The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-21


where. Certainly, IN this State, the wings,
with General Taylor as their candidate, stand
UNNECESSARILY ahead of all that can be brought
against them. The free soil movement In Penn
sylvana has shaken that commonwealth very
considerably more than the recent earthquake
shook the Catskil mountains, If we Judge from the
noise and clamor made by number Of democratic
papersn that region. Ohio therefore, together with
Pennsylvania, the Northwestern States, and some
of the New England States, become the debateable
ground in this contest; and the present position OF
parties, with the recent Developments which we
have enumerated, bid fair to make the struggle IN
the North principally between General Cass and
General Taylor, without holding out the slightest
prospect for Mr.. Van Buren, and his supporters
occupying any other position, than that OF helping
10 defeat General Cass and assist General Taylor,
by making an Inroad on the democratic party
The abohtionlsts, four years ago, expended their
force on the wings, and the probability Is, that
the kin movement of free soil will commit Its ra-
wages on the democrats this time. On this prln-
chile. the issue in the approaching election, and
the uprising chances of General Taylor must hang
Such, at this moment, is our view OF the present
important contest The free soil movement is not
deeply involved in it in the free States, because all
parties agree on that ground OF action. Mr.. Clay,
like an honorable man, retires from the contest,
and leaves the field to the candidate put forward
by the Philadelphia Convention. General Cass is
supported by the administration, and by the old
democratic organization, with the exception of
the Van Buren, interest, united with the old aboli-
ton fragments The prospect, therefore, is, that
the conflict will be one of the most severe and
doubtful that ever took place in this country, and
the victory will be won by those who manage with
the greatest skill and greatest tact, and who can
gain over those who have not yet made up their
minds on the questions pending in the conflict.
Hon. JOHN MINER BoTTs.-We have heard
ditch digger attribute the death of Gene
| raj Harrison to a pair of Yankee boots
| We have seen the omens of Amos Kendal fore
telling the bad luck of the wing party fulfilled as
distinctly as any chapter of the prophet Amos, of
| old Near the time OF the inauguration of Pres-
dent Harrison, an arm of the figure of justice fell
down from the tympanum of the eastern portico
| of the Capitol whereupon, "the heaven-born" if
not the heaven-lnsplred Amos girded up his loins,
and prophesied in Jerusalem, that the vengeance
of the Lord would descend upon the wings, as it
did upon the five kings of the Amorltes, when the
valley of Ajalon, while Joshua, the Lords an
rointed, smote the enemy hip and thigh. And the
proThecy of Amos was fulfilled, even as the COM
mand of Joshua, the son of Nun. Omens, there
fore. coming from the En- Postmaster General, are
entitled to respect.
But, among all the prognostlcs dire pending
upon the wing party, there is one circumstance IN
! its history almost forgotten, whose disastrous re-
L L. ell.
fearful night when the bloody Richard was born ;
1t was mild night when the Thane of Cawdor
used his Bowie knife upon the good King Duncan;
but who shall describe to posterty the pertentous
signifcatIon of the meteorological phenomena OF
that awful night when John M. Bolts, M. G. and
| p. d.. slept IN the same bed with John Tyler. On
that most ominous night, we doubt not Hague, the
astrooper. could discover in the horoscope OF Mr..
| Bolts that Mars, the god OF war, was In the as
| cendant On that most dreadful night, when Mr..
Tyler and Mr. Bolts talked over the blessings of a
bank, and the advantages of peace, under the same
Wilton blanket, big war was brewing III the
elements and vetoes, and annexation, and the
accommodation of his Accidency. That was a
night in the history of John Tyler, and the wing
party, and MIR. Bolts, never to be forgotten.
From that night, John Tyler and jobs M. Bolts
were never to sleep under the same cOunterpane
any more. Whatever may be the causes, it is
"fxed fact" (for which turn over the speeches of
Caleb Cushing and when found, take note,) it
IS fixed fact,'' that the disasters to the wing
party followed rapidly upon each other-the death
of Harrisor--the cofiee-house letter." head him
or dle''-the vetoes-the expulsion OF John Tylef
the defeat of Mr.. Bots-the defeat of the wings,
and the defeat of Mr. Clay, from that nj ght when
two Johns OF Virginia drank out of the same deml-
John, and bundled like brothers IN the same bed
where never shall they sleep again John Major
or John Minor, you are done, John with that
donjon under which you dreamed, in each others
arms, of the gones of a monster hydra with thirty
heads, beyond the reach of the bludgeon of Old
Hickory.
And still the curse upon the violation of the
law, which declares that an and mule shall
not be yoked together, pursues the guilty parties in
this case with supernatural vengeance. John
Tyler has been doomed to the support of General
Cass-and John M. Bolts, failing to head Taylor
and Tyler, is compelled to take his chances with
the outsiders, by whom he is superseded. But he
continues to damn the nomination., while he
grudgingly pledges himself to vote the ticket.
His recent letters are aside by the protest of
Henry Clay against the use OF his name on a
ticket, which would end in other result than
the election of Gen. Cass. BY the next meeting
of the Clay wings In common council at Vauxtall,
we expect Mr.. Bolts to come on to speak for him.
self, for Mr.. Clay, and tor the nominee and the
late eruption In the Bowery, though seconded by
Mr. Bolts and the telegraph, will end as harmlessy
as the explosion of bottle of pop. Hereafter we
would advise John M. Bolts, NJ c., to abandon
politics and patriotism entirely, and stick to horses
and geldings altogether.
LATER FROM RIO JANEIRo.-By the arrival of
tile ship Courier, Captain Wolfe, from RIo we