The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-12-31


Has pictur'd out some fortress
That in the days of Indan power
Was sought by every Struggling white,
As the best shelter for the night
Where safe cnsconc'd, as lock'd up jury,
He dard the red mans savage fury.
But spite of novels and romances,
In spite of all the poets i,nces,
There among us those who still
Pronounce it nothing but m
The old stone mill, where Arnold ground
Grlsts for the neghbors scattered round,
And greatly served the common veal
By manufacturing Indian meal
How many most delightful places,
As well MS most attractive faces,
Has nature kindly furnished here
Ard some with names SD droil and queer.
There's h0g-hole--with no hogs 70 SPARE
The hanging rOcks--no culprIs there
The spouting rocks--where now and then
A wave rolls in and out again,
Canonicut, and Beaycr-Tail,
4 glorious spot to view a gnlc--
Where in a boat in n norhwester,
I've sailed and fsbcd with friend Sylvester.
Here too for saint and sinner lies
An open road 70 Paradise
Aud not far OFF is purgatory,
OF which they tell fall many story
At leas, one tale is often told,
How here lover young and bold,
A worthless fair ones heart to win
Jumped clear across and back again.
Here you walk and bathe aud ride,
And do thousand things beside;
Bag woOdcock, sDipe and quail and plover,
Ifyou've the skill to knock them over;
Or if for larger game your itch is,
There's shelldrakes, cOOts and water witches
OF angling too if you are fond,
There's lots of perch in Eastons pond
Or If hp 18Th
To throw your line for other fish,
Go to the rock cncrcled shore,
Round which the waves of ocean roar;
There the most witless, stupid ass,
Will scarcely fail to catch bass;
While any dull or luzy dog,
May haul in many fat tautog.
Here the speaker was interrupted by the little
man in short JACKET who denounced all false
statements either in prose verse, and avowed
himself matter of fact fellow altogether and de-
clared that he could not hear, without contradcting
assertions so utterly untrue as those which had
just been made. A bass he pronounced to be fish
most dficnlt to catch, and said that even black
fish was not to be taken by every ninny. Amidst
the speculation, argument and controversy which
thus introduced cOmical fellow from the coun-
try, who goes by the name Of Naaman, and who
had slowed himself and his short pipe away in the
corner, volunteered n song which he sung, in true
yankee twang, that Hackctt would have envied,
to well known national air;
Old Hickory will soon retire,
And leave his present station
wonder whom you next desire,
To rule the yankee nation.
You, surely will not vote for White,
That Southern Nufer;
For should he conquer in the fight,
The Uuion would expire
The wiggies' hero cannot be
Elected President sir,
And Webstcrs chance we all agroc
Amt worth single cent sir.
Then if in comfort you would live,
And find your joys enduring,
Your votes next fall YOU all must give
For JOHNSON aud VAN BUREN,.
In the midst of the applause which this song pro
duccd, your humble sorvout--who being Of an ago
too tender to be admitted INTO full communion with
the club, had hid himself behind the door--conclu-
ded 1t was best tc emerge and vanish, lest he might
he discovered, and not allowed the privilege of GO
ing out as quietly as he came IN. He had run some
risk bu, he had done so uuder the influence of the
old adagc nothing venture nothing gain" What
thar gam was, has been shared, patrons, with
You and he begs leave in conclusion 10 declare,
That whilst eacl, morning he can take
such comfort with ms lohny-cake,
While he can WELD or leg,
He'll never condcscend to bea:
But if by what he now has written,
With regard for him you're smitten,
DO as you oft have done before,
Wills, he stood hoping at the door,
Full out your purse and then your money,
And say to him, there's ninepcncc honey,
For your address I'm still your debtor,
81 never read one, / lk'd better"