New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-08
POLITICAL.

The recent scenes at Charleston varously cell
ebaed in the camps of the different factions that took
part in that interesting scrmmage but by all odds
the most poetca and the most personal description of
the COZ ct is given by the lyris of The Leader. See
what bitter venom he pours upon such eminent Demo-
Gratis as Messrs. Buchanan, Slidel, Lane, Gushing,
Yaucev, Bayard, Barksdae, and Jackson:
Crooked weak but envous the witches Of Macbeth,
Came old and gray Buchanan ahangerng for hi death;
The ancient Houmas Bandit each poisoned arrow tries,
Nth eod and tony k ke lO his rusty sword in air.
But IL the Little Giant holds uioyed his fearless way,
While the great Of the people behind hun rock and sway
No hand but MS guide
In such strait our ship OF State,
Across the stormy tide
Fe b is behind %fn Ris fe @
Aud mounted on charger qfhot and Glossy BLACK
Lo Bayard aroused and qits his fayoe cards and dice
Hi hae reveals iaro-boerd for motto and device; ,
But smiling tin against them ALL their One Foe holds his own
While louder sii and louder the cry behind has grOwn
A Douglas and Douglas
Who every base trick spums
And that to Douglas turns'
"Bolchorse hafalIgsto here Mississipps banks,
Tho blatant Barry caTacoes and spurs along the rauks
From ArKasaw Burrows with his tookpick in it'
While that auudiced Georgian Jackson shows his grim and
And barks his bittere bark and curls tail,
And ike forty thousand ours beneath storm Of hail
But smiling now-smo.t lsushihe Douglas marches
" Ia Iuln
| 4 Douglas and Douglas'
Louder the warsons grows
God speed the man who ishts so Wen
Against a thousand foes '"
| That we think will do Sldell rheumy old bandit,
Gushing poisonous, scaly reptile, Bayard faro
payer. and so on; while Of course, Mr.. Douglas is
everything that is gallant and beautiful. But we are
sorry to see such thng 1t promises i'll for the har-
nony Of the party.
-" Occasional" writing from Washington to The
Phaadelphia Press, devotes paragraph TO Caleb
Gushing saying that all the delegates arriving from
Charleston unite in Of the presiding officer and
that his whole bearing that of partial PARTISAN
bound TO Jefferson Davis. The writer calls TO mind
tie time when Mr. Gushing was vigorous opponent
Of the slave power quotes from speech made by him
in the House of Representatives in 1886, wherein he
| argued against the admission Of Arkansas into the
Union. because her Constitution protected Slavery,
and goes on 10 say that since his admission into the
Democratic ranks his steady effort has been to show
his contempt for the feelings of his people, and %
court the extreme Pro-Slayery ogarchy. The follow
| Ing is tie summing up:
Caleb Gushing is politician OF the hachlayehal
| school. He il of those instances in which the
brain is so cultivated that the heart is forgotten SUI
peiOr in intelect-a splendid orator. powerful writer
| fine lawyer linguist, Ateratear legislator, and
something of sOlder-is opinions are rarely cOnvic-
Mons, ana lis pOnllCS dltbJ
a man could be trusted he would be public beneiac
tor But God has wed il otherwise. Had Gushing
gone TO Charleston, true TO his declarations IN the
when he had no reason to be otherwise than sincere
he would either have made Douglas President, or
would him self have carried of the tempting prize
But actuated Heaven knows by what purpose, he
took tie other SIDE and much of the dssensiOn that Ina
beallen our great party is justly cheargeable upon
him"
--' Occasional" writing to TIE Philadelphia Press,
saws:
'Do not suppose that l abandon the election of
Judge Douglas. On the contrary it may be achieved
bv the continued resolution and unity Of his friends
lie and thew have fierce contest before them but
they will succeed if they conduct themselves,
have no doubt they will. The necessities of the case
the implacable hostities Of the iire-eaters--wi
make and will keep them up TO the mark.