To play the pettifogger.--Johnson. This old verb has just been revived by political writers.
On Saturday evening Gen. Cass reached this city from New York. Persons were sent about to drum up a crowd; but free white men could not be found or hired, to welcome the embodiment of slavery-propagaildism. The thing was a dead failure. When Mr. Peckham, who has pettifogged many a desperate case with unwavering assurance, undertook to welcome the conservative leader in the name of the Democracy of Albany, he broke down.--Albany Atlas, June 13, 1848.
Senators Allen, Houson, and Bright pettifog for Cass to-night in Albany, this being the tenth or twelfth day since they did anything for the eight dollars per day that they are steadily drawing from the Nation's consumptive Treasury--or rather adding to its plethoric debt.--N. Y. Tribune.