The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-08

was not siea dfas consstent for two issues toge
Their evcnin its foyi for, with distinguished impair
TALLY, II changed it's craftsmanship every month.
precisely the Hing ReciesO still exhibits its cha
meleon hues, according to the portraiture Of each
successive individual who may have been ~ ludic-
rously cgotstica as TO desire the Immortality. in
its columns, OF being depicted, in full face, as
quack politician, Mohatt-pill and Townsend
sarsaparilla statesman These pill and
statesmen, principally Of the old fogy class; :"
| these pill and sarsaparilla statesmen, we say,
mere advertisers of quack medicines, viz: their
own personal and political virtues and claims upon
the Democratic party really owned the Democratic
h'vitio in the days so admired by Mr.. Brccken
ridge.
The RsUieW, then, every month presented a new
| partisanship for some newly discovered celebrity
end old Jogy Representatives, tcho could pay his bill
| IN round numbers. What should have been the
great representative OF the Democratic party, the
tutor and mouth piece of tho people, tho guar dian
OF their liberties and the adviser Of their course;
what should have been, we say, the manly and
abovc-b board utcrer of the unuttcred, but deeply
and lastngy. felt, ideas of the Democracy of this
Republic and Of the world, became and was, under
such hands, the mere scacsnger Of political garbage,
TIE mere D0grdnt Partisan Of hoary and boastful
competency. We challenge our antagonists TO turn
back, over the pages Of its previous volumes,
| fees the truth and avoid blushng if they can. AZ
each OF these antquated nobodies offered himself to
| its notice, the RevieD trumpeted forth his clams
| on fame and on the adroitly deluded people. Then
It seems it was q ''national' gan, because in
| each alternate month OF the twelve of every year
IT made out "great character for some of the
club, who were it's joint masters, and proposed and
advocated to the best Of It's ability his peculiar and
nJx.. L.
We must now enlighten our readers with a
sketch which may be called
HOW THE OLD FOGIES SAT- TO BE PAINTED
1t would be affecting to the reader to detail
the facial contortions of the venerable fogcs as
each came before their obligingy universal artist
az the struggle to put the best face their eronte
ry was painful to the venerable sufferers Some old
gentlemen sat for hours comforting and pursuing
their hps 80 TO look imrIacably stern and a,rfiy
Democratic, and powerfully Jacksonidn. Others
stiflencd up and threw back some few hairs, 60 as
TO appear OF statcsmanlike character on the out
side of their baldness resembling, iongo inter
| sailo, tho noble CALHOUN. Another distinguished
Democrat, more sagacious, and withal adventur-
Gus, discovering steel plate copied from the Eng
lish one Of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL of which the
body had been finished but the face merely touched
in outline; and, concciving that the attitude given
by the artist TO the great British Tory would be
exceedingly dignihed for American Democrat,
and would be, withai, becoming to himself, acfu
ally purchased the plate preserved the tody had poor
SIR Roberts head cut Off and his o,cn countenonce
inserted in its place; and the American Democracy
not the club at Washington, but the people, the
only Democratic party will stoop to recognise
have for years been worshipping this senseless
mask, located on the shoulders of British body,
as "a great American Democratic statesman
and the same may at any time be in office.
JUDGE DOUGLAS.
Who bis father never asked. All VIC
know about him, Sin point Of fact" is that he is
good Democrat. and very queer sort OF goa
head individual, in his own person, without 4
"grand!ather," yet learned, wise, prec tcal-and
II he had only confidence in Young America and
its destiny, and courage to grasp the helm, and
not stay moving himself up in Wnshingtonisn
"circles," pslsicd by fogyism, but resign his seat
in the Senate, leave that fogy atmosphere which
doth snake towards of us all" and get out among
the people, put on clean shirt every day, patron
iEe his barber, and abjurng the short sighted
policy OF questioning the Democratic Rece1 about
any thing II does, and go-a-head with will, he
would mako most excellent and truly Democrat
&c candidate. Who his family may have been we
cannot inform polite circles the public. lie s
simply Judge Douglas, Of Illinois, carpenter and
Senator" and his friends mutually anxious be
should now his former trade of cabinet ak
ing" no bis father may have been, nobody knows;
probably he is The son Of gun, or Of axe, a
plane, or a mallct; for he shavos opinions, cuts
deep, and strikes hard. What gymnastc perform
ance he may have exhibited in his nurses arms We
cannot inform the public. Probably he wet
nursed ohisel The possibility Of this fact folly
accounts for bis having cut his eye-tecth 70 early.
lie sawed up his genealogical tree long ago, and
has nothing but himself left 30 put ia tho Presiden
tiel chair. lie was turned out of the university of
the lathe proper Democrat; and finally, after
much cxertion, graduated on the bench fret car
pcntorial, then judicial. And now, having some
more lobbing 10 do, he presents himself, not With
an old platform, bot with the materials, and the
mind, and the energy to shape, fashion, aud make
enduring, platform Of his own design, very Dem.
ocratic, very Young American, and very 20 a.
head And so he takes his stand ms a carpenter
We would prefer, repeat, 20 play "organ, I"
even IN this style. 10 a man without grandfather,
than to puff, and blow. and SLAYER, a. old fogy.
dom requires us.
THE OLD FoGIES RUN UNDER WATER.
We stand on the Democratic care
tatcr bot VIC viii take very good care, should ,pa
vinsd nags lame PONIES, like cur benton old foey
H"fNes" fNhffts tVD't VV'sfW fffNffpfs lOf cams
ron, 70 foH be'a at that Thy ARE Lu,nItgs; that
they arc calculated to injure the credit Of the
course, and own individual credit. ss one Of
the keepers Of the samc; that they bad better get
home and he up; that what look like strong leVs in
them merely wind. bags Of chronic pulling;
that they arc mo go;" that they cannot come H.
&c &c; and finally, that, without knocking us
down, They cannot get in
We have room for only one more extract,
which is complimentary to Governor Macy,
and holds out the hand Of fellowship to JoHN
Vas buren, and the Bamburners. Whose case
the Rsrietr will next take up we are not in
formed; bat we do not remember that it has yet
disposed of Commodore STOCKTON, who be-
longs, We suppose, at least to middle-aged
America. and may form the compromise can
ddste between Young America and Old Fogy-
ism. II our young friends do not make way
with The Commodore ia their very next mum
Der, they may find him more troublesome than
they anticipate. But TO return to our muttous: