The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-12-18
A CRYING EVIL.

eco forth my son. said the old Counsel.
lor Oxenslein, "and see with how lillle Wis
dom the world IL governed IL Mister OK
enslein jr. had lived in our day he nigh,
have saved himself that journey, for i, would
pn'y have been necessary for him 10 "taketh
Yapers," TO see how great men are made and
unmade. The great staple of these times is
neither cotton, iron, coal nor wool, but soap
ard gas AIR. Cannon has mind and ca
paciiy abou, equal 10 the business oil teach
ing dozen ragged, unkempt nrchins in
country school, and slraishtway he feels
himself ordained 10 be United Sta.es' Sena-
tor. Mister Classy lad the brains that Fer-
haps might have made mildling good
ploughboy, but his imagination became dis
ordea, and he thinks himself inspired for
seat in Congress. So Cannon pufs Classy.
and Classy pui1s Cannon. Some simple
minded people gel 10 talk abont Squire Gas
sy aud General Cannon for they've "seen
the names in the papers"-lhe "free and un
irammelled press" puts on here lille soap,
and there illle gas, and then-"how we
apples swim"
Classy and Cannon know every "sreat
man in Chris,endom, and why shouldn't
they hang on 10 every "big fish's" coal tail :
Don't tney make Presidents and Governors !
Don't ,hey ,ondescend 10 form Cabinets, and
>, tell Congress who is fit for every post in
its gift! If anything happens in The pollii-
cal world, didn'i Classy and Cannon or'g'-
,nall,, say it would be SO and who is more
-nex,renely gratifed" than they"
Though these worthless know about as
much Of politically principles as an elephan,
does OF dancing; and thSuyn they change
their piolession Of political faith with every
new moon, they always pretend 10 be radi-
cal and consistcnt-at least where radicasm
and consistency are profitable. Classy event
It on loud" for the tariff oil '42 and believ-
ed firmly that Mr., Dallas ought 10 stretch
hemp Tor voting in favor of q "back British
tariff" but he caved in little by little, until
he cooed as gently as any sucking dove tor
the principles of the act of '46. Cannon
got into the Taylor movement, and had the
honor of being an "orginal"-but he back
ed ou, when the party wouldn't follow, and
no man in the Uuion afterward abused Tay-
lorism more bitterly. Taylorsm, Cameron
ism and Democracy are all one TO these fel-
lows, SO The "immutable principles" only
pay.
Classy did once beg and cry himself, into
a Cons,abeship, and, from feeling of pity,
was really allowed 10 keep the office one
whole year--because no body would 80 10
the trouble to kick him out. But he then
left his country's service for his couniry's
good, and has ever since been living on gas
and soap.
''Time was that when the brains were out
the man would dic," but that was before
men who are no, fit to be Justice OF the
Peace were talked of for Congressmen, and
before fellows who would not make res
pectable tax.coeclor were named by the
press for Governor
That was before men were were talked OF
TO rule The state, who, though they might
have the imperinence of begging Yankee
clock pedlar, had certainly never the genius
which could have kept them alive at iinera-
ling through the land on mission Of ped
ding clocks, split leather boots and wooden
nutmegs. That was before the race of noble
men had quite died out, and before brood
Of harpies licked their parched jaws i'll ca
ger longing for a suck at tie pnblic teat.
That was before the most brainless and most
impairment man in a community attempted
40 give tone 10 ''public opinion" by letting
loose upon the "dear people" flood of self
iaudatory circulars.
Feiy Best, we should think, has taken
some lessons from Mister Oxenstein senior
: fn 1916 he was very careful to see q men,
Sber Of the Legislature elected from the upper
end of our county, and then in ls47 got up
she hue and cry that the loacr end must
have something. Wasn't, the lower end
great, glorious, lsue and illustrous? Hadn't
it done every thinss Ergo, Mr. Best must
be Senator, for he just lived in the right To-
cation. And then hadn't he served the party
s'ever so long and good deal longot,o and
had he ever done any thing worse than live
off the party ever since he was boy. And
npon territorial merit he, in The parance OF
Z Swelldom, "went in." Bravo Feliy!
Lately, and in fact long since, James Wat
son Webb of the New York Courier and En-
sq,drs,, aud of $4,000 U. S. Bank noiority
has been abusing Kossuth the Hungarian
patriot. A grand festival was last week Civ
en- in honor of the illustrious exile, and a.
mong the guests, TO the aslonishmept of ev-
cry body, came Col, Webb also, and he see
med stranger TO nobody except Shame.
When sihe Press" was toasted, Mr.. Ray
mond Gin accordance with The arrangement
of The Com nitlee) rose 10 reply, butthe bra
zen. faced Colonel was up first and began TO
deliver himself. The company were al first
dumbfounded; but, on recovering, protested
that man who had openly declared Kossuth
accessory 10 murder should not speak there.
The Chairman Of the festival told the Col. TO
sit down, as he hadn't been called for, and
that Mr.. Raymond was 10 speak But Webb