The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

FOR PRESIDENT.
MARTIN VAN BUREN
(Subject to the decision of a National Convention,)

GOVERNOR LUCAS.

CINCINNATI:
OBSCURITY OF THE GOVERNOR
One of our Nullification editors, the man of the Gazette, has picked a prodigious hole in our Saturday's comments upon Senator Ewing. The editor of the Gazette, it must be remembered, is a very handsome man, and wears a cue, though some of his political guardians are very often of opinion that he is not very good at minding his cue.
But this is neither here nor there.
The Gazette has extracted from our remarks the following:
'Taken from AN OBSCURE STATION, and suddenly elevated to one of the highest offices in the nation, his prosperity seems to have turned his brain, and were it not that the honor of the state is concerned, we would feel disposed to smile at his folly, and be amused with his self-importance.'
Upon this the Editor breaks forth with much pathos.
"What!" says he "AN OBSCURE STATION!—Saint Dominic! and who are the editors of the Republican, themselves, that they should talk about 'An OBSCURE STATION?'" In every deed, the Gazette editor speaks to us so feelingly, about this unlucky saying of ours, that if we have not already repented it in dust and ashes it is not his fault
We had a sort of inkling when we wrote the sentence, that has brought down upon us the denunciations of the Gazette, that some wiseacre would make a fuss about it: but it never occurred to us that it would be treated so pathetically. "Who are THEY that cast this reproach? What 'STATION' have THEY come from? What is now THEIR standing in a political and intellectual view? For what are THEY distinguished?" This might be a poser to some folks, but it cannot disturb our equanimity. The "STATION" from which we have come, and in which we still remain, is the unostentatious ranks of the American Democracy—the honest, hard working, bustling farmers and mechanics that elected Jefferson. There is not a drop of European nobility in our veins; and, as to our "standing in a political and intellectual view," it is just such as nature and our own exertions have made it. It was not our good fortune to be born, like the editor of the Gazette, inheritors of hereditary greatness. He came into the world, booted and spurred, ready to "ride upon the whirlwind and direct the storm." He flashed upon our moral sky a "political and intellectual" meteor, that scorched and dazzled human eyes. On the contrary, we came into the world quietly "obscurely," and good-naturedly, as all Democratic children do. The "Heavens were not full of fiery shapes," at our birth. Glendower and the editor of the Gazette are the only men whose advent into this cold, twistical world has ever been greeted with such manifestations of respect.
But, no more of this.
The editor of the Gazette, looking down from his sublime eminence, is surprised at our audacity in applying the term "obscurity" to Senator Ewing, and, forsooth, because our "Standing in a political and intellectual view," is obscure, he will not permit us to speak our minds! Who was Senator Ewing before he was a Senator? Why a lawyer, but not such a lawyer as is the editor of the Gazette. He was just as "obscure" as we are, for none of us ever heard of him until our Ohio Legislature, by only a majority of one vote, took him from his green bag and his briefs to robe him in the toga of an American Senator. If that Legislature had conferred the honor upon the editor of the Gazette it would have been entirely another thing.
But, to be serious. The editor of the Gazette, with all the splendor of his intellect, with all his former toryism and his present whigism, with all his ancient federalism and modern bankism, with all the blushing honors of the "Ohio Federalist and "Cincinnati Gazette" about him, has made but a ridiculously poor affair of this "Obscurity" business. If we are not too "obscure," we would request him, in all proper humility, to try it again.