The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-26
-girrisond the glen
AT once with full FIVE hundred men,

AT once with full five hundred men.
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Watching their leaders back and wl"-
Has been "laid on the shelf" and at last af.
ter all his untiring devotion to his party, is in
very much the position of Cardinal Wolsey,
when he exclaimed
10, Father Abbot
An old man, broken with the storms of State,
Is come to lay his weary bones amongye.
Give him little earth for charity"
"In our mindseye, we see him, like Fitz
James, after he had chased the stag in vain
after he had seen his good steed stretch his stiff
limbs to raise no NOR" -calling in his hounds
from their vain pursuit, when
"Back limped, with slow and crippled pace,
The sulky leaders of the chase
Close to their masters side they pressed
With dropping tail and humble CREST
"The orator the statesman, the brave old CT
william, stands at this moment a victim OF feder-
al alteration and federal ingratitude!
"And Scott-the brave and gallant Scott
who fought from Vera Cruz to Mexico-who
entered in triumph the city of Montezumas,
and through whose direct agency the olive
branch is now entwined with the late hostile
oohhCiS VI tuC Outlcu StdttS dHQ
he, too, has been pushed from his stool, to
make room for younger, "not a better SOL
der"
"And Webster, toe, the man celebrated by his
friends for giant intellect. and as capable of
doing honor TO any station, could find hardly
corporal Guard TO say "God save him." But
that same corporal's guard will scarcely desert
him. and when old Massachusetts speaks next
November, she will scarcely have forgotten
no W to pronounce-and that, too, with empha-
sis-the name of Daniel Webster
Who could believe, and yet il is the fact,
that the above is from the Washington Union?
1t is the organ Of Polk which now converts
Harry of the West into Roderick Dhu. Fitz
James and Cardinal Wolsey; which now pro-
nounces Clay "truly great man. "the orator,
the statesman, the brave old civilian"l-that
same Clay who. in 1874, was branded from
Maine to Georgia BY the same party as guilty of
BARGAIN AND CoRRUPTIoN-as a DEBAUcHEE,
DUELIsT, and BLACK LEG,-as every thing i'm
short that is corrupt in politics and infamous
in morals! Who doubts that, il Mr. CLAW had
been again the candidate, the same charges
wonld have been again repeated? No one ;,
who recollects that the same lament was raised
by the same presses when Harrison received
the nomination in 1910. Then, as now, &C.
cording to the democratic organs, Clay had been
vilely victimized by his own party Then, as
now, their sympathies ran in broad stream
for the neglected and unrewarded Harry of the
West. But no sooner had their pretended ia
vorite been again presented than the wall of
distress died away, and they who had raised it,
sprang, like tigers from their ambush, upon
their victim. The same game has been tried
again, but with less success. 1t has proved !
the most transparent of all tricks, the most
SHALLOW Of all humbugs. The Union, and 9th |
er democratic organs, may thank themselves;
they may praise their own immense discretion
and sagacity, that Taylor is the Wing nominee. |
Thousands Of Wings have been convinced of
Old lacks superior availability. by the open
and undisguised anxiety ofihe Onion that he
should not be the Wing candidate. Shade of
Talleyrand! What miracle Of tact and man.
agementl
And Scott, too, the brase and gallant Scott,
who fought from Vera Cruz to Mexico,-Scottl
who entered the Halls in triumph, Scott who
won us peace,-Scott too, quoth the Union,