New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-10

body by magnifcently pronouncing in favor OF
e throwing our protection by annexation
around the whole world! We call this :" grand
eur!' Lane wins in the game of &c brag.
Some queer things followed. Dallas was toasted
as the truest Of Democrats for killing the Tariff
Of '46; no mention made of his steady advocacy
Of an U. s. Bank. The two next toasts, referring,
the fret. to a notorious freesoiler, and the
second. to n determined -freesciler, offer SO
ant Z contrast that we place them together:
General John A. Dix, of NewYork: The tried and
consistent rcpublicanthe firm and able friend of the
Union of progress and of democratic principles
Bio Daniel S. Dickinson faithful sentinel
the watehtower Of democracy He preferred constitutional
principles to sectional advancement and the democratic
party viii forSet the services of man who loves
his country more than himself
The political misery Of being out of power
makes, certes, some queer bed-fellows. John
Tyler, Marcy, Buchanan and Gen. Wool were
regularly toasted. H. uss
General Houston-where was hes He was
(" called early from the hall by indisposition :
F. p Blair the celebrated editor and free soller,
had opened the proceedings with dose Of Kos
suth and Hungary and Intervention, which was
sufficient to turn stronger stomach than even
that of Old San Jacinto." Ut is curious how
greedily these free sellers have seized upon Kos
,uth and Intervention But Sam was deter
mined to come out like re-appesring star
and the dinner in honor of the Irish Exiles was
his occasion. We clip from the proceedings as
reported in the Washington Union:
First come first served AS ireland has given her
Montgomery the American Revolution and peopled the
yast sotues of the American continent with the best
bones and other land she thinks that if there is to
be any departure from the old settled policy of the Amer
ian Government the first stride in the policy of inter
ference should be taken in favor of Erin
whose sons proverba for an abiding love
for law Order and the institutions of their adopted
country. Applause and cheersJ
Hon Sam Houston here and proposed nine cheers
which were heartily given.
Handsomely and dramatically done; Il brill
liant coup de Iheatrei But the resolution is
Just our sentiment, even if the hurra people and
all the Presidential aspirants (Sam Houston ex-
cepted) at dinner have forgotten Ireland and
the story of her wrongs, to run after kossuth
and his plumed hat. Sam Houston has very ju-
diciously left Cass, Hungary and Intervention
| Douglas, vtuperation of the administration and
annexation of Canada and Patagonia, and
Gen. Lane, universal annexation. He stands by
| Ireland; this is practical, and may make votes.
g Old San Jacinto' had them there.
| This is our glance at Presidential candidates
at the dinner table 1t has afforded us infinite
amusement to see how nimbly they caper to the
real or supposed beating of the popular drum
and what an infinite deal Of nonsense they can
talk 81.
Just look at Douglas we have him in oul
minds eye when he announced that great dis
covery of sc the MUM channel of the two great
seas;'' a fat little gentleman, handkerchief in
hand, half bent, hammering the back of his
chair, and looking alarmingly red in the face.
Look at Lane, &c honest, blunt old Joe'' We see
his semi grave, semi smirking satisfaction, when
he &c Dragged over" Douglas annexation of the
Continent and adjoining islands. by the splendid
declaration, that he was in favor Of annexing
the whole world. Look at Sam Houston we see
him, too, rising, or rather towering, above all
others, and proposing, with his hands deep in
the unfathomable pockets of his red vest, cheers
for intervention in behalf of Ireland
So we go in this fast age of progress. These
Presidential candidates at the dinner table say
many things, which we can only resolve into the
simple promise, that they will do all they can to
ssraise fuss generally give us lively times,
tell the Car that he is neither republican nor
a gentleman, and inform the world at large that
it belongs to Young America, who has come of
age, and will take possession Of his property.
Will not the wing Presidential candidates oblige
us by also dining OUT