The North-Carolina standard., 1836-07-07

daVlnS Oy cndnCe overheard the c0HSuueilOnS
OF the "Grand Council" submit the short
hand notes made at the time, and remain as
ever. Ky. B.
GRAND COUNCIL,
Upon the affairs and condition ofthe Wig,
alias Nulitfcatiam, alias White Panty.
T EARL PoMp-President of the Council in the
Chair.
SouiRE EMprY.-Thus from his worships lips
his passion broke
He e- first, and then he spoke
In the name ofthe Devil and all his saints, can
any one lell what grand matter brings US Six
tOge,her2
HON. MAaNIF1cENr.-"Li Like Moia's son he
Stood and shook his plumes''-
Tha, have done the Sta,e Cor rather myselD
some service, is to be collected from the high
distinction cast upon me. am one of the Lii
on's ofthe day humbly apprehend, though
speak with becoming diffdence-I say, | do
humbly conceive, with great submission, that we
are gathered together, to consult and to consider
what is the present posture of our affairs, and
what is to be done to save me, if not us all, from
utter extinction. AS to our political affairs, the
Devil knows they are bad enough, and therefore
will call all of our cunning into requs,tion to
decide upon what is most politic.
Here the hoporable gentleman, like his great
archetype,
"Fiuttering his pinions vain, plumb down he
drops"
YouS,; Pu1MUs, (wilh most complacent SMILEY
| claim to be heard and heeied-for too have
done no small service. Have not in time been
federalis:, republican, a nuliiier, and Jack
son man, and now, forsooth, true White man !?
! would have been Van Buren, man, but The
cunning knaves understood me, and could make
nothing of them. l say then, should be first in
council: for am patriotic man, always making
| things bend to circumstances. Before the peo-
pie one thing, in their service another In Or
range praise jackson, in Raleigh curse him
| l an. a Prince of a fellow--l have more than once
cheated your good democrats, and hope TO do it
again. (Asids Tho of that l am not very Ger
tain.) Iadmit, with my honorable friend, that
our affairs are desperate indeed, and therefore,
President, stick at nothing. But really am
at loss to know what to do next. had hoped
to have rode that hobby The Sss1pfus-the Public
Lands, &c.-bur am cheated out Of that by the
vile Congress-thanks to Mr.. Magnificent for
suffering our hobby thus to be taken,from us.
tell him the first thing TO be decided on is, tina,
he is not to be elected Senator-that's how.
Mr.. CAurIoN-I too am not without claims tc
favor, if dupiicily in protesting one thing, and
/ really thinking another constitutes a claim.-
Have not, like Gen. Dudley, denounced Van
Buren, and all his clan as aboIitonsts and enc
mics to the South-altho' 1 may have pronoun
ced slavery a curse, and tho l voted for Adams
Clay and Sargent, and would how willingly Vote
for Webster Harrison, or the D-l-yei had
hoped to cheat these Jackson ninnies cut Of thei!
votes. But if this hobby about slavery is taken
from me- and that about the Surplus is settled
then indeed is g OIheiio's occupation gone
Curse upon these Congresslnen. they are mos
stupid set; not to have forced the noithern mel
to vote that 1t not unconstitutional 10 abolish
: slavery in the District Of Columbia, and also {,
. ihaye passed the hill about the surplus IN SOM
shape, that that old Jackanapes The Presiden
u might put his veto on it-then huzza for fren,
! Primus and myself. tell alr.- Magnificent iha
am bound in honor TO vote for him, If eIecte
. myself? yet TO vote for him and Tyler ,oo-.h