New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-14
LOOK cur FOR SQUALLS.

II any reliance u to be plAced IN apparent pre-
monitions, the country must lock out for squalls
Vic country Is about 70 DO afflicted I Asthe papers
periodically chronicle the interesting condition q
Queen victcria's health, 80 DO we announce fhas
Seward Ii in labor Of d speech. The country y
about to be afflicted herewith Leok out for the
storm III cunaing Black Rspublicanism which the
great Representative man d the NoEth II about g
rain amor, tho land His silence Il omineus. 1t u
the calm Before tle Storm The star tiger At bos
liticnsr, erotoles ID his seat IN the Senate cham
WI II ths onion. of ffie North and the South, and
gathers hIs energies fDr spring upon his foes
ia n,eiaitates ii porfentous quiesCence He shufes
fha p,ck Ut Presidential cards through his hands,
ana marks those 10 select and play IN the great,
ainss, Winning game. He glances at the count of
II Ion, jack which he tailed in his Rochester
Speech making him six, The game stands six
lid ill, ana Till deaia He runinates some rare
dodge BIZ which he can flop up Jack, for he IS
good on the knave and decide the game at once
in the Senate chamber without playing it ont with
risk Of loss.
He cronches III his chair and scratches his long
head and reflects what new and telling change he
can ring on the wool question which has secured
his fortunes 80 far and thereby gain State Or two
and win the Presidential chair right ON the oor Of
The Senate The mountain Of sin is in labor, but
he Will 10 delivered Of no mouse Of Hickedness.
The progeny will be worthy Of the parent The
speech Seward next delivers win be the greatest
of his efforts. The whole army Of Black Republic
cans aw ait ii III breathess anticipation, and espe
cially those 81 Illinois. They cling to the hope
that il viii point the way for their release from the
/ clutches of the \ Little Giant who Expresses
them with His Irresistible force. The Black Re-
publican leaders, who have tfaitorously cherished
aspirations for tie nomination of their party await
the discharge Of It's great gun with almost hopeless
foreboding. They know its oaber, and are quite
convinced that one great shot from it will annihi
late them in the Chicago Convention Of nomination
watch Seward. Keep your eye on the still,
dark, refcent champion Of Abolitionism. He is
loading himself with cunningly devised charge to
scatter dismay among his enemies. He will |. go
on soon, and full Of fate will be the consequences
He il no wordy gabbler, but every word has its
proper merit and is carefully put in its place
with well-weighed purpose. The country waits
on Seward. When viii lie open his oracular lips
and give forth-not necessarily what he thinks, but
what he deems 1t polite to say? We viii predict
the tone and tenor Of the portended speech. They
will be such not to offend his most ultra adyo-
Gates Or to arouse the wrath Of his opponents
They will secure old adherents and bid for new.
and 50 irresistibly that we fear they win seem
snficient excuse for Northern men, who are not
rooted and grounded in conservative faith, to go
over to his party. The artfnl dodger is at this
moment meditating how to best attain the acme of
humbug. When will he develops