Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-06-01

PEOPLE OF Rhode Island. IL is Interesting paper.
u Is written in a spirit Of eandours and has nothing
aeou, it Of that sword flashing air, which 20 were
prepared to expect. His reverses have sobered
him. and made him an humber, if not a wiser man.
tie details with much frankness the painful etcum
stances which led to his overthrow, and apparently
seeks to disguise nothing, however Notifying TO
himself We are persuaded, from the perusal Of
this document, that his motives were better than
his acts would induce one to believe. lie was de
luded-wre,chedly deluded-but we have charity
enough TO think he was unconscious OF the full
enormity Of his crime.
The best thing he could DO now, would be to
make an open and speedy reeantation, and ask for
sWeneSs OF has countrymen. No other course can
save him from the persecution Of the wags and wits
who will annoy him day and night for the rem
nan, Of his days. With the view Of Fastening his
repentance we copy the sporiive commentaries Of
the Savannah Republican.
From the Savannah Republican.
GOV. DORR.
This doughty individual is stratus IN umJra He
has made a return OF himself and his forces "no.
est inrsnfgS" He has
"Given signs OF that all is lost"
Ills sympSthiscrs look silly and foolish enough. as
well they may. The Tsmmsnv Asg is struck, the
z
QUEEN of the military hero is sung by the meian
eholy breezes. This buffet OF fortune this spo OF
chance. this fortunate (quere, unfortunately accident
this shut;lecock blown hiiher ard Won by Loco
Fooo enthusiasm, has proved himself no battle lore
(oaue-Dorr) after all His powers OF locomotion
however are great; and il is IN contem pation soon
To enter HIM Tor four mile heat against Fashion
BY the way. poor youth, he is no longer the
'g'asS ofJashien" The dorc (Dorr- icy simplicity
and dor'e strength of his character have gone-and
he has gone with them
"H(auf mourn o. prsndrs Ia G.ts"
was his motto. Discretion came to the rescue. aud
he did decamp; and rolling lusires shall hereafter
he marked 10y the date ol his H-sra-lsI2 OF the
Christian Era. instead OF 62s. The subsistence OF
Mr. DORIS courage, and his absqun,ulation. form a
nota hle era. Levi Slamm will have to record the
moving event rs .N,p Era. MIR Dorr has gone
Fuh Is the word
"fN" HinHr Il fa<sHs siaifa D5rr.sasis"
Let symPathisers weep,
"Areiefs 10 carmen iot peniheos."
Go to 1t ye cripples, for Door ia dshed-gone-not
being able to make his guns go OF Ae ,csni of him
.,hmei wha, Perils 40 environ
The man that NEEDLES with cold iron"
The King ofFnnce marched mp the hir
With forty thousand men,
Andthen marched down again
MIR Dorr marched up the hill, in hot haste, with
his Gun drusged remnant OF SoldddoS and he march
ed down asain-sOi0. So goes the world. Those
who conduct revolutions should be made OF stern
stuff
Time dissipa,es the Illusions Of opinion" Its
miSh'y ehcacy losses at pleasure on its yesty waves,
BonapaTte or Dou.
The eternal surge oftimc rolls on,
And bears aiar our bubbles;
sthe old burst, emerge,
i,shed from the foam Of ages,
Mhuc the graves OF empires
heave but like some passng wave"
The sport Of a tickle fortune, Mr. Dorr has
''srured his brief hour upon the stage :"
the boyish sport, the tricksy play.thine OF n ma
snant star, "ks has been born has suffered is dead"
Come up here, thou Cd French quatrain. We will
detach you from the service Of the Marquis de Sou
bisei and give you place in DORIS legion
Z grand C,sar riHt. rii, raingAit
Des frois closes que Cesar s.,
Ivy r1GHqEa 7Es Ia froisicrls.
Which being freely translated, runs thus:-
1;reai Cesar came, saw, and won the day
DoTr oil what CTsar did-a hut the last.
lie could not stop 10 conquer, Tor his haste
Why did not the man read some Of .E.op's fables
when boyl He might have learned better than
10 seek false positions and dangerous occasions.
why ord he not glass himself in soap bubbles7 He
could have seen how they sailed off "f the ambient
ai:' ere bursting, and he might have taken lesson
thereirom. Alas! how the roseate pinions upon
winch his fancy scared clipped, and he has
iallen, fallen, down. down, and is now bedabhed in
the mre, and fiurering supnely in the atraoilious
regions Of melancholy. Like the audacious whip.
poor viii, whose ambition dared TO sail up 10 the
cages eyre, he lee bleeding upon the plain, dis
emoowelled. head torn from trunk, limb from limb
szzard ess, limb.ess lifeless.
The game IS up. Let's go to supper" said an
otteer Of Charles XII. when his king was killed at
Frederlckshall. The game is up Let's dine A,
Woonsoekei,h said Mr. Dorr, when the 81 dorado
(Dorr sdo) of his hopes had vanished into dreamy
obsiraetons Alas ! that eapIicous fortune has SO
soon laid aside her idle foot ball-so soon dashed
the blue empyreln towards which with expanded
wings like another Satan, Dorr
"picd aemDiu. nightly"
With the sickiy hues Of appointment. We'll mich,
Bnrk eIcairn, "What shad5tos zoe are, aud phat
ShGdoirs pursuit."
SIR Christopher Wren had his monument. L. i,
IN the Abbey Of which he was the Architect, and
reads thus:-
"SiHssHuH'entln1 qr-risareur7,pie."
III you ask for his monument, look around.p