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CATION.


CATION.
If the following extract from WILSON,
|DIsPArcH' does not contain some blum
facts, we have construed the languag,
wrongly. And these hints have the NOR,
weight, as coming from a source plainly dis.
interested, and unwarped by partizan predi'
lections. The penetrating sagacity of the
American press is truly wonderful, that il
can discover plainly, at a distance of three
thousand miles, a mote that is binding the
vision Of a foreign fellow-rerublic, and is
yet insensible to the beam that has so ef-
f~ectually blinded our people to their highes,
interests. If one will read the following
and escape the impression that we have
run the thing into the ground,' by follow.
ing our blind guides, we freely accredit
him as the most 'artful dodger' that has
popped under our observation:
Por scoLDINc KETTLE FOR BEING BLACK.
ALI around US we hear people condemning
French, in no measured terms, for
a President of Louis Napoleon
'Ahp we exclaim, sit shows
their ignorance in these matters? but if
they had only our experience, they would
have seen master Louis knocked into his
old cooked hat frstp But, never.
if we look g little below the sur.
ace, We shall find that we have been doing
pretty much about the same thing ourselves;
does not cur President elect owe his
eIninence TO circumstances which,
lad no connection whatever with his ftnessl
or his Office? and have we not cast aside,
ike SO many old shoes, the ablest ~states-
men in the land, to make way for the sHeroI
IT Buena VISTA not on the grounds of his
possession Of a single magisterial qualifica-
ion, but simply because he swkipt the
Iexicans?' Being neutral in politics, we
lon't speak thus in a complaining spirit,
or, on the contrary, we like the old Cen
'Ial, and believe as we hope) that he will
'et on first rate if their is anything left of
i'm after his first encounter with the Office
eekers-compared to whom Santa Anna
nd his light heeled battalions were as so
lany mice to twenty times their number of
ats-but still the justice Of our illustration
eing admitted-and it is so evident that
IL who run may read-we opine that we
re no more justified in taking airs upon|
urselves, and censuring the French for
heir choice of Louis Napoleon, than was
he pot on a certain occasion in calling the
ettle tblack face Intellect and intslli-
eDce are very good things in a small way,
ut in a candidate for Office, where there
re many electors concerned, military rel
or even the shadow of military rel
own is worth a dozen Of them, and for the
Efficient reason that in the present circum.
'ances Of the earth, the animal altogetherlt
over the spiritual among the
lpeds human, who in the mass, are so pro-
'undly engaged in the care of their we'll.
eloved bodies, that they leave their poor 9
'uls to take care Of themselves. A fig, !
~ we, for intellect or fitness in a Presi-
entia candidate, for the great question is
has the man any brains2 but has he
ny bottom? and hence the genius of Clay
the scholarship of CASTLE hocus pocus !
the 'Little Magician and the fifty other
in the same erudite line, of all the .
her aspirants, were the very smallest kind
small potatoes when compared with the
mple Give them some more grape Captain ! !
ragg.' %
A YEAR's TMMIGRATIoN.-In the year,
iding on the LIST Of April, ls49, there Ian =
I'd at New York, two hundred and lohSh