Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-26


mod painted and feathcred for the war; arc passinf
tho Cordefas, to bear down, like dclugc upon tho
pawpee lodges. How calm it would make the Roy
al Pawnees, and especially the Squaws and Papooscs
How very quiet they would rest!
And then comes bulletin announcing his victory
with his naked knife blade to tho hilt, and by the
prove Sof his own red right arm over the whole
Minister returns, the grateful Pownees will mako
| him principal War Chief But the misfortune will be
that when thoy discover the gross imposure of the
stratagem, they will 'unffock him'--yes, unchief
dislike to sec religion brought into disrepute by
nyPocrtlcai pretences TO IT. when we do not feel its
influence So should dislike TO see the true gravity
and dignity Of this Senate brought into dsrcspect by
affecting to feel them when such broad farce is reign
| ing allaround US.
Whenever hear such ex,rayseant declarations
as those-witness such gigantic overstriding Of all
| of the occasion-or see 80
.od Ocean into ssupss, toss,d,
To wait feather drown a fy,''
shalt not affect much gravity. Such mock courage
makes me smile.
fthe Senator mean that he intends to die in nei-
ther the defence inquiry nor Of his country,
that Is Ineligible. If he mean tiat the West might
spare son without any of that tear falling scene
which he enacted this chamber at the Senator
from Maine, tAir. in reation to the second Mis-
souri, queston-then silence becomes nv instructed
state, until otter the funeral; when every good man
would rejoice-thnt matters wefe no worse
But he mean that this resolution is 1T occasion
to die on without waiting to see it his country may
not need him in of actual invasion; anu will die
In sife of my dissuuaions--then hope he will die
ike iincal son ofthe West, in imitation of the an
clients! ~
Let him take Pnlafox's naked knife blade drawn;
go over those distant bs beyond the Poamac ESQ as
to die on Virginia ground) and there, in tho vicinity
die like Cato .eai -
Or, if he dislikcs cold iron and stec the middle
OF wnterlet him not forget the illustrous exit of
that ilustrious ancient who betrayed his Lord!
| should like to see this question in mathemat-
les figured out in the rule of tree and the quotient
fairly stated. If the low water mark, zero line Of
the Senator's valor, when peace is in all borders
and not war speck inthe sky that see, equal
to that OF Palafox in the passes of the Pyrennees,
guarding his native Spain against the invading egions
OF hapeeon Bonapare, Of Leondas, with his three
hundred Spartans, at the straits of Thermopyir GUAR
ding sPaa and all Greece against the million of myr-
midons OF Xcrxes, the King of Persia and Of Kings
what would be the spring flood height, boiling de-
gree of his rage, If placed in the Of our
own Alfeghanies, with his naked knife drawn, to
guard the magnificent valley of the Mississippi against
the invasive Yankees and upon lifting up his eyes and
looking the plains below, towards the North
East, he should behold the universal Yankee nation
armed cap aps with drums beating and banners ying
coming to invade us, and lay our valley under one
sheet OF hire; from the Lake Of the Woods the Ba-
lize, and from the sources of the Missouri to the afore-
said pne-spur-gap! and to carry away into captivity
| the brightest portion of our nulatto beautiesi
| Figures cannot count it. Poets cannot sing it. Uo-
mer did his best in Achilles wrath about the loss of
walls of Troy, and that barely came up to the zero
line Of the Senator's vaor And Cervantes is dead.
propos! Cervantes was the for this of val
or! 1t all rushes on the mind ''ke Good of coming
light All is not right in the Capital Nr. Preside at
There is more occasion now, for DR. Cutbush or DR..
Cutscul than for any military hero u guard against
Those mental illusions have afflicted the fra Sons
of Adam in other countries and in climates better
than own.
My honorable friend Don Quixotte de Ia NIancha. a
countryman of Palafox had long spell of them. On
one occasion he attacked, he supposed an army of
steelrclad knights which turned out to he flock of
harmless merinos! Then funeral procession, and
wounded frar! again windmill and fulling-
mill imagining them colossal enchanted giants, more
TERRIBLE than Espps buffaoe bull!
| But why recount his freaks, when all these Hon
Senators have read Ceramics and they who hope for
missions to Spain, South America or Mexico, have,
doubtless, read him in the original.
But if the legal tight to this inquiry will not be adj
miited, Offer a compromise. Not Coalition gen.
temen of the majority, for know you oathe that;
bargain intrigue and management for that also
you abhori even combination FOR that we be-.
ieve you in possession Of already and upon have
said all intend to say at presents but bona de agree
ing together the way, before enter the vortex
of Improbable litigation about legal rights. Here it u.s.
One of your best speeches Mr. Hayne's) sufficient
y proved that the Federaiss, of all countries and
Chimes, languages and forms of government by what
ever called, are, and have been, the identical
| Sew to whom the motto your banner (the Tele-
graph says "power always stealing from tie many
that they have always been the powergraspug gen.
try who stand and pull the power already stealing
to them! In Europe they have been called Aristo-
Gratis and Utras; old Tories more recently
National Republicans but that they Fedcralsts
still. Now propose that you transfer to all the
Federalis,s in your ranks. They cannot be many or
you would notproscrbe them thus. With. us, names
are nothing, and If they practice our principles we
shall be glad Of their company and adj Their passage
to US is, think, downstream business. They
have only to embark the bosom Of the constitution
and the fundamental principles of liberties, and
! they will be with us in moment.
| But Won W think inrnossibIe
For going in that direction there lies between us the
vast abyss that may be supposed exist if the whole
constitution and liberties Of the country were ami
I hated!
4 Another Of your speeches (kfr Benon's) gave So
cetythe old horizontal cut and throw ull the gentle
men up into the gorrct-or gallery! These gentle
men arc tho same spoken and written OF by the 81
der Adams; and therefore they ought all TO be
id!
Now transfer to us, olso, all the gentlemen in YOU
rnnls. and thnv can,t he MANY or rn .,n,d not