r
j '' - ; - - -1
i
. .! " i u-- xi.lHininft noniinn rV. rnArtr mar thmlc'
" ' . ' .. . M. -l what ho thinVa V frrjl
" ! . . ,.,! ha .,....ia Kir opeafcm? of oar
Tress, ua .... , . .. . :i'i savs, in an address I
authority. 13 ne ir.il
that
for
Com
be deceived in this matter? Can he not
when the contest is over, wncn an-
,rp hushed, come out Iikea
U I "
w &a please - anl apsak
political system, Dr. Hooper
dehverert June ltr.J. at U.
Page (9) ' Wfiicb actually exemplifies the
fair theory of j freedom conceived by Cicero, that
" every man may j think what ire
sneak what," 1" &c.
a
pleases, and
Mr. W. (June 1843 Page 14)
ciful enthusiast in 01d Mortality, you must
idmit the act casionally deepen; the letters inscribed on your
fLike the fan.
oc-
now,
man and set the matter forever -at restt-
Can he not nowspeaKior n.mst-u, mu c.u.c
. ' . mnn ha r r Qilonit 1 ho on
deny, as the c r" - . tabletgj ege ti wUl obliterate the record
and offer some jusuu.u.. .u. and the altars be overgrown with moss and lichen,
man whom ive ever heard speak ot if, most ij no trace vill remain of what was intended as
a monument and a remembrance.
Judge Gaston (Add. Princeton, N-J. 1925
... iri 9nH nnenuivoca Iv condemns f In
nearn'y -7."- , . .
this ma ter. jwe do not speak with partizan
r-.i.nl Wfl have laid it aside : ana we
CCIIIg! ! 1. '
speak the language of tfuth and soberness
of deliberation when wc say that tbismat
ter oughi now to be cleared up. There is a
cloud over the fame of our member of Con-
&ress; he does not stand erect in this mat-
Id honestly deny me
cerely hope
for
13) " Unless, like the pious and fanciful enthu
siast in Old Mortal itv. voui occasional! v deeDen
lthe letters of the inscription, they! will soon be
overgrown with moss and lichen, wear away by
exposure, and leajve not a trace tehind of what
wh3 designed to pe engraved for, a perpetual re
membrance."! !
Mr. VV. (Jane 1843 Paze 12) "In the beau-
vr t t
ter. We wish ne cou
rharce.i! We know he
a j
tUa hnnr nf th 4 I Jistrict. wiui ousmess, anu enueavoreu wMin uieiewmuB
mvy nviiui " I r ff ' -.11 . rr ' . c I It
"TM,
cannot : and we ffo tuul ApoJoorueor Lir. Johnson, the prince 01 ADer
we say that we sin- sina tried 'the happy experiment of uniting labor
io won
i f . i rir .i iii rr n iu innur h 1 1 1 1 ri ti rr iia i r ktiihs-
and for his own, that he can give sai.siacio- - -r o;" VSanTiuv
w reasons lor nis peculiar course ... der then, that like the son of Abensina, in John
ter of pensions. He ought not to take nis gon,g beautiful Apologue, the young adventurer
seat in the next uongress uniu mis is uone.
.A maiorityof his constituents demand it.
Will Gen. Saunders condescend to explain
this affair to- his constituents? W e hope so
is tempted to try jthe happy experiment of " uni
ting labor with business, &c'"
Mr. Wheeler I (1843 P. 17) 'fA successful
writer of our own age, (Mr. Cooper) complains
that our literary men in the TJ. S. held their repu
tations at thei mercy of the British pres?. How
ever much we miy admire the models afforded us
Wrhen we were a little boy, and no Blow- by the classic purity of AddisonJ the vigor of
pr wp remember to have seen a picture in Swiit,andthe'splendiddictioriof Bolingbroke,&c."
Cii IVinuiiiwvi r I -r -w m-wr rm r- 1 ! i , it'll rrr 1 1 t m
a little booli,iri which several peacocks were Jn. w. u anepara,
,.1 i7 . i i .i . I "Wearetold hronfiof nnr most successful authors.
bedevil wrg a ppor JaCkdjiw, ami p cK.ng 4 . ;tera en hold fc. .j
r . : A ivan m t m inn ri'iivr iiinu fii i . - - .
learners nut ui ...a iai . n. .. ,";',:v-v rpnutalions at
i m. t ! r 1 1" I I T
A! fccSdar, geotteman'-!te1f not oar man4 4
Go lock :be dobbin to him if you can.
