The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-02


PRESIDENT AAKNe-THE Law TAXING ITS
COURSE Whatever may be the condition Of the
cotton, woollen iron or glass manufactures of
the country, it is manifest that the late live oak
manifesto of George Law has given prodi-
gious impulse to the manufacture OF candida rs
for the Presidency Among others that ave
recently been trotted out, is the sewers s.,inr
John Minor Bolts" Of Virginia. He is like
MoHsieur Tonson, invariably steppi az ia, as
large as life just at the moment whe' Ieverybody
has given him up. We understand, also, that that
terrible enemy Of the Jesuits ar d the soft shell
democracy, Helen Dhu, will ,,toduce. in few
days, the most wonderful life. Of Sam Houston
that has ever been publish ed. The object Of
this is sensatior-a c oupter excitement, a
grand rush upon Houst' IN, which will head off
Live Oak George.
On the other han'A, the cruelty of Live Oak
George in refusing to be "pun:rured" and
"bled" by the :" venal politicians" Of the ssve-
raj little old party cliques in the interest of
such men as Marcy, Hunter, Buchanan, Fill
more, &C., has excited the unmitigated ridicule,
against the pretensions of Live Oak George for
the White House. But if they thus betray
their alarm at the general sensation created
by that Pennsylvania letter, what will
they do if Live Oak George should
follow it up in still stronger let
ter to the New Jersey Legislature, and half
dozen others to as many other States? And
why not? The friends Of law and order say
that this is his policy, and that he must keep up
the fire, in order to prove that the old party
pettifogging lawyers do not monopolize all
the political knowledge of the country, but
that practical business men know something Of
government affairs.
Meantime, the poets are in the field on the
opposition side. A Massachusetts, paper thus
speaks of the Independent nomination in that
State, by somebody, Of George Washington
Frost Mellen, as proper successor of Franklin
Pierce. From the gusto with which this poetry
is tranferred to the Evening Post, we suspect
William Cullen Bryant to be the author. II 10
certainly in his original and peculiar style.
Read =
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From Afric's coral strand,
From foul Cochtuate fountains,
And exc from Newfoundland,
There comes q voice Of thunder
From every hill side swelling
1t calls on thee thou wonder,
George Washington Frost Mellen
You can't repress the whirlwnd
When 1t goes 1t with q rush,
Nor still Niagaras torrent
By simply saying 'HushW
Ills vain the hopes that round thee cling
Ever TO think Of quelng,
Thou Ajax Of the Western world,
George Washington Frost Aellen !
Whereupon the poet Of the Post exultingly
cries.
Pray, whore Laws poets Is there to step
trader in steamboat contracts Aint locks railroad jobs
and Democratic Reviewer Let not the ive hoax cand
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"cdrtnt qua rate sdao" We need not say shall be
proud to be the organ Of bard who win properly
celebrate Mr. LAWS pretensons to any position to which
the people, or the law may elevate him.
To which it may be said that Live Oak
George is not writer Of poetry, but builder
Of it in solid facts and substantial realities
His achievements are recorded in granite, iron
and live oak. He steps forward, and the High
Bridge at Harlem rises into view, solid, strong,
beautiful and eminently useful, the conduit of
that great essential of life-water-to million
of people, sublime Illiad reduced to practi-
cal reality. He speaks, and fleets Of steamers
cover the sea, or swift locomotives go whoop-
ing through the mountains Bridges, canals,
railroads, steamboats,, and such, are the poetry
and poets Of George Law, ranging from
five hundred to thousand horse power These
are the poems Of George Law, equal at least
to all the poems ever written from the epoch
Of Bathos to that of Bryant.
But it is not the poet Of the Post that is the
most painfully exercised concerning the popu-
larity Of Live Oak George. The "venal politi.
clans" who are in the service ofthe pettifogging
lawyer and old party caucus candidates for the
succession, suffer the most severely. Hear
what the Albany Atlas says, after the failure
to bleed Live Oak George for the benefit of
Marcy. Hear him.
The HERALr is the leader of the great "Iive Hoax
calculated to lead q Know Nothing party \ Live
Hoax movement, than the NEW YORK HERALD Of the
sent day That paper Ia in the hands Of the
advsntnrers who accustomed to stgmatizsd by
it "0yster House Critics" The HHRALD broke then
down. and then bought them cheap-n such cneval,ers
of industry be considered cheap at any price. In
stead Of giving the world their second hand and cheap
criticisms upon music and the drama they regale 1t
with oyster house politics.
A alive Hoax" movement, eh? To our view, it
looks very much like the "lve hoax" which first
brought out Gen. Jackson, Gen. Harrison, James
K. Polk and Gen. Taylor. "Oyster house poll
ticsw Well, there may be something in that.
Ten to one that where o cluster Of mechanics
and working men-"the bone and sinew of the
country"-are found in an oy ster house, indulg-
ing in a half dozen raw, or plate Of stewed,
George Law is their mana mechanic, plain.
solid, sensible, practical business man-one of
themselves.
Rely upon it, this :" live hoax" is getting to
be serious affair If that single shot to the
Pennsy lvania Legislature does such execution
AMONG tricky LAWYER free ao;l ANAL hoor