New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-26

maTnfactnrng company where their rev ard IL 20 be
out few pslry dollars per cent on ihelr oapuai-n
meeting wac 20 be csi 20 appoint President or an
ao,It az that compaoy-would attend thl- meeting 70
ee 4 this Pr..ident ard Director OF the patry bank
or ioipt stock concern; but when the Presiden, AMI
Tnectors are 10 be elected to ak of the hbeves
n HE whole country. Oh tbese are too decent,
too respectable to sttend IL If not respectable to be
politician, they tell us; or they are too careless or
they have half an acre OF buck wheat when Inisht
not be got in and saved If they left home on the cleo
tior dsy.
Thai. the way you act with your pr vileaes. am
quite tired OF complaining of the men You elect and OF
the laws they make. One thing knox To be perfscny
certain the stockholders do not attend 70 The election
Of President ard Directors, or If they do, they don't
know how 10 DO their duty.
WHO Is TO RE BLAMED.
Don't let us blame poor BuchaDao Don't let us
aDathematze the men We have elected TO these Offices
of S ate too much! Let us abuse the people mat
elected them. They to blame for the whole OF IL
Whist have the people of the United States done with
The ofices 7 If you elect Judge and be does not
attend at Court, and if an innocent man If haog be-
cause he was not there to try him. what do you do with
bin You take him 70 Columbus and impeach him.
lie is removed from Office and the brand OF dlsgrace
ard igDouiiny is placed on his brow. But yon stay
home from elections and let worthy be elected
to Office; you don't Ike some party or other. The
nudge might cay lie did not like bis associate; ne did
lot like to cit hear bin-he had not very sweet
breath. Laughter tell you, Sire, that Is quite ss
valid as many Of the that make for stay
ing away lom elections.
RETROSPECTIVE.
What have You been doing now, to 60 no further
back than the last few yesrs-si1teen OF seventeen
All of YOU o mature sge remember the year 1910 very
well What did all the people Of the United States do
then They rose up, with Mingled feelings OF mer-
rmen and iDdgnaoL-for it was difficult to tell which
prevailed that year. the events Of the administration
Of Mr. Van Buren, had been 30 sogulary out OF the
way, nowise conformable to aDybOdys notions of
things il difficult TO FAY whether 1t was looked at
with inoign atiOn contempt or meHiment; every ora
OF hfs officers was running away with the peoples
money-you know how used to twist his long.leg-
ged measures daughter ard three quarters OF the
people STATED up and declared we will have no more
Democratic government; we will have Wing govern
ment The principles upon which these two parties
were coDtendiDg them for your sufrages, diamet
REALLY opposed upon due delberstiOn and solemn
consideration for | do hope you sometimes consider
these tbiDgs it determined by an unexsmpled ma
or,y of the country that henceforth Wings and their
principles should be the rule of conduct in the United
States. II was co. Your decree, when you make 1t,
is always omnipotent.
Four years pass awey-they go by-what happens
then You have again TO appoint President of this
great joint stock company OF ours. The people have
two men presented to them One has beer alluded to
by my friend Mr.. Dennison-Mr Clay OF Kentucky,
a man who has been spoken of go much that 1t would
be idle TO attempt to employ terms adequate TO express
the feelings with which one who knew nm as well ~ 4
did regarded the great loss we have sustained by his
Death a Of whom the nation was proud mac
who had European reputa ion, who wes regarded As
the great champion of regulated liberty by men OF in
telgence all overthe world in addition this he Osd
endowm ents which it has pleased God very rarely to
give to mortal man; integrity pure asthe highest
Dteg rty of the highest and best of the ancient people
who have descended TO us as demi-gods. Nobody
questioned this in the election at all. Ii was named and
repeated every hour He did not like the annexation
of Texas to the United States; not because he himself
had any personal objection to any accumulation OF
Slave States in the country, but becauee he beevedn
would disturb the harmony OF the Republic as then
existed The harm ony and prosperity of this land were
the idols Of his heart Another man was also presented
to the American people-a very ordinary man. u wish
to speak Of BIN in no terms of disparagementl You
all know something of Mr.. Polk: He never pretended
to be the equal of Mr. Clay. Mr.. Polk differed with
RtpS hi hS
be annexed to the United States. He Democrat
of the Democrats. knew him WELL You know that
speak truly of his history. As politician he was
opposed TO everything now proposed by the Opposition
in the Slave States and by the Republican party 10 The
Free States to the proper system of government IN
this country. Well, Clay proposed to the country TO
COZ til the Wbig government begun by Mr. Harm
You had determined four years before that hence
forward we should only have Wing principles and
Wing rulers -Four years passed by, and with the
mighty difference between the two men, you deter
mined by very large majority you would have no
more Wing government, but would have Democratic
government, when you could have the pleasure
and the pride of voting for of the greatest states
men the world ever knew. The stockholders have
changed their opinion greatly in these four years, or
else they did rot vote their principles at al.
ton, and as men are gaining light every day in the
world we fondly hoped, by the school-houses and
churches that we had erected, would get some in
teligepce We would begin to suppose that We were
mistaken in 1870 and that haG learned that the
Democratic was the true rule of government in the
country.
-Four years more rolled round, which brings us to
1913. The country in the mean time, had been IN
volved in foreign war, and il is very rare, when the
ambition of nation is concerned and that ambition is
put into conflict with another nation it is very rare
that the men Of the nation do not take sdes with him
who wages the war. Mr. Polk to be reelected or
rejected. What did in 1913 With about the |
same unanmity as before, we declared that would
have no more Democratic government, We will have |
Wing government even though We have to deposit
this great power OF craftsmanship in the hands OF q
man fresh from the battlefield who never in the
councils Of his country. The stockholders have |
changed back again
-Four years rolled around and 1852 comes upon |
us and finds still increasing in light and knowledge.
Mind in 1913 we jumped back just eight years. We |
found, suppose, that the isht had been leading
astray-that We failed in 1914. Now we are at the |
anopoint Of 1910 again. Instead of continuing our
resolution to continue Wing government, we have |
found out that We mistaken second time and |
take not Gen. Scott, by no means an ordinary man.
tie was Wig, and you put away that illustrouss
General and that eminently qualified statesman, aud |
took man who it is true, had been battlefield, |
and on his back on battle feld. Laughter He |
was such brave man that he could lie down and |
just drop of his horse on the battle field l wish To
speak IN no way disrespectful Of Mr.. Pierce but say
that you fell so much in love with Democratic govern-
ment, that you threw away Wing who was eminent
y quahheld as statesman and renowned as a war |
nor and took al man not renowned in either way.
AGc-DEvH ILLUSTRATION.
Now this, and all of this, is applicable TO all Of us.
What would you think of any man-to illustrate-of
any farmer, who would take one of those fine patent
Pows and pillow down his barren ground and raise a |
good crop upon hs land which he had thrown aside as
useless. He gathers his crop into his garner, reaps
the reward of his labor thanks God for his fruitful