Devour the Whigsand shake their cursed dry tones,
But Peter Doctor Peter, save the thigh bones.
And hark'ee, friend, a Caution in thy ear: .
Until thou great become, take special care, : )
And never, when an irchinij palm you feel, i
Forget the Eighth Command Thou shall iiot steal.'
J Then byhe breeche' seat the Goddess hurled,
Poor Peter Simple 10 tills lower world.
As the old Eagle from her Eyrie high,
JLaunclies her timid eaglets to tbe sky,
The laughing Goddess thhtst him from her lap, .
And plunged him headlong irito Treasury pap.
The merry song also to the tune of " Old
Itosin de Bow,' has been slightly altered by
"one Who" ousht to fi know" better. Per
haps he has a knack of disguising other peo
ple's thoughts af little, and passing them off
for his own. Heratis the true sons: J
Oh, I'm fresh from de village of Smithheld,
Which lies in old Johnsing you know ; ' j
Where dey promised two hundred for Saunders, j
, An' found it, on countiu, no go.
De Locos mistook it, T reckon,
When dey fancied old Johnsing so low,
As be led by de nose by de Locos.
Dey tried it she told 'em , Oh no."
Great Western wont give up de shin, boys ;
He'll fight wid his face to de foe ;
An while dere's a shot in de locker
. Dis cheering Tania-ra shall Blow.
PEACOCK'S FEATHERS IN A DAW.
very sorry, and seemed
ntitnlinns ijf tho marrv nf he Ttrtia!i nra ".
I il C i'-r--v ..w.. r.w-..
10 M.ni- ,,9 neaiuui p. 13 "Models in the purity of Addison,' the
VI-
shame. U We could not help pitying the oor gor of Swift and the splendid diction of Bolinsr-
1wim.t1i If vup rflitipm!pr thfi storV. he I hrnkp. T.P.' ! 1 , j
deserved some peck ing for his egregious Mr. W. (1843 P. .23) " Vhy do you fear, you
.,ntt, hi Wp ihmio-ht bf that nicuirej and carry uaesar, sa.a tne naugniy notnan io me irem-
felt very lender-heartell again, as we read blin-pilotl (Quid times, Cffisarem vehes.) With
ten t o j . . I Phrist- n vnnr ripnrts. a orpater than CRsar -is
act irom the last , 'V T ' rt I
the' following iZucfcinjextracl
Fayetteville Observer, j That honest Whig
P:.nPr Jump? that as to the cash on hand as
Treasurer, he may not have such loose 'no-
tinno nf ineiim and tuum, as lie seems to
have of literature.
COL, WHEELER'S ADDRESS. '
. " He out together a piece ot joinery, so, cross
indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet
so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified
mosaic : such a tesselated pavement without ce
ment : Here a bit of black stone and there a bit of
wli-te ; that it was indebd a very curious show
Oh, Hat will be here in de Spring, boys,
An' de people to see him will flow ;
Dey'll rush from de East and de West, boys ;
An den, by de pipers! I'll Blow.
Oh, den what a row we'll occasion,
All up and down Fayetteville Row!
An' den how do bumpers will sparkle,
While dis child will continue to blow !
Oh Hal he will smile on de people.
An' see on dere faces a glow ;
Dey'll toss dere hat9 high as a steeple,
An' dis child will den merrily blow.
Oh, sweet will de moments be den, boy?,
An' bravely de Whig cause will go.
By de powers! I'll blow like a porpoise,
An' dc porpoise's a dehbel to blow.
here, &c.
Dr. Hooper (C. Hill 1929 P. 26) " What
dost thou fear," said the vain glorious Roman to
his dismayed pilot, "thou bearest Csesar and his
fortunes." But "behold a greater than Caesar is
here." "The ship on which Christ is embarked
can never sink.
