Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1860-07-24
go 1T, OLD MAN !"

We clip the following paragraph from an ex-
change:
When PrestdeHt Buchanan, filing ore o. the
highest offices in the world, was addressing the
citizens who called on him, on Monday evening,
he saluted from the crowd with the cry o.
" Go it, old man."
What a wretched spectacle have we here of the
prostitution of high station to the promotion of
party ends When before did president of the
United States ever stoop from his exalted
place to the level of the promlscuous crowd IN
trudinc themselves upon the Executive Mansion
only for the purpose of " showing Oft AS the sup
porters of one of the rival political tickets for the
Presidency! With what instructive horror would
Washington have contemplated such pollution
of himself and the White House, and with what
DISGUST would he have shrunk from such a
public surrender of official dignity, merely to
please the populace! How must PRESIDENT
! possessing a proper self-respect and becoming
sensibilities feel when saluted by vulgar brawl-
er in a noisy nocturnal gathering like that in
ouestion with the extremely polished and cora
nlimentary paudit of Go it, old Man. How
refreshing this courtty and delicate tribute must
have been to the parsonage so fortunate as to be
ito recipient! Go it, old Man! an ejaculation
which coming from the source it did, could have
been no less expressive than a shout of deri
sion.
the brief paragraph which has called forth these
| marks was eminently unworthy of the President's
narticipation He should have scorned thus te
P,aor on such AN occasion in the character he
assumed The Chef Magistrate of a mighty na
tion should be infinitely above an act so deroga
torv to the position which he fills. He ough
NOT to mix himself up during his term OF office
with the popular and party excitements OF the
dav. It is not his province to be either cnoos
ing his successor influencing, directly or IN
directly. the choice of the people, whose business
e is to provide such successor. 1t is his right tt
cast his individual vote for whatever candidate
he chooses on the day of election, and he shoult
he content with the free and full exercise of thi
ripht. This thing, however, of a President de
scending into the dirty arena of struggle TO
mower between rival parties, and of mlnglln9
nersonally in the obstreperous demonstration
1ubch are sure to be COTTON up for effect, ever
side is an intolerable violation of every propre
, tv of the case and should be frowned down III
dignantly by the people.-Pet. Express.
EFF1cAcy OF PRAYER.-It will be seen tha
! the floor of the Hall in which the Democrat
Convention is held gave way Immediately ate
nrayer. stereotype portion of almost ever
, prayer Is petition for the downfall of Satan
r KINGDOM an overthrow of the powers OF SIN an
T darkness. and we have no doubt such was TN
case as to the prayer in the Convention: Ii sc
the hreakinr down of the building IS the mos
direct and Immediate answer to prayer tha' na
ever come to our notice. The, overthrow OF tn
, Amalekites in answer to the prayers OF Nose
. was not to be compared to it--E1change PGpe
: D1FF1CULTY-A difficulty arose at the depo
t in this place on Monday evening last; oet"ee
, Mr. Kelly. the driver of one of Mr.. Clemmons
s stapes and T. Lawrence, proprietor OF Lawrence
= Hotel growing out of some offensive ep1thet
i the former by the latter. The parties met at ii
S train, on Tuesday morning, when kelly struc
y Lawrence on the head with a stick, lntlctlng
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