Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-10-01

alter the kite, which, mea while, for want
OF a bobtai, is doing nothing better than
skim the ground, and occasionally digs into
it head foremost, and needs TO be set up ,
again.
'.Just at this moment up comes Tom,
and seizes the kite by IFS lower extremity,
determined TO keep il down But the kite
finding itself in some measure balanced,
rises and takes him off his legs. With
desperate grippe, Dick seizes Tom by the
ankles, and is carried up also. Harry
rushes forward, makes grab a, Dick, and
finds himself going up likewise the kite
is getting respectable bobtail! A dozen
more string themselves on: the kite only
ascends the more stead ly; the conserva-
lives are alarmed; those below dare no,
fasten on, those above are loo proud 10 let
go the kite is just balanced, and rises ma
jestically to the breezy heavens. The Re-
formers may rest now, make their line fast
TO the tree, ard enjoy their success, saving
TO each other: What an excellent boblail
those conservatives makep Very true,
Brother Reiormers bur without those
Same adverSaries, where would your k tie
have beena Respect them, therefore, for
they answer useful purpose, and are in
dlspensably necessary TO the success OF
your scheme. Acknowledge your obIga-
tons, then, and be thankful
Let us look into the sky of the past
What multitude of vast and shadow kites
do we there see flying There scars the
kite Of Calico. with host Of learned
Doctors, an inlalible Pope or two, and a
college of Cardinals, dangling at its tail.
There floats the kite of Columbus, with the
New World painted on its front, and the
Old World, and nearly all its great men,
strung together on its magnificent bobtal
Higher and broader yet, see the mighty
kite of Luther; and count if you can the
innumeTable Popes, Cardinals and Priests,
The images, the monasteries, and the con-
vents which swing in the shadowy gran
deur below -; tipped off with the vast and
mysty shape of satan himself, who writhes
and struggles in vain to keep the kite from
rising. He has black spot on the side Of
his face that came from the inkstanc
which Luther, when once tempted by him
dared TO cast at the arch-conservative: anc
since then the Reformer and his disciple,
have kept the Father of Evil so busiy EN-
ployed, that he has not found time 10 wash
his face. Look yonder at the sc:enifi.
kite of Harvey, with heart on its bgoac
bosom, and all the ANTAGONISTS, the physio
logs,s. surgeons and physicians, over forty
years old at the time that kite was set up
hanging as an nppendage to its lower ex
iremIty! Nearer yet, behold The kite O
Washington and the American Con,inenta
Congress of l776. with the United State
OF America on its breast; France, Spain
and Holland. assisting to hold the lire, an,
"A long string Of Tories, ending with tn
empire of Great Britain for a bo5tail!
"These ire some few of the kite fyin,
schemes which have proved successful
but let not the ardent reformer imagin,
that, because these have succeeded, hi
own will therefore prove equally fortunate
These ave the happy exceptions. On tn
other hand, let him not be discouraged b,
the numerous failures, but let him lear,
wisdom by experience, and avoid, in fyin.
the next kite, the obstacles which provet
ruinous to his last. 1t is we'll for us. that
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;'
i'Iu IL Oil IiIituIG lciiECtOU, Ills tp3u ant
heart approve his pan, let him set up hi
new kite by all means. And you grim OLE
Conservatives (! if your consciences iusti',
you also, seize its tail, and prevent IFS as
cent if you can. If you can keep it down
las you often do,) ii will be right that
should be kept down: if you are carried VI
with ii. that will be perfectly proper also
you will make a beautiful bobail and will
moreover, in SO doing, have fulfilled you
mission"