;
In conclusion, we would remark to Col. Whee
ler that, although, to use his own ivvords, he went
to Wake Forest' " with no reputation either as
a writer or a speaker he na,s returned wun mucn
of a very doubtful character. We would class
him omflnff t'hp fnllnwprs nf th simhsfir. method
and utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand of conveying instruction, rather than with the sup-
wu. mju.uk i rvi",i i . norters or ine uiuiuitcui uimusuuuv . uuicis uci-
The sranhic and highly amusing description haps will think 'differently.1 and henceforth the
jriven bv Mr. Burke, of Ithe composition of the community will either reverence him as one who
. . . . . . .. ..; i i.Jj I . i i ..i i ii li ..iii . i ? rT..J
v elder fftt's aaministration, is nere quuteu is an jtninKs witn jail ine mieiieciuai ivigor 01 juuge
ant motto to a short notice of " An Address" de- j Gaston, and who'draws classical illustrations from
livcred at Wake Forest Lollese," " oy jonn ri. a fund, rich as that which adorns the literary ei-
Wheeler, Treasurer of tjio State of North Caro- forts of Dr. flooper ; or it will assign him a pot
lina. arid member of the National Institute at Uion with a certain class of vvriters which we will
. . I . -mm- m-v r TIT I I . -m m -v
Washington City." : m S. JN. U.; M. JN.-1. w,
CI. I! - : ;
Of the Addresses which we have heretofore
read, we can remember some which were very
; high specimens of composition, and many which
we looked on as indifferent; but never in the
course of our reading have we chanced upon any
species of literary effort presenting specimens of
syntax which ranged ovpr bo many degrees be
tween yery good and vefy bad ; bringing to light
such a farrago of misquoted quotations, and such
disjointed, fragmentary masses of one while
trite observation, and then philosophical remark.
Nor i3 this all ; perhaps the most remarkable fea
ture in i the production before us is the. strange
and. damned his
similarity of thought and expression between sev
eral of its most striking sentences, and those of
other addresses, which, fortunately for the literary
reDUtation of their authors, were prior by several
years to that of the erudite T. S. N. C, M. N. I.
VV. C.
We Ibrincr no charge
Col. Wheeler ; but neV
of literary theft against
ertheless we "would be
glad if the facts which we shall present could be
explained io the entire satisfaction ot an intelli
gent and discriminating public facts, constitu
ting a degree of circumstantial evidence under
which no" plain man" jan hesitate in saying that
the coincidence of thought and expression is most
remarkable ! j f
In the commencement of Mr. Wheeler's Ad
dress" Delivered Jiini 15ih, 1843," occurs the
following sentence "When I view the con
course of persons assembled on this interesting
occasion, I cannot but jeel that hopes may have
been excited destined to disappointment." ;
Compare this with thes exordium of Judge Gas
ton's Address delivered at C. Hill June 1832
44 When I look around on this extraordinary con
cours3 of visitors, I canpot but feel that expecta
tion has been too highly excited, and caniiot but
anticipate and regret the disappointment which it
must necessarily meet with."
: Azain -Mr. Wheeler's Add. Page, marked (5)
"I thought with AUsdnius that what' Caesar
deemed me equal to perform, I might attempt.
" Cur me possum neijem,' posse quod ille putat."
Co;u pare Hon.? W.J B. Shepard's Add. Pag,
marked (5) I have thought, however, wjth Au
8ontus, that what Casar; judged 1 was equal) to, I
might perform." ' '
"Cur rae posse negem, posse quod ille putat".
Mr. W's Add, P. (10) The spirit too of our
republican institutions which realizes t hie. perfec
tion, of Cicero's idea of government where; f eve-
not specify--one of which! however, Mr. Pope
thus immortalizes: ! H
Swearing and stipperless the hero sat,
Blasphemed his gods the
late ; j ' I . !
Then gnawed ln3 pen, then
Sinking from thought to thought aj vast profound.
Next o'er his books his eyes! began' to roll ,
In pleasing memory of all he siole :
How here he sipped, now heie lie plundered snug
dice
dashed it to the ground,
And sucked all: o'er like an
industrious bu;
AUSONIUS.
sung
he doth com-
at the late
rom earth to Ilea-
ldered mind,
rs it in the wind!
A CARD.
The Little Blower has some reason to com
plain, and? by! these presents
plain, that the poetry he
" Mysteries,"! has been sadly mangled by
"One who knows." -'-Whether this maiming
and disfiguration be felonious; and done with
malice aforethought, is ohly known to "One
who knows." The poetry actually rehears
ed, was in keeping witfj the design of the
meeting, viz. the selection of a Candidate
for Governor.
