Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-02-26
Manifest Destiny.

statesman would get tired of hearing them.
selves talk. This playing of a magpe is tire
J some. If they would vary the tune, or en-.
liven their discources by something new, it
would be more endurable. If they would
favor US with the eight part of a new idea, or
refresh us with speculation that has not
been worn utterly threadbare, we would re-
IJoice and take courage But this eternal it.
GRAFTON and ieteraton Of the same old song
sets ones teeth on edge We had as lief
listen TO the filing Of a ml-saw. When
are we to have relief? Will not the Manifest
| Destiny statesman die to oblige US? In the
ordinary course Of nature it will be long be.
] fore we shall get rid of the existing crop
Unless we can have the aid of the cholera or
some o her agent of translation, our case is
iorlorn and well nigh desperate. They stand
round about us with grave and sage looks
The solemn procession confronts us at every
| turn; as we prolong our gaze they look more
! lugubrous and dismal than the chaps that
/ froze Tam O'Shanter's soul in that memora-
bic visit Of his to Alloway's Kirk. some years
ago. They grow to be grim spectres with
skinny, wi,ch.ite fingers, bare arms, ragged
misunderstanding lurid torches and
WHIPS ol scorpions, with a hauating motto
"hovoc, and spoil, & ruin are my gains"
Their turgid nostrials breathe, and ;heir burst
ing eyeballs glare upon us. We look again,
and lind they have come like shadows, and so
depart They have all dissolved into thin
air, The Manifest Destiny men have become
mere wreaths Of smoke to the imagination.
And so they are in fact
One ofthese gentleman spoke in the Sen.
ate on Tuesday. 1t was Gen. Lewis Cass.
He canted, descanted and incanted, and his
carnations brought up the same old figures
! We had the same spectre cf "inevitable war"
that the old gentleman used to trishten the
women with during the Oregon controver-
sy. But then the General was Younger and
the inevitable" Of that day had a more dis,
| tinct outline and wore ferces aspect than
now. The General shook in bis shoes and
was then plainly in earnest az he declaimed
upon inevitable War with England" as the
sure result of the Oregon boundary question.
| Now be is less in earnest. He is simply
clinging TO the skirts Of an idea that once
possessed him thoroughly. He is making
feeble d. awkward efforts to replace mutt
lated bugaboo that he origin,I!y put uo. but
which fell from its pole long ngo Tho old
gentleman may burst his inexpressbes in the
effort to get it into CONSPICUOUS position again
but he is doomed to fail
We do not wish to intimate ANYTHING to
Mr.. Cass's discredit He is an old man. His
career is about run. Blu. short time will
elapse before he must sing his nunc dmitties.
We cannot impute to him unworthy motives.
He processes to be a Christian. We think he
is, with qualifications. But he mld9 silly
fllibustierng speech on Tuesday. II was
without merit or force in idea or expression.
1t was poor-rehash of oil meats withou.
pepper or salt He made it we have no
doubt at Mr.. Soule's instigatior. The French
man wanted a sort of snow plough. to clear
his way and so he put forward the old gen
tleman. Mr.. Cass was always dull and heavy.
He is now logy and hatulent So have we
seen old horses pushed on the course and
driven past their powers. Whip and spur
made them save their distance, but with
what heavings and noises would they 90 over
the trackl
We cannot think of soberly critsisnp in
detail this effort of the venerable General.
II is part himself 1t is one chip out of the
log. The Generalis is od--.so is the speech
The General is spongy, so is the speech The
General is tremuous and fussy-so is the
speech. He is full of doubts and fears-so Is
the speech. lie is possessed by vague ap-
prehension of wars and rumors of wars
is the speech. sIe is all "mops and brooms"
on England and France, and Manifest Des,i.
ny, and "inevitabe war" So is the speech.
Clouds and darkness gather round his men
tai vision as night of his life approaches, and
his thoughts become muddy So is his speech.
The General is feeble and lettering. 80 is |
his speech. Why, what statesman not in his
doiage would think of inferring the intentions
of the French Government from fugitive
publication in newspaper containing the |
eXtravagant vagaries Of moon-struch specula- /
tor like Monsieur Duper quier du Dammar.
tin !? Or to infer the policy of the English |
Government from dashing magazine article
OF some hare brained aspirant for notority |
\ ct upon no better or more solid ground than
this does Gen Cass grayey affirm the policy
of both these Governments in respect to their |
future action upon this continent, and call
upon Congress for a vote of defiance!
1t is said that old men are good council |
lors But not quaking men, MIR. Cass is
quaking man. He always was. He could |
always see what was not to be seen. He
does now, He in ls4s aud % that war is |
inevitable But il did not come. He sees
now that England and France are conspiring
to arrest the growth and progress of this
mighty and rapidly growing Republic; and
that unless we forthwith order them off the
continent, nobody can tell what mischief may
happen, Mr., Cass was frightened, before, at
nothing. He is alarmed now at less than
nothing. Mr.. Cass has had his day. Lot
him retire. We shall be rid of at leas. one
of the Manifest Destiny statesman, a leading
characteristic of all of whom is that they love
to dwell upon the vague d uncertain things of
the future, rather than devote themselves 10
the discharge of the VITAL practical duties of
to'day.-N y Tribune.