The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1841-01-15
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rise and salute nm.
GEy. HARRISON
Welcome my noble friends, most welcome all!
You see the latch of hospitality
i not pulled III. but arrived last NIGHT
And took the earliest opportunity
70 summon you my trusty counsellors,
On great affairs OF state demanding now
Deliberation grave and cool debate.
"Thus far, success attends upon our councils,
And each event has answered to oar wish"
The ring-tail coon, the emblem of our cause
Succeeded well; and cider barrels from
Their spacious lungs did pour forth liquid streams
Division on the peoples souls, until
0'ertiowing quite, they cast up me into
This high estate. The son of Yor; is doom'd,
(Like Dioclesian old at his salonc)
10 Undertook he goes, cabbage to raise,
And marshal rows OF corn instead OF men.
WEDsraR-Trancende sapieni!
srAxLkY to DAwsoy-Yc gods, tha. "policy"
would but allow
One yell ofjoy
IIinnrsoN-NIy "ardent friends YOU of .'thc
farther South"
Cork up awhile the bottles of your bliss.
CLAY-IIcar him, hear him; proceed, General,
proceed.
HAn.--Ye5, my friends, we've triumphed Ger
our foes;
And lot NE say The reason that you are
Convened thus oarly-c'er the popular tide
OF feeling rashe5 on to graduate
Their man, is, that may good counsel take,
The fruits OF victory best to secure;
And first will mine own opinion give;
Metliinks that gratitude OF US demands
That we proclaim 1t AS our royal will
That whose kills a p0s,um or gaccoon,
Il bear an otter or an eagle grey,
Shall, as ielon, suffer pains OF death.
That Congress in the marble Capitol
Shall be assembled not, but that proud dome
Be leyeed with the dust, and OH its site
A cn6ia, spacious, broad aud wide be built,
Fit for the Amphlctyons of this Union great,
That cider shall be drunk instead of brandy,
And pepper ate instead OF sugar candy.
Speak ciges all and first, thou, Clay,
4 hou man of wisdom; what hast thou to say
CLAr-The Inaugural mas hc written. As
g for myself
haze no part or lot in YOUR empire;
TIN buta locker on, and come to sec
What course you take; what be your policy"
llAn.-Speak Webster, speak, what think St
thou of my plan;
Speak freely, fully thou art the God-kc man
Thou art the Atlas; the Atlas shalt thou be
On whom I'll rest gladly turn to thee.
WEn,--With Difference great to all our brethren
here,
And most Of all to thee, thou man ofpower
/ will attempt the views hold to give,
Of what's BETTING to thy royal state
What course will best promote the pubic veal,
Secure Our party and exalt our fame.
AS TOT plan thy highness recommends,
10 it I'd heartily subscribe but that ....,.
Philosophy has taught, and now tbs PLAIN,
That "the pleasure is as great
OF being cheated, as to cheat
AS to the means we used to wrench the helm
OF States from out the pilots hand, they're such
As no discreet, or wise, or sober man
Gan, Justify no law can dignity.
All save the ignorant, vulgar, low and base,
Know well the arts we used, were but to cheat
a'Thc swinish hcid." Let the humbugeery then
Lie in oblivion's ditch and Lethe's wave
Roll oyur it forever and forever,
"Till wrapt in flames. the realms of ether glow.
And heavens last thunders shake the world be.
az }low!"
HAp.-Oh, God-like man, your voice to me i,
-jH like
The voice OF heaven; your words are oacles;
But must then in sooth, give up forever,
nv possums, 'coons, my cabins and hard cider
,tWSn,--Forever. SO opnes your iriendand slave
The path Of honor is where duty calls,
sOur country one and indivisible.'
Write this uponyonr banner; give it to
The breeze; and in your inaugural address,
La not s.thosc words Of folly and delusion,"
iCabins, cider, 'coons and gourds" have place
) Dut,lhem tshsr words now dear tome,