The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-18
For the Hawk Eye and Patriot.
PRESCRIPTION.

Now is the winter OF our dlScOntent,'
as the Gineral said when he got asleep
and fell out of the editorial chair, after
wadirg through two and half columns
of his own futile imagination. Does it
take two and half columns to say the
CALLED iades VINCE | think the boot is
on the other leg; at least the shoe pinch
es, or we should not have had such a
labored manifestation Of a fit. In short,
the editor of the last number of the Ga
zette must be enceinte, having swallowed
three Tippecanoe resolutions at a single
gulp-'greedy.' Those resolutions were
designed as an antidote 10 correct the Ga
ze,le not destroy 1t. But the ravenous
appetite of the editor has applied them
all to himself Had he taken them in
moderate doses, they would no doubt
have had beneficial effect. They were
designed, principally, for chronic dis
ease. The system should be kept de-
cent the sheets clean, and strict regard
10 regimen in order to effect radical
cure. But the active temperament and
acute sensibi|ity of the editor, united to
a great mental prostra,ion, it is feared
will produce an alteration of the mind
and such mind-'I knew him well,
Horatio, he was the kings jester How
ever, in his better days this editor was
a wonderful and learned man. 1t is said
when he was at school he went half
way up his class Of three by spelling
bread; the next day, Zone being absent,
he went to the head spelling butter. A
prodigy in youth, in his ripper years he
was the great gun of the Gazette the
palladium Of patent democracy, the pre-
siding genius of monkeys. loco focos and
whole artillery of squibs, which were
touched off from goose quill with great
dexterity.
His profound erudilion, like the shield
of Minerva, carried every thing before it.
For deep research, fecundily of ideas
and inscrutable lore, he was unsurpassed.
His high intellect, however, carried him
SO far beyond his competitors, that he
attempted to grasp a knowledge into fu-
turity, to unyeil the political arena of
subsequent eyents-a point beyond which
the .mightiest intellecls fail to penetrate.-
Reason tottered upon her throne, the
mind became vague and indefinite, like
the Authorizations of Macbeth, he grasp
ed at imaginary evils, became sceptical
in his tenels and embraced or created a
Imytho5ogy Of his own. It resembled
the ancient. mythology Of the Trojans,
with the exception of the tail. ;. This
part Of the idol was his own original
idea, and some of the most learned sa-
cans contend that he took the tail from
himself. | am inclined to this opinion
from the fact, in looking over a. manu-.
script of his miscellaneous writings,
find the following significant sentence /:
ssltwas certainly no great breach of de.
corum on our part TO put a tail to him.
Now. query where did he get the tail?
If he put a tail to him. lie must first
have been in possession of one himself.
The rest of the manuscript was so OBJ
scure, that it was difficult to extract a
sentence from it: however. for the salts
faction of the curious would refer them
to the archives of the. Gazette. vol. 4,
no. 80, page 8, where they will find a
JfguratiUe, representation and the only
chart now extant. of the NEUROLOGICAL
faith OF this extraordinary man.
Of his personal appearance but little
is known. Those who are better ac.
,quainted with the subject, say that he
was bland in his manners, easy in. his
department, handsome in his person and
like the distinguished M;rabieu. great
favorite with the Ladies, which gentle
sentiment was reciprocated in that happy
and unique, style, known only to the ac-
complished. Of his origin, there is