Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-09

oenou what great little dnaIter kiHuiett
The NEW YoRK SHELLS The political world east
of the mountains has been gossiping the letters
of Collector Bronson and Attorney General o. Conor,
both of the nation of New York. Nothing IS heard
of but the shells--soft and hard The science of
chonchoogy seems to be the only science in vogue,
except that of selfdefence recently practiced with
wonderful brutality at Boston Four Corners. A
stranger to our politics would imagine that our gov
eminent, like one of the coral isles of the Indian
ocean, was built up and sustained by shells Moth
ing else seems to be cared for. New York is the
great metropolis, and the soundings in the shells
which line her shore are accounted the echo OF the
great popular. voice O'Conor, who holds an attor-
neyship and Bronson, who receives money and gives
bond for it like any other collector presume to talk
to and about our administration if the people OF
this country had made them the very elect yea just
as II they did not hold their offices by the forbear
ance of the President who has been called to his high
position by the almost universal reclamation OF the
people. Yet, to see how Bronson writes one would
think that he least the Warwick of the State
think that ne believed in the verse of Campbell:
Glory (they said) and power and honor
Are III the mansion of O'Conor.'
We, in Ohio, would humbly suggest-and perhaps,
since our people have spoken about democratic meas
ures, we may be allowed some; emphasis in making
the suggeston-that the State of New York and it's
distracted, spoilsseeking, and rampant democracy
do not constitute this nation. We may perhaps add
that the national administration at all dependent
! on Mr.. O'Conor and Mr.. Bronson for its success;
that for all the people of this western country care
Mr.. Jones-an intelligent merchant who under
stands cuStom-houSe regulations, and give bond
will do as well as Bronson to collect our money,
put it i'll the vaults and keep the key 1t is not at
all necessary that this New York caterwaulng, kept
up with such screeching recriIninaton, should be
made national matter. If Mr.. Pierce does not want
these in office, let him quietly drop them into
the niche they ordained to l,'' and the great
body of voters of this country will not lose minutes
Sleep nor go to church any more rregularly on ac-
count of it.
A little touch of the Jacksonian pluck might con-
vert sos and hards into fossliferous remains (which
political mneralogsts and gnomes, in their searches
after strange peritactions and curious bones seeing
may profit by-and which, laid up in cabinets, may
point many moral in political ethics and adorn ma
ny tale of political scandal.
If Mr. Pierce and his advisers think proper to keep
Bronson and O'Conor in their POSITIONS he can let
them take out their spite by butng their hard heads
into their brother softs We entirely Indifferent
For all that appears both sides love the President
distraction have never even " comprised nor imag
ined" his destruction-would crawl with the patience
of any other shefsh around the globe to serve
him. What, then, is the matter? Is it a State
trouble? Then, let them get whipped by the wings
and stay out of power awhile, and perhaps they will
come to. Is 1T matter of SeltiShneSS and lucre?
DO the shells want government to shell out ?" The
government has been remarkably discreet in distri-
buting offices between both Shells If any one has
absorbed into his shell more government nutriment
than the other, it is the hard Shells ard they are
the most complaining in this regard Well, perhaps,
the President may conclude to give unto those that
have not, and take away from those who have lit
tie, that which they have. 1t matters not Let
the President do his will; we are as Indifferent as
Uncle Toby was with the fly.
Our old Ohio farmer democrats cannot understand
what all this ridiculous childs play among the shells
means They have seen nothing in the admnistra-
ton which they do not approve, and are at loss to
understand why it should be embarrassed by these
New York politicians The TRUTHS, if the West was
little more cared for and this everlasting snaring
between North and South and kindred influences
was not prompted and urged on by designing politi-
cians better times would dawn in Washington. AT
ter ALL the giant West must bet the Hercules infant
Hercules, if you please-to strangle those kissing
serpents who in winding around each other, not
particular about breaking other peoples ribs, that
their invouons attract attention and the vic
tory. 1t is Sullivan and Morissey little dignified.
Nobody would care much if the prize-fghters
were bunged in their eyes and bloodied
in their noses but they do not want the peace and
dignity of the State disturbed for the sake of the
innocent qualification of the parties Immediately
cerned-their aiders and abettors.
Ohio Statesman.