The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-03
QUE PRESIDENTIAL BUIsBY.

II The. remarkable individual Who has beel
i twice invested with the Presidential purple
and whose pay was doubled By the " back
salary gTabbeB, has finally been driven t
nay something about that third term which
everybody knows he still bankers after, il
spite Of the well-known opposition Of nine
tenths Of his own followers. His utterance'
upon this ticklish subject are principally sug
gestive Of the equally oracular and scarcely
less luminous declarations of the i'm
mortal captain Of the Cautious Clam.
The profound appearance Of this philoso
pher," says the author Of Dombey and Son,
"who was bulky and strong, and on whose
extremely red face an expression Of taciturnity
sat enthroned, not inconsistent with his char.
acter, in which that quality was proudly con.
spicuous, almost daunted Captain Cutie.
Whispering to Florence that Bunsby had
never in his life expressed surprise, and was
considered not to know what it meant, the
Captain watched him as he eyed his mast
head, and afterward swept the horizon, and
when the revolving eye seemed to be coming
round in his direction, said:
"Bunsby, my lad, how fares iii"
"a deep, gruf, husky utterance, which
seemed to have no connexion with Bunsby.
and certainly had not the least effect upon his
face, replied. Aye, aye, shipmet, how goes
itT At the same time Bunsby's right hand
and arm. emerging from pocket, shook the
Captains, and went back again.
Bunsby," said the Captain, striking home
at once, "here you are; man Of mind and
man as can give an opinion. Here's young
lady as wants to take that opinion in regard to
my friend Wal'r, likewise my tother friend,
Sol ellis, which is character for you to come
within hail Of, being man Of science, which
is the mother Of invention, and knows no
law. Bunsby, will you wear to and come
along with us?"
Having been called upon by some Pennsyl-
vania Captain Cutie to say something about
the third term, our Presidential Bunsby did
I" wear to" and gave ga hopinion as is q |
hopinion about it.
II am not" says the great American Buns
~, "nor have ever been candidate for
would not accept nomina-
ion if it were rendered, unless it should come
lnder such circumstances as to make it an
Imperative duty" Circumstances. Bunsby
nodestly adds, "not likely to arise"
Reverting to Charles Dickens, we feel
allied upon to insert right here the remark
hat "the great commander, who seemed by
he expression Of his visage to be on the look
ut for something in the EXTREMIST distance,
nd to have no ocular knowledge Of any thing
'ithin ten miles, made no reply whatever
'hich was decided improvement on our
residential Bunsby.
''Here is man, said the captain, adj ,
ressing himseH to his fair auditors, and in
icating the commander" with his out
;retched hook, ''that has fell down more
ian any man alive; that has bad more acci-
ents happen to his own self than the Sea- 1
lsn's Hospital to all hands; that took as many
pars and bars and bolts about the outside Of
Is head when he was young, Is you'd want
der for on Chatham yard to build pleasure
'cht with; and yet that got his opinions in
at way, for there amt nothing like 'em .
Loaf or ashore"
Shipmet," says our Bunsby to the Penn 9
lvania Cutie. CHOW, for the third term, I ;,
mt want 1t any more than did the first. S
u course not.-ED. B.
- would not write or utter q word to fl
ange the will Of the people in expressing "
having their choice" This, by the way,
d considering the fact that our great COM
ander" has been repeatedly pressed, and
ally cornered into doing it after fashion, is D
cidedly refreshing.
But once fairly launched, our Bunsby for =
Is that he is the commander of the Cautious til
lra. and rather incautiously declares that a
never sought the Office for second or in
IN for first nomination. "To the first, 1 81
lmely, Ulysses Simpson Grant Bunsby) an
8 called from life position, one created te1
Congress expressly for me for supposed II!
vices rendered to the Republic" W
We are afraid our respected Chief Magis.
te's memory needs q good deal Of refresh !
!. remembering, as we do, the fact that
only consented to accept the Presidency
y purse of one hundred and twenty
usand dollars in gold had been made up
A. 7. Stewart, Borie, Pierrepoint, and
ut score of others, and publicly
sented to him at the Brooklyn
ira House : we were there and saw
remarkable exhibition - before he
I'D consent to sacrifice himself upon the
Of patriotism, pelf and public plumber
almost needless to add that this extraor. Al
NY gratuity was supplemented by
bic salary, and the gift Of sundry houses F
Washington, St Louis, farm in Illinois,
cottage at Long Branch, not to mention -
ss Of cigars and kegs innumerable of old
rbon. In happy oblivion Of these noto-
9 facts. o. s. G. has the cheek to say, not
dramatically, ''that all the sacrifices ex-
that Of comfort has been made in accept
he first term" m
will be observed that, while the Presi-
ial Bunsby" has q great deal to say