, 1840-09-12

Away paraded in extreme cases and is though
to be invincible. But to the extract.
"The Wings have a political log cabin
here which is c%uriously decorated inside
There is complete edition of the disgrace.
full caricatures of our most distinguished
statesmen which the ingenious Wings have
got up; there are herbs and dried pumpkins,
raccoon and 'possum skins, and many other
such things, to ornament this temple of Wing
patriotism. But the most prominent thing in
The cabin is a petticoat-a real Petticoat-
made up with shoulder straps, and corded at
the bottom. 1t hangs from one of the beams,
and has a hoop inside TO keep it expanded,
and all over it has printed, in large letters, this
chaste and elegant stanza:
.sGranny Harrison!
She'll deliver this nation,
Which labor. in pain,
or the knaves who like leeches
Our Treasury drain"
But the crowning glory of the Wings will
be found in the new fountain OF Sentiment
which they nave opened. II is deeper, wider
and longer even than their Democracy.
off you have tears, prepare to shed them
now"
Mr.. Halstead of New-Jersey received from
the Wing ladies' Of Trenton a uhite flag, Of
which we regret that no exact description
has been given. Whether 1t were double or
single--whether it had arns or straps, or was
designed with any specific difference of the
upper and lower border--these are secrets;
but Mr.. Halstead made n grateful speech in
return for the aforesaid present Of bleached
lI1pap nat, n f1pnant ~ tho nr,tInp -
preserved and we know not if he promised.
asis usual on such occasions, to wear the gift
next his heart. But he took occasion to
show his fair auditors that they were not the
only patriotic ladies in the country, in proof
of which he described to them a scene be-
tween the two Massachusetts Senators, caus-
ed by the perusal Of a letter from the wife Of
one o. them, detailing the particulars Of a
hard c. Ter festival at whirh she presided
The report of this part of Mr.. Halstend's
speech is taken from the correspondence OF
the Boston At dS-a leading Wing paper.
''In her letter to her husband, this Bay
State Wing matron says that 1.-THE wine and
water, beer and hard cider, flowed in streams,
cake disappeared, was a caution" When
honest JOnn received tliS ielter, uescTIOing
in those t.ue and graphic colors which a W.
mans zen alone can give tn such Il scene, he
was sitting IN the Senate chamber, and as he
read it. .the big round tears coursed one an
other down his manly cheek" and as he wip-
ed them away,, he said TO himself. "what a
fool | am to be so affected" After he had
perused the letter he handed il Ia Mr.. Web
ster, saving. There, Webster, you say you
take pleasure IN reading my wife's letters,
read that" Webster took the letter. and
rs he read. Honest John watched the work
lngs of his noble features. and he soon sIw
the tear gIistening in his large olack eye,and
then rolling down the bronzed cheek Of this
intellectual giant. and Honest John said to
himself. swell. I'm not so grea, n fool Meth
err" When Webster had finished reading,
he drew a long breath. and erasped the hand
Of Honest John, and said, ''Slr. il is the finest
letter | ever read in my life" Now. my
fair hearers. have you any idea Of the worth
IF such a fair Wing us thai1 ] tell you such
a Wing is worth a kingdom; and the tears
which she drew forth from the eyes of such
men as John Davis and Daniel Webster, were
more precious than all the gems that ever
sparkled in Il roval diadenl.
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