The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-11-18

ten don't deserve to be read, and probably never will
be) that you are the best appointment he could make
he viii give you the post when change is made;
and II you lose II at last make up your mind that
better man has got it, and you, as good citizen,
ought TO be willing to coincide with such decision.
But remember this advice-remember II all, :" every
bit OF IT," have weighed il ALL am a man OF
some years, and have seen ten thousand applicants
fail, and have seen multltudes succeed-and can
assure you never knew, under this Administrations
particularly, a man succeed who did not take about
such course as have marked out. / will also say
another thing, too From the time of General
Jackson, we have had no President under whom
such conduct-open, PLAIN, honest, sensible straight
forward-was so sure OF success Let all applicants
remember this and il will help their cause In win.
ming political influence, il is great pon-lt is the
great point TO make every foot OF canvass draw Car
ry no dead weights, make no unnecessary splashing
waste no time IN manpuvres-" free trade and SAL
lors rights" Is the true doctrine
Now, there is poor broken down political hack
here IN Washington just now, and he has been here
Ior elgnt months. He held mere slnecure under
Capt Tyler Mr.. Polk Topped him off, and every
man IN the States except the gentleman in question
was satisfied, however certain persons might have
complained Well, the poor devil has been hanging
on, hanging on, month in and month out, begging
teasing, humbuggng, gClng irsto the President and
then TO the Secretary OF State and then back TO the
PresIdent-same old story-"an office-I amt par
ucular, gentlemen-the time was, in the good old
days OF Adam and Eve when didn't have to re-
sort to such hard work as this to get an officc-I
went to John, and says !, Johnny, Johnny, says l,
IN that" Yes, oh yes, my good fellow, here is
the spoon, help yourself to treacleits all common
stock. But now And the fellow has kept himself
on the alert here all summer, clear through the dog
new acquaintances, out Of bottles and dinners and
lunches and cigars, and even sixpences-watlng
IKE or. Chlltons chameleon on the edge ofthe bas-
he. ,oi eat and quite as ready to take
me colour OF what he lights on; and when fly
comes along, out goes his long tongue, like an ar
row. Tor It, But in justice to the bette, will carry
me comparison no tarther-for believe this panrre
eee has got nothing yet, and think it quite likely
ne never VIII. BY Jove, ! would sooner give an
ofhce to Pottawattamie Indian than to such mis-
ranoie-loaing, Leach, sponge, lazzarone.
But have fallen into the practice OF maLy of my
brethren, OF preachingtoo long. The only excuse :!
plead is the "momentous nature of my subject" and
the enormous necessity of the case.
bs On and al ye rc and poor high and low honora-
trlotc and unpatrlotlc, selfish and generous, witty
and simple, lucky and unlucky office-seekers and
oifce-beggars-my preachment is done. Now, all
OF you go home and keep your noses clean, and pay
your honest debts, and when young Hickory wants
you, he can let you know MACHIAvEI
WASHINGTON, Nov. II, lS45.
Like all good christians, have been to church
to-day-bu 1t was penance, found out before ser
vice was over. The good parson put pretty much
all elegant, wclbred, gentlemen and ladies' of taste
IN place which would make bad powder maya
zine, and made up the deficit OF the redeemed from
the great regiments OF babies who have the good
luck to die before they cut their eyeeeth receiv-
ed two grand Impressions from his dscourse-frst.
that the preachers early education had been sone-
what neglected; and second, that it was pretty
IanN k,,e,r III
was weaned. The Presoyterans of Washington
ought TO have better preacher--won't YOU attend
TO this matter at your earliest convenience
The clique teverls on the wane. 1t has nearly all
OF 1t arisen from the Printing question: and as il
seems TO be now pretty generally conceded that
hltchle Will distance all competition, a good deal
less is said and written about it than few DAYS
ago. The Democrats throughout the country seem
TO be generally in favor of the Union It's the old
rnle-the organ ought to have it, they say-and be-
SIDES, the CntOn comes out OF the same ola low,
DARK, orick walls, from which the Globe came for
SO many years curing the ancient regime. A spell
hangs around the place. The bulletins come from
the same establishment formerly, when the old
Glooe uniuried Its banners in the triumphant days
OF old Hlckory-when the democratic army was
under high state of discipline, and Congress
went to the charge like the old Guard at Wa.
'eroo. This feeling is coming back-and all
narrow pickering and strife is gong TO be laid
aside, IN grand national movement that will sweep
away all opposition. This is observable in every
quarter, but particularly in the South and West Iell
you Mons'emrh Capitaine, Daniel may make great
speech, and the wings may print it and comment
upon 1t, and aud 1t to the Skies but il will all have
very little etiect-it is nothing but the old Hartford
Convention, British, Anti American feeling and po-
hey, new vamped. 1t won't do-the PeopIe the al
mighty people, won't be Anti American They fe Ell
that their own stone hills, and cotton fields and pra-
res, are their own, by inheritance, by adoption by
purchase, by conquest, by toll. They feel that
The power whose flag is never furled
Whose morning drum beats round the world :,
has had quite enough to do with our country aIrea-
dy The old grudge of the continental is not yet
paio oh-the seat OF war is not yet forgotten nor is
the Hartford convention forgotten.
Whenever the wings try to do ANYTHING. WHY do
they eternally mount SOME hobby that throws them
OF And echo answers, "whyf' They are very
SHY people sometimes-they have too much genius
profound to have modIcum of common sense
They made great hit in 1S40-they deserted CLAW,
VINO mad ruined them two or three times before, and
,b boh rrs up man IN who not only represented
me great mass OF the people, in his sympathies and
character, and feeling; but they took new ground
they left old issues, flung away old humbups. The
people, who don't like bores, potters were sick
of Van Buren-he had disguised the peope-he had
proved himself too narrow, too small man. TO follow
the old hero-he too timld, too cliguev (put this
word In your dictionary too everyhing-too
notning. Ihey wanted man at their head
who belonged to the movement party = who
felt the spirit of the age-who could grasp
the policy suited to the times The wings
Were, Were fortunate IN that nomination. They us
tened TO the Great West - they were foolish
enough In putting John into such good company a.;
the event proved; but even John woud have done
wen enough 1t Clay had not gone to knocking him
shns, treading on his corns Harry played bad
card there-very badges, a very bad card, indeed.
Then last year they went back to Clay again.
possibility, and they so near accomplishing II
there was no fun In lt-no, not bit. You did moi
catch the locofocos running defeated man-an
"mad dog''-so they said to Matty, who cried for
the nomination as bad as Harry, "Matty, will you
Just have the goodness to 60 up to place on the
Hudson they call Llndenwad, situated in the
town they call Klnderhook, and see now large cab
bages you can rase-for they say under Certain