Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-28
Sow days ago We published and commented

upon some extracts from the Boston Bee, an
opposition paper, tributary to the intellectual
acumen and force, as well MS to the untiring
energy and great attainments of Hon. Caleb
Cushing, late Attorney General in President
Pierce's Cabinet. Since then the Atlantic
Monthly Magazine, the November number. has
come out, and in it is long review of the po.
itical aud intellectual status of Mr. Gushing.
as evidenced in his antecedenr and present po-
sitions The articlein question, also touches up,
with more than ordinary skill, the present con-
ditlon of politics especially the politics of the
Democratic party. How far the article is Just
in some of its scathfng aminadversions upon Mr..
Cushing's course, his want of moral ballast, and
the interestedness of his present connections
and professions, as well as those of the patty to
which he belongs, we confess to some hesitation,
owing to our inexperience and comparatively
low'stand point of observation, in determining
The article in question must be read to be ap.
Preciated, and we only reg:et that the limited
space in our columns does not allow us to spread
such documents in full before our readers. We
do not approve of garblng either for OF against
our own belief But as our brethren of the
press are busily occupied with the article in
question, Staying it and prnising it as best suits
them, we shall venture to give specimen or
two fromit
The author draws parallel between Mr..
Gushing and D'Israeli, the famous Jew. now
Chancellor of the English Exchequer, in which
occurs this paragraph:
Like Mr.. Disraeli, he has been consistent onlv
in devotion to success Like him. Accomplished
handsome, plucky, Industrious, and dangerous
upon convincing in debate, he brings to bear
on every question the immediate force of per-
sonal courage and readiness, but none Of that
force drawn from persistent principle, whose
defeats are tutorings for victory. With quick
eye for the weak point OF an enemy, and a
knack OF so drapiDg common places with rheto-
rio, that they shall have the momentary mir of
profound cancellations; he is also like him far
more cunning in expedients than capable of far
seeing policy. Adroit in creating the fostering
prejudice acute In drawing metaphysical dis
tinctions which shall make wrong seem right.
by showing that it is less wrong than it appear.
ed, he is unable to see that public opinion is
never moulded by metaphysics, and that with
the people, instinct is rs surely permanent as
prejudice is transitory. Like Mr.. Disraeli, yer.
satile, he is liable to forget that what men ad.
mire as grace in intellect, they condemn as a
defect in character and conduct Gifted like
him, with various talents, he has one which
oVerShadows all the rest-the faculty of inspir-
ing an universal want of confidence Asapop
ular leader, the advantage which daring would
have given him, is more than counterpoised by
an acuteness aud refinement of mind which have
no sympathy with the mass of men, and which
they Ia turn are likely to mistrust, from imper-
1ect comprehension Nl-adapted for the rough
and tumble contests of Democracy, he is admit
rphly fitted to be the minister or the head of nm
oligarchical Republic. We wish all our north.
OTn representatives had tho holiness and the
abilities, we hope none of them will be scduced
hut In.a lav,lar FaA IL, fY.S.I.
The following concerning Cushfng's antece-
dents and his ans and outs in politics, the Gin
cinnati Commercial pronounces very good. It
iscertainly very forcibly and candidlyswritten:
Had q constituent of Mr.. Gushing in the
Essex North District, taken anap of twenty
years-twenty years ago, Mr. Cushing was a
flaming Wing Congressman, with q strong tine.
ture of intense Abolitionism- (and if he 6adlin-
ylted his representative to dinner, and got such
an answer as this Cray letter, the sun.
position is not extravaganza --what would have
been his .amazement on waking, to find his
member OF Congress haranguing an assembly
of original Democrats in Tammany HALL (Rs
Mr.. Gushing did recently.) Caius Marius al.
dressing THE ,Volcian Council of War. wonld
occur to him as the only historic parallel for
such rhetorical phenomenon. The one was nm
ideal, as the other Is q common place example
of the ludierons contradiction in which men
may be involved, who find in personal motives.
the justification of public conduct. That the
Chairman of the meeting should have had in
his pocket . letter from the candidate Of the
Buffalo Convention, and that Mr.. John Van Blu.
rem should have sat upon the platform, while
the orator charged the leaders Of the Repubi.
can party with interested motives, were merely
two of those incidental circumstances, by which
Fact always yindicates her claim to be more
Ratiric than Fiction. But, when Mr.. Gushing
speaks with exultation of the past, and with
confidence of the future of the Original Demo-
cratic Party, we can think of nothing like 1t.
.but Charles II, taking the Solemn League and
Covenant, with an unctious allusion to the
prosecutions We covenanters have undergone
and the hiumphs of vital piety to which We
look forward"
Concerning the Democratic party ITSELF aside
from Mr.. Gushing, the author has somewhat to
say. This paragraph is good specimen:
The Democratic party, like the distinguished
master of Jonathan Wild, has been impartially
on both sides of every question of domestic poi.
icy which has arisen since it came into political
existence It has been pro and con in regard
20 navy, . national bank, internal improve.
ments, protection, hard money, and Missouri
Compromise. It's leading doctrine was State
Rights, it's whole course Of action, eliminating
in tho bred Scott decision, has been in the dis
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