New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-24
DOUGLAs THE wANDERRR.

We wish that Mr.. Douglas, althOus he may
have no friends out of his own family, would, for
that fan iy's sake, take better care of HIMSELF He
is u w roaming through the Southern States with
no very precise aim, making speeches wherever
and vhene, or he can obtain audience. 10 every
thing but his legs he reminds US OF Aclblsdes who,
finding Athens an uncomfortable place of residence
and bis beautiful Thrace no Logger safe, betoOk
himself to meanderipg in Asia, and was roasted
alive in bis own house by the pitiless Pharnaoszus.
The Stephens, be SHOULD remember, we're martyrs
in the beginning; and if some enlightened Southern
community principally of the Breckenridge per-
su.siop should treat MI Douglas to tar or to hemp,
our parallel would be perfect. Between the oath
of October and the 18th Of November MIR. Douglas,
in IT,. atlanta Ca COstederGey, announces his In
tention ofmakDg speeches oil tho way, VIA Nashville,
from Memphis to Moblle-eleven orations in all, to
reckon as nothing little spirits Of elOqnence from
car. platforms and hotel windows. Computing bis
first class efforts each at three hours ia length, Mr.
Douglas will thus declaim one entire day, and nine
extra hours into the bargain, executing his swan
song at Mobile on the 5th of November with a
dreadful dirainu.ndo and 10 da eapo. For our own
part, in contemplating these announcements, We
are filed with wonder. NJ dead man ever so csu-
vsssed befcre--the corpse OF Cesar in the Capitol
was nothing to this; while, in respect of wind the
automston trumpet. player is reduced In comparison
to contsmptble zephyr. Public men, when dis
appointed and disguised, usually retire to some
silent and bOuDdfss contguity of shade, and there
find a sad consolation III LursiDg and cOddlpg their
despol dency end il dieting upon roots aud herbs.
MIR. Douglas prelers the life Of me- dicaut
who III the broad blaze of day and in the msrket
place exhibits his sores. He reminds us OF one of
those Italian wanderers who sometimes call upon
us with greasy petition setting forth the entire
destruction Of the vagrarts charming villa By an
erupt Oh OF Mount Vesuvius. He reminds US, to
venture upon different comparison, of defeated
rooster, who has been compelled to fy, but, upon
hearing bis antagonists clarion, returns, again TO
be roweed and again to retreat. Though he IS
like the skylark OF the poet merely ga wandering
" voice" yet he is capable still OF mischief aud Of
c'yiIg "boO" to Breckenridge. As regards that
unfortunate Vice President NJ. Douglas see Us to
feel as Ber,ram 10 MatuIlDs pimeo to tragedy felt
toward st Aldobrsnd, when the outlaw cried
80 ths. We were Oh the dark wave together,
"wth but one plank between us and de-
" structioD, that | might grasp him in
"ttess desperate arms, and plunge with him be-
" low the wel,ering pillows, and hear him howl for
"life-hs hs !-ba! ha "a passage which as re.
cited by the late Mr.. Booth, invariably moved the
kiDd-tearted gallery to tears. AZ both Democratic
car didstes fated to go under, we can only ex-
pres, she gentle hope that they will disagree with
the 6shes that eat them. Whenever the historian
shall write OF the Decline and Fall Of the Demo
cratic Party the savage wIestlipgs of this lovely
pair wal furnish entertaining not TO say thrill
ing, chapter. For ourselves being by birth and
education good nAiured and specially good-Dstured
Of this time we would remind the cOmbatauts of the
oIDliboogical fact stated by the late
DR.. Iaac Watts in regard TO the agree.
mebt Of birds in their little nests, aud of the
Shameful ss of the sight, when children of one
family fall out and rage and fight. We have never,
to our knowledge, smashed tue machine" The
performance OF that reyeDgeful act may bring a
holy calm to certain bosoms. At the same time.
this ambition may be gralifed at too great cost
There is every reason TO believe that il the bull
who attacked the locomotive had foreseen that he
could only co 50 at the expense of bis own ccnyer
81 into beef 10 would bsye philOsophically re.