Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-11-03
DenaIa.. tho Wanderer,

The n. Y. Tribune thus takes off Mr.. SEUGD's lex
cellent friend":
We wish that Mr.. Douglas, although he may have
no friends out of his own family, would, for that
familys sake take better care of himself He is
roaming through the southern States with no very
precise aim, making speeches wherever and when
ever he can obtain an audience. In everything but
his legs, he reminds US of Alcibades, who, finding
Athens uncomfortable residence aud his beau
tifu Thrace no longer safe, betook himself to mean
dering IN Asia and was roasted alive in his own
house by the pitiless Pharnabazus. The Stephens,
he should remember, were martyrs in the begin
ming; and if some enlightened southern community
principally of the Breckenridge persuasion, should
treat Mr.. Douglas TO tar to hemp, parallel
would be perfect. Between the 24th of October and
the 5th OF November, Mr.. Douglas, in the Atlanta
(Ga) COTJederdcb announces his intention of making
speeches all the way, Nashville from Memphis to
Mobile-eeYen Orations in all, to reckon nothing
little spirits Iof eloquence from carplatforms and
hotel windows. Computing mis- nrstclass efforts
each at three hours in length. Mr.. Douglas will
thus declaim one entire day, and nine extra hours
into the bargain, executing his swan-song at Mobile
on the 9TH os November, with dreadful diInin1sn-
do and no dd edpO. For our own part, eOntem-
plating these announcements filled with won
Ger. No dead man ever so canvassed before-the
corpse of Caesar in the capitol noting to this;
while, in respect of wInd the antOmotan trumpet
player Is reduced in comparison TO a contemplate
zephyr. Public men, when disappointed and dis
contiguity of shade. and there find sad consolation
in nursing and coddling their dependency, and in
dieting upon roots and herbs. Mr.. Douglas prefers
the life of medicant who in the broad blaze of day
and in the market place exhibits his sores be re-
minds US of one of those Italian wanderers who
sometimes call upon us with greasy petition set
ting forth the entire destruction of the Migrants
charming villa by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
lie reminds US, to venture upon different compa-
rison, of defeated rooster, who has been compell
fOH hao,1 ola
returns, again to be roweled and again to retreat.
Though he is like the shylark of the poet merely
"a wandering voice., yet he is capable still of mis-
chief, and of crying 'bOor to Breckenridge As re
CARDS that unfortunate Vice President, Mr.. Douglas
seems tOseai as PertTam in MaturlnS plmento trag-
edy felt toward ST. AldObrand, when the outlaw
cried: 80 that were on the dark wave together,
with but one plank between and destruction, that
/ might grasp him in these desperate arms, and
plunge with him below the weltering pillows and
hear him howl for life-ha! ha !-ha haP'- apas-
sage which, recited by the late Mr. Booth, inva-
riably moved the knd-hearted gallery to tears.
Mr.. Douglas will pardon us if we say that he re-
minds of Belisarius taking up "a collection; the
only difference being that the seedy monarch did
now and then secure a copper, whereas Mr.. Doug
las must carry his old hat into new ATTITUDES If he
would bag any votes,
As it is he must take his pay in the general ruin
of his party and in the hopeful darkness OF his own
political prospects. He may deem this sufficient
but as Lord Bacon says, "He that studieth revenge
keepeth his wounds green" In one of Ho-
garth election prints, enthusiastic freehOlder is
presented in the act of saving off the sign-beam at
the end of which he is seated. One can easily see
where he will be when the crash shall come. And
where will Mr.. Douglas be wien the Democratic
party is utterly destroyed where but in the mud
and the mire with it? The ROSTERS in Mr. Douglas
advertisement in the The COtedaacy newspaper look
very gay and galant-but suppose them dead, pluck
ed, roasted and eaten and what chance would there
be of them comingto life again?
When at Mobile, upon the 5th of November Dir
Douglas has made his last speech for the season, he
will probably take glass of whisky and water,
smoke cigar and seek his sheets for slumber re-
Election. When he arises the next morning, he will
shave himself take his cocktail, eat his breakfast
read his newspaper, and light his cigar again. What
will he do then? The business Of smashing" will
be over. He will be politician without party
leader without TAIL general without an army, an
adventurer without hope, schemer without pro-
ject bankrupt without resource, and politician
without a principle. The fragments of 1.-THE ma
chine" will be heaped around him; and as another
will be sitting in the White House upon the 9th or
March Mr. Douglas will find the occasion favorable
for a variety OF moral reflections, which 1t would
be presumptuOus for US even to indicate.