Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-23


provoking of American poets, referring to the
alarming effect produced by one of his poems
upon al unsophisticated reader, in bursting his
buttons off, closes the pathetic narrative by
saying
"Since then I've never dared to write,
As funny as | can"
We give our delightful humOrist great credit
for his turbearance but what shall we say of a
Statesman, white neckclothed. grave, decnrous
and stately, who, at the advanced age of sixty
Eve, enters the list against DR.. Holmes, and at .
tenpts to do that which the latter has
avowedly retrained from, in the benevolent
effort to preserve the victims of uncOnsciOnable
taors from extraordinary charges in the way
of buttons. The Sage of Wheatland has sue
ceeded in accomplishing in prose, what our
Boston Doctor was reluctant to do over again
in rhyme.
The Hards and Softs of New York have
graciousIy notified Mr.. Buchanan that they
have succeeded in effectings fraternal union,
and Mr.. Buchanan responds in return, over
the telegraphh-the Bowery boys would be
much more likely to call it "over the left
but, in fact, Mr.. Buchanan has responded over
the telegrsp that this coalition between the
Hards and Softs is'One Of the grandest erents in
hiStOry!" We once drought that Prince
Gargantua. who raked cannon balls ont of his
haIr with a comb nine hundred feet long, the
teeth whereof were great elephants tusks, and
afterwards ate up six pilgrims in q salad,
which was brought him in plate seven times
larger in circumference than the great tun of
Heidelberg, was an extraordinary young man,
but while he excelled in practical things, the
sage of Wheatland is far superior to him in
magniloquence. He chsrscterizes reunion
of petty politicians as zone of the graDdest
events in history" deserving to be cassed,
doubtless, with Marathon and Thermopylae,
with the passage of the Rubicon, the discovery
of America, and the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. When Mr.. Buchanan boldly divesied
himself of his individuality and announce d
himself as the Cincinnati platform men regard
ed this d ring avowsl OF having become
transubstantiated by the act of a political con
vention, as something wonderful; but for force
of Imagination il falls far short of that msga
ni6cent hyperbole which declares the patching
up of quarrel between two Democratic tac-
tons, rs zone of the grsndest events in his.
tory!" II is extraordinary how grossly men
have been deceived in their previous estimates
Of grandeur and meanness. Henceforth, how
ever, by searching for definitions in the polit.
icsl dictionary of the sage of Wheatland, they
may learn, it they will, to define things very
differently. In this new lexoogrsyby. parts
OF which have already been given to the world
rally, they will End that the grand event" of
Washington resigning his commission, has It's
parallel in recent times, in the agreement of
opposing sect ons OF New York democracy To
divide equitaby the anticipated spoils OF office.
That this also is zone of the grandest ev ents in
history" and that the leaders of these factions,
Willie aiming at personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, have
uncousciously performed on act of so heroic a
nature as to immortslIze their nAmes.-Bah.
Patriot.