Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1808-09-16

Returning now from tother side the ocean,
The bard, Gas YANKEES say) has got notion,
TO strike to thee, oh John, the tuneful string
Ana tam he would thy virtues sing.
Fun gladly would the bard declare
my patience, gentlenesS, and prudence rare,
And wisdom great beyond compare,
That passion never SWANS thy mind,
Nor makes thee to thy country's interests blind
That tropes of 8iIiingsgate do ne'er enrich
Thy decent dignity of speech
Bnt TRUTH, alas arrests the song,
oternly forbidding me 20 hatter:
Such faisehoods gross, she says. would do
thee wrong,
And hurt thee worse than keenest satire.
Oh fsfn, (she bids me saw how couldst
thou aid
CoIani6iH's foes, through spite and malice'
How cou.dst thou MADISON her friend up
braid ~
Why hast thou drank of factions poisoned cha
The fumes of which thy mind have clouded
DER,
And made thee 20 detest Thy former friends
Thy genius and thy Judgment shine no more.
And frantic nonsense from thy lips descends.
Wmle thou art talking. in thy moody fits,
VI cruel, and strait jackets aud depletion,
Horn books, and sharks. and elephants probo.
scis,
(Like other sages who have lost their wits.
Thy iancies crude devoid of all cohesion !
ana chatterinS helter-skelter quautans bossis.
You loath the British party; yet with thee
1t seems the British ministry agree
Ihey quote thy speeches to support their
cause:
Trusting to thee to back them. nersever.
In violating rights 10 freemen dear;
Our indeDen1euca ecn.,
laws
You hate their prircib!es and yet to them
Give unltormlv all your yeas and nays.
You curse them; yet what they dislike con-
denim;
And art, myself, the idol of their praise.
All this is not thy fault indeed.
mo, sometimes, thou their utmost hopes ex-
coed
FOR even CANNING owns tn embargo wise,
Which thou $50 flexible thy Greedy
D'dst one day move, the next fly stvrmatize
NO wonder, tho, thy torrent back ward ran !;
For To- IT came TO light,
Enough thy opposition to excite!
So, ever since thy mournflI change began.
Whatever the majority have done,
Tho there was nothing TO forbid it.
f" van thee was wrong, because they did it."
Now Iohn, this evil spirit thou should'st shun
For 1t has drawn thee into Dogs and ,li,ches,
Like n'ght-wand'rer led astray by witches.
And often in the mud has stuck thee fast.
Take care. or thou wilt founder there at last
I've heard, indeed, that thou, of late, art
kind,
Civil, and condescend;ng, and boAte
Efedioneerlng has reform'd thee quite,
And all thy manners soften'd and refn'd.
Thou, who vert overbearing, stiffand proud
Fearing the peoples angry frown,
Which from thy dignity may hurl thee down
Canst no7U debase thyselfto court the croud
Yea, visit ontgdr planters at their houses,
Fondle their children, and salute their spouses
Fine arts are these on ignorance to impose
but yet thy district well their object knows.
Thy people, John, are not an English mob
Whom treats or artifce can blnily lead
Since they have sense, twill be no triAing iot
For thee, on this occasion, to succeed
They Thought thee once thy country's favoy
re son,
But now thy sad apostacv have seen,
Thy race otglory has long since been run,
ana nought remains of what thou once has
been.
They know. ifthou vert sent 10 Congress back
Thou would'st again pursue thy Lattey track.
Hence all thy efforts will be vain to swery,
them
Some other representative will serve them.
Who (they may hope,) the public good will
seek,
And scorn to be misled by private pique.
Should he deeefce them, las he may, no doubt !
Like wise republicans, they'll turn him out
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