Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-12-14

THANKsGIvING.-No doubt, for divers
great and weighty reasons, our chief magis.
trate has stepped out of the old beaten
track Of our good puritan ancestors, and ap.
pointed this day--Saturday the 10th of De-
cember, day of Thanksgiving throughout
the state. He, good man, was not to be
led about by the superstitons of the olden
time-not he. Sympathies, associations,
good old customs, are nothing to him; he
rises above them. He sees too clearly
through the political vista to be deceived by
relic OF Connecticut and Massachusetts
federalism, in disguise of u Thanksgiving
on Thursday. He sees that no good can
originate from our lifting our hearts and
voices, in gratitude to Heaven, on the same
day with the people of New England. He
was born in Virginia, and hates, with a
fervent hatred, Yankee nutmegs, Yankee
broad-cloths and Yankee Thanksgivings.
We can imagine his great at-grandfather
to have been some stout, burly law breaker
who was sent from the fast ancho. ed isle,
to the colonies, for the good of his morals;
or perhaps his maternal ancestor, q heavy
heeled Mulligarvon lass, who brought two
hundred pounds of tobacco, and ready
sale, to her proprietors. A Thanksgiving
on Saturday Ia wretched practical witt
cism, too poor to be practised by man
holding his high station; may he receive
his just reward. May his turkey be under
done, and his chickens crow in derision from
under the pastry! May his roast pig upbraid
him under the operation of dissection, aud
his pumpkin pies turn to rank soap suds be-
tween his teeth, and, in conclusions; may
his supper be weight of lead on his breast
as he sleeps, and Yank ee fairies bespatter
him with pumpkin pics, and tickle lis ribs
with roast pigs tails, till he repents.
But today is Thanksgiving, and it be-
comes US to observe it, in accordance with
the customs of Cur ancestors.
many hhu uiNers are lne Weignty reasons
Why We should thankful be, and likewise merry,
For all the peace and plenty of the seasons;--
Therefore let each and all, their SORROWS bury
In pies and puddings,-and the severed weasands
ofpigs and poultry, be abundant--uery"
Sole be jolly-aye thankful, that a day
is set apart in which we may enjoy our
selves, and render thanks to the great au
thor of our being. And while in accord
ance with immemorial custom, we pray
especially for our magistrates and rulers, let
US not forget to petition particularly, that
our governor be, in future, gifted with more
wlsdem than to appoint another Thanks
giving m Saturday.
How many beautiful thoughts and thrill
ling recollections hang around New Eng.
landcrs Thanksgiving! The labors of the
year are closed; rich crops have filed the
garners, and plentiful provision made not
only for comfort, but sufficient for their
IDEAS of luxury. Plain substantial food,
that pals not, and brings no bloated drop
sy or painful gout in its train, is stored up
for the year, and feeling of self-achieved
clothes the household in
smiles, and opens the hearts Of all in tender
pity to the wants of the needy. The dayI
is day offamly meeting. Gray headed
grand sires, and their aged companions;
men and matrons in the sober middle age of
life; young men and madens and children
AL are there. The incidents ofsthe year
are talked over; tear is dropped over tho
memory of the dead, and warmer and
brighter smile awaits those who have been
added to the family within the year. The
board is blessed at The ntercession OF the
aged man and the flourish of knives and
forks that follows, attests the health and