Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-02
Tho Buchanan wake.


Sympathy usually honors any draft whicl
is payable in feelings and tears. The sympa
thetic chord will start the water when il en-
tirely fails to ''raise the wind" In fact II
emotions are generally lost in that fluid, lik
those of the famous "Umbilical Cord"-t,
use the refined term with which an enthusi
astic contemporary glorifed the Atlantic cable
1t is always prompt to-
"0lve to misery all IL hath, a tear"
and much disposed to regard that as payment
in full.
Observation of these admirable traits oi
human nature VIC Id naturally lead to the
expectation that the invitation to the Democ-
racy to come together on Saturday night,
and express their sympathy for the President
in his recent affliction by the House investi-
eating committee, would have brought a
general response. 1t was n case to draw
tears, and as these are all that Democracy
has to give the venerable President, they
should have been prepared to shed them lib
orally.
But even this poor tribute is denied. The
mourners, with one accord, began to make
excuse. Star Democrats seemed to have an
extraordinary number of engagements; be-
sides, there was Douglas meeting on the
same night and for Douglas men to- weep
for Old Buck would be about the most ludi-
crous grief imaginable; and who would leave
the bright political anticipations that radiate
from possibly rising star, to shuttle over the
unwholesome smell of an old tallow dip, Just
expiring in its socket
Mr.. Faran opened the meeting. The in
dignation that q resolution to inquire whether
the Presidents patronage has been used to
control politics, can excite in an ex-Postmas-
ter, who has just been turned out of office
solely on the suspicion of having preference
for Douglas for the next nomination, must be
inexpressible; but we may imagine him, with
n smile on his lip, tear in one eye and a
wink of intense meaning in the other, ad-
dressing the few surviving friends. We OBJ
serve that the Chairman's grief found vent in
the Sunday Enquirer, in the following strain:
at has been long since we have felt
higher degree of indignation at any political
event than at this shameless insult the House
of Representatives has offered to O coordinate
branch of the Government"
Really, as one equally afflicted observed:
"This and the death of dear friend would
60 nigh to make one sad"
The last ''higher degree of Indignation at
political event" was probably when the Pres
ident applied the guillotine to his official
neck for daring to think that Mr.. Buchanan |
could have successor.
Irish funerals are proverbially jolly; but
they are solemn, to the Buchanan wake.
Judge Warren was the Mark Tapley of the
occasion. He ''came out strong" under the
most adverse circumstances, as follows. We
qnote from the report
Judge Warren favored an adjournment,
and paid an eloquent tribute to the character
of Mr.. Buchanan, whose Administration, he
said, when the sober second thought" had /
come to the people, and the bitterness of
party strife had passed away, would be re-
yarded as brilliant success, equal to that of
General Jackson"
The Judge, like the fowery emblem that
grew out of the breasts of the hapless lovers
in the affecting legend of, Lord Lovel,
couldn't go any higher" than this; and, as
IS the custom in executing that doleful ditty,
ais voice at this climax probably was broken
BY emotion, and he must have subsidized in
hat uncomfortable plethora which Subscribed
Is too full for utterance"
This splendid outburst entities the Judge
o legacy from the venerable President:
ring with the Buck crest, or a
Mourning suit, or one of the Presidents old
oats, is the least that ought to be expected.
How long does the Judge propose to wait
or the sober second thought? Really, if
hat is to be the sober thought of the people,
hey must be very drunk now. We can
ardly permit such an imputation on their
briefly to pass. 1t seems to us that Judge
Varren's feelings must have been too numer-
us for him, and that he lost his hold of him
elf.
1t was finally concluded to try the hazard
us experiment of adjourning the wake to
uesday evening, when it is hoped that
ouglas meetings and Democratic engage
tents will be fewer.
Considering the way that Douglas men I
ave denounced the President for using his ,,
fcial patronage to defeat Douglas in Illi- '
bis, their indignation at a Congressional in /
into such matters seems almost
enevolent. 1854 :
We are glad to see that the ENQUIRER q
roposes to make the "expunging" of this v
solution of inquiry leading feature of the 2
ext Presidential canvass. 1t strikes us as :
Ie soundest Democratic principle we have e
1t heard Of The Presidents protesting il
essage would be an excellent campaign
in the King Cambyses vein.
hat audience could resist his own de-
ription of his virtues, from which we =
tote the chief:
~ have lived long in this goodly land, and S
we enjoyed all the Offices and honors which | v
y country could bestow." il
Our morning contemporaries, the Gazette u
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