Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-01-06
Mitchell Baruuet.

Grand festival was held st Broadway Theatre
in New York. Dec. 10Th. in honor of John Mitch
ell Mr. Charles O'Conner, Presided assisted by
John McKeon. as Vice. The event OF the eve
ming was of course Mitchcl's speech
This address abounds in passages ofgreat rhe-
torical beauty Mr.. Mitchell has certainly fine
power of language, and seems to have nice ear
for the rhythm and musical cadence of sentences:
he has doubtless drank deep at
the old welr
Of pure English undCfilod-"
We could quote passages from his orations which
read like extracts from Sir Thomas Browne, or
writers of still earlier date.
Mr. Mitchell IN the course of his remarks goes
out of his road to make an uncalled for attack
upon Secretary Marcy: the assault is in the most
savage terms, and abounds in insinuations of the
most ungenerous nature; we can hardly conceive
any possible motive for this step, on the part of
Mr.. Mitchell although by the use of the figure of
speech so popular with his countrymen, called
BlarHsy, he disclaims any skill in political con-
chology, he may have thought that it would tell
in New York, were he, Z" full of wrath and cab
bagc,' to make after dinner onslaught Oh the
head OF the State Department.
Mitchell has made bad move, and one from
which uniavorabe auguries will be drawn, for
his future career.
1t was certainly in the worst taste, for q fugi-
tive, one on whose head price. was set
who came among us seeking an asylum
and a home, ere he had shaken the dust
of captivity from his feet, TO commence an attack
upon the government which had thrown it's ae-
gis around him: in selecting his particular point
of attack Mr.. Mitchell could not have made a
blundcr moro simply ridiculous although the
Secretary is shrcwdly suspected Of an intrigue
with the Soft shells, yet he will be Gdandmtine
against the arrows of Mr.. Mitchell.
Daniel Webster carried away the hearts of all
his countrymen, and won the respect of the civil
lied world when, in the IIulscmann Letter, in
his a. words that burn he explained the foreign
policy of this government.
Secretary Marcy, has also achieved impcrisha-
ble honor by his elaborate exposition, in the re
cent correspondence wherein the unfortunate
Hulsemann is again demolished. Why even the
Secretary's political enemies, when met in Phila-
dclphia the other night bore honorable testimony
to this fact. One OF the speakers, Col. Carrigan,
says with true irrepressible American feeling,
'' We glory in the unanswerable letter in the
Koszta case"
The foreign policy of this government, is the
pride of our whole people: it is the legacy of
Washington, it is the elaboration of the mighty
minds who guided and reared our infant Republic
from the baptism of fire and blood. until she has
become the most conspicuous, the most powerful
Representative Of the principle of popular sover-
eighty.
Mr.. Mitchell will only excite the disdain of ev-
cry school boy in the land, by his rash tilt, after
the fashion Of Quixote; he should have prof1tcd
by the example of an ADLER than himself
allude to Kossuth, whose attempts to ignore
certain George Washington, rccoiled upon HIM
self and his cause.