New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-10
THE CORTLAND BREECHES CUES
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This mighty question seems to be taking, day
by day yaster magnitude The firm att
high patriotism Of Mr.. Buchanan !; the repub-
ican intrepidity with which he has resolved Il
stand by our national costume, and go to Court
If he likes, in his shirt sleeves, are apparently
rousing up, as they ought to do, the dormant
spirit of Columbia. The cry Of the entire land
Is no doubt about TO be raised, in one vast shout
OF defiance to the whole universe, upon this ire
niendous issue Of the loftiest and most solid
principle, that ever Fate and Fume called men
to battle for or to record. What though the
Soules have suecumbed and not only gone into
fancy -dresses but had to fight about their toy
gerry Or what if Mr.. Mason, that degenerate
son Of the G ancient and unterriied dominion, p
hath lost his pith, vailed the uncontaminated
1 donors Of that brown linen roundabout in which
he used to go about the streets Of Richmond,
disguised himself in clean shirt, and ooh
shameful surrender) actually consented to
7 put on pantaloons and coat,'' such as every
body wears at such places No matter: the
heroic daring Of Mr.. Buchanan, in scorning all
the soft solicitations Of the sex that he loves
and in dauntlessly refusing to don pretty much
such dress as he used to wear all the while,
with tho addition Of o black cockade, in those
days when he had not yet whipped off his fed
eralist coat and shpt into the much more profit
able one Of democracy, redeems the honor of
the nation and will place forever aloft, on the
topmost peg Of that old clothes press where
Fame hangs away her seedy suits, the coat Of
Mr. Buchanan along side the breaches Of MIR.
Marcy ias ar
/ Never surely, since the day Of those tailor
kings that are said once to have reigned in
Brentford, were great people and their affairs
made the mockery Of such set Of mountebanks,
Mr.. Mason alone has acted, in this business,
like gentleman and man Of sense who knows
that the ambassadors Of a sensible country are,
not sent abroad to raise disputes with the habits
and manners of all countries, and instead Of at
tending to diplomacy, trade and the interests of
their people, to go toquarreling about the way
in which their broadeloth shall be cut and worn
and how their small clothes shall be shaped +
One would think that Snip the tailor had come
to the sceptre and ruled JIG with his scissors
Did the sage Franklin or the bold old John
Adams, or Goteswortht Pinckney who said to
France when she ,heetored us, 'sMillions for de-
fencel Not cent for tribute" or James
Munroe or Sohn Quincy Adams. in any of their
frequent embassies, or either of the Liyingstons,
or William Pinkney or Martin Van Buren,, or
even Mr.. Buchanan himself, in his mission to
Russia, raise any such silly questions abroad,
merely for Buncombe at home? Our revolu.
tionary patriots could 50 do at Rome as Romans
do:' are the spoilsmen and turnooats of the
day loftier and higher, and trner to what be-
comes us
But what is this pitiful dootrine' That there
shall be an Equality of elothesf Then be con,
sistent, and dress your Army and Navy all, of
whatever grade, in the same yeoman's attire.
Or, indeed, be philosophical reject all the "trip
perry of dress, as unworthy of an enlightened and
unconstrained nation; and let the coatless
President and his shirtless Secretaries, in all
the dignity of Nature, walk about their depart
ments, and Congress and the Supreme Court
sit, in breeeh. cloths g 'N 4
The fact is that Mr.. Marcy like the fox of
old that had lost his tail, wants to bring us
down to his level, and to make our coats as
odions abroad as his pantaloonsa are ridiculous
at home