The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-12-08

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The epistolary cacoethes has invested the
moral cuticle ESQ to speak, of the sulphur
rous sage of Only. Our readers will re-
member the polished missive to DR.: Stone,
oriental in its fervor, if not in its politeness.
Having once dipped his pen into an inkstand,
Mr.. Wise shows no disposition to leave OH.
He is probably writing for his neighbors,
poor souls! who cannot write themselves,
nor read, for that matter. He is disposed to
scrbble about everything with fatal facility.
Somebody has named him for the Presiden-
cy. Now this is nothing uncommon. lthas
happened to a great many people. Past his
tory shows, indeed, that it is vastly easier to
be named for the office than to be elected
to it. Pratt has been named, and so has
Mellon. Law has been named, and so has
Houston. But whenever any person, no
matter how obscure Or unheard of he may
have been, finds his name, by the cackling
of his injudicious friends, coupled with the
Presidency, straightway the ill-fated creature
writes letter to somebody, and epistolizes
himself into ridicule and ruin. Wise is no
exception to the rule. IA friend in Virgil
mia" has been made the recipient of his mo-
desty and his wrath. 'sThe idea of the
Presidency has not been allowed to enter my
head" says Fl. W. We submit that this is
not the point. What ideas are allowed to
enter that head2 Mr.. w. is as coy as a
country girl, and as obstinate as Julia in
Don Juan. "Don't take me-" he says !;
''there are one hundred men whom prefer,
for the Presidency, to myself There are
two, at least, in Virginia" Only taoo in
Virginia! Why, Mr. Wise does not claim
enough for the Old Dominion, the fecund
mother of Presidents. Two, forsooth don't
tell us there must be two thousand. e
But to return to the blushing, hesitating,
palpitating, trembling virgin politician of
Only. After all his hesitation he consents.
And then what change comes over him /!
All his modesty is turned to sublime mad
ness; all his timidity to finder; he becomes
walking torpedo, thirty-inch bomshell, a
fiend and fury. He roars out that he will
rule la mode Jackson-and very stiff and
robust mode we all remember it was. IL
will fervently and effectually rule Black Re-
publicanism: soM rule them," cries Mr..
Henry, forgetting Lindley Murray, in his
admiration for Old Hickory. -+
So we may know what to expect when
this consumer of hot Goals has achieved the
Presidency Boston bombarded, custom
house officers being previously allowed to de-
part with their little property; Seward and
Sumner hung; nobody allowed to say "nig-
GER" in the House, on pain Of expulsion; the
sword of Virginia flashing here and there
like meteor; Yankee schoolmasters executed
in Accomac, with their ink-horns round their
necksi
The United States could meet pestilence,
famine and insolvency tolerably well; but
though ten times more powerful, they would
shrivel like scroll in the embrace of such
salamander President as this. Give us any
body but him. Let the sier6e democracic''
take any shape but that, and our firm nerves
shall never tremble. Give us the hirsute man
of muskets and steamboats,, who proposes
to pay 81 100000 for the Presidency; give
us that soft old warrior, Sam Houston; give
us the enational'' Bufalonian; give us a rum
Commodore, no longer fit for the sea; but
save us, We electoral destinies, save us from
this Virginia Pistol! We must, indeed, ex-
postulate. Will our Democratic friends lis
ten for single moment2 Do they seriously
think of imposing this spitfire, this rampant,
roaring, raving, rapacious ranter upon the
country Wewill not, cannot believe it. r.
Some young lawyers think they are like
Choate, because their tangled locks are al
ways unkcmpt; and Mr.. Wise may think
that he is like jackson because he is contln-
ually losing his temper. He is Mistaken
The "Gineral" often went into a passion
anu sn do fishwives in Billingsgate, and Mr.
Wise is nicre like the latter than the former.
He will not be nominated. A Democratic
Convention, shrinking from scarcely any alb
surdity, will shrink from that. Its business
will be to discover some unknown man, and
to put him before the people for oracle
But everybody knows Wise. We have all
laughed at his tantrums at any time for TWEEN
ty years past. A peppery> disposition is
very poor qualification for candidate; and
Mr.. Wise will be named only in Only and the
adjacent demesnes. We can bear herd
headed, practical bigot, representing in some
sort, our enterprise, our commerce, our
wealth; but one who cmbodies only the
bankruptcy, the lunscy, the folly, and the
teapot tempests of Virginia-never