Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1848-11-30
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"Tsnder Footed Get off ma Cormst

N h FOR THE TIMES.
"Tender Footed Get Of my Corns!
Yet am thankful; if my heart were great
'Twould burst at this; Captain III be no more.
o, mighty Cesar! Dost thou lie so lowl s,'1f
Are Il thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils
Shrunk to this little measure!-S SHAKESPEARE. "
In looking over the last" Banner" we
were no little amused at the graphic des.
cription of what its worthy editor classic
ally terms "7he Great Wing Po,o-,ooo."
The idea struck US, that it was evidently
the last dying Fizzle" (excuse us for quo.
ting the vulgar phrase) of sadly disap-
pointed and newly fledged politician, who
had for several years, "run both sides the
track at once" but who lately mounted
the Democratic horse and has been badly
distanced, losing not only all his bets, but
his cherished prospects of party promotion.
90, world, thy slippery turns!"
He says, "while the procession was
forming in front of the residence of late
lamented democratic citizens, wing who
took part in the po,o-Dow bawled out light
up the Cd id locofoco houses" We
were present and heard nothing of this
REPRESENTATIVES, heard nothing of it,
and what renders it more uncertain, is the
fact, that the house to which we suppose
allusion is made, was brilliantly lighted,
being occupied by good wing.
"The procession" he says, numbered
sirty.fve live wings, all told, with about as
many more old guard wings, boys, and
darkies." We give the Capt. full credit for
his capacity in enumerating the darkies,"
and suppose the circumstance" enabled
him to number them correctly on that &C.
casion; but we think his political optics
were too asquint to enable him to give the
true number of wings. We have not
heard them estimated at less than two, to
two hundred and fifty. He says speeches
were made by several gentlemen, but the
burden of all was the "gloriication of Old
Zack," and "coarse epithets" applied to
Gen. Gass. We heard no such epithets as
sod Granny Harrison" in 40; "Black
Leg Federalist Clay" in IA; or the Silly
old Taylor" in '4s-appled to the wings
by the party with which he has so lately
identified himself He makes sly thrust
at some of the speakers, "who would have
been office-holders if the people had seen
fit 10 elect them;" but his "wrah and cab
bage" being up to the boiling point. he is
"t,Uenty per cent severer" against DR..
Cockerill than any other speaker, whether
from his whitening portraiture of official
corruption, his eloquent euogy on Gen.
Taylor, or his playful remarks in relation
TO those "F-s" in the Banner" we are
unable to say, but suppose the latter, as he
says, she Qhe Dry came down on poor de-
fenceess US. like thousand of bricks"
No; not "a thousand of bricks" one
small bat was sufficient for the game-and
the speaker said those small "F-s," from
the Banner" leveed at Gen. Taylor, did
not even make "OH Whitley" switch his
tail. When he says "the Doctor some.
times makes very passable Speech" he
must allude to the time the Doctor made
speech to the Missouri volunteers, and he
followed in an utter failure, and must have
felt like the Indian Chief who attempted a
speech in council, and was so mortified, tina,
he stopped short, went to his brother and
said, " brother, 1 do wish you ,oould take me
out and kick me-"
He makes sly inuendo against the Reu
gentleman" in black who sold the pump
neUer mind that Captain, the gentleman
who bought it, can still laugh, and not ex
pecting office, takes defeat more kindly thar
some Editors do.
We would advise the Captain as friend
to keep COOL" blow off steam" and, tho
Uncle Sam has forsaken him, and declared
he shall have none of his pa,rimony, yet &
few more decent" F-s from the " Ban
ner," Gf its only against "old whitey,") may
induce one of his western daughters calico
Missouri, to take him to her embrace.
CORTEX.
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