Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-12

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Appssioamsns iA~. thing a. p,.iniy and directly
acc ring 60 the Cens,tutoa and req airsd W IN,
sxgeney. a. sny Act Of Congress ever pssssdf-
Add ,hsn tho late proceedings Of that desperate and
ia~isss crew in Rhode Island. whom you wouio
sustain in the MULTI satioa Of every Thing. State
Federsif
All Toni Toni pitiful old babblsr that you arel
What honest, what manly. what useful opinion
ever found its way ia,o your false heart or your
shallow brain. Incapable OF every elevated sen,i'
men' or JUS, ideai Thou thing Of fraud and fudge!
Thou snip-snsp politician. Thou dealer in stale
deius'onsi Thou great haberdasher of the small
wares of Sia,esmanshipl Go deal to the igaofsni
thy 'rumpery. thy baubles, thy trash, thy clippings
thy sniPpines, Thy remnants and the infinite no .
things 'ha, thou hawkest about the land as every
thing grand and preciousi Go rake thy cutters for
What every body slso has thrown away, thou pid>
dier and pedler and Cd clothes man Of Politics!
FOLLOWING SUIT.
Psychologists have raised some learned hubub, as
TO the origin Of tn. phrase OF "plsying the deuce"-
a saying nov ironc, and now serious, which some.
times signifies you have done mo great dsmsge.o
The dealers in derva,ions, therefore, have, az they
usually do when they come to fork cross
road, divided into two nearly sqral bodies. Of
which swears that the serious sense is here the solo
right one, and that Deuce is here taken from the
French dsnr, (two) and means that shifting, doub-
linz, multiple sprhe OF wickedness, old Nick. To
this the adverse party reply Tor might reply, tina,
certainly this etyno,ogy answers oil the main ends
OF derivation: which are, to exhibit your learning
and not the pal,ry aim Of explaining what word
means; and then they furnish, with a due inter
Harding OF lingos Of ali sorts, their geneslosy
OF the word-Ihat It is from the Latin dur Ia lead
erl and on behalf Of that nion they proceed to
urge much that is learned eaough TO be perfectly
unintellIsible. The other party rejoins, in terms
still more powerful in such disputes, because mo.e
OBSCURE and less TO the purpose. Then the respon
dents take up, with some fresh gLher.h; the strife
wakes ho'; they begin TO abuse each other, with I
that courtesy and humanity which Letters are u !
suaIly said to inspire; whole dictionaries IRE flung
backwards and forwards; and the end of the whole
combat is, that f men knew little about the ori.in
OF the phrase playing the Deuce" when :he con
test began, they know less about il, when il ends.
So much for erudi,on. Now, any man tina, has
'eNS Taso w tha famous history which 10
almost the only one studied in this Countrywide
history OF the Four Kings" We mean (some,mes
called the DEVILS prayer.book"-and if it is, the
devil very attentive to his devotional -could have
1P'ained the whole difficulty in ihie, words-in a,
little time as 1t takes President Tyler to belle a
promise, or Mr. Webster TO blk creditor or Richie
10 put on new political rament, or MIR Spencer to
urn double summerset backwards.
We'll. not to detain you, courteous reader ! sup.
pose the Government become gaming table 9TH erss
no violence, you know, in that supposiion) where
uek and light fingers carry the days that at i, pre-.
tides a black leg, who socks the cards, and plays
high, without having anything to stake, so that he
AN ruin others. bu, by possibility lose anything
HIMSELF Suppose him to lead Off with that fifth
honour, the ten, usually called among gamblers,
ii, MIR Wise, whose letter we had some,
inc ago: that he mex, plays "the curse of my |
ather's country" the nine-that is, MIR Webster:
hat he then plays down that little dog Tray, MIR |
Gushing; then the knave, MIR Spencer; and finally
he deuce. MIR Profit, who has, we perceive, come
ut the other cay, with his speech or manifesto, in
mutation Of the higher cards. This, we think,
will let any body see what playing the d.uee"i,.