The opposition the Whigs might have to
contend with, being under discussion, the
Blower glancing his eye
ven, sunrgjas follows:
Lo. Peter Simple, whose bew
Sees Fame in clouds, and hea
That jade Ambition caught his hose one day,
And ledjum by it to the Milky vvay. ,
She gave him milk he gulped it with a laugh,
And swore 'twould make him "great" or man or calf.
She gave him more he tho't it inspiration,
And swore he now could govern all creation.
He dreamed, while sailing thro the upper sky,
That Brother Godwin bore him company ;
And smirking said,. while floating like a feather
We will be 'great,' or men or calves together ; .
Yon'U row up Rayner, sure ; and in a twinkle,
I'll just slide down and govern Rip Van Winkle."
The Goddess caught him a posteriori,
And bathed him in that sea of milky glory ; n i
Then sweetly smiled upon her son, and sweeter,
As smiles were echoed back from Simple Peter.
A man may " smile and smile and smile and be "
The rsoet saith a naughty word-not we.)
Go Peter go ; Old Rip is in a snooze ;
The Sta'e H all before you where to choose,'
Be Governor! it's no extravaganza-
Have ye forgotten, Peter, Sanciho Panza?
thee, 'tis no joke,
Hoke.
The people -wait come, rouse
Go Ditch it nobly into Michael
. ' r aft ft
What use have we tor mat oopj mountaineer r
The W biggies prai him, and they hold him dear,
DANIEL WEBSTER A-MOWING.
This gentleman was the son of a New
Hampshire farmer, and when a boy, was no
toriously jazy ; and the failing we believe has
clung to him through life in all but intellec'
tual efforts. Mowing grass 13 a part of in
dustrial action, not very congenial to the
feelings of a lazy boy ; at least it wa3 so in
the case of young Webster.' j His scythe did
not suit him; he could not get the hang of
it or perhaps" it could not get the hang of
Jiim. , He dropped behind his mowing com
panions one day, and cobbled awav at his
scythe, but could not hang it in a fashion
that would make it mow ttselj and therefore
not satisfactory to him. His father came to
his aid, and after working away for a while
on the instrument, making several alterations
at the suggestion of the captious boy, he
wave it up in despair, and handed it. over to
Daniel, petulantly telling him to hang it to
suit himself. The young scamp took it and
deliberately hung it upon the limb of an ap
pie-tree, as the most agreeable to his wishes.
The old gentleman concluded he could never
make a farmer of him, and to keep him from
starving, apprenticed him to an Attorney.1
TAKING THE CENSUS IN ALABAMA.
, BY A "CHlCXCS MAS" OF 1840.
Our next adventure was decidedlv a dan
gerous oue. Fording the Tallapoosa river
where its bed is extremely uneven, being
formed of masses of rock full of fissures and
covered with slimy green moss, when abpu
two-thirds of the way across, we were hail
ed by Sol Todd from the bank we were ap
proachirig. We stopped to hear him more
distinctly.
" Hellow ! little 'squire, you a chicken
hunting to-day
Being answered affirmatively, he con
tinued " You better mind the holes in them
ere rocks if your horse's foot gits ketched
in 'era vou'll never get it out. You see that
Big black rock down to your right 7 Well,
there's good bottom down below that. '
Strike down thar, outside that little riffle
and now cut right into that smooth water
and come across !"
Wc followed Sol's direction to the letter
and plunging in the Smooth water, we found
it fo bea basin surrounded with steep ledges
of rock and deep enough to swim the horse
we rode. Round and rouud the poor eld
black toiled without finding any place: at
which He could effect a landing, so precip
itous were the sides. Sol occasionally aek
ed us " if the bottom was'nt firstrate," but
did nothing to help us. At length jwe
scrambled out, wet and chilled to the bone
-for it wa3 a sharp September morning
and continued our journey not a little annoy
ed by the, boisterous, roaring laughler ofjthe
said Solomon, at our picturesque appear
ance, WeHiadrnt more than got out of hearing
of ' Sols , cacbinatory explosions, before we
met one of hi neighbors who gave ui iq
irnrferslant! thaf the (Tucking tre haoTjbrf t&
reived, was but the fulfilment of a threat of
Sol's to make the 'chicken-man' take a
swim in the Butfk Hole.' He had ht, of
ourstoppiug on the opposite side of the riv
er,th& night previoor,-and Jbarrning bur inV
tentioii'to ford just where we'dtd, fixed him-
sen on tne bank a ehsnre ouY find ntr th
way into the ' Buck Hole
ThVs information brought oQr tftrp nVhf
up, and requesting BiilSplawn lostaV where
ne was nil we reiurned, we galloped back
to Sol's and found that worthy, rod on shoul
der, ready to leave on a fishing excursion.
