Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-02-20

of Governments destroying afterwards the very engines
which have lifted them to unjust dominion"
"The unlineal and bastard sons of the west!'
In my humiliation, l am willing 10 imagine
myself an humble shrub, near The earth, not
reached by this mid hea,en thunder and light
ming. My associates are tall enough to be
within It's magnificent range.
VAST aimed at the sak Of Kentucky, low
ering among the clouds, and more within the
range OF the bolts of this modern Jupiter To-
mans! IL was an uugra;efuI bolt, and he "ho
threw it is not Of The Wes,! He IS no native
OF our magnificent valley OF the Mississippi
You say he Prey is down, pros,rale and
decspitated! 1t was Fallstaff hrust!
There is a species Of gallart,y that alw avs
rises as its antagouis, falIs-revives as the blood
spous from his jugular; and vice versa, always
sinks as he rises. FINS species is ALWAYS blus
'ering, bullying and hectorins in manner, mien
aud tone Ii Is he true F.ifs,aff order Itwas
an ungra,eful ttrus, 10 he thigh Ia rear; and
he who gave u IS no native Of our valley.
He Came 10 Us NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of
having been driven byiyranny and persecution
-desi ed our hospitality ard auspices, and a
little room to lie down and repose. The Percy
found him weak and slrmpercd. politically;
and nourshed and medcned him. Pu, on him
his Own collar and inscription at large, with u
specialp pointing 10 he word. cousin 10
Percy's wife"
These gave him currency and consideration;
and introduced him ~ The K anl hunt
aNiIhout the help oil This collar and inscrip
ton, it would have been as impossible to have
elevated him 10 his present rank, as it would
De to drag up from The depth Of the ditch, by a
frail woo'len thread, some ponde:ous and inert
mass. Others thrust finger under that collar
aud pulled, who have since had cause TO regret
II, and washed their hands of he whole affair.
In wha' you call the fallen fortunes OF the
assailed, and ia his acknowledged absence, il
was an ungraieful thrust.
And why was 1t made now, at the first ses-
sion of the new and promising Administration
and before such an audience, attracted BY this
partisan massacre and pillage-a ompanied
too by full remuneration Of the American
System like the shrewd animal in the fable
| casting the lions hide into the bushes, or Their.
| sites pulling off Achie:' armor, and dashing
il against the pavement-in which there has
been so much roaring. and so much gliliering
in arms, Oh the Western plains, for near four.
teen years.
Has il been observed that all The prominen,
dogs, mos, distinguished in your late grand
hunt Of he Krn'ucky Bison; all who had FIST
throsilcd ,he game, or sank their fangs deepes'
into his tanks or his sides, or hung heaviest al
his Iail, have been well ilesned, and raised to
:he pceraer among dogs! Was noted that
" This rs the road 10 BysanEum2"
Or has the Palace Constable been on tn,
rounds, and with his familiar tap on IL. shoul
der, given inlinalion Of an expec' alton tha, new
bond and security Tor adhesion and 6delit,
would he sent up 10 he White House!
wonld boil, her than give The addi'iona
bonds OF that stab. and tina, renuncisrion!
1t was an ungrateful stab; for but for the
kindness of the assaied, there would have
been no opportunity to have introduced the
Graduation Bill! There would have beer
no opportunity after riding the noble spirit
ed Kentucky steed, until, surrounded and
hamstrung by the Catallnes of the day, hi
stumbled to the fall, of leaping with true
Circus somerset upon the back of the para,
lei and winning horse, and going on and
claiming the stakes! Are these paid, or are
they still in prospectus? Was it adjudget
fair riding, or gross jockeying?
The asSailed stands to the assaiant in thu
relation of Action TO his dogs, that unleelins
! ~ pulleu QOWu ana uepouTeu tnelT UdStcI
who had kindly fed them with his hands!
The minority in the West stand to the as.
sajlant in the relation Of the husbandman to
the adder found chilled at his door, and when
brought in and sufficiently warmed suddenly
threw itself into coil, and stung the fayorite
son Gifts benefactor!
We found the assaiant of our characters
and our tnotives,a scrubby political scion; and
thought it fruit-bearing species. We ncur-
ished it, and it grew, when 10! it proved a
political Boan Upas, and blightcd and desola-
ted all for miles around its stem!
And, not content with the triumphs Of the
past, the assailant of our characters and mo-
lives has drawn upon his aginaton, and ex-
uted in anticipation over the triumphs OF
1882, with semi barbarian insolcnce of joy
tina, might have suited the age of suwarrow
but which the modern Nicholas or Diebitsch,
at Adrianople, would have rcpressed or pun
ished, had it been INDUCED over fallen Turk.
He has amused his audience in this theatre
with description Of the minority again de-
feated, discounted and fying-aye, flying,
and measuring their double mileage DER the