The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-11

Mississippi and before long VIII doubtless have their
travelling agents pushing its sale in the "hnlls of the
Montezunas" or exchanging IL for pelry ut the
head waters of the Columbia II is said in one of
the newspapers of this city, that for every copy is
sued in Edinburgh, two copies of the reprint are
published here and though the estimate strikes me
as least unlikely, il is far from being incredible
can pardon Mr.. Backwood should his temper be
little ruffied when he compares his trouble and re-
sponsibility and limited sale, with the soci and
universal market of Reprint & Co.; but surely old
Christopher North should smile with inward salts
faction when, not by cannon, carnage but as the
result Of greatness thrust upon him, he finds his
empire like her Mnjesty's, the grde Of the earth,
and his sovereignty recognised in the world OF let
tiers, where hers can claim no subjects, and demand
no homage. That crutch is now the sceptre of book
dom. Its shadow stretcheth all lands, whether
the dawn project 1t athwart the broad Atlantic, or
the Boreal light send il overland to furthest India.
Who reads not Maga2 You shall find the smutched
lieutenant turning over its pages by the campfire,
after terrible scratch with the Sikhs; and within
the same twenty-four hours you may fairly surmse
that some Green Mountain volunteer, on the wrong
side of the Rio Grande, has lighted pne-knot, and
is reading one of the Marlborough articles to his
mess, with extemporary paralellsm in favor of Cen
eral Taylor, which the shade of the great Churchill
must not venture to overhear. Swinging in his ham
mock, the mdshpman holds Blackwood to the smo-
Ky lamp Of the orlop, as he plunges and pitches
around Cape Horn. Lounging in his state-room,
and bound for Hong Kong, the sea-sck passenger
corrects his nausea with the same spicy page, and
bewitched with the flavor, forgets to sigh for Ma
deira, which he has passed, to look out for st.
Helena which is somewhere on his lee. 1t keeps
the old Admiral from the deck as his keel scrapes the
coral-reefs of the South Pacific; and stale back
number from the bottom of seaman's chest, is
purchased as prize, by him who cruizes among
seals, icebergs, and spermaced whales.
= "Qus Jam locus, inquit, Achate, Kin. ~
Our rego in terris nostri non plena laborisr
Yes-who reads not Maga2 The flayed Radical
of Parliament-the raspod Balaamite Of Congress
the spanked Cockney OF an authorize jaundiced
Editor of some new no-go periodcal-even these
cut the leaves of each new number, If they die
for it, or If their only reward be to find their
selves hung up in its pages, like sham Socra
ties in his basket but not looking like live Socra-
ties with philosophic composure And If they whim-
per, who will sympahse? Like the Shepherd at
Awmroses, the testy public may now and then re-
BEL and rail for season at the cawm cauld clear,
giterin cruelty in the expression OF his een"-but
who can keep up a quarrel with North2 Again like
the Shepherd, they relax into broad good humor,
and, before they know it, are drinking. with all the
honors, Long I'VE Ming Christopher 30 theh' III
spite of Cockneys, chartiss coxcombs, rebels radi
Gals, and rascaOy reormers yea, ana the whole al
phabetca list of what is whiggish, vulgar, and vex-
atous-
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