Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-02-21
From the New York Tribune.
flLLIBUSTERISN ON THE ERR


Young America has spoken in the Senas e.
And what does Young America in the Senate
say! Well, as near to nothing as can be-. Tho
big balloon of Manifest Destiny colIapses, and
flaps about like a sloops mainsailin a calm. The
gale is over, the bubble is burst, the kite string
has broken, and Young America drifts heIter-
SHELTER in the sky, scuds back, straggling, for
shelter, like hens running for shed in shower.
Filbustersm is nowhere. Soule, and Ned
Marshal, and Douglas, and George Law, aud
Sanders, and number of Others, big and little,
that started just after the Presidential election, to
raise steam on this notion of Manifest Destiny,
in general, and Cuba Annexation in particular
have made as great a miscarriage in their efforts
as Lopes himself did. Undertaking to set more
sail, thsy have had all their canvass blown away.
They went aloft on the ratlins, with great show
and pretensions, to hoist their wind bags, and
have not only lost them overheard, but have barely
saved their own bacon, by coming down by the
run on the standing rigging of the ship.
This igurative mode of expression must be ex-
cused These brilliant FiIibusters came before
us so in flashes and streaks, that we can only deal
with them in tropes and figures of hashy dos
cription 1t were as sensible to attempt to apply
geometrical measurement to fog bank, as to
deal specifically with the vapors these gassy fell
lows generate. They are as ridiculous as tho
Millerites, who put on their ascension robes and
gathered crowds, while they climbed into high
trees to take their flight, and who leaped only
to break their necks; Or to stick fast in tho
mud.
Mr.. Ned Marshall started first to "baze', out
the road for Young America to take, which
would lead to Cuba, and after going all around
Robin Hoods bern, ended in the lame and impo-
tent conclusion that it was no go, but that path
could be cut to Hayti. and recommended his
boon companions to take that better than no
thing. Mr.. Sou Q followed amid great clatter
OF tin pans and sounding of rams horns on his
expedition fllibustet-wise. He travelled on for
some time, and at the end, his followers, hearers
and readers concluded that this road led nowhere.
He got no farther ahead, so far as anything prac-
teal was to be attained, than horse in bark
mill. And lastly comes tho Douglas, the fayorite
and Champion and candidate of Young America,
to hold his flambeaux to the path they should fol-
low. The moment he stops talking all is dark
ness again. The Fillibusters have crowded to the
shores the sound of the bugles of their leaders
and impatenty await embarkation or direction
But the atmosphere is misty, the ways are mud :
dy, the ships are not forthcoming, the leaders
are in state of obfuscation, and nothing promi-
ses to be done. The play don't commemorative
entertainments don't begin, and the audience ale
getting impatient.
We suggest that Filibusterism is on the ebb,
and that unless somebody does something pretty
soon, Young America will begin to disband and
dispense. We don't want them to take it hard
Of us to say SO, but really we think that their
prospects are growing poor under their present
leaders. Suppose they should try change
There is Sken Smith, and Rynders, and Mike
Walsh, and Others to be had. The old ones are
getting quite too old fogeyish. Turn 'em out
this party go to pieces; it has mission to fulfil
in which we have an interest. We hove among
US some chaps who have great penchant for =
storm in the Caribbean Sea, and who would be
improved by it, especially if it resulted it their
getting overheard.
There is a lack in Mr.. Douglass speech which
strikes us with greatforce, considering the pro-
minence given on the subject by his lieu
tenant in the House. We allude to his omis-
sion to say a word of Hayti.
Mr.. Marshall, seeing the need of doing some-
thing for the fbusters, after finding the Cuban
scheme exploded. gave '.delicions" picture of
Hispanolia, and turned their eyes thithsr. But
his suggestion has fallen stillborn. The Senator
is silent as the grave thereon. No echo has been
awakened in that quarter to inspire the hopes
ofthe little band of patriots who sail under tho
flag of Young America. There is no longer q
Cuba, or even substitute for Cuba. held sut to
them. Hayti would do better than nothing, but
even that it would seem is not hereafter to be-
CouSIuoFou IoSltlHiaLo piuuuor. LILO uOp0S OIL
the Fillibusters have turned to dust and ashes
We do not wonder that their organ is advertised
for sale-stock and fuke. But who will buy the
Democratic Resiew after all this colapsing of the
Young American Leaders, and especially after
its awful faus pas of publishing the likeness ofths
ablest democratic Editor" the sight of which
according to Prentice, has occasoned innumsra-
BILE deaths from commissions. Nobody. 1t is
gone case--eaders, party, organ, and all. Who'll
write an epitaph on Young Americn and tho
FiIlibusters!
NAPOLEON Ill. AND THE JEws-We find in
late number of the Archeives Israslites, published
at Paris. the following interesting account of
ceremony at Bordeaux: as--
"The circumstances accompanying the deco
ration OF the Grand Rabbi, Mons. Marx, of Bor-
deaux, with the legion ofhouor, makes the occur
renee a matter of general importance. He had
received an invitation to breakfast, and after
breakfast the Prince President (now Emperor)
handed the Grand Rabbi the Order of the Legion
of Honor in the presence of his cortege, the
municipal officers, &c. In expressing his thanks
for the distinction conferred upon him, the Grand
Rabbi added, this is again the confirmation of the
principef ofregious liberty, which your High
ness has already promised us to maintain and de-
fend." "You may rely on that" answered the
Prince. Gen. d Hautponl, Grand Referendar of
tho Senate, who emphatically announced on
this occasion, that the rights and liberties of the
Jews shall never be int ringed. in conformity
with the principles of the age. and which are
likewise those of the Prince; and moreover the
Jews had shown themselves worthy OF these
privileges All the Inhabitants of Bordeaux SYM
pathised with the Grand Rabbi, and the
Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux paid copgrat-
sstt to MaPy