The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-27
man who shall be worthy Of the time h no ed stand
ard he will bear, and about whom tn, p ople will
rally with enthusiasm and pride.


"the power Of speech was given to man to conceal
| his thoughts The statesmen Of England act Out
the idea of Talleyrand in the preparation of the
Queens speech from which all thought or meaning
is carefully excluded The House Of Peers, In theii
Debates follow quite closely the rule, and in
duge only in stale common places. In the Houie OF
| Comm ons, new country member does occasionally
give vent to little wit and originality OF thought
but is soon Kissed down by the regular debaters,
| whose speeches
Vexirg the dull ear Of drowsy man.
| The Senate of the United States is Becoming
almost as well bred as dull and monOtOnOus as the
| House of Peers. But for the Bear garden IN the
Lower House, Congressional debates would De as
| soporfc as the sound OF mill or the dropping OF
| water Politicians generally reverse the maxim of
| Jonathan Wild. He said "a lie was too precious
| a fling TO lie told oftenn They think that truth
| should be most carefully economsed. They prac-
tice noncommitalem, and wear at all times cloak
of my sterious and affected dignity, to con-
cea their designs to cover their intellectual in
frmties As they grow in reputation they begin,
too to follow the advice of that unprincipled but
cunning statesman, Henry Nv.
Fly being seldom seen, could not STIR
But, Lille a comet was wondered at,
Thst men would tell their children . This Is he"
Thus did keep my person fresh and Few;
MY prerence, like a rote pontidcal
Meier seen, but wondered nj
(fsgst part of King HnryIV
Because Mr.. Wise will practice none of this trick
cry, hunbuggery and charlatanism-bec use she is
tod aud canuld, generous, rnr eerved and social in
his natulC-btcaue he detests vi, and meanneSs SO
intensely that be will neither wink at them COM
promise with them, but is foremost to denounce
and lash tLem--he has made many enemies, and
subjected himself to much disparagement, But
these qualities, united to Roman simplicity and in
tegriy of character, AID to that singular facility
with which he meets danger in the tlce-and by
foiing It, avoids it--haVe made him two friends
where his Writ es have lost him one. His conduct
rf ftn rlorr riu1C 10 tn
pr We that lie is endowed with quick perception,
raj i'd and comprehensive powers OF combination,
great courage, eoquence, energy aud perseverance,
The rest OF his public ie has been OF piece with
his hearing or this occasion. He is good lawyer,
scholar, state. man aud orator but above all he
il an honest ard fearless man. He is emphatcally
the man for crisis or an cxigency--sGch as Rome
in tIOublous times, would have made dictator
We much fear exigency crisis impends in this
cot ntry.
We do not non mate Mr.. Wise for the Presidency.
We have seen comm, ncations in the papers which
were guilty Of the bad taste of recommending others
by disraraging him. To yindicate him from asper-
sion is al we desire. Let the range of selection be
Wide and tie choice OF O candidate unbiased by
pei, dice or misrepresentation.
Hunter, Bchapan, Cass, Dickinson, Pierce, DOu-
glas, and several others, are unexceptionable We
would write their names with that or Henry A.
Vie in Round Robin. Hunter is the Fabius of
Virginia, Wise her Marcellus. And yet they can
interchange characters. Hunter, on occasion, can
play Marcellus, and Wise often conceals Fabian
policy behind seeming rashness.
WHAT SHALL SOUTH CAROLINA DO?
tlrom the Charles on Metcury.)
Let South Carolina, then, go into the Cincinnati
Convention, and hat can be accomplished ut the
most Simply, a union OF party in the South, not
Of tie whole South Her act will not Obliterate the
national divisions which elsewhere exist through
out the South. 1t will rather intensity them. twill
strike pang to the hearts of true but scattered
men, who have watched her course of independence
with patriotic pride as of State devoted solely to
the cause OF the South. She will cease to be the
polestar Of intense Southern feeling and principies
Our contemporary speaks as though the past course
Of South Carolina ia Just cause Of offence To her sis
Ter Southern States, Where is the reason or jus
80 :. :, = go. an .sinion2 What more have
they right to ask expect Of her, than that she
for their nominees? Georgia need not be assured,
hy ctr sending delegates to Cincinnati, Of our rea
dness 10 stand with her upon the platform of her
Convention. She ard the whole South know, in add
vance, the sort of man TINT will receive Our support
Her influence III making the nomination will be far
stronger. when it is known that she will support
none but fit candidate, than, it, by going into the
Convention, she were bound, with the rest, to vote
for the nominee, whoever he was-a condition ex-
acted by the caucus system. whereby the mincrlty
ale ma dc to execute the will OF the majority.
Whae, then, We ask our cotelnpolary, are the
grounds OF bis expectation that his scheme VIII ac-
ctnllsh the union Of the South! IL, as we nave
seen il can at hest effect only the union Q! party
in the South and that not FOR Southern, but national
objects: il it will distract South Carolina herself,
What there in it to commend it to our appreciation!
4 GEORGIA KNOW NoTHING'S OPINIONS
OF MR. WISE FREELY SPOKEN.
[tiom the Savannah Republican,
MIR WISE AND THE PRESIDENCY.
We almost sludder at the illomened juxta-postion
presented in the above caption The very idea seems
TO convey the essence OF an evl that we nave peeu
taught by the wholesome lessons Of our fathers 10
| shun as pregnant with calamity to the country.
| Carried away some months ago by the triumph OF
Mr. Wise over the American party OF that old demo
cratic fortress, the State Of Virginia, and under an
enthusiastic feeling of gratitude for the Temporary
check he had given tide of popular sentiment that
bid fair to break up aud destroy corrupt Old party
that had SO long worked 80 well for the individual
profit Of its members there were few who ventufed
so far in their zeal as to connect the name OF their
timely beneiactor with the highest Office in the gilt
| of The people. The suggestion met with but little
favor in any portion of The country and we had sup
posed il had passed away with the temporary ebull-
lion that brought il to the surface. IL seems, how
| ever that we were mistaken. The movement has
taken flesh start, and the old Presidentmakng re-
! genoy in Virginia seem determined to press the
matter upon reluctant public. The Richmond En-
qu.rey is boz derng the ciamorous in his behalf,
while Mr.. Wise himself has recently wttsen letter
in which he very modestly agrees 70 accept nomi.
nation from the democratic party.
In regard 70 Mr.. Wise, We can only say he has
less of The qualifications necessary Ia President OF
the United States at the present day than any other
public man We know In oil the broad limits Oh the
| Union. lie has talents, but ne mas nOtninS else.
He has been an ultra radical, churiish, pol teal
snap dragon all his life, wholly destitute OF ability
to govern himself, much less the delicate and mo-
| mentous afairs Of great nation. He has no ad
| minstratiye faculties, no prudence, no Judgment
and would carry the country to the - In lie a than
six months. The selection Of such q man as the
Chief Executive Of the nation in preference TO the
bright array OF able, experienced and tried states
men that oyershadow him in everything that appcr
tains to true political aud personal worth, wou!l be
the strongest evidence Of incapacity for SC. Ego
vernment that has been presented TO the world iron
the struggle fer independence to the present day
| Tie party that would venture upon so perous al
experin cut in there trouhlous times may well bt
suspected OF secret intention TO tear down the eta
| del Of the Union. Southern men as we are and sin
cerely DESTROYS Of seeing the government in hand
that viii manage II consistently with the rights o
the slayeloldng States, we deprccatc the election
such man 10 any important national trust; as q
the Presidency, We pray God that that cup may h
allowed 10 pass. The timbers that support til,
fabric Of our Union Inadequate TO such aa ordeal