"pol, old fellow," said we, "that was a
most unfortunate lunge I made into ttraf hole
in the river l ve lost $25 in specie out of
my coat pocket, and I'm certain itV in that
hole1, for I felt my pockety light while I
was scuffling about in there. The money was
tied up light in a buckskin pouch, and I
must get you to help me to get it."
TJiis, of course, was a regular old-fashioned
lie, as we had not seen that amount
of ciish mentioned a lost, in a coon's age.'
It took, however, pretty well, and Sol con
cluded, as it was a pretty cold spell of wea
ther; for the season and the water was almost
like ice that half the contents of the buck
skin pouch would be just about fair for re
covering it." After some chaffering we a
greed that Sol should dive for the noney on
shares,' and we went do wn, with him to the
river, to point out the precise' spot at which
our pocket grew light.' We did so with
anxious exactness, and Sol soon denuded
limself and went under the water in the
tfuck liole,' like a shuffler duck with his
wing broke. Puff! puff! as he rose to the
surface. 'Got it Sol?' No dang it, here
goes again' and Sol disappeared a second
ime. run ! puff! and a considerable rattle
of teeth as Sol once more rose into ' upper
air'r-'What luck, old horsR V Rv iinrra
i , j J O
I felt it that time, but some how it slid out
of my fingers." Down went Sol again, and
up jhe came after the lapse of a minute, still
witnout the pouch. 'Are you right sure,
squre, that you lost it in this hole' said Sol,
getting out . upon a large rock, while the
chattering of his teeth divided his words in
to -.rather more than their legitimate number
of sylables. Oh perfectly certain Sol, per
fecily certain. You know 825 in hard dol
lars weigh a pound or two. I did'nt mention
thej circumstance when I first came out of
the river because I was so scared and confu
sed that I did'nt remember it But I know
just as well when the pouch broke through
my coat pocket, as can be !
fhus re-assured, Sol took to the water
again and as we were in a hurry, we request
ed him to brinj? the pouch and half the mo-
ney to Dadeville, if his diving should prove
successful.
fTobe sure I will," said he and his
blue lips quivered with cold and his whole
frame shook from the same cause.
The river ager" made Sol shake woree
than that, that Fall !
But we left him diving for the pouch in
dustriously, and no doubt he would have got
ii, if it had been there! -
Once, as we were about, to leave a house
at which we had put up, the night previousr
one of the girls a buxom one of twenty
followed us to the fence, and the following
tete-a-tete ensued :
" Now squire they say you know,-and I'
want to tell me, ef you please what will
chickens be worth this fall f
" How many have you V ;
" The rise of seventy, and three hens
settin!" " Well now, Miss Betsy," said weryou
k'now how much 1 set by the old man your
daddy and the old lady, you know hw she
and me always got along and Jim and Dave,
you know we was always like brothers
and yourself, Miss Betsy, I consider my par
ticular friend and as its you Til tell you V
' Do 'squire, ef you please ; they say Van
Buren's going to feed his big army on fowls ;
and some folks say he's going to take 'era
without payin' for 'em, and some say he atnt
--and 1 thought in course, ef he did pay for
'em, the price would rise!"
f ' Well, the fact is but don't say nothing
about it the army is to be fed on fowls ; the
roosters will be given to the officers to make
'em brave, and the hens to the common sol
diers because, you see, they ain't as good.'
" fn course 1"
"So you see, the hens, will be worth about
three bits, and the roosters a half a dollar,
and ready sale at that."
She was perfectly delighted, and we do
hot hesitate to say, would have rewarded ua
with a kiss, if we had asked it ; but in these
days, modesty was the bright trait in our
character. As it was, she only insisted on
our taking " a bit of something cold" in our
saddle , bags,', in case we should reach toQ
loo fate for dinner. ''"' " '