
for President living, in the canvass Of
that year, if we are to believe the
Herald. But times have changed.
Bennett wanted to be minister To
Austria and Pierce never got drunk
enough to entirely lose his reas-
on and appoint the old scoundrel.
The consequence was soon seen i'll
an abuse of "poor" Pierce, and lau-
dat:ons of Gen. Scott,


For our own part we supported
General Scott i'll 1852 and may do
so again under proper circumstances.
But we very much fear the old hero
rs being made a tool of by some I'M
scrupulous demagogues of the Demo
cratic party to help foist another hate
ful administration upon the country.
For one we have no idea Of expend-
ing pens, ink and paper again in the
support of a man whom all but a
handful mean to abandon from the
start for sectional candidates. We
are for the Union all the time for
maintaining the constitutional rights
ofrvery section of our great country
at every hazard for frowning down
all sectional strife, and to aid in this,
for men for the Presidency WHO are
national in their views in the
modern sense Of the term but in the
spirit of the fathers Of the republic
Bat when bully insults aud outragcs
another we not approve of rushing in
and pulling the latter off when he is
getting SO as to give the devil his
due mar are we among those who as
sist in swearing the bully clear of Lis
crimes when arraigned at the bar of
public justice. Let him be comf1rta-
bly, punished we say, and be made to
make amends for his conduct We
NAV not take any part in the coming
Presidential con:est-probably will

not-but we want to see the odious
party in power routed, horse, foot anu
dragoons-not vestige Of it left.
The country may be driven to swal.
low terrible dose, bnt desperate dis
eases require desperate remedies.
The crisis must conc some time. We
may as well dread it no longer, but
have our anxieties ended as soon as
possible. Old Gwin has handed us
over body and soul to the South old
Weller has set US on diiftirg seq
ment of the republic where no help
ing hand can save. and several other
old fossils are as wise as owls in speak


ing of the affairs of our country. For
one, We have few fears whatever NAV
be the result of political turmoils.-
The nation cannot sever itself. in our
Judgment, without a very gross iu


flingement by one section upon the
rights of another. We see nothing
varv olirminer in the nrinrinIeS of tho