New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-14
TIDE PRESIDENT CROP.

THE PRESIDENT CROP.
Crops are as essential TO nations as to birls
They cannot live without them. Not only wealth
but life-Dot merely the pocket but the belly
subsiss by their grace alone. No wsoder then that
crops should be matter Of eager interest and
earnest speculation Not only our bank accounts
those of us that are lucky enough to have any or
our foreign debts. but the very bread and meat on
our tables depend on them How happy are We then,
in this country, to have one crop that never fails
a harvest that is never wanting, though sometimes
little spindIing. All else may give out--the
crop, the tobscco-crop, the 'rn crop, the
hay. crop, the hog crop, yea, even the negrocrop
may fail--bus the Presidentcrop s ever safe.
Summer and Winter, seed.time and harvest, cold
ard heat, day and night may cesse, but Presidents
and Presidential candidates will never perish from
off the earth. The tree Of liberties, like the
oraDge-tree, CLOVIS with ossoms and buds in every
stsge Of forwardness, ready, when that divin,
perfection of the fruitsge on the topmost branch
shall drop in its due time, golienly to crown the
plsnt whose leaves are for the healing Of the
patens.
But, to dismount from our allegory before II be-
comes as hesdstropg as those Mrs. Mslaprop tells
of on the banks OF the Nile" is it not CO nfortng
to think that, considering the Presidency is an Of
fee Lobody wants there should be so many Cur
titus ready to leap into the gulf which yawns in our
Forum every four years, rather than 1t should
gaze Il ere forever men who take the Office a.
Benedick took Beatrice, upon great compulsion,
'and partly to save her life" 1t Is enough to bring
tears into ones eyes to read the self denying letters
Ct the confessors who are tenderly entreated to
submit themselves to this martyrdom. They one
aid all exclaim, with the fierce despair which o.
torted from the IecalcitraDt churchman theexpos
tnlstion Noio spiseopa,i"-"l won't bel Presi-
dent when the dreadful notion s6rst suggested
to their minds. They shudder at the gross idea
as the Princess Huncamupca in the tragedy OF
Ten Thumb the Great, does at that OF "a ma"'
And yet at last, rather than that the Republic
should suffer detriment-for the sake ct their
party, of their country, Of mankind-they YIELD
they submit to be led, reluctant victims, In tho
direction of the White House. Good, generous
souls
Indeed, so rapidly is this noble army Of martyrs
recruited 81 the hoar Of danger approaches, that
We used to conhne the energies OF one Of the mos
vigant of our staff to the single office OF keeping
count of them as they successfully appeared, I'M
til several able bodied persons broke down I'M
der the task, as men are said TO have lost their
minds by trying to count the stars. Since when,
We have had TO divide these labOrous observations
among whole group Of young and wearcss jour
nalists The difficulty of their researches Is
asa1 hy tha ayeaa1no mi a tpnaaa NJ
many Of these heavenly bodies, which almost bsf-
fes the powers of the strongest reflector, and de-
fee the natural sight. Why, it was only last week
that We learned that Mr.. Hunter of Virginia had
yielded reluctant consent to the opportunities
of some patriots Of some place We had never be-
fore heard of, and was ready to be offered. Just
before, Mr.. Bolts. also, signifed that he would
submit, though 10th, to wear the crown himself
he had in vain woOed for the brows Of other can
ddates. Mr.. Wise. too, is ready to turn last
sommerset from the Capital at Richmond into that
at Washington always provided that the country
caInot be saved without him.
All these are from Virginia, which seems inclined
to return 10 her trade of breeding Presidents ~
well as slaves Then there is George Law, lsshed
to the wheel Of his steamship, trying to outstnp
Commodore Stockton, bestridsg Locomotive On
the Camden and Amboy Railway, Oh their race to
Washington
Tramp, tramp they 90 .croa the land
spls.b splash saoss tbs watsr"
Time would fail us we're we to recount the sui
feriDgs Of Gen. Houston, of Gen. Wool, Of Kenneth
RayDer, of Garrett Davis, and ola crowd beslde'@
whom We remember d mars of things, but moth
ing distinctly" like poor tipsy Cassie. Bat ws
must not forget our En Fillmore strong in his sig-
nature of the Fugitive Slave bill, who has had the
wisdom to put the ocean between himself and hs
inquiriDg friends while the Know. Nothing nom'na-
ton is in suspense. Mr. Buchanan Is Fastening
home from bis honorable exile 70 DO ready In the
hour of his country's need and Mr. Dallas, a.
the bone, like another Damon, is esger 70 snascn
the yiearious scaTold from the returning Pyth'Asa
Pennsylvania 1t is thought that DIR. Everett
would not finch from the stake were be duiy
doomed 10 il. Mr.. Douglas certainly would not
shrink from il. And would BIZ Cass, or Mf
Marcy, The heroic man who now endures tho
borrors of that martyrdom s believed to DO ready 70
encouuter them a second time for the glory OF NO
true faith and the salvation Of mankind. Bus 70
can no more. We succu@b under the task Wo
lave undertaken.
But wbo 10 it to be- Who will figure - 'uo
Denoc, attic and who as the Know-Nothins esaaf
da,e' And will either Of these candidates %
elected Are We to present again to Europe 'ns
paradox of Republic, whose Head grows less %.
wesker as it's Body grows larger and stronger
Must men wonder there vet again, how 10 'a"