Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-06
MIR RnrTs AND HIS FARCE.

The Richmond Morning News, the special
newspaper organ of Hon. John NJ. Bolts, pro-
fesses to be very hopeful of electing him to
bic to see where or how that gentleman can
secure single electoral vote. Seeking ones
political fortune among the debris of the Fill
more party of 1856 must be dull work. He
and his friends will be likely to tire of it; and
there is nothing for them anywhere else.
1t is said that the Opposition in Virginia
and Kentucky will finally unite with the
slavery extremists of Mississippi and South
Carolina and run coalition ticket against
what are called "the Douglasites." We place
some confidence in this rumor because it is in
itself more probable than anything else of the
kind we have heard. In such case Jefferson
Davis will of course be the candidate for Pres.
ident; and, for the Vice-Presidency, this most
appropriate coalition of Southern extremists
will be more likely to select Mr.. Goggin than
Mr.. Bolts. The Charleston Mercury has al
ready endorsed Mr.. Goggin and the Virginia
Opposition" as much sounder on the slavery
question than the Virginia Democrats. Of
course there will be no difficulty whatever in
forming coalition between parties so closely
united already. There is a wonderful power
in the fitness of things to control circumstances
and regulate the march of destiny. For each
bewildered politician as for all other bewilder
ed mortals, "his own place" waits somewhere.
We must not omit to state that our sprightly
and agreeable contemporary, the Richmond
Morning News is sometimes amusing when
he discusses the prospects of his candidate.
We learn from the News that 'the masses" are
moving to the support of Mr.. Bolts, and that
''to Virginia is accredited the first move of the
upheaving Of the political elements" Virgin
ia, we believe, is always trying to "upheave
the political elements" 1t is now some years
since she has done much else. Politics is the
chief business of her people, although scarcely
any other state in the Union has such wealth
of natural resources to invite and reward en-
lightened industry. The political "opposi-
ton in Virginia are very weak, and they do
not signify much. They never did carry
state election, and they never will do so. They
can do nothing themselves; and they can
bring nothing to any party but impotence and
disaster. Yet they are as busy with politics as
ifthey were a chief power in the land, intent
on developing some great principle in human
affairs.
fla mans value depended on political promi-
nence; if it really were more honorable to
make political speeches and discuss candidates
20 IL, a.
making steam engines and constructing all
kinds of delicate machinery; then useless poll
tics might be better than useful work, and
slavery better than free labor But, so long as
this is not the case, all such enterprises as the
movement to have Mr.. Bolts talked of as can
ddate for the presidency are not the most COM
mendable contrivances for employing human in
telect and energy. Hon. John NJ. Bolts has no
more chance of being President of the United
States than he has of being Emperor of Russia.
1t is hardly possible to name weaker man.
He has so little strength, that, to us, there is
something irresistibly comic in every serious
attempt of his Richmond organ to talk as if
somebody were capable of imagining move
ment of "the masses in his favor Yet it is
necessary to amuse the public, and Mr.. Bolts
as a candidate Tor the Presidency, may serve
as well for this purpose as anything else. 1t is
very proper to have the farce before the grand
performance; and if he is content to play it,
we see not why others should complain. He
is nothing to US, and we are not likely to be-
come in any way responsible for what he does.