Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-05
PRESIDENTIAL.
A paraphrass from the Washington Union.


A paraphrass from the Washington Union
Great James X. Polk, the President
Has left the Federal City
We deem tn occasion meet TO sing
A laudatory ditty.
The Oceola, favored boat
Doth bear his precious form
May Heaven protect him from the deep,
And shield him from the storm
Since eighteen months, when first he took
The arduous cares Of State,
He has nor rest nor respite known
Save one occasion great
When, moved with patriotic ZEAL
(Such has the custom been,)
He degned to view Mount Vernons tomb,
And FASTENED back that cen.
Within these eighteen months just past
Our people and their soil
Have greatly grown, and added thus
Immensely to his tol.
But, constantly this wond'rous man
Has toilcd and worked--far more,
We humbly think, than President
Fer worked and toied before.
And zoe, his friends, have urged him OF,
That he some rest would take;
But he, like love, the King of Gods,
His head would always shake.
"My service first the public claims"
His gracious lips would say,
And meier his labors did relax
Until this blessed day.
The Texas question Tyler Left
The man whom all abhor;
And from this germ our Polk has caused
To grow glorious war.
Then Oregon-poetc land
Which once our hero viewed,
From Rocky Mountains topmost peak,
In bcatific mood.
The stone his message exc had thrown
Up to that rocky height,
Though once it fell, to Congress shame,
Was now beneath his sight.
A man Of peace, and slow to wrath,
(The nation stood around,
He gave Great Britain notice dire
To quit that fairy ground.
That mighty threat stern Albion felt,
And straightway she proposed
That each should keep what now il held
No other terms imposed.
Now, though we'd vowed we'd never yield
One inch Of Oregon,
Twas wiser deemed to take the half
Than still cry "AH or none!"
And SO our great Chief Magistrate
Brought TO glorious end
The dang rous feud, which all had deemed
Did horrid war forcfend.
This labor DER, our hero next,
Resolved on warlike fame,
Got Mexico, fool-hardy knave,
10 try our Army's game
And next there came the Tariff bill
For breaking down the men
Who've grown so rich, and for per cents,
Instead Of six make ten;
The bill which gives to Englands sons
These base il-gotten gains,
And thus will ratify the peace
Through James and Vicky's reigns.
Subtreasury and Warehouse bills
Have shared his equal care;
Both measures now, we vow, are good,
As ALL his measures are.
Now Congress, after eight months siege,
The President permits
To leave this scene Of arduous toll
To mend his health and wits.
He goes this day to Fort Monroe,
But true to duty's call,
Though Jackson spent summer there,
-Four days, he claims, are all.
A man Of application be,
Since first he went to school,
Where recitations neer he missed,
Nor broke college rule.
In legislative halls he spent
Fourteen long years of note,
And meier was absent for day,
Or failed to give his vote.
AS Speaker of the House, he sat
Four years not long ago;
Nor missed day, not even that
When Wise abused him SO.
Robust this great man does not seem;
His health preserved is owing
To temp'rate habits--pray hear that,
Ye temp'rance men a-going
To church he HES with punctual step
Hear that, ye Christian creeds
He thinks that Providence is tUise--
Hear, men of pious deeds
He keeps the Sabbath, nor will see
The greatest men Of State,
Should thew on Sunday hone to be