Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-01-21

tosboW lkat popin1tIOn 1lllO
rs not alone the rule Of right,
axe fowtatan ahd Preston--sampIes
~ What Id prove by more examples;
Tree Thousand whites can Preston show,
While Powhatan can count but two:
The last, four thousand dollars pays.
While haD as much must Preston raisc.
Now II most noses, rule the roast
u Is PLAIN enough, and needs no ghost.
10 tell ~ Preston puts the taxes
W here most old Powh0tan il WAKES.
LARGE County.
But At the sanction OF this RIGHT
Dc Kept most steadily in sight,
argue thus-you cant resist ii,
low much soovcr you may twist il.
what III the whole community
Must be III ev'ry part dye see;
Now wealth has 'o force physical.
And thus tbs syllo-gisticol
10 say, To rule, it has no right;
IL not, good bye, old Stagirie. -
But sir, your words arc very bold,
swear II makes my blood run cold
10 hear such doctrines now promulged,
The like was neer before divulged.
Poirer!! not vested in the People!i,l
King, ring the bell from yonder steepie;
Such daring words might do for nliens,
but here We have n p0ncfum salicnS;
The right 10 rule himself, not mans,
why Sir with us It's pWnotuyI staas.
SMALL COUNTY.
Ah;nk not my learned friend, 10 throttle
rlain common sense with Aristotle;
Nlrglmans love The soOd otd Bdcoa,
" ho was, literary kraken.
uh'll your facts are all made out,
Move not step, upon Your rout.
lou nave ASSUMED that clubs are trumns,
and govern all by means of thuups;
From tins you know have dissented,
You cannot rule till I've consented--
And then you take as if for granted
What by the major part, IL wanted.
ourc lighting now your shadow too;
1 have not said, and never do,
Inc people are rot powers source:
! say their rights spring not from forcr.
But when they entered into pact
IL was compromise i'll fact.
Al men you say are free when born,
ANA yet the son of Ham, you sGoEn.
" Bill OF lights, says nauglt, wccu,
About un Ethiupcan's skin;
ou hrst turn wotpcn all to men,
ana then unscX them straight, again;
Ihe Children too MAST all BIZ counted,
Then from your hobby-horsc dismountcd.
LARGE County.
Cease, cease, you cannot me brruile;
lease viper, for y on bite file"
your argument has n0ught of force,
4 slave 3 no better thun u horse,
He must be held simple nnlli:y.
Excluded from CIR civil polity;
And women are in "durance vile
ms theirs TO lule by sunny snile;
Our Pollys shnn't be Polly Ticiuns;
Who could resist their suit peti;ions5
And children they ore like their mothers,
Held III subserviancc unto others.
SNAIL COUNTY.
We shewn your "tiuceDs in dbSsirdJp"
Some other things, (pcrhaps you heard'em.l
were SAID III that self same debate,
10 prove I've not niiSraied the state.
w hat have you ever prythee wanted,
Which have not instanter, grantcdj
Perhaps you now regret my bounty
In cutting up each lnonstIous county;
Since you've grown dubs Ut politics
You've multiplied your lunatics;
\ Hospital, quickly built sir
Put up your dagger to the Hit sir,
Like old Macbeth's, IT'S drawn in air,
4 Lowlander, you cannot scare
pho draws most money from the fund
7 improve the children and the ground.
Go to yoursclf-and try the trick
OF paying all, You'll soon be sick.
You'll tell me, but 'tis idle pirate.
'Fhat to the people I'd dictute.
Pray when you say that five or four
Shall be elected, and no more,
Do you not bound the peoples will,
BY Senatorial Districts still,
II short, great mountaincer, the moro
/ turn the m liter, am sure,
That they have nothing in the Hell
10 do with me at all, at all;
The people only have the right
Y undo themselves, with all their might,
"'ro frame, tn alter or abolish"
Or onv other thing that's foolish;
But if they send men here to vote
For what mayhap may cut their throat,
Ench one WIN comes from me or YOU
Should do Just what his Lords would do
Hiatus MAKING dcnandus!!!i
By this the Houses gath'ring hun
Struck Large aud Little County dumb;
The town-bcll, high in ether swung,
Gronnd twelve o'clock with iron tongue:
The Speaker took his walnut chair,
And ORpEB ECHOED on the air;
Each member nestled in his form;
Twas like the sea just after storm:
| sauntor'd oiH, revolving all
That had been said by Large and Small.
And in the Wing, thought I'd pop,
How counties two can logic chop.
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