Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-04-28
make YOU feel about among the stifIest,

make you leel aDoul among the stliiest,
/ tell you. 1t will blow your jacket
out like a pig at sea. You'll have to
shake reef or two Out Of your waist
bands and make good stowage, ! guess,
to carryi it all under matches. p There's
noihin like a good past,Tito cover the ribs,
and make the hide shine, depend ont.
Now this Province is like that are
Grahamite lawyers beef, it's too good
for the folks that'sinit; they either don't
avil its value or wont use it, because
work aint arter their 'law Of na.ur.'n As
you say, they are quiet enough, 0here's
worse, folks than the blue noses, il you
come TO that) and so they ought TO be
quiet, for they have nothing TO fight a.
bout. As for politics, they have moth
ing to deserve the name but they talk
about it, and a plagy sight Of nonsense
they do talk to. -1AlA MOTT ~ saff-t
Now, with the us the country is d.
vided into two parties, of the mammoth
breed, the inns and the outs, the admin
istrotian, and the opposition. But
where's the administration here p
Where's the War Office, the Foreign
Office, and the Home Office where's
the Secretary of the Navy? where the
Estate Bank ? where's the Ambassadors
and Diplonatists Chem are The boys to
wind off a snarla Of ravellings as slick
Fas If twas on reel,) aud where's the
ship of State, fitted up all The way from
the lorecastle clean up to the starn post,
chock full of good snug berths, hand
somely found and furnished, tier over
tier, one above above another, as thick
as it can hold? That's helm worth
handlin, / tell you don't wonder that
folks mutiny below, and fight on the
decks above for tit makes a plaguy
oproar the whole time, and keeps the
passengers for everlastingly in state Of
alarm for fear they'd do mischief by bus
tin the byler, runnin aground, or get
tin afoul of some other craft.
This Province is better as it is, quieter
and happier far; they have berths e.
nough and big enough, they should be
careful not to increase 'em; and if they
were to do it over again, perhaps they'd
be as well with fewer. They havetwo
parties here. the Tory party and the Op-
position party, and both on 'em run to
extremes. Them radicals, saysone, are
for levelin all down to their own level,
tho not peg lower; that's their gage,
just down to their own,netch, and no
further; and they'd agitate the whole
country to obtain that object, for if a
man can't grow to beas tall as his neigh
Dor, if he cuts few inches off of him,
why, then they are both Of one height.
They are most dangerous, disaffected
people-they are eternally appealing to
the worst passions Of the mob. Well,
says tother, them aristocrats, they ruin
ate the country, they spend the whole
revenue in themselves. What with
Bankers, Councillors, Judges, Bishops,
and Public Officers, and whole tribe
Eof Lawyers, as hungry as hawks, and
jist about as marciful, the country is de-
voured, as if there was flock of To-
Gusts a feedin on it. There's .nothin left
for roads and bridges. When chap
sets out to canvass, he's got to antago-
Mise one side or tother If he hangs on
TO the powers that be, then he's a Coun.
Gilman, he's for votin large salaries, for
doin as the great people at Halifax tell
him. He's a tool If he's on tother
side, arailin at Banks, Judges, Lawyers,
and such cattle, and baulin for what he
knows he cant get, then he is rogue.
So that, ifyou were to listen to the weak
and noisy critters on both sides, you'd
believe the House Of Assembly was one
halt rogdes and tother half fools. All
this arises from ignorance. If they knew
more of each other, guess they'd lay
aside one half their fears, and all their
abuse. The upper classes don't know
one halfthe virtue that's in the middlin
and lower classes; and they don't know
one half the integrity and good feelin
that's in the others, and both are fooled
and gulled by their own noisy and de-
signin champions. Take any two men
that are by the ears, they opinionate all
They hearof each other, impute all sorts
of unworthy motives, and misconstrue
every act; let them see more Of each
o.her, and they'll find out to their sur
prise, that they have not only been look
in through ama gnifying glass that warnt
very true, buta coloured one also, that
changed The complexion, and distorted.
the features, and each one will think the
other very good kind Of chap, and like
as not plaguy pleasant one too.