The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-09

GEORGE LAW AND OLD FOGY JoURNALIsM.-
The newspaper organs OF the old broken down
parties all over the country, continue to be
very facetious, very solemn, very violent, or
very much puzzled and bothered concerning
the nomination Of /" Live Oak George" for the
Presidency, by the new American party Of the
Pennsy lvania Legislature. 1t is hoax, "live
hoax" an imposition, trick joke, an insult
to the American people, and an outrage upon
the dignity of the Office, il these old fogy wise
acres are to be believed.
We have frequently referred to this sensa-
ton, this panic, this merriment and indigna-
ton which the name and fame of g Live Oak
George" have excited among our old party CO.
temporaries. The Albany atlas, the special
organ Of Marcy, affects to consider him good
standing joke-the Evening Post, still adhering
to Martin Van Buren,, gravely turns up its
dainty nose at /" Live Oak George" and passes
on. The Washington Sentinel, in the special
interest of Senator Hunter, of Va, for the sue
cessisn, argues the uBftness Of George Law for
aristocrat of the true Richmond Junta school;
the Boston atlas, with the solemnity Of q We
teran Puritan, mourns over the degeueracy Of
our people in these latter days as q bad symp-
tom; while the Richmond Examiner is per-
fectly furious at the bare idea Of George Law
becoming a candidate for the succession. It
thinks that this mighty and glorious republic
IS approaching the condition of the Roman EN-
pire, and that our next step after the election
of "Live Oak George" will be to put up .
horse for Emperor. Such are the varied opin-
ions evoked from our old party journals in re-
ference to the running of George Law for the
high and responsible Office of President Of the
United States.
Still, the question recurs, how are we to
satisfy the peopls?. With the administration
Of John Quincy Adams they seem to have had
enough of the old statesmen of the country;
for they repeatedly refused to elect Henry
Clay and Webster; Cass and others have been
tried either one way or another, and have been
found unavailable. So, too, with our stock Of
generals, since the great and glorious General
jackson. The people tried General Harrison,
but it was no go; they tried Gen Taylor, but
they found that good old man out of his ele-
ment at Washington; they declined Gen. Cass;
ard in 1852 they had become so surfeited with
generals that they refused Geo. Scott, the
greatest living general of the age, and elected
over him a small provincial lawyer and politi-
clan of New Hampshire. Now, the trial OF Mr..
Pierce proves that pettifogging lawyers and
intriguing politicians are not the thing. The
people, therefore, want something else, and
they are beginning to look in new direction
for their man. OF statesmen, such "a
they are in these times, of generals, petit
Jogging lawyers and peddling politicians.
they have had enough for season. How
natural, then, that the people, the sove-
reign people, should turn their attention to
the great, substantial, practical, honest, 60
ahead mechanical and commercial Glasses, aud
the bone and sinew of the country And as
"Live Oak George" belongs to the commercisl
bone nor siDew. there is nothing, after all, SO
very astonishing in his nomination by the domi-
nant party Of the Pennsylvania Legislature
for the honors of the Presidency.
Let this, also, be remembered: Thirty years
ago. when the statesmen and politicians of that
Gay were all in o stew upon the subject of the
succession, the sagacious Pennsylvanians
brought out Old Hickory VINO very 5000 cleared
the track of the whole tribe. So again. finding
that our generals, like our statesmen, (such as
they are) and lawyers and politicians, have
become drug in the market, Pennsylvania
strikes out for o new man from a new political
class-the great solid mechanical commercial
and business class Of the country. Further
more, if this class have the will, have they not
the power to elect their man? Rely upon it,
there is something more than live hoax" in
this popular movement for George Law. The
old party organs see It, and cannot disguise
their alarm. But when the solid people take
the field, political organs, cliques, caucuses,
juntas and conventions of huckstering spoils-
men must give way.
Consequently, we must again declare that it
won't do to call Mr.. Law olive Hoax George
He is no hoax, but solid reality. It
is said that the New York HERALD is using him