Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-03-24
MAUMEE CITY, OHIO, SATURDAY, MARCH "a, 1888.

get home without him, and what shall /
DO with that are wagon and harness, so
iarfrom home as be. So he kept them
in talk till he lelt their purses pretty well
and al last he closed with Southerner,
for seven hundred dollars, and we return
ed, having made considerable good
spec OF colt. Says father TO me, Sam,
says he, you seed the crowd a follering
the winnin horse, when we came there,
didn't you Yes, sir, said /. Well,
arter colt beat him, noone follered him
at all, but came crowdin about him.
That's popularity, said he, soon won,
soon lost--cried up sky high one minute,
and deserted the next, or run down: colt
will share the same fate. He'll get beat
afore long, and then he's done over. The
multitude are always tickle minded. Our
great Washington found that out, and the
British officer that beat Bonaparte; the
bread they gave him turned sour before
he got half through the loaf. His soap
had hardly got stiffened afore 1t ran right
back to grease and lye again.
| was sarved the same way. liked to
have missed my pension-the Commit
tee said warnt at Bunker's Hill at all,
the villains. That was a Glo--
thinks |, old boy, if you once get into
that are field, you'll race longer than colt
aplagy sight; you'llrun clear away to
the fence, to the far eend afore you stop,
so jist cut in and took a hand myself)
Yes, says |, you did 'em father, properly,
that old wagon was bright scheme, it
led 'em till you got 'em on the right spot,
didn't it? Says father, there's a moral
Sam, IN euery thing in natur. Never
have nothin to do with elections, you see
the valy ofpopularity in the case of that
are horse-sarve the public o99times and
the lO0Oth, if they don't agree with you,
they desart and abuse you--see how they
sarved old John Adams, see how they
let Jefferson starve in his old age, see
how good old Monroe had like to have
got right intojail, after his term of Presi-
dent was up. They may talk of indie
pendence, says father, but Sam, I'll tell
you what independence is-and he gave
his hand a slap agin his trowsers pocket
and made the guneas he won at the race
all jingle agin-ttat, says he, giving 'em
another wipe with his fist, (and winkin
as much as to say, do you hear that, my
boy) that | call Independence. He was
ingreat spirits, the old man, he was SO
prc,d of winnin the race, and putin the
eake into the New Yorkers--he looked
all dander. Let them great hungry, i'll
favored, long legged bitterns, from
the outlandish states to Congress, talk
about independence; but Sam, said he,
(hitting the sinners agin0 Hike to feel it.
No, Sam, said he, line the pocket we'll
first, make that independent, and then
the spirit will be like horse turned out
to grass in the spring, for the first time,
he's all head and tail, a snortin and kick
en-, and racin, and carryin on like mad
it soon gets independent too. While it's
in the stall it may hold up, and paw, and
WINNER, and feel as spry as any thing,
but the leather strap keeps it to the man.
ger, and the weight to the end ont makes
it hold down its head at last. No, says
he, here's independence, and he gave the
eagles sucha drive with his fist, he bust
his pocket, and sent a whole raft on 'em
a spinnin down his leg to the ground
Says |, Father, (and | swow | couldn't
keep from larfn, he looked so peskishly
vexed) 4 guess there's moral in that
are too Extremes nary nag and none
the best. We'll, well, said he, (snappish-
lOI suppose you're half right, Sam, but
we've said enough about it, let's drop the
subject, and see if ! have picked 'em all
up, for my eyes are none the best, FIN
near hand to seventy.