New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-21
MANIFEST DESTINY.


statesmen would get tired of hearing them
selves talk. This playing of the maybe is
tiTesome If they would vary the tune, or
eniven their discourse BY something new
it would be more endurable II they would
favor us with the eighth part Of a new idea
or refresh US with speculation that has not
been worn utterly threadbsre, We would rejoice
and take courage Bat this eternal iteration
and reiteration Of the same old song sets ones
teeth on edge. We had as lief listen 70 the
filing Of mill-saw. When are we TO have re-
lief VIII not the Manifest Destiny statesmen
die TO Oblge u.s. In the ordinary course Of
nature it viii be long before we shall get rid
Of the existing crop Unless We can have the
aid Of the cholera or some other agent of
translation, our case is torlOrn and well nigh
desperate. They stand round about us with
grave and sage lOoks-the solemn procession
confronts us at every turn; as We pTOlOug our
gaze they look more lugubrious and dismal
than the chaps that froze Tam OShanter's
soul in that memorable visit of his 70 Alloway!s
XIX, some years ago. They grow to be grim
spectres with skinny, witch-hke fingers, bare
arms, ragged ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lurid torches
and whips Of scorpions, with a Haunting
motto havoc. and spoil. and ruin are my
gains" Their turgd nostrils breathe, and
their bursting eyebaIls glare upon US. We
look again, and find they have come like
shadows, and so depart. They have all dis
solved into thin sir. TIE Manifest Destiny
men have become mere wreaths Of smoke 70
the imagination. And so they are in fact
One of these gentlemen spoke in the Senate
on Tuesday. Ii was Gen. Lewis Cass. He
canted, descanted and ircanted, and his can
tatiOns brought up tie same old figures We
had the same spectre OF inevitable war
that the old gentleman used to Tighten the
women with during the Oregon controversy
But then the General was younger aud the
" inevitable Of that day had more distinct
outline and wore fercer aspect than now.
The General shook in his shoes aud was then
plainly in earnest ss he detained upon IL
eyitable War with England az the sure result
Of the Oregon boundary question. Now he is
less in earnest. He is simply clinging to the
skirts Of an idea that once possessed him thor.
oughly. He is making feeble aad awkward ef-
forts to replace a mutils,ed bugabOo that be
originally put up, but which fell from it, pole
long $50. The old gentleman may burst his
iDeIpressibles in the effort 10 get il into & con.
sPicuous position again, but be is doomed to
fail.
We do lot wish 10 intimate anything TO Mr.
Cass's discTediI. He is an old man. His
career is shout run But short time vii
elapse before he must sing his auae d.
~iti's. We cannot impute to biR unworthy
motives. He processes 10 be Christian We
think he is, with qualifications. Bat he made
a Sly flhbustieriDg speech on Tuesday. Ii was
without merit or force in idea OF expression.
II Was poor re-haSh Of old meats without
pepper or salt. He made il we have no doub,
al Mr.. Soule's instigatiOR Tae Frenchm.p
wanted a sort Of snow plough to clear his way
and 50 be put forward the cid gentleman. Mr.
Csss IVES always dun and heavy. He i uov
'ogy and fSTulent. So have we seen old horses
pushed on 10 the course and driven pas, tbeir
powers Whip and spur made them save their (
distance, but with what Aeayinss and noises
Eould they go over the track
We cannot think Of sOberly eritieisins in de- |
AL this effort Of the venerable General. IL il
art Of himself 1t is enc chip out Of tie loz
The General is OId-so IS the speech. The
General is sporgy, 50 is the speech. The Gen.
raj is tremulOus sBd fassy--so is the speech
lie is full Of doubts and fears-sO is the speech.
lie S possessed BY vague apprehension Of wars
nd rumors af xars-so is the speech. He il
II "mops and broOms" on England, and
rance, and Nantes, Destiny, and I" inevitable
az So Il sss ssssea. Clouds aai !ark,s:,