Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-03-21
Don't I Look PaIe7
Or the Iron God,


Or the Iron God. :
Mr.. Slick having boosted Of the hioh ocie-
ty he mingled with and talked with the most
absurd familiarity, of several distinnui
persons, very much to the delight Of his father,
and the annoyance Of Mr.. HopeweII, the lat
ter at last interrupted him with some very ju-
dlcious advice. He told him he had observed
the change that had come over him lately with
very great regret; that he was altogether in
false position and acting an unnatural and al
surd part.
'As Republican, he said, lit is expected
that you should have the simplicity and frank
ness OF manner becoming one. and that your
dress should not be that of a courtier, but in
keeping with your character. 1t is we'll
known here that you were not educated at one
of our universities, or trained to official life,
and that you have risen to it like many 9TH
ers of our countrymen. by strong natural tall
ent. To assume therefore, the air and dress
of man offashion is quite absurd, and if per-
sisted in, will render you perfectly ridiculous.
Any little errors you may make IN the modes
OF life will always be passed over in silence
so long as you are natural but the moment
they are accompanied by affectation, they be.
come targets for the shafts Of satire.
! "A little artificial manner may be tolerated
In very pretty woman, because great allow
ance is to be made for female vanity; but in a
man it is altogether insufferable. Let your
conversation therefore be natural, and as TO
the fashion Of your dress, take the good old
rule
BE not the first by whom the new is tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside
In short, be Sam Slick
| Don't be afeerd, Minister said Mr.. Slick.
4 have too much tact for that l shall keep
the channel and avoid the bars and shadows,
| know. | never boast at all. Brag is good
dog, but hold-fast is better one. never
talk Of society | never was in, nor never saw
but once, and that by accident. | have too
much sense for that; but | am actilIy in the
first circles here quite at home in 'em. and in
speaking of 'em. I am only talkin' Of folks
meet every day, sec every day, and jaw with
every day. / am part and parcel of'en,. Now
rlsln' sudden here Amt bit stranger than men
risin' with us. It's done every day, for the
door is wide open here, the English amt doom
: cd to stand and vegitate like cabbages, can
tel! you; it's only colonists like Squire there
that are forced to do that. Why, they'll tell
you of a noble whose grandfather was this
and another whose grandfather was that small
beer; Of one who was sired by man that was
} born in our old Boston, and another whose
great grandfather was a farmer on kennebec
river, and if the family had remained co!onist:
would have been snakin' logs with an ox-tean
to the Bangor mills, instead Of being minis
ter for all the colonies, as he was not long a
90. No, catch me crackin' and a braggin
for nothin', and then tell me Of it. I'm not n
goin to ask every felIer meet, Don't look
pale?' like Soloman Figg, the tailor to ST.
fJohn, New BrunsWick-him they called the
Iron God
'Oh, oh, SAM said Mr.. Hopewel, lifting
up both hands, 'that was verv protane:d ont tel
the story if there's any irreverence in it, anJ
fippancy, any thing in short. at all unbecom
! ing. That is not word to be used in vain
sOh, never fear, Minister, there is rothn
in the story to shock yon, if there was, In
not the boy to tell it to any one, much less Il
you sir
Very we'll, very we'll, tell the story, then
if it's harmless, but leave that word out whel
you can, tha,'s good SOUL!
'Soloman Figg was the crittur that Civ
rise to that sayin' all over New Brunswick {
Nova Scotia, Don't look paie?' and l caIcn
late it never will die there. Whenever the
see an important Teller a~s,ruttln' of 1t by, in
tip top dress, nyin' to do bit of fine, or hea
crt,ur abragein' of great mems acquaintar
lance, they jist puts their finger 10 their noses
gives a wink TO one another, and say, Don
| look paIe!' Oh! it's grand! But heIiev
I'll begin at the beginnin', and jist tell 20
both stories about Solomon Figg.
Solomon was tailor, whose tongue ran IL
fast as his needle. and for SEWN and takir
perhaps there warn't his equal to be foun
nowhere. His shop was great rondivoo fc
folks to talk politics in, and Solomon was a
ot,,f
skunks are English Radicals, and ingratitud
shows a bad heart; and in my opinion 10 ST
a feller's a Radical. is as much as TO say he
everything that's bad. I'll tell what's obse
we'd all over England, that them that make
fortin out of gentlemen, az soon as they sht
up shop, turn round, and become Radic1
and oppose them. Radca'sm is like tn
, Dutch word Spitzbub. It's every thing bG
IS billed down to an essence. Well, Soomd
was Radcal--he was agn the Church, b
cause he had no say in the appointment OF II
parsons, and couldn't bully them. He W;
agin lawyers cause they took fees from hi
when they sued him. He was agin judy
cause they rode their circuits and did mt wal
He was agin the governor cause the govern
:. didn't ask him to dine. He was agin the a
~ miral cause pursers had ready made clothr
-. for sailors, and didn't buy them at his sho
We He was agin the army cause his wife ran {
At with soIdier-,he only good reason he eV
Ter had in his life; in short, he was agIn eve
thing and every body.
he well, SoIoman's day came at last. for c
ar cry dog has his day in this world. Respo
it sible. government came, things got turned Il
oh side down, and Soloman turned up and W
er- made a magistrate of. Well, there was
lat Carolina refugee, one CAPTAIN Nestor Bge
rd lived near him, an awful Teller to swear, M
ill o those refugees were and he feared neitt
Try God nor man.
he 'He was sneezer Of a sinner, was Capta
ny Nestor, and always in law for everlastn'.
liz cnont hie ~ hole nensinn In Can't EoI