Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-05-11
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DIAM N'rIC SIX ETCII

4 DRAMATIC SKETCH
SCENE Vesti6uie Of the Senate Cham5er.TI ME-
Nomination If Mr. Fan BTen.
Enter CLAY and WEBSTER, Gpeaking they enter,
the latter very wtohy)-rhey talk ,hIenic after us
''Eiier BrOth9 (Angicc Webster)--But come, lets
Against the opposing will and arm Of Heaven, ri
May never this just sword be hticd up,
But for that damn'd ~ MAGICIAN, let him be girt
With all the grsy legions that troop
Under the sooy flag ri of AchcrOn,
Harpies and hydras,or all the monslrouS forms RAJ
Twixt Africa and Ind, Pll find him ont,
And force him TO return his purchase back T5l
Or drag him by the curs [6l TO foul death
Curs'd a his lie.
Spirit QEnslish for Clay Alas, good ventur,
{ love Thy courage ~ yet, and bold cmprisc;
But here thy sword Isl can 60 thee little stead:
Far I9l other arms and weapons
Be those tat quc the might Of llesh lol charms; Llll
ne with his bare oond can gntrcad Thy joints, ll2l
And crumble all thy sincws.' .niit0n's COmuS.
NoTES-Bx G1rroRD
n HcdUcH-The God-like, as his cognomen beo,ens,
here akeh very piousiy and also magnanimously. See
his very dcvout and reycrena quotation of scripture in
his late reference the prophets account of the reanma
ton OF the ''dry bones OF the valley.
III Domnd.-Hcre again the carly Calyanisdc educa-
ton of the speaker breaks through the surface OF
polished and wc-bred Sociniansm; this very plain
spoken cphet sheweth II is but fair, however,
that the speaker says in Justification, tha he only used it,
as he did the other aluson Theorcdy and at he didn't
mean any harm.
Isl Sooty .Gag.-The original, whence the God-likc
borrowed bis famous description of the Union Banner in
the Foot Resolution Notwithstanding all over-and
overland both des-and round the edgcs-and in be-
tween the seams with living characters, SC. Sci
quote from memory
az .Honstro,s .iorns-Icre the speaker the
Radicals and Parliamentary Rciorncrs OF England with
whom the Minister ;icn conserving. The same wild
animals like the Eel OF Cyprus in Ohcllo, iighen.
cd Mr. Peel, and the Duke of Wellington from thc pro-
pney.
[5 Return his purchase bact. Deducting, be it under
stood, the $4,000 OUTFIT for which the Fiend took Bond
OF Fate; and which upon presentation duly paid at the
T6l Drog him by The curIs-sAlas poor bald pate. >
wanton mockery, is feared; like that TO Colonel Hayne,
in the Foot Ball Speech, his heing General 1t
is admitted tat the strength OF This modern Sampson,
wherever else it may be- does not lie in III: locksFor an
illustration in copper plate, OF this burst IF indignant eO-
Quence, the eihgy of Mr.. Van Buren,, in a volume
called the Cabinets choice book, wherein the Vice Presi-
dent, much TO his annoyance is bound up with very
choice company.
ri IloUe thu co,vage-Tho eagon why the speaker i,
enamoured OF his friends courage has been suggest
ed 20 me, is that exhibits only the better part Of yaour
Isl The stcordAn ill-dsguiscd sncer is suspect
ed at the combatant propcnsues OF the Godlike,
but never very warke member OF the meeting Hart
iodAn assembly, il will be reco!lccicd, that convened
short time after that memorable day, when the Kentucky
Senator electrified the House of Representatives bV
singing 1.-The Galley Slave" when that splendid dome
rang again. with the ot-repcatcd burhen of the song
81 sigh as tue at the oar -I understand however hat
late occasion, in of the intervals OF a three days
speech, the Hon. Senator's being called for a song
re replied in the words OF ucledon to the Prince Regent
that che was noS too old 10 sing"
[9l For other diIHS.The meaning of this passage is
not very ccarlt has puzzled the commentators a
suits of Literature, II Book mat IL hints at
Coalition and Holy Alliance, between the Spinning Jen-
ney Arsocracy OF the East and the landed democracy of
the West
[IOI HeHish-A ulo of tic accidental, bat very
oil outbreaking Of that tendency profanity 10 which the
Western Senator is consiiiuOnally subject The other
never swcars,--in public,--eXccpt Ihetoricay.
IN CIidlnS-1hs word as here used, does not mean
Beauties, the reader might hastily suppose, from
glance the aforesaid picture of thee 1laSci0n in the
Cabinet; but witchcral, incautados Sc OF the Bpi-
ConycnuonInto which huge cauldron, the speaker
perceived, with little oreboding, the Imps and Fami-
liars OF the Press casting in their potent drugs and poison
roots preparatory great political Sorcery-stelc in
May next
[12l UnHread Hy jOiats.-.Sl i'll nauired reflection
(o say the least of i and most unknd cut ut the long
standing Rheundtcks ohis friend the Godke; or, per-
haps the language is only mctaphocaly expressive of
regret the part Of the speaker himself that although in
the prime and ygour of manhood before his joints
grew stiff in his devotion and courhip of the People, he
with untrng perseverance, crooked the pregnant hinges
OF the knee, thrift io0uid not follow lawnng.
Note to the Edit0y-YOu will perceive, turning to
your copy OF Milton, that the extract from "Comus is
given verbatim.
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