The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-09-26
From Tie Maaanal hteMgcncer.
The art al MagnifYing.

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Mcssrs. Editors: There is in the "Rejected
Addressed a loyal person named Fitzgerald,
who, after railing at Bonaparte as the cause Of
various then recent fires. earthquakes, a rise in
the price Of butchers meat, dry goods, and to-
bacco, and as the promoter Of the presence OF
large green flies in all the markets Of London,
bursts out in an %efTusion of patriotic ze.l in
general, something like the following:
"God bless the Army! Bless their coats Of
scarlet!
God bless the Navy! Bless the Princess Char
lotte!
God bless the Guards, tho worsted GalIia scoff!
God bless their pig.tails, tho they're now cut
Off:
God bless all who have any thing to give!
Long may Lord Tylney Wellesley Long Pole
live!
And il in Downing street old Nick should revel
England's Prime Minister, God bless the devil"
need scarcely add a nota bene to inform
your readers that this loud.mourhed laudator
was in the Government pay, ind that, over
shooting the mark Of all safe adulation, he
brought upon his masters contempi, instead Of
admiration. For, though God save the King
be a tune that one may at times endure, If no
better can be got, yet folks swear, stop their
ears, anil have their teeth set on edge, when it
is forever squeaked out to them by the same
woful bagpipe or old cracked fiddle.
propose to your neighbol Of the Union to
have translated all that body Of ancient enco.
miums, Greek and Lntin, which is known un-
der the title Of "Panegyrici Veteres;" to ada
to it the Litany, with certain Of the Psalms in
Sternhold and Hopkins version; to subioin
some Of the odes Of flo. ace in praise Of An.
gustus. and Of Pindar in praise Of King Hero;
TO cullthe collection Of euIogiums pronounc d
in he Fren h Academy on all it's deceased
members for a hundred and fifty years past; 10
scatter over the whole the selected flowers Of
all the most fulsome dedications; winding up
(by way Of a due expression Of lis own per-
sonal tenderness) with some Of the most pas
s'onate sonnets Of Petratch and others to their
mlstresses; then, as d general relief to the ga,
tiate public, and a uriversal discharge Of all
lie own debts Of pudding and praise, 10 print
the document as an appendix to the next Pa.
tent Office Report. II will only have 10 leave
blanks wherever ony name Of king or minister
or hero or saint, or martyr, or other idol Of he
time occurs, and every day inform the faithful
ol Office, by brief note, what panegyrical page
70 turn to, what name or names to insert. and
70 what metre Of hymn the whUle is 10 be sung
II, al any time, in consequence or fresh
Oregon treaties, OF Mexican wars or yetoee. or
1cts for The benefit Of the %laboriug poor in for.
eign parts, or the restoration Of hard money. q
Blooms extended to our citizens plundered fifty
years ago, the Organ should run out for a pro.
per strain Of praise, I promise to refer il to a
supply, % be drawn from some old per-
formances where encomium is inverted into
irony. Meantime, l take leave 10 suggest to
the 81. Cecilia Of the Administration that
whenever the Herculean labors Of those in
power are to be celebrated, PindaT's Nemman
are appropriate, and his Olympic descrip-
OF chariot races, whenever a Secretary
gets q new carriage and horses. Fol,
If Pindar sung horse-races, what should hinder
Himself from being as complaisant as Pindar!
All the UniOn-reading world Of "such reading
was never read" and who might well be ad-
dressed in that affecting appeal Of the ePitaph,