Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-04-22

would much better suit these ample and youthful
shoulders. But Quincy would not appoint me,
from some strange inability to see those superior
claims and merits which possess, and which one
man in this company, very like myself, will certain
ly acknowledge, though the rest of the world have
never been able to discover them. 1t is certainly
not strange that should not fancy Quincy. if be
did not fancy me therefore, fellow citizens. turned
Patriot, and joined in the hue and cry about bar
gain and corruption" and all that sort of thing
agreeably to the orders promulgated from Head
Quarters.
But to be brief-I think DR.. Johnson totally
wrong even did he utter the sentiment, (on which
am making this powerful specify as his delibe-
rate opinion. For, you will please to Observes if
the patriotic game which | am playing, does not
succeed-(and this small assemblage is a sad omen
to our cause-)I shall flee to some other refuge,
thereby proving, . v n Here the manuscripts
defaced.
1.-THE entire speech of James the Younger inten-
ded to be delivered at George Town.
Brother Sammy has truly said that the zeal Of
young converts is proverbal. 1t has been exempli-
ed by myself; but as this is the first time that fhave
shown mysefin this famous county, my speech must
be, like myself, short and sweet. Not to occupy
your precious time any longer and thanking you for
your attention and civility. conclude by assuring
you, that shallconsider myself fortunate if my jour-
ney to Sussex, together with the pgfs zUhich the
Col. ordered Sammy to give me, shall be instrument
tai IN making me member of the Legislature from
the County of M Castle, at the next election.
short horse is soon curried, as Lord Coke saith ;
! and man should always stop, when he has nothing
! to say--as will more fully and at large appear in
VOL SO, page 912, London edition. of Puifendorf on
Leather Breaches. thnklhst's the authority, Sir,
| turning to the Attorney General.
| An attempt at great speech, Of man great in
his own opnion-and who would not be under par,
were he not SO modest, and taciturn before the
aged.
! Friends and Fellow citizens, Of George Town,
and all the country roundabout
MY excessive modesty, and the taciturnity for
which am so celebrated-especialy in the pre-
sence Of the aged and of my superors, will not permit
me to electry you this most interesting occasion.
Were in Wilmington, quietly seated in my Office,
could aOrde valuable treatise on having huts,s,
plasered economically, or on avoiding the payment
of fines for suffering chmneys to take fire !; but
when attempt to address you on the beet of mo-
desty and taciturnity, my speech fails me-and am
unable to proceed. But lest you should imagine
that am unworthy of seat in Congress in colse-
quence of the excessive embarrassment which your
presence has created j; assure you all, Fellow C-
tlzens, that If you are anxious to honor yourselves
in your choice for that respectable station, am the
man Of all Others aDho ought TO occupyit.
\ [The Exordium of long speech on Temper
, ance, to be delivered at George TOWN.
Gentlemen of the Jury,
Il In these days, when
Temperance Societies are vastly more numerous
than rich and litigious clients-when Judges and
Doctors, and Lawyers-and plain citizens like your
selves, quaff the pure Adams ale and decline the
phlegm cutters, the gum-ticklers and the ant-fog-
matics-in such days say, Gentlemen of the J,l-
i ry, it would seem scarcely necessary that should
: descant upon the benign influence of temperance,
! before such an enlightened assembIage But before
we proceed further in the discussion fthis interest,"
! ing subject, would beg permission for moments
absence, while step into the Tavern over the way.
! for the purpose of refreshing myself with draughe
of cool zUaer, having eaten for my breakfast nine
:. herrngs, most inordnatey salts
= TSome topics on which shall briefly touch at
George Town.
= Though last, am not least in my own estimation,
= Fellow Citizens, if am in yours AT Christiana
Bridge, made most celebrated speech upon the
1 duty, imperative upon people called Federasts, of
opposing the present Government which, to my
utter establishment, of no avail. The great dis
asters that have befallen us-and the portentous
and the appalling future which seems to threaten
h have renewedly impressed my mind, that the peo.
pie of Delaware entertain strange opinions re-
If lative to myself and those few worthy coadiutors
% who are willing to relieve all other citizens from,
Is the burdens and vexaton of office. | saw these.
IS things in the sincerity of my heart and the main
object of joarney to this county is only prepara-
tory to those vigorous exertons which we shall
J, make, when our more distinguished brethren shall
y return from Washington Sammy will sing one tune,
It and the Col. another; and all ask of you Eel
. low Citizens, is,-that you will believe them and
do as you are bid. am not at liberty, at this tiyns,
to develope any further plans resolved on at the
e Council Board, nor would |, by exhibition OF
that commanding eloquence for which so dis
tnguished astonish the natives to that degree thas
would cast into the shade those young gentlemen