Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-06
Picture OF Pnlmerston.

Picture Of Palmerston.
Lord Palmerston's spanking majority over Mr..
Whiteside's motion has given him fresh lease
of life 1t was beyond the brightest calculation.
His lead of the House, considering his age, the
difficulty of his position, and the dead weight that
encumbers him, is said to be marvel of perfec-
ton in that style of thing. He has neither the
respectable dreariness of Lord Althorp, the decor
GUS solcmnity of Peel, the frigd supercilousncss
of Lord John Russ ell, nor the mystic conspirator-
like reserve of Dsraeli the Mokanna of Ministers,
but neither defiant nor cringing, leads the House
with gay, CHEEKY, natural frankness, that makes
every one happy and at his case. He leads the
House, in fact as he would pleasant party at his
own house. and no one can play the host with
more charming grace The ottener he is defeated
the fresher he looks after every fall and springng
up gracefully as If nothing had happened, pulls
onthc gloves again, which fit with the same neat
ness as his principles.
He bears his reverses like the Irish lady who
was always delighted to assure. her acquaintance
she was enjoying wretched bad health. There he
may be seen seated opposite the red box on the
Speakers table, night after night, equally unrufed
in toilette and temper and with hat as smooth and
polished as his tongue, ready to answer everybody
on every possible subject, whether it be the pun
ishment of drunken MILDLY off the Petropau-
lowski coast the defalcation of penny postin the
law Of Mr.. Secretary Marcy, whose smallest talk
lately has been from Putlendorf and Grotus. Then
he knows all about Captain Rynders and Sulam
Sing, though be hasnever seen them, and is equally
posted about Young America and Young Bengal,
or at least seems to be so. At seyenty-four he is
a boy in the minuteness and eager ness Of his per-
ception, the buoyancy of his bearing and the UNI
wearied assiduity of his attention And what
strength of constitution is needed to listen assd
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sttings at some New York brandy bar, or a walk
down Broadway in slippers in tllawing time, or
listening to the author read anew five act Ameri.
can comedy, is not half so trying to the physical
and mental temperament as this Wind up Mr..
Spooner, for instance and he will POODLE on like
an old roasting jack, slowly, aud gioomily, and
gratingly, for hours.
But Palmerston sits through it all like patience
on monument, an Irish priest over his punch, the
merry basket-maker in every ballet or anything
else you like Of that kind, with an air Of composed
complaisance, and, even at times of counterfeited
satisfaction. Then, when he rises, he is neither
witty nor forcible, nor eloquent. On the contrary
he hens and haws over the honor Of England, and
the usual things of that kind but then how plea
SAINT our Pam looks and how the house rubs its
eyes, and wakes itself to listen, and gapes to catch
the cordial joke which he throws up-as pleas
ant shield against unpleasant questioning, and
says it is unbecoming in great man to make it
laugh, and dilettsni politicians call him. like Chas.
Dickens, the comic old gentleman-the House in
its reckless, which is its favorte mood most thor
oughly enjoys. Then he is SO open! There is such
q g there is my bosom gentlemen--look into it
sort of air about him, as If he was living exem-
plar Of his own heterodox creed that man was born
without original sin, and had to discover what it
was yet No man wears with more gallant ease
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by the great Italian diplomat.
He speaks common-places with sublime air,
and pours out, with the ingenious look of child,
whole forms of sonorous-sounding nothings. Then
great element of his success is the art with
which he tickles the small vanities of every one
around him.. With his peers he is respectful,
never familiar. They don't want to be conciliated
They know Pam is safe, and will take care of his
order But all the everybodies and nobodes about
one who has ever been in the Militia or the Yeo-
many corps is his gallant friend. Were he ever
here, all Tammany Hall would be his gallant
friends and he would carry every thing before him.
Then the lowest members in the House, even Mr..
MURRoUaH, who got in by accident, and than
whom no scurvier-looking fellow could be found at
Nicaragua sympathetic meeting is his honorable
friend, If, as he slips in with the most artful art
lessness, he will allow him to call him So The
ated here, but Mrs. MURRoUGH visits all the neigh
bors next day and pointing to the paper and calls
Pam tiny husbands friend" and Mr.. MURRoUGH
votes with Pam when he wants him or dimes on
cold mutton for month. A little stroke of art
like this may make or unmake the Nicaragua ques-
ton. As NAPOLEON says, the fate Of kingdom
has often depended upon the cooking of chop.
The great secret of Pslmerston's success as a
Parliamentary man is this dash and apparent frank
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lief in his being plucky, which Monsieur lie Peuple
always likes, and thoroughly English. His cele-
brated peroration, in which he said that it was his
aim that an Englishman, be he in what land he
might, should have, by virtue of being an English
man, the privileges accorded to the Roman when
he exclaimed, Girls Ronanas sam II went home
to the English heart, and has stuck there firmly.
Then there is an unmistakable, indefnable, thor
ough-bred air about all he does no business or
swagger Strength in repose is the characteristic
Of his manner, which is apparently boyishy Datu-
raj, though every one knows that, like his legs,
hair, aid whiskers, the whole affair is rosy fc-
ton, "humbug sir, all humbugi" as Sir John
Vesey says in Bulwer's dull comedy of /" Money
From a survey Of Palmerston one turns with
feeling of sor ow TO think that such leader should
have suck material to play on as the present House
OF Commons which numbers as dismal, dull, and
dozy a crew ever drove the vessel Of the state
II IL as melancholy TO see such genius a. Pal
merston expended on 80 spiritless a machine, az 10
see Hiram Woodruff driving an omnibus, Verdi or
Fry composing comic song, Rachel playing Mrs
Toodles, Gottschalk teaching the Piano at ladies'
boarding-school, or Max Maretzek playing solo
on the German flute.
A yooArroS.-A gentleman losfer, recently ar
rested in Cincinnati, being questioned by the Off
Ger as to his vocation, replied
Sir am Doctor have cured main In tho
head Of navigation, and drawn teeth from the
mouth Of the Mississippi ! have anatomical the
side OF mountain blistered the foot of hill, felt