New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-18
MORE LoCoFoco LITERATURE.

Every body in this country is well aware that
to write letters is not exactly the highroad to
the Presidency nay, that he who cannot write
his name would be much lkelier to reach that
sovereign honor than any gentleman Whatever,
who, while candidate, should write any letter
at all, even to his wife Nevertheless, an IRE
pressible propensity for letter writing seems to
seize upon every man, as soon as he aspres
to what the Washington Globe called in Jack
sopian times Gas well it mighty ",he American
diadem" This cacoethes scribendi, this itch OF
scribbling appears to be regular ands at
tendant symptom of that main disease, the
mania Of the Presidency, which leads SO many
of our public men to commit so many things
either fatal to themselves or perniciOus to the
country.
This Presidential malady seems incurable,
1t appears to us, in the havoc which it makes of
valuable lives, that it is time we should resort
against it to one of what doctors call " heroical
remedies" When dogs are about to have &c dis
temper" we cut off their tails: when gentle
man or any body else becomes Presidential
candidate, his friends df he has any should
take him, in haste, to the next horse block, and
We have had occasion, of late, to show how
this complaint is raging among the democracy.
Some practitioners look on it as epidemic; others
IS contagious but all agree that its present
type is in the highest degree malignant. Moth
ing, we fear, will ''arrest its ravages' or 'stop
its fell career except our peculiar recipe
Ratchet and horse block.
The last case that has occurred is a very
cruel one, seeing the age and the eminence of
the sufferer, as well as the security which some
supposed him to enjoy in the fact of his having
repeatedly had the disorder before. 1t appears
that, on the Goth September last, Gen. Lewis
Cass was taken down, and now lies at Detroit,
with little hope of recovery, surrounded by his
weeping family and friends Witness the fol-
lowing:
DrrRoIr, September %, 1858
SRI have Just been informed that 1t has recently
been reported in Mississippi that the standing of Gov
Foote in the Senate had become bad that large
majority Of that body desired his defeat in the contest
pending and that he had wholly lost my confidence "
1t is due to myself and to truth-not to Governor
Foote for be needs no from metha should
state that far my is connected with the report
there is the slightest foundation for the assertion He
possesses he is entitled to- my full confidence founded
nent intellectual endowments. Nor have ever heard
before, do believe, that majority Of the Senate
expressed desire that he should be defeated In h
for seat IN that body On the contrary. am
satisfied that large portion Of the members would be-
grted at his restoration to his former position Ger
tny it does not become to take part In the strug
gle going in the State Of Mississippi but under
the circumstances in which my has been used.
am free To that would oyfully welcome him to seat
among satisfied that his constituents could not b.
represented by better ADLER citizen, nor could the
interests Of his country be committed frmer purer
patriot ready in the hour Of trial to meet all dangers
and If need be- to sacrifice himself 10 the perpetuy of
the Union.
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
To the Hon. b. N. Kipyon. LEWIS CAss.
cheerfully submit this affair, with all the other
of injustice and cold booded persecution which have
been subjected within the last three years the calm
consideration of the fair minded and enlightened body
independent voters, who will decide at the ballot box
in November next, upon my merits, well upon