The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-17
BLUE DEVILS.

There is tone of despondence--of profound
melancholy -now pervading the columns OF Tue
Globe, which is quite affecting. II seems ABOUT
TO hang ia hasp upon the wiIlows7-to SIT down
by the waters Of Babylon and weep It's dolo-
Tous strains are enough almost to have melted
the heart of Launce's dog Crab, which refused
20 shed single tear while its master and mis-
tress, and all around, were weeping torrents.
Alas! Every thing is now going wrong
even clocks and watches. The needle Is no
longer true 10 the pole-and the sun is playing
tricks with The dial Political charts, compass
es. and chronometers, are all alike treacherous.
The fatal day has al last arrived, amids, earth
quakes and triple suns-typcal OF the state oi
pa.ties--when Irregular nominations" have
lost their power. Who can doubt now that the
world is coming TO an end
The granite hills of New Hampshire begin TO
fiy from their bases--thcy skip like lamb, and
ped the Globes halter, trampled on its harness,
and disdaining bride aud spur, has secured
away like the wild horse Of the Texan prairi.s.
II is FULL of tricks, as wicked and mischlevous
as q Muaiang-and as hard TO catch Mhen il has
once broken loose.
So altered is the Globe Of ate--sucL change
has come over the spirit Of its dream, that We
can hardly recognise il as the same paper How
unlike arc its present raven-l.ke croakings, to
the bold chanticIrcr tone in which il was wont
formerly to proclaim victories yet TO be won
Time was when it disdaintd to entertain
though, Of defeat or disaster The sun Of Aus
tcrIi,z shone in every bat lie field. Now it de-
spairs openly Of its last strong holi. Disable
ton has spread even among the "immovabe
hills" OF New Hampshirc-and the "imperial
Globe" no longer daring to scold, sis down to
blubber in public over anticipated defeat.
II is evident that the present craven tone of
the Globe is the result Of the dead weig which
now presses upon it. The heavy Missouri Sen
ator, with his ponderous lore, and bags OF brass,
sits like an Incubus over its columns, and gives
rise to these low nightmare meanings. No
thing seems able to cheer its gloom ut an occs-
sional glance at s. the state of the country" then
it can raise sardonic grin, and ven, dreary
charnel house jest about dead frogs dead ducks,
and other ingredients Of witches caldron.
Not only in the East does all appear black and
lowering-but in the West, even to the shores
of the Pacific, clouds and darkness hang over
all its prospects. l, might, if the worst came 10
the worst. fly to Oregon. But it is afraid 10
cherish even this wresched hope. Ii has made
up It's mind that, even if the Oregon bill should
pass the House, il will be vetoed by Mr.. Web
ster-for It has ascrrta'ned that Mr.. Webster is
the true author Of all the veloes. Oregon, that
commanding position, tina, Gibraltar of Amer
ca, from which We might rake the British chan
mel, is sold, or rather given away, TO The Eng
lsh.
The conclusion is that all is vanity and ve1a-
ton Of spirii-that there is nothing left worth
living for; and in few days We expect to re-
cord coroner's inquest and verdict of felo de
Sc, or else died of Ben,onism."