The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-09-09


lynn Won out of your money. There's
The boaman, and tide-water, and porter,
and customer, and buchanan a. soon az
you land; and the servant man, and
chamber-gal, and boots, and porter again
| to the Inn. And then on The road, there
is trunk litter, and coachlnan, and guard
and beggar man, and critter that opens
the coach-door, that they calls waiter
man. cause he is inlarnal dirty, and never
secs water. They are jisl like snar o.
snakes; their name is legion, and there
amt no eend to 'em.
"The only thing you get for nolhin'
here is ram and smoke, the rumatiz and
scorny airs, Ifyou could buy an Eng.
lishmsn at what he was worth, and sell
ilim at his own valuation, would realize
as much as niger, and would be worth
!radln' IN, that's fact; but as he amt
worth nolhin', there's no market for such
crltlers;no one would buy him at no price
A Scotchman is WIS, for he is prouder
and mcaner. Pat amt no better mother;
he amt proud, cause he has hole in his
brceChes, and another in his elbow, and
he thinks pride won't patch 'em; and he
amt mean cause he haint got ncthin' TO
be mean with. Whether it takes nine
allors to make . man ! can't exactly say,
but this ! will say, and take my davy of
II too, that it would take three such go-
neys to make a pattern for one of our real
genumine free and enlightened citizens,
and then ] wouldn't swap without large
boot. tell you. Cues. 'll go and pack
up my fxins, and have 'em ready to
land"
THE NELSON MONUMENT.
"Ihere he ia, az big as life, five feet
nothln', with his shoes on. Now exam
me that monument, andte me ifthe Eng
lish don't know how TO brag as well as
some oihcrlolks, and whether they don't
hrag, too, sometimes, when they haint got
no right to. There Is four figures there
representa- the four quarters ofthe globe
in chains and among them America a
cfouchin' down and Begin for life, like
mean lndgin. Well jiss do the civil.
now and tell me when that little 'oraggin'
Teller ever whipped us, well you2 Jisl
tell me the day of the year he was
ever able to do it. since his nanny cut
the apron-siring, and let him run to seek
his furIin'. Heavens and arth; we'd a
chawed him right up!
mo there never was all officer among
you that had anything to brag of about us
but one, and he wasn't Brilisher-he
WAS despi,able Bluc-nose colonist boy
OF Halifax. When his captain was took
below wounded, he was lettcnant, SO he
JI,t ups and takes command o. the Shan
non, and fit like a tiger, and took our
splendid lrlga,e Chesapeake, and tina. was
someIhln' to bTag on. And what did he
&c. for it, Why, colony SARGE, halr-pav,
and leave to make room for EngIlshers To
80 over his head; aud here is a lviu',
false monument erected to this man that
never even seed one Of our national ships,
much less smell. thunder and lightning
out Of one, that, English like, has got this
for what he didn't do.n
NATUR.
''You are in the wrong pew, here.
squire, said he, you are, upon my soul.
II you think to sketch the English in
way any one will stop to look at, GU
have missed fgur', that's all. You can't
do II nohow you can nix it. There is no
contrasts here, no variations of culors, no
light and shade, no nolhin'. What sort
OF pictur' would straigh, line, of any
Thing make? Take a parcel of sodgers,
officers and all, and s,elch 'em out in a
row, and paint 'em, and then engrave 'em,
and put II into one of our ANIMALS, and
see how folks would Iarf, and ask, sWhat
boardn'- school gal did lha;2 who pulled
her out of standin' corn, and sot her up
on eend for an arlist2' they'd says
"There is much of elegance, and more
of comfort, in England 1t is great and
good country, MIR. Poker; but there is no
natur' in it,
ut is true as Gospel, Pm telln' you no
lie. It's fact, If you expect to paint
them English, as you have the Blue-nc ses
and us, you'll pull your line up without
a fish oliener than yon art ,hinkin' on;
that's the reason all our folks have failed.
husn uook 10 Jist IloldsscS anu WateT'
not quite so sweet as 'las,es, and not so
good as wafer; but splin of both. And
why2 his pIctur' was of polished life,
| where there is no natur'. Washington
Irvine's book IS like Dutch paintin'; it is
good, because 1t is faithful; the mop has
the right number Of yarns, and each yarn
has the RICH, number OF twists, although
he mistook the mop of the grandfather
for the mop of the man Of the present
day. and the pewter plates are on the
kitchen dresser, and the Other little no.
tons are all there. He has done the
mos, that could be done for them; but the
painter deserves more praise than the sub