The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-03-23

or the Republic-to arms.-to the rescue !'
Such are the lofty strains in which the soar
ing muse of the poetic Jones, celebrates the VIC
tory of John Tyler, the paltry factions of
Clay, Calhoun and Van Buren, We do not
think that Captain Bob Tyler himself has ever
written anything half so pretty. And this is the
way in which great events should be recorded. So
have the deeds and histories of the great heroes of
the past, been written in the worlds chronicles;
and why should not the victories of Tylerism be
q welded to immortal verse;" by bard worthy
of the theme
After letting off the steam in the sublime man
ner we have just exhibited, John Jones comes to
particulars, and thus continues his poetic flight
In this great meeting in New York there is no
Evidence of Legislative or Congressional
Caucus, there is nothing of the
Aristocracy of Democracy. Five thousand
Democl ats and fifteen hundred or two
Thousand Republican Wings, buryng their
Past differences in respect to men,
For they have never differed ! respect
To measures, have taken their seats together
On the Democratic platform Old and stern Republicans
whose heads
Have grown grey in the of Democracy!
And equal rights, sat down together
And have spoken their sentiments to their fellow citizens
not only OF their great State,
Blu, OF the Union. The meeting embraced one-fourth
o. the voters in the city of New York
The lowest estimate numbers six thousand
The highest nine or ten.
This is funny. John Jones is humorist as well
as poet. The Madisonian then quotes what is
STYLED the official account" of the meeting from
the "able organ of the Administration" and here
comes the best of the joke. This " oficlaP' report
contains merely the resolutions and address, which
no one heard, and gives, of course, no indications
whatever of the character, and results OF the NIGH
ty "Muss Convention" The tremendous cheers
for the " Farmer of Ashand'-the funny and some
fines dialouues and mir nv but eYnres-
sive speeches in the galleries and the body of the
house-,he fragmen, of a speech made by Caleb
Cushlng-the entree and dgnifed hauter of Mike
Walsh-the broken benches and smashed gas-lights
the broken heads and bloody noses-and the
expeditions ad ournment amid "groans for Tyler,
cheers for 'Hary of the West" and the rows be.
tween the Custom-house officers and the Clay
men, are all left out II is like the Tragedy OF
Hamlet with the character of the Prince omitted.
1t is quite needless TO repeat, that the meeting
was an entire failure. Nothing, in fact, remained
next mornng, of the "muss," or the Tyler party,
except large grease spot representation of the solu
bic fat in Mejor Noah's unwieldy carcase.
Seriously, we repeat our friendly advice to the
Administration Cease at all these vain efforts
10 secure reelection. BY steadfast, upright and
dihgent attention to the great public duties which
devove upon it /; by an earnest devotedness to the
cause of the people, testified not by the ludicrous
vapoTng of John Jones' rhetorical efforts, but by
fathfy discharge of public duty by avoiding the
deihN contact of WORKOUT political hacks and I'M
pnnciped office-seekers; by turning deaf ear tc
the decisive advice of sycophancy, and cherishing
the honest ambition of earning the enduring repu.
tation of fidelity and disnteresed patriotism-the
presen administration will eventually obtain the
gratitude even of the worst foe, and transmit to
coming generations an undyng fame. But if this
wholesome advice, which the common sense of all
disnterested men must sanction, be despsed and
the ludicrous and yet melancholy efforts to create
new pary and secure reelection, be protracted,
defeat and shame are inevitable We only add,
that this advice must be taken immeda tely, or re-
pentanee may come too late.