Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-05
'WHO SHALL DECIDE WHEN DOC
TORS DISAGREE :"

of one mind, it would certainly owe great debt
of gratitude to the Richmond Enquirer But
the other day it informed Us lit would not deny
there are dissensions in our party" 'but so soon
as the Democratic National Convention shall
have spoken and acted, the temporary disagree
ment in our ranks will have passed away. All
true Democrats will bow to the wishes of the
National Democracy fairly expressed &c."-
With the Enquirer's sanguine temper, ''all goes
merry as a marriage bell.' But far different In
tone the sad foreboding of one who has recently
been here aud elsewhere, on disinterested
mission of Peace and Good-will-not so with
Mr. Buchanan-no such joyful presage, 1t seems,
waits on the evangel of that distinguished apos-
tie. For. after scanning well the thick coming
shadows of the future, in epistle to the faith
full in Baltimore, he thus mourntully delivers
himself -
IF rightly read the signs Of the times there mas ser
J9zp been q period 1rheH the Democratic party q the
couprg to 1chich you and acarmly dttdched oos
in greater peril Gn at the present moment In order to
avert this danger must mutually forget and forgive
past dissensions suffer bygones to be bygones and
commence career, keeping constantly III view the
ancient and long established landmarks OF the party
The .ong established landmarks" of the sold
line Democracy ''They alone can save u.s.
Hear that, I'VE young Democracy" "young
America ~ Hear that, we Juvenile Intervention
lists, We "manJest destiny'' youth As with
the weird monitor of Lochiel, so with this Mes
tor of the Democracy
"'Tis the evening of life gives him mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before"
Apparently "Pennsylvania's favorite son. got
no great deal of ..material aid,' among the Vir
ginia Observation-Disclosures the lawyers say, "took
nothing by his notion" The Enquirer, it is
true, is fifty discreet ''until the Baltimore Con-
vention shall have spoken;" but some OF Its col
leagues seem pretty well committed to the for
tunes of the .Littte Giant of the North West
while their still more enterprising associate in
Petersburg fairly snaps his fingers in the face of
the old Hunkery. As man OF character and
talents. General Cass is undoubtedly respectable,
Int something more is needed for the successful
leadership of the Democratic party in the ap-
preaching campaign. 1--WE want no man OF Me
past." (ouoth he, of the ssSouthside.'') We
want man of promise. You'll have enough
of that, neighbor, we promise you) 'One who
shall be able to steer the country and the partly
(very different things, we grant YOU ''sately
across the dangerous waters before US. Tlmld-
ity and caution may do well for the Senate, where
men deliberate only but when action, momen-
tous action, is necessary, there must be princi-
pie and resolution" No deliberations" no
neaution"-no, that will do for the .Senate,"-
none of your respectable men for us. Give as
..action," s.momentous action" '.princlpte' and
..resolution - This beats Jack Cade
CaDE-I am sorry for't the man is a proper man,
(respectabeJ on mine honor Unless find him Guilty.
he shall not die-come hither, sirrah, must examine
thee: what's thy name!
CLERK.-Emanuel.
DIcK-Thev used to write it the top of letters );
CADE-Iet me alone; 'dost thou use write thy
name or hast thou mark to myself like an honest
plan-dealng man?
CLERK-Sir thank God, I have been so well
brought up that can cratemy name
Allie hath confessed; away with him. he's
villain and traitor.
CADE-Away with him. say; hang MIN with MS
pen and ink horn about his neck
Poor General Cassl He had already had
his quietus, we supposed along with Buchanan,
Butler Dickinson, and other eXpectants, in the
last number of the Democratic Review, and
some wag in cruel sport had already published
ssa sketch Of the life and public services OF
General Lewis Cass''-but here we have him
exhumed, to get his final coup de grace. By
the way, the last rumors from Washington give
out. that even the star of Douglas is possibly
doomed to ''pale its Intellectual fire" in blazon
of another and rising fortune. 1t is said, so
hot has become the rivalry between the re-
tainers of the two aspirants recently most
looked to- douglas and Buchanan) that to dis
appoint either in favor of the other, may be an
experiment too dangerous to try; in which event.
the chances of Mr. Folks Treasury Chef are
not beyond the range OF calculation. This
would indeed be hard upon the Michi- gander,
If little Bobby, with his Kossuth speeches in
England, were to carry off the honors, and so
set at naught the fiirtations of that veteran old
coouetto with intervention"
few weeks, however, will put an end to
speculation the subject, # so De that the dis
cords Of this multifarious faction can be har-
monized into any nomination at all. Let the
choice fall, however, on whomit may, the result
will augur little good to- the country Even
among the real great men of the nation-men
whose pretensons to craftsmanship were I'M
doubted, il has been SEEM times past, how much
he jealousies engendered by the hot rivalries
of their ambition have contributed to defeat the
homes and devolye the honors and the opportu-
mites OF public service upon lesser men,
And thus it. has happened, in the language
of an acute foreign observer, that at the
present day the most talented men in the
United States are very rarely placed at the
head of affairs; and it must be acknow-
lsdred that such has been the result in
nronortion as Democracy has outstepped all its
former limits The race of American states
men has evidently dwinded in the course of the
last ffv wears" And if causes like these,
which in times past have excluded Clay to