New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-30
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MR., JENIFER.
The Courier of yesterday is out with -four
ish of trumpets over the late conversion to the
democratic faith of Mr.. Daniel Jenifer, of Mary
land The Courier sets out with an article on
20 The Protective Policy" and incidentally IN
PRODUCES notice of Mr.. Jenifer, lacking him on
as rider, the more effectualy to introduce him
when otherwise he stood but slight chance Of
being noticed
Our neighbor speaks of Mr.. Jenifer as g con-
spicuous convert to theopinion that the Protec-
tive System is out of date in this country" As
long as Mr.. Jenifer was an advocate Of the Sc Pro
tective Policy it might have heen well to say
that it was "out of date or at least that it
deserved to be so, if it required the feeble aid of
such yaulting politicians as him to sustain it ;
but to infer that the protective policy" has
lost any of its efficacy by the secession of that
gentleman is warping logic little too violently
Our neighbor informs us that Mr.. Jenifcr has
announced to the people of the Sixth District of
Maryland that he is candidate to represent
them in Congress- 1t is well for M, Jenifer
to announce that he is candidate as being but
a new convert to one party ard as a traitor to
the other, it was the only chance he had of be-
luS Cduuludte at Ing WHY'S NOulu Hul
have him as their candidate, of course; and the
opposite party, although they Rugged the trail
tor, distrusted too much to make him their
nominee.
The Courier, in paragraph, the compliment
of which is rather equivocal, says of Mr.. Jenifer
while he was wing member of Congress
Mr.. Jenifer was warm advocate of the IA
yorite wing measures and doctrines-a national
bank, high duties on imported goods, internal
improvements, controlled and paid for by the
Federal Government-with all the whimsical
theories and impracticable measures engendered
in the excited noodles of Mr. Webster, Mr. Clay
and other oracles of the whig party"
An advocate of call the whimsical theories
and impracticable measures etc. The Courier
in this paragraph charges its profeg6 with hay
ing been, in his prime of life, and during his ad.
hesion to the whig party, nothing better than a
crack Drained simpleton; and if, when he was
younger than he is, and in full possession Of
manly vigor (for he is old now he was so warm
an advocate of the &c whimsical theories and i'm
practicable measures of the wings, what sort
of a proselyte have the democrats made or what
wisdom in their councils can they hope from
sexigenarian whose faculties, according to the
course of nature, must be on the declined
Our neighbor takes notice of an address of
Mr.. Jenifer, which is quite laudatory: so much
SO, that we are confident if it should meet the
eye of the gentleman thus so highly extolled for
learning and extensive reading, he would think
it rather quizzicaL
The following is our neighbours eulogy
Mr.. Jenifer is not deficient in KNOWLEDGE or
ability He is we'll read in the best English
versnd in tho a. L.
eled good dealin foreign countries, and it may
be presumed is no superficial Judge of the work
ings of mems minds.
This gentleman, should he be chosen by the
people, will make a conspicuous figure in Con
gress, and will attract attention and respect
from all sides of the House.
1t is the first time we ever heard that Mr.. |
Jenifer was well read in the best English au |
thors," or that he is g yersed in the ancient |
classics " If he understands the English Ian |
guage correctly, his friends have never done
him .justice--he certainly lacks this accom-
plishment. Let US examine his address to the
Congressional District:
The tariff laws will be revised, the import
duties upon may articles lowered, and on some
entirely ABOLISHED. The energy, skill, and en-
terprise of those engaged in American manuf4c-
lures have brought them to such state of per
lection as to defy far competition in most art-
Giles from any quarter of the globe. Hence. the
large amount Of revenue required by the Gov
eminent derived from imposts, if the duties are
Judiciously laid, will be sufficient to guard them
against foreign competition and capital
Is this an evidence Of a ripe scholarship, or
that he understands the true meaning and sig
MITIGATION of the English language
Our neighbor says if he should be chosen nv
the people, he will make conspicuous figure in
Congress" Why did he not make this con.
spicuous figure" when in Congress twelve years
ago His speeches are tame and unmcaniug
they display no information, they analyze no
principles.
When he was Minister to Austria he penned
but one public document and that was PRO.
nounced by Mr.. Webster to be ungrammatical
nonsense, and was cast aside by him with the
remark, " what pity it was that Government
should appoint to an office man SO utterly IN.
fit to perform its duties
Mr. Jenifer is now on his last legs. and il f,u
ing into the " sere and yellow leaf For tbirtv
years he was attached to the whie party. Inn,
being of no use to them, they failed to promote
him. Finding that he had no longer any
chances of success with his old friends, he voted
against General Scott, Knowing, after his de
lection from his own party, that he could not
get nomination from them, he announced
himself as an independent democrat. and now
seeks to disorganize the wings
If the Courier can make anything out Of
Mr.. Jenifer-if they can break him into the
traces after his so long services in the opposite
ranks-if his advocacy through 50 long a time Of
all the g whimsical theories and impracticable
measures" of the wings fits him the better to
comprehend the principles of his new friends
the democrats-let him, by all means, 20 over
to the opposite camp, and may he work there
as effectively as he worked of yore Take him
by all means, and the wings, from the St Law
renee to the Rio Grande, will cry Amen And
we, for our part, will echo the cry, yea, verify.
Amen
ADvIeEs PROM THE FIsnlNG GRoTNns -Rv
adyices to the New York press from the fisbing
grounds we learn that the schooner L. McKen-
zie, the first of the Mackerel feet from the Fla,
of St Lawrence, had arrived at GLOUCESTER
Her commander reports that the fish are not
plentiful, and that the vessels are not doing
much. Quite number of armed vessels Of the