Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-01-27

like a New York liner, a real taking
looking thing then we look out fol
a preacher, crack man, a regular ter
horse power chap-well. we hire him
and we have to give pretty high wages
too, say twelve hundred or sixteen hun.
dred dollars year. We take him first
on trial for Sabbath or two, to try his
PAGES, and if he takes with the folks, il
he goes down well, we clinch the bar
gain. and let and sell the pews; and,
tell you it pays well and makes real
good investment. There were few bet
ter specs among US than Inns and Chur-
ches, until the Railroads came on the
carpet---as soon as the novelty of the
new preacher wears off. we hire another,
and thus keep up the steam. trust it
will be long, very long my friend, said |,
ere the rage for speculation introduces
I" the money changers into the temple"
with US. 't
Mr.. Slick looked at me with most in
cifable expression of pity and surprise.
Depend on it, sir, said he. with a most
philosophical air, this Province is much
behind the intelligence of the age. Blu,
II it is behind us in this respect, it is a
long chalk ahead on us in others. me-
yer seed or heard tell of country that
had SO many natural privileges as this.
Why there are twice as many harbours
and water powers here, as we have all
the way from Eastport to New Orleans.
They have all they can ak, and more
than they dcsarve. They have iron,
coal, slate, grindstone, lime, fire stone,
gypsum, frcestone, and list as long as
an auctlonecr's catalogue. But they are
either asleep, or stone blind to them.
Their shores are crowded with fish, and
their lands covered with wood. A 60
vernment that lays as light on 'em as a
down counterpin, and no taxes. Then
look at their dykes. The Lord seems
to have made 'em on purpose for such
lazy folks. lfyou were to tell the cti-
zens OF our country that these dykes had
been cropped for hundred years with
out manure, they'd say, they guessed you
had seen Col. Crockett, the greatest
hand at fam in our nation. You have
heard tell Of man who couldn't see
London for the houses, tell you, if we
had this country, you couldn't see the
harbours for the shipping. There'd be a
rush offolks to it, as there is in one of our
inns, to the dinner table, when they some
times get jammed together IN the door
way, and man has to take running
leap over their heads, afore he can get
in. A little niger boy in New York
found a diamond worth 1000 dollars /;
well, he sold it to matchmaker for so
cents-the little critter didn't know no
better. Your people are just like the
ntgger boy, they nthno,0 the ualue of
their diamond. gaa .a.
Do you know the reason monkeys are
not good? because they chatter all day
long-so do the niggers- and so do the
blue-noses Of Nova Scota-its all talk
and no work now with US its all work
and no talk--in our ship yards, our fac
tories, our mills, and even in our vessels,
there's no talk--a man can't work and
talk too. I guess ifyou were at the fac.
tories at Lowell we'd show you won
der fue hundred gals at ,oork together
all in silence. l don't think our great
country has such a real natural curiosity
as that expect the world don't con-
tain the beat of that; for a woman's
tongue goes so slick of itself, without
water power or steam, and moves so ca
sy on its hinges, that Its no easy matter
to put a, spring top on it, | tell you--it
comes as natural as drinking mint julep. |
l don't pretendto say the gals, don't
nulify the rule, sometimes, at intermis-
sion and arter hours, but when they do
let go, then its a pity. You have heerd
4 school come out, of little boys, Lord
is no touch to it; or flock Of geese at
t, they are no more a match for 'em than
4 pony is for a coach-horse. But when
hey are at work, alrs as still as sleep
ind no snoring. Iguess we have righ,
o brag o that invention-we trained the
lear critters, SO they DON'T think of stri-
ling the minutes and seconds no longer.
Now the folks of Halifax take it all
'ut in talking--they talk of steamboats,.
and rail-roads--but they all
md where. they begin--in talk. don't
hink I'D be out in my latitude, if | was
Q say they beat the woman kind at that
)ne fellow says, i talk Of going to Eng
and--another says, | talk Of going to the .
ountry while q third says ! talk ofgo-
az to sleep, If we happen to speak of