The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-05-16
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Caleb Cushing, the 0onsses P0sMcsdn,
the indis-rnbber statesman, the scscbatio.
ex.Attorney General, has arrived g home,
! and hi .neighbors OF Newburypor have
celet.ao4 shis coming, just - fhey wowo
!: that 81 anY other prodigy Of -, or earn,
a ~, Esen ~ comet Of Charles the ri = =.
& - ri r4yal IN the niddle heavens, y
III 1oR the time being, and the peo-
- S6S1lk together, II witness the newest
feats az rambling of this marvellous per-
former.
And the speech which was CAMEO iorsn
from INN did not disappoint expectatfon.-
II was bold, speculative oratorlcai-an
ovation, in short, to manifest uestiny; ana
made up Of that pitiless prophecy ana iu-
minou. exaggeration which Is oiten SO cap
tivating with the multitude. some portions
of his remarks We have transferred 70 ON
columns to-day; other portions we propose
to say d few words upon here. mr.. Cusn-
ing has been MARKED character IN the MS
tory Of Massachusetts tor many years; ne
has occupied almost every conceivanie Po-
sitien in regard to her politics; he has chang
cd from whig to abolition, and from aboii-
one time the bitterest denouncer OF jackson,
and at another, the ardent eulogist of Pierce;
and it is no wonder, therefore, that with
miraculous efrontery he should seek, in
decentralization, to sap all the sure founda-
tons Of consistency, ana continuity IN par
ty principles, and labor to promote new
creed in regard to the 'sunreasonableness OF
this idolatry Of party symbols" In no one
phoaa cf ON bax ha IonO rpmalne0 con.
tent; no settled convictions seem ever to
have sunk deep intohis soul. Ills faith was
cosmopolitan faith. His belief is an I'M
provised belief. His logic is protean in
character-his argument slippery as the skin
colored splendors, as the spots OF snake
bloated with poison in midsummer. NO
earnest prayer ever escaped his lips-no sad
remorse ever depressed his heart; ana ne
stands up to-day before an auditory at New
buryport, to all seeming, wholly lncredu,
lous that he has ever MADE raise step, ana
very well satisfied that he has never EN-
barked IN losing venture. Truly, II IL
were not by the instinct whereby men recon
from such polished etfrontery, we might say
there was something sublime IN MS daring
utterance, that "men OF action are the mat
ters-not the slaves OF doctrine ms Is
the irreligion or the thinker VINO knows no
God, no love, no conscience, no hereafter;
no principles >oevai with human nature, no
fixed FAITH In anything that appertains 10 the
rights OF men or the government Oh ma
tions.
Inc SIN Oh unlathiulness CONSISTS only III
changing carrier OF later thah Others, ac-
cording 10 Mt. Cushlhgs gospel 1ne
Spartans thought there was no disgrace In
stealing, provided only the THEFT was not
discovered; but we belleve even the SPAR
tans Tell, to the last man, at Ihermopyla,
rather than change to the other side. We
have said Caleb Gushing was homeless poll
ticidn, and we think his, own words are sui
ticient evidence OF the fact. Through life
he has writhed, and turned, and twisted with
an agility so remarkable as to leave US In
doubt whether his whole body be not a mass
of cartilage. With clear vision, supple
fascination of words, and a grasping ava
rice of fame, he has shifted from side to
side in the changing scenes, until we scarce
ly know him when he re-appears. His ac-
ton reminds US OF nothing so much as OF
curious exhibition, of which we have re-
Gently read, at one OF the Paris clreuses.-
The programme calls 1T ''the exercise OF dis
location, and the journalists try to initiate
it by torturing their language into all sorts
OF complimentary shapes in describing it
Imagine, says one OF them, slender fe-
male brunette, with flashing eyes, hollow
cheeks, black tresses streaked with blush
tints, Of that exotic ugliness which must be
beauty, somewhere far away, under the
tent or in the pagoda. She comes dancing
and floating, in u loose robe with red stripes.
She throws herself down on a carpet spread
out in the centre Of the circus, and 10! she
begins her chimerical exercises. She tears
herself to :pieces-unbones herself-passes
her leg, like shoulder belt, over her neck,
and undoes, like hooks, the collar bones OF
10 brnugbt forward which, would scarcely
hold n robe carefully folded, She leaps on