New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-02-05

NhbHi>SIONt Jan. o. iof's
The presence Of the illustrious FooTE OF Missis
sippi, at your War Meeting on Saturday mus.
have given you great idea Of his powers, as well
as some faint conception Of the magnitude Of Mis-
sissippi. You know the old Latin adage says Fl
pede Hereuiem, which you may translate literally
by saying that from the to0te you can imagine a
giant, or literally by saying that giant makes
big tracks. Now, you have heard him, and did you
ever hear such an orator II he only spoke al the
War Meeting as he did in the Senate, | should
ike 10 have seen the cOuntenances OF the Huge
Paw " Democrats OF New-YOrk. a dapper little
man, in green spectacles. reading q whole page Of
Latin. and pronouncing badly, and upsetting all
thoughts Of poetry by reading Byron backward, and
misquoting Goldsmith, would hardly fail TO make
q poor impression on Tammany Hall.
told you In my last that Senators, after the first
fash OF his intellect had blsZed around the Cham
Der had come 10 an understanding not 10 reply to
anything he should say and thus defeat bis sup
posed design of getting big names sprinked
through his speech. He recently showed penetra-
ton enough TO have discovered the conspiracy
against his fair fame; for he complained bitterly
that Mr.. CLAYTON had chosen to expose the Alb
surdity OF one of his assertions when repeated by
another He complained that the honorable Sena-
tor had not even looked at him when replying TO
an argument which he had first propounded. Now
Mr. FOOTE must know that clearly established
rule of common law is that cat may look at a
Hing. The very assertion that thing may be
done implies also that it may not be done. II cats
have such high privileges ia monarcbical forms Of
Governments surely Senators should be allowed
as much liberty under Republican forms. Humani-
ty should not be degraded below ienity. Though
some Of the Senators did not reply openly they bad
some good shots at him, in theatrical language,
aside. In replying TO a Senator from Mary land,
who had used up all the Loco Foco arguments on
L. IL. A.
not express such shame for what the President had
done-he had better blush for himself and his
party. The Maryland Senator said, aside that he
ives not in the habit OF doing anything at which be
would blush but if he wished to be proof against
bushing he would take lessons from the other side
Of the chamber, where he might have his skin
rhiH0cerized and blush at nothing.
Gen HoUsTos wears harp on his bosom, and he
is accompanied by Mr.. FooTE-so that Mr. Hous-
TON may be said to carry harp with pedal at
tachment.
You recoect that Senator CAss said, few days
since that he thought we could swallow the whole
of Mexico without doing much harm. You have
seen the rotundity and extent Of the parts sur
rounded by the Generals wastband. have heard
story Of a snake having swallowed toad so large
that 10 was a puzzle to naturallsts whether the
snake swallowed the toad or the toad the snake.
The Chairman of the Military Committee is some
what in the same predicament. IL is hard 10 tell
whether he swallowed his meas OF DIS meals MN !,
but he has right try to put our country in the
same situation. Should we swallow the whole OF
Mexico. our countrys locomotion must be almost
as difficult and awkward as that Of the great en-
bodiment of inevitable war and our shape as
i'll proportoned.
There is nothing more common with Gen. CAss
and other members ofthe Polk party, than to reply
to the Wing remonstrances against such acts as
may lead TO the destruction OF the Union by saying
" Oh that is an old saying. We were to be ru-
ined hundred times Annexatos was to ruin us ;
War was to ruin us but we don feel ruined yet
&c. This is a bold avowal of their shame IL IS
the excuse Of all abandoned characters. The first
acts of wickedness may have cost them some
twnges of conscience. but they have become used
10 crime and don't feel ruined. The want OF feel
ing is an evidence that they are lost as well to
shame TO virtue.
The inimitable sarcasm in which Mr.. ToMPKIss
of Mississippi, showed up the manner in which
Mr. HoUsToS of Alabama had been prepared by
the President to defend executive prerogative, has
given rise to new phrase. Mr.. HoUsTos, as soon
as the message was opened, produced the refer
ences of the President in the documents with
leaves turned down. The art Of preparing speech
in this way, is now known as the art OF oratorical
dOg-edr0,gplng.
1t was 10 reply to Mr. ToMPKISs that Mr.. BEDIs.
GER of Virginia, quoted the doggerel Latin on
Santa Anna. Mr.. ToMPKINs contends that the
verses were written by Frenchman In fale'Col'
lege after being on spree. When he recovered,
he was so ashamed of himself, for having commit
ted such doggere improvisation to paper that he
went deranged, and has not been heard OF since.
Mr. ToMPKIss thinks if he could only hear that his
poetry was used in the House Of Representatives,
to add grace and dignity to speech on the Next
can War the poor victim of his folly might return
to his friends and sanity together
Another of those Who have been shooting their
pointless arrows at Mr.. ToNPKIss Is Mr.. HENLEY
of Indiana. Now, Mr. HENLEY was the man who
promised TO fight all Mexico with dozen OF old
women with broomsticks, if war followed the an
nexation of Texas. Well, war did follow, and yet
Mr. H. would not enlist for the war. His constl'
tuents urged it upon him that he should march Tor
Mexico but he wouldn't and didn't He got reflect
ed to Congress; for pocketing eight dollars day
for doing nothing is more to his taste he leaves
il 10 other men. whom his assertions cheated into
voting for annexation, to fight in Mexico Tor ten
dollars a month. MIR. ToMPKINs contends that MI.
BEDIS6ER is not to blame. He understands that
he did all he could to raise the company oil broom
sticks but failed because he could not Ind an OLD
woman fool enough TO risk her reputation by en-
listing in Captain HIS company.
You know that the Loco Focos had great
meeting here for war few evenings since. MIR.
BRoUGH of Ohio, was the speaker. He looks
something like an animated barrel OF the staple
export of Ohio. While speaking, the platform
gave way under the enormous pressure OF his cor
pus which made considerable commotion Tor lew
moments He went for war of course. A Lie In
surance Office might make fortune out OF such
men. II they would only consent 10 die by inches
BUCKLEY, Of the Olympic. has made proposals to
him for few nights as Falstah
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