Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-02-27
| never hecrd tell

oil one who had seed it.
The best member cen am,st ever coo
was john Adams. We'll, 7 i'm Ad,ms conI
no m2re plough a strait throw in paI;,;c
IMAM he could haul the plough himself. IT
might set OFT straight ut he:,innn Cor \ i,
TIC way, but he was sarc 10 re, cron,. !,
at're he gpt 10 the ccnl of the r;1ga.--,n,
sometime" son . he world have two or tire,
crooks IN u. nscd to say to him. low q,
arm IS It, mir. Adanss (lor he was M wa,
proud TIE, though he was president Of on,
great na'lan, and it is allowed to he t,e
greatest nation IN the world, too: Cor yo;
might see him sometimes of an artern,nn :
s"immin along with the Buys in tho pn,o
mac; DO believe that's The way he l,rnef
to give the folks the dodge so spry:) VOL.
used to say to him, how on airth is il. Mr.
Adams, you cant makc straight work on i,
lie was grand hand at an excuse (thonah
minister used to say that folks that were
good al an excuse, were seldom good for
no'h'n' eisc;) sometimes, he said, the
ground was so. tarna,ion stony, il throwed
the plough out; at other times he said. the
on OK was such an ugly wilful temnered
criter, there was no doin no;hin with him
or that there was 80 much machinery about
the plough, 1t made ii plagiiv hard TO steer.
or may he II was the iiaul, Of them that went
afore him, that they laid il down so bad: un-
less he was hlrcd for another term of fonr
years. the work wouldn't look well: and ;r
all them are excuses wouldn't do. WHY he
would take 'o scolding the Niger that drove
the team, throw all this blame on him, and
order him 10 have All everlastin lacin with
the cowskin. You might as well catch a
weaZel asleep as catch him. He had some
thin the mat'er with one eye-wcll. he
knew know'd that when / was boy: so
one day, a fe!ler presented petition to
him, and he told him it was very affectin.
Says he, it fairly draws tears from me. and
It's weak eye took 10 let'n off its water like
s'a!ice; so as soon as the chap went, he
winks to me with tolher one, quite KNOWN,
ms much as 10 say, you see its all in my eye,
Slick, but don't let on to any one about it..
that | said SO. That eye was regular
cheat, a complete New England wooden
nutmeg. Folks said Mr.. Adams was a We
ry tender hearted man. Perhaps he was,
but guess the eye didn't pump its water
OF. o that place.
Members In general amt to be depended
on. | tell you. Politics makes man as
crooked rs pack does pcdlar; not that
they are so awful heavy, neither, but it
teaches q man TO stoop in TIC long run. Ar
ter all, there's not that difference in 'cm Cat
least there aint in Congress) one would
think; for if one of them is clear Of one
| vice, why, az like as not, he has another
fault Just as bad. An honest farmer, like
one of those Cumberland folks, when he
goes to choose atwIxt two that offbrs for
votes, is just like the flying fish. That are
little crittcr is not content to stay to home
in the water, and mind its business, bat he
must try his hand at flyin, the sea fowl are
arter him, and let him have it; and if he
has the good luck 10 escape from them, and
dive into the sea, the dolphin, as like as not
has dig at him, that knocks more wind
out Of him than he got while aping the
birds, plagup sight. | guess the bueno-
ses know Just about rs much about politics
"a this foolish fish knows about flying. Al
critters in nature are better in their osrn ele
ment
1t beats cock fghtn, I tell vo., to hea,
| the bluenoses, vixen they get together, III
| politics They have got three or four eVi
spirits, like the Irish Banshees, that they
say cause all the mischief in the Province
the Council, the Banks, the Hsuses o
| Assembly, an1 the LAWYERS. Ii 4 mar
places higher valuation on himself thar
his neighbours d., and wants to be a magis
rate before he is fiji TO carry the ink hofr
for one, and finds himself safely delivered
of mistake, he says its all owing to the
/ Council. The members arc c;innin critters
too. they know this feeIin, and when they
come h,ns from A.ssn.ly. and PEG
! plc aS'em swhere are all them are fin'
! ihinos YOU promised us?'- Why, they sa,
well a had'em all for yon, but for that eter
nal Council, they nulhfed all we did. Th'
/ country will come to no good till them chap
+ show their respcctfor il, by covering thei
bot,oms with homespun. liza man is SO tar
i nation law he wont work, and in course ha
no money, why he says It's all own to thu
Ranks. they wont discount, there's no mo
nav. they've ruined the Province. llthcr'
= heant a road made up to every citizen
j door. .way back to the woods who as Tx
\ as moi has senatted there)~hy he says tn
i House Of Assembly have voted all the mo
new to pay great mems isahnes' an
I there's nothcn left for poor settlers, an
cr,ss roads. We'll, the LAWYERS came IN 10
!, t,,e;rs share of cake and ale, to-, IT they don
catch II, IFS a pity. a.;o
|, ~. ,,,,or. was one Jim Munroe, Onio
), r,n,,. C,nnectica', desperate IDLE le'
ls..e ,.evsrp an