The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-07-29
Cortesp~.-avT-,a OF the Baltimore Patriot.
WASHINGTON, July II. 1853.

The President returned last night to the
White House. HI and those of his Cabine,
who accompanied him to the Empire City
have had quite brilliant time of it. The
President is a graceful, showy, handsome de.
caimor. think his inaugural address was a
splendid oratoric al performance, superior to
any thing of the kind it had ever been my
fortune to listen to.--Its authors speeches, on
his recent tour, are all highly credtable per.
lormances; but after all, it is questionable
whether the President Of the United States,
the Chief Magistrate of this great Republic
should not entirely refrain from making
speeches. Let that exalted functionary be
an exception to the general rule, especially
when he has such oratorical members of his
Cabinet as Generals Gushing and Davis-the
Cicero and Demosthenes of the administers
tion-to speak for him.
hut President Pierce may make speeches
to the masses or not, as his sense of decorum
aud propriely may decide, but he may as well
first AS last, give up his aspiration for a re-
election to the seat he now holds. That man
has probably not yet been born who can be
reelected President of the United States.
| have read the speeches of the members
of the Cabinet, as they were delivered along
the route between this city and New York
with great deal of interest, and will here
make passing note or two of them.
First and foremost, Mr. Guthrie--who, il
is alleged, used to be iirst-ratc flat-boat.man.
and his general appearance bellies not his
ancient occupaton-set out at Baltimore with
an attempt at IA political harangue. 1t proved
shocking failure. 1t was indirectly and very
properly rebuked, on the occasion, by Gen
eneral Cushing, and afterwards at other cities
along the route, by the President himself. 1t
taught Mr. Guthrie lession. In all his sue
ceedingg speeches he dropped politics, and
discoursed about Kentucky, railroads, com.
mercal greatness, &c. &c. Mr.. Guthrie is
not the orator that Brutus was, still he may
be safe custodian of the purse-strngs of
the Treasury, though the indications thus far
developed are that he will earn the character
of being the picayule secretary.
1t is really amusing to read and digest the
speeches of General Jefferson Davis. He
loves to mouth it, in style pompous and
9raadiioqueat He loved to do so when he
was first Representative and then Senator
in Congress, Remembering how he mouthed
his dsunon and factious sentiments, not long
ago, in the Senate, and then before the peo-
pie of Mississippi, in reply to Gov. Foote,
his Union-lovng competitor, the eloquent and
patriotic champion Of the Union party at the
South, it is refreshing to listen to the truly
Union Sediments uttered, (now that he holds
high Office in General Pisrce's Cabinet, with
a salary or $4,000 per annum) by this same
General Jefferson Davis. give you an ex-
tract from his recent speech at Wilmington,
Delaware:
"You cannot expect me, fellow citizens, on
an occasion like this to enter into any Of those
questions which divide US and belong to
political parties; but you will permit me to
say that the people having elevated your pre-
sent Executive to the chief magistracy of the
nation, have, am fully assured, placed in
that chair man who will redeem all the
pledges Of his inaugural, who never will al
low the flag of his country to be insulted,
who never will allow citizen of this country
to be murdered in cold blood by any power,