The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-01

were never obruded upon the public gaze, and to
which full justice was never rendered by his oppo-
nents; his acknowledged ability; his skill in illus
tration and arrangement; and the life with which
he invests the duness of political detail have all
contributed TO give this Plutarchan effort zest
has received at the public hands.
Before introducing this brief but eloquent sketch,
il is due to the editor Of the Union 10 say that he
has been restrained, through becoming motives of
modesty and delicacy, from transferring the eulo-
GUM to his own columns; which has moved us the
more, though political opponents, to give him the
benefit of our columns and circulation. The eulo-
gy was delivered at Cleveland on the 18th July in
slant, and runs in the following strain:
"But, Mr.. President we want national party
We have none. We have no national editors.
speak of the Democratic party. Richie is not an
organ of the Democratic party. True, he might
become so. can very well imagine that he might
become radically anti-slavery. Nothing in the
past history OF that man goes to preclude the posi-
bility of such event. He denounced General
Jackson in terms of the most abandoned bitterness
The election of Andrew Jackson, said he, 'to
the Presidency of these United States, would be
greater calamity than war, pestilence, or famine
And yet afterwards he turned in and helped to
elect him t,oice to the Presidency! He denounced
the Independent Treasury bill as measure fraught
with danger TO the liberties of the people; as an in
fernal invention Of the President and his Secretary
by which one kind of currency was to be provided
for government and another for the people; and
now he foods the air with appeals stand by it, as
a basis upon which the dsbanded Democracy may
be rallied! whilst his ink turns pale at the frightful
vgor with which he deals out encomums upon il,
the perfect production of human wisdom. am
reminded Of remark Of the lamented and revered
Silas Wright He said that Richie experienced
difficulty at all in changing his position; but that
that very facility extnguished every particle of his
influence He may come right, but he will present
a spectacle which will challenge the contempt of
every one who shall have a fair claim to be ranked
human being. Look at him. sitting at the seat of
Government. convention Of shareholders is as
sembled to hold lamentations over the advance of
the free spirit of the land and consummate their
plans for the dissolution of the Union. slave
holder occupies the chair of state, knitting his
brows to Indignantly fown down the efforts of free
men for freedom; and the Union is threatened by
Southern men on every hand. Does he speak,
Does he sound an alarm and give notice of danger
No But there he sits, lamenting over the removal
of a collector of customs, or pregnant with holy
horror when the head of decapitated inspector
rolls from the block! Yes there he sits like super
a,nated market by the road side, crying oper
her broken eggs!
"In my opinion, the only tune which he can play
upon his cracked organ to which the Democracy
can universally respond, is this:
ooh carry me back to Old Virginia.