Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-02-24

ing the Senator from Pennsylvania, MIR.
Bigler,j who, it is said, represented the Pre-
sident-and he did not deny it when he was
called upon by the Senator from New lamp
shire-gave us his views on the tariff. AS
the Senator from New Hampshire SAID the
President had not been invited to the Demo
cratic caucus, or from some other cause, he
did not agree with them, and the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, representing the iresi-
dents views on the tariff, went IN for Il pretty
large incidentaism on iron for Pennsylva-
mia. If his Cuba horse, his Cuba hobby,
can tickle the South. and upon the iron ques-
ton he can hang the old Keystone State to
him by bars of iron and hooks of stee, he
will be very apt to stand in pretty good po!-
sition for demanding a Nomination. posi-
ton where he can say; Gentlemen, Just
step upon the platform; here is your candl-
date: YOU must take him; you cannot DO with
out HIM" 1t looks to me nightly like that
way.
| know, Mr.. President, that it has been
mentioned often. laughingly, that there has
been belief that if nothing else, your luck
would kill him: that you got everything You
ever went for, all you wanted, and that II
there was nothing else in his way, he would
never survive your luck. Laughter. !
Well, sir, have taken good look at him.
He looks firm, pretty substantial. and strong
and tell you the white Of your eye Is too
white and all the conjuratiUn and witcheraft
and incantations of which you may he mas
ter, cannot avail. | give it as my opinion
| am somewhat of doctor, acquainted with
hygiene-I give it as my decided opinion
that he is good for ten years, and profound
ly ask your pardon for saying So Laugh
ter. know that he has said that he only
wanted to run for one term, but jackson
talked that way. and suppose Jackson was
nearly as tirma man, and probably as pure a
man, as Mr.. Buchanan. Of MIR. Buchanan
personally, desire to say nothing. lie will
hold on, unless you wrench it from him; and
then if it were in his power ne would send
it to some lineal, fayorite son OF hls-ln poll
ties, | mean, for none he has otherwise
Laughter
CLAY, RANDOLPH AND DOUGLAS.
When | was in politics, and may say,
when was alive, laughter. and old man
Clay battled against the Democratic party,
lion-hearted as he was. like Richard CGur de
Lion himself, when he went into the Holy
Land to rescue it from the custody OF the In
fidels, Mr.. Clay, with lions heart, and his
battlc-axe uplifted, fought to rescue what he
believed to be the Constitution and the rights
of the country from the Democratic party,
that he thought was disloyal and untrue to
them: then, sir, | fought and felt like field
marshal.
Well, sir, as to the Democratic party, do
not know that | could very we'll join them,
unless | see little further into them. |
could not be locofoco anyway, and under
stand that the discipline is extremely rigid.
Laughter. They muster their men with
great severity, according to regular drill.
and if a man does not walk up to the mark,
overheard he goes: and the rule is that it is
better to have an enemy out of thecamp than
friend in the camp cutting capers and cut
ting shines. John Randolph, of Virginia,
said of the Democratic party-but will not
say Of them--that all they wanted was men
of sense enough to lead, and fools enough to
follow, laughter. and if any man could not
subscribe to these principles, and went int"
the party rs leader. who had not sense
enough to lead, he ought to be turned out. |
believe YOU did cashier one or two. | do not
know what the severity of the discipline Is.
If | can get private conversation with my
friend from Illinois (Mr. Douglas before |
leave here, should like to know if he has
not learned something on that subject
Laughter. wish, just privately and con-
fidentially, to know from him if the discipline
is not excessively tight. If was to go in |
do not know upon what sort of probation or
trial should be put. suppose it would be
long enough TO make them certain that they
Wing principles and feelings out of me, and
that really had the true religion and was
converted. Then they might put me in the
kitchen of the household of the Locofocos, un-
til they believed was really Christian, and
showed it evidently. ] do not know how |
should be treated. think | shall look lit
tie farther before | gOin.
THE "BLOoDY OLD BRUIsER" AND HIS DOGS.
Mr.. President, my strength is failing me,
but must say something more. utterly
condemn this rampant spirit and cry for war.
1t is n wrong cry; it is a wrong teaching for
the country: and | predict that if we get
into calamitOus war with France and with
England on this account, we shall repent it
to the latest day of our lives. Do not pass
this unnecessary bill, and insult neighbor
by this proposition, which is every way UNI
advised and uncalled for. When you get
into war, you will find that fighting John
Bull is not talking. When England sent
men here in the last war, and burned this
Capitol it was mere by-play for her. She
was upholding all continental Europe then,
against the colossal power of Napoleon; and
yet she came here just as by-play, and
troubled us as she did. Our people think
we whipped England, and you hear them
say throughout the country that we whipped
Wellngton's invincibles; and they believe
that we absolutely whipped the veterans who
fought the battle of Waterloo, although that
battle was not fought until the 18th of June
after the 9Th Of January, when our battle of
New Orleans was fought. They are stuffed
up in that way, and inAamed with war
spirit.
Old John Bull, as said, is bloody old
bruiser. If the Senator from Georgia was
here, would ask him if he did not see how
Spain and Sardinia sent off their quota to
the Crimean war, at the request of Eng
land, although they had just about as much
interest in it as had. England Just said to
them, "if you do not fight on my side, | will
whip you.n That is the whole of it. They
follow England in that kind Of way. John
Bull, if may use familiar illustration that
will he understood in the country, is like a
great unruly mastif, a bull dog, Old Bull
goes providing about, bunting up fights