Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-12-01
WISE.


The epistolary cacoethes has invested the
morareu,iele $50 to speak, OF thesulphursts
sage Of Only. Our readers Will remember
the polished missive 10 DR.. Stone, oriental
in its fervor, ifnot 10 its politeness, Hav-
ing once dipped his pen into an inkstand'
Mr.. Wise shows no disposition to leave OH.
He is probably writing for his reighbors,
poor souls! who cannot write themselves,
nor read, for that matter. He is disposed
10 scribble about everything with fatal iac,l-
ity. Somebody has named HIM Tor the
Presidency. Now this is nothing uncom-
mon II has happened to great many
Apeo le Past history shows, indeed. that y
is vastly easier to be named for office than
to be elected to it. Pratt has been named
and so has Mellen. Law has been named,
and SO has Houston. But whenever any
person, no matter how obscure or unheard
i of he may have been, finds his name, by the
/ cackling Of injudicious friends, coupled with
/ the Preside ncy, straightway the ili-iatea
4 creature writes letter to somebody, ana
1 epistolizes himself into ridicule and ruin
Wise is no exception to the rule. "A
! friend in Virginia" has been the recipient
Of HE modesty and wrath. "Ihe idea oithe
Presidency has not been allowed to enter
I INV head says II. W. We submit that
this i. not the point. What ideas are all
lowed to enter that head. Mir. w. is as coy
.sa country girl, and as obstinate as Julia
in Don Juan. "Don't take me-" he says;
.thcre are one hundred men whom prefer,
for the Presidency, to myself. There are
two, at least, in Virginia" Only two in
Virginia. Why, Mr. Wise does not claim
enon On for the Old Dominion, the fecund
| T,rn
don't tell US: there must be two thousand.
Blu, to return to the blnshing, hesitating,
palpitatins, .trembl;ng virgin politician OF.
Only. Amer ali his hesitation he consents.
And then what change comes over him
All his modesty is turned to sublime mad
ness; all his timidity t. finder; he becomes
walking torpedo, thirty-inch bombsheii'
fiend and a fury. He roars out that he'
will rule a la mode Jackson-and avery stiff
and robust mode we all remember it was.
II will fervently and effec tually rule Black
Republicansm: ,cN rule them cries Mr..
Henry, forgetting Lindley Murray, in bic
admiration tor Old Hickory. So we may
know what to expect when this consumer
Of not Goals has achieved the Presidency.
Boston bombarded, custom house officer
being previously allowed to depart with
their little property; Seward and Sumner
hung; nobody allowed to say "ngger" in
the House, on pain of expulslon the sword
of Virginia flashing here and there like
meteor; Yankee schoolmasters executed in
AecorAac, with their ink horns round their
necks.
! The United States coa'd meet pestilence,
famine and insolvency tolerably well; but
though ten times more powerful. they would
A. hra a,ais tFah
a salamander President as this. Give US
any body bat him. Let the "ferce democ-
racie' take any shape but that, and our firm
nerves shall never tremble. Give US the
hirsute man o niuskets and steamboats,, who
proposes to pay Sl,5oo,ooo Tor The Presi'
dencs; give us that soft old warrior, Sam
Houston; give US the "nationaF' Buffalo
nian; give us a rum Commodore, no longtr
fitfo- the sea; bu,:sage Us, yehelectoral des-
TIMES, from this Virginian Pistol! We
must. indeed, exp ,stulate. Will cur Dem
ocratic friends listen for single moment!
Do they seriously think of imposing this
spitfire, this rampant, roaring, rapacious,
ranter upon the country! We Will not,
cannot believe it.
Some young lawyers think they are like
Choate, because their tangled locks are al
4 " anu " isS lhihh ic
/ is like Jackson, because he is continually
| losing his temper. He is mistaken. The
ts"Gnerar' often went into passion, and so
/ do wives in Billingsgate, and Mr.. Wise is
more like the latter than the former. He
will not be nominated. A Democratic Con-
venion, shrinking from scarcely any absur-
diiy, will shrink from that. lis business
will be to discover some unknown per-
son, and to put him before the PEOPLE for a
| miracle. But every body knows Wis.,
We have all laughed at his tantrums at any
| time for twenty years past. A peppery dis
/ position Is very poor qualification Tor
card date; and Mr.. Wise will be named on
/ ly in Only and the adjacent demesnes.-
We can bear hard headed, practical bigoi,
! representing, in some sort, our enterprise,
| our commerce, our wealth; but one who
! embodes only the bankruptcy, the lunacy,
! the folly, and the teapot tempests of Virgin