Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1856-05-31

il.H M Nruf ih1 President NJ tw1 lrpullirs, and
lhu' placing limelf ahead NJ Washington on iho
rolls fml. Llso thal illa,,ri,ai Parsonage.
he had Dssn already tha cominnudcriuclcr vi tho
revolutionary armies, and first President IT %
Errullir and IN his own Imagination e. mthor
--'irst In peace, first in war aud first Ia the
hearts og his cOuntrymcn." SAN Jacinto had
already made him equal in point Of military glory
with the Father Of his country--lOr he was tho
Wellington bolpro whose proves and genius the
star Of the Napoleon of the West had palcd and
/ gone down, Ia many other points, no doubt he
regarded the parallel between tho career of
Washington and his own Us maintained. And,
now, ii he can be elevated to the presidency Of
another Republic 1.-THE greatest on the Earth) his
ascendant star will have eliminated to the highest
point Of human glory, and that of ms great
model will have waned into u twinkling orb of
secondary magnitude, This ridiculous idea has
possessed His whole soul, and stirred from their
depths the fountains of his heart For u while,
he has pursued his darling ambition in the usual
and legitimate way, In lSlS he anSious,y await
ed the spontaneous suffrage of the democracy in
their national convention, for the chief magisNa-
cy. In 1852 he seemed TO regard his nomination
by that party ms fixed fact, us thing not to be
deferred without gross outrage to him and danger
TO the whole country. But these two conventions
transpircd, and the democracy manifested most
obduratc oblyiousness to the claims of the hero
of San Jacinto, Since that time his political sins
have been so many and so crying, that he ceased
to have any hope from his old party friends and
he consequently placed himself in position to
desert the party, and take advantage of any
passing current that might promise to lead to
fortune. Thus we find the weary, disappointed
dupc OF ambition, with the worm knawing mt his
vitals and vinlictivo passions smouldering in
his bosom--we find him in 1855 lifting his hand
against his lifelong associates and friends, de-
sorting tie faith of his fathers, and Frustrating
himself before the shrine of the strange idolators
that sprang up In the land-a strutting captain
among the motley crowd OF licutcnants that COM
posed the mighty, invincible, invisible armies of
"Sam." Surely 'Sam' could not be migrate iul
II.
harmonious convention should assemble, it could
not overlook his claims to the nomination. But
the convention met, and the Sam of Sans received
ten votes all told. "0h, what fall was there,
my countrymcn !" The General, be it remember
ed, had been loud and obstrep erous in his praises
Of the mysteries and beauties Of know-nothingism
and all its harmonious principles One of the
most captivating articles of the faith was, that
''man should not seek the Office, but office the
man" The General harbored no doubt that
when the Office of president set out through the
81 States for the man adapted specially to the
White House, it would, as matter of course,
take up straight line of march to his residence
and for fear Of mistake lie removed back to his
old home AT Huntsville, lest search should be
made there and he be found absent. But the
Office in its search, scarcely gave him the second
ielance, and ignored him cavalierly almost, as
the conventions Of l84S and 1852 had done.
Now, he seems 30 have become suddenly con-
verified from his faith in this oifcc-seeking- man
doctrine; and he has gravely announced his pur-
pose Of trying the reverse doctrine, and seek the
Office himself. We are told that he now condemns
all conventions-they are humbugs and nusances
The man that for eight years lived on the hope
Of conventions, now discovers that they are not
the thing "they are cracked up to be ;" just as
have said to all his mighty preten-
sions and vast claims-igaoran,us Gen Houston
will, therefore, usher in new era in the politics
of America. He breaks loose from the letters of
all parties, just as all parties have repudiated
and broken loose from him. and becomes a candI-
date for chief agistrate of the greatest nation
of the Earth just as one would become q candi
date for magistrate in some county precinct -
What to him is the usage that has obtained in
the manner of bringing out candidates for the
prcsidency7 What to himthe precedent set by
the illustrious men who have preceded him 3
What, though in the political history of the
country no ambitious demagoguo has yet been
found with the hardihood to set at defiance the
established customs Of all parties in the matter
of bringing out the candidates for the presidency!
What to him that, from the days of Washington
TO the days OF Franklin Pierce none has been
found 50 alb Jet or indecent as to thrust himself
before the American people, as a suppliaEt for
their suffrage for the chief magistracyl Is the
country TO be deprived of his services and come
70 nonsr. Tor ' ms so trivial as thceel Surely
not.
The great unsolicited and unnominated proposes
to run as an independent national candidate,
without platform, without principles, with moth
thing but genuine, unadultorated, personal
glory, and superabundant, individual greatness
He il to take the stump and harangue the popu-
lace in every State in the Union San Jacinto is !
to be the slogan Of the campaign. before which
all other parties and organizations are to be .
seized with panic a glory fever is to swell the
VEINS Of The people, under whose thrilling costa
cies the grand and glorious general is to be ee
waited by reclamation to the presidency, and the |