Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-06
HOW LIBERTY is MAKING THE TOUR
OF THE WORLD.
Sans pouvoir t'srreter,
To marcherss ,oujcurs.
Lament of the ITan0

| Sans pouvoir t'srreter,
To marcherss touj
Lament of the laundering Je,c
Oh. the glorious damsel! full of vigor and
youth when she arrived, stepping with hasty
and unreasonable tread like wild deer; tramp
ling upon crowns, sccptres, men and dry leaves;
her voice strong and far reaching, her arm pow
erful, her glance proud and quick.
She arrived IN France with her scarf red, and
blue and white; the people hailed her, and be-
fore her feet struck down sceptre begged from,
and dynasty imposed by, foreigners; and be-
meath the footsteps of the youthful damsel water
ed the earth with their blood, as flowers are scat
tered before the altar at Holy Feast.
When all was assembled together; four hun.
dred of them and said-'' We have saved the
country; long life to as!
Liberty is beautiful and noble, said they; but
her march is somewhat too bold: she must hence
forth march no more and NJ. Alexander I.amath,
republican lapsed into obigarchy, proposed
swathing her with bandages!
| Liberty is beautiful and noble, said they; but
her voice Is sharp and not at all that Of good COM
pany! and NJ. DuPin proposed that she should no
more be permitted to speak! M. Mauguin sue
ceeded, however, after much effort, in obtaining
that she might speak low, on condition of giving
purpose, and composed of about hundI ed words
Three hundred honorables insisted that she
should be handcuifed-for that her muscular arms
were constant source o! uneasiness to them
Others found that she had bold and almost me
nacing look, and that her eyes were black! 1t
was enioined upon her thenceforth to have blue
eyes. to keep them cast down, and to wear a
thick veil!
| Then the prettiest taiker rose, sneezed, made
three jokes. and, after splitting, said.-" People,
the liberty you have received, was not suited to
the best of republics! Here she is now as we
have fashioned her;-thank US, and put your
hands in your purse; for, albeit we are cheaper
government, we must require about double from
you of what you paid our predecessors
Liberty thereupon took fight The Honora-
bles made a puppet muzzed, swathed. YELLED
without motion, voice, or look; and they w,ote
beneath it
Liberty arrived in Belgium. Her scarf was
orange. black aud white: She overthrow for
eign tyrant, and the people fought like lions.-
When all was finished there toe, for hundred
assembled together, and said" NE have saved
the country; the stones of the street are red with
our Blood split in expeling one king; there is no
thing more urgent than that we should choose auo-
Their. Ifany one Of the people murmur, we will call
him Hollander in disguise''-and on all sides
mendicant commissioners were sent out with the
duplication, "For the lore of God, a little King
for as, II you please" The people were lndig'
nant; they were called popuace, and Liberty
again took flight. With a scarf amaranthine
white and blue, she appeared in Poland; and there
a gain was surrounded by Heroes ready to be kill
ed in her cause. But the friends of Poland are
abandoning her; aud, unless there is some mira
Gle, Liberty will make the tour of the world.
-sse5e5a-
Too much of a good thing.-For several
mornings at o'clock, the doors of lecture room
next to a church, have been opened, and forth
have issued many women, few men, and some
children. They must have attended mathis at 8
O'Clock, and risen from their beds before the dawn
of day. One morning last week an old political
friend comfortably buttoned up, and bandanna
round his neck, came out of the room with his
wife tucked under his arm; beckoned him to
cross over the street to me, which he did; ''what
brings you out so early-not eectioneering at this
hours" go move have been to church; /
gets up every morning before cock Growing and
goes to church to oblise my wife," ga very du-
tiful husband; and how do YOU like it?" mot
at all,' said he; "the only time that desire to
talk with my wife about domestic concerns
about our children, and devise plans for our com.
fort and their prosperity,-she nudges me and l
must rise, and dress to go to church, the bell is
tinkling all day-lecture in the mornng-pray-
ers ct noon-sermon in the evening-hymns at
night, with great deal of miscellaneous praying,
asking favors and returning thanks; my hands
are in nv pocket every hour to aid SOME pious OBJ
ject,-the missionary cause in India, or the Pa
ci6c Ocean; the time which prudent wives devote
to domestic concerns, is absorbed in PRAYER; my
wife is divine wOman-wthout fault-cha-
ritable, good tempered, and kind to her children;
yet, she fancies herself continually an object of
divine vengeance, and is always suppllcating for
mercy;-my house, sir, is filled with tracts;
tracts for mothers, children, servants and Sailors
and every book of fiction. wit or humor is remov-
ed, and tracts sprinkled over the shelves, and in
one of these, l was called upon to estimate the
difference between burning in hell one hour or
burning for eternity. All, sir, when we used to
90 to the Nassau-street Church twice on Sunday