Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-11-01
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Our old friesd Capt. Irish, himself 81
old 'aSaltD II lie ssfrst water" tells a
story of the adventures Of sailor, which
We think quite applicable to the present
4fresh-water phase Of Taylor Whiggery.-
1t runs as follows: In one Of his cruises
on shore, Jack came to anchor in the "sky-
light Of crowded room, where wan
.dering son Of Old Nick was exhibiting
some very astonishing feats Of legerdemain
to an audience, none ofwhom, by the way
exhibited more gaping, awe-struck admi-
ration, than did old tarry-pants. All went
off well until the grand closing-or rather
as it proved the opening-aet of the even
ing. This was unintentionally brought
about by careless boy going into an adj
joining apartment, and dropping lighted
candle into an open key powder, just as
the audience were on tiptce, watching the
finale Of a grand act Of jugglery then about
'scoming to a focus" OF course, the
building was hlown to atoms; but "Old
Salt" who was quite used to elbows
and ssblow- outs, y more fortunate than his
fellow-auditors picked himself up from a
soft spot in a barn yard, where he had
fallen, gave his tarry pants hitch, rolled
an enormous guild Of tobacco over to the
leward side Of his mouth, and looking en-
|quiringly around, carelessly Observed
"Blast my tarry breeches, if that last feat
was good one; uhat hick are you GO
ing to show US nent?"
So with the gaping, innocent whiglings
who sit with their fingers in their mouths,
ready to follow wherever the wire-work-
ers Of the wing party may lead. When
they alighi upon the dunghill of disappoint-
ment, after being blown sky-high on Tues
day next, beholding the rotten old fabric
of whiggery blown to atoms and clean gone,
they will look about them, at loss what
to do and where to go, and incontinently
ask their cruel operators, "What trick are
you going TO show as ne1f!' Poor fel-
lows! Their castle can never be rebuilt,
for the heterogeneous mass of timber Of
which it was composed, will be scattered
to the four winds Of heaven, and new
tangled aboltionism, peradventure, will
put up upon the site where was once the
temple of whiggery, rickety hospital
shanty to shelter for short time the
wounded sufferers. This will need no
powder to blow it to pieces. 1t will fall
of itself. But what will be the merit sue
ceeding tricks of the legerdemain opera
tors, only their farther, The great operator
''down below can tell.
.uuIu AT Swallow tssc Vyholc Dose
at once.
The last Iowa Freeman contains a long
card from F. Street, one of the committee
appointed to draft an address, at the abo-
lition convention in this city. He protests
against the language used in the address,
as being false in regard to the expenses OF
the war, and cannot subscribe TO the trail
torous sentiments contained in the address
relative thereto, but subscribes TO most of
the remainder of the address, and goes in
for Van Buren, and Adams.
Below we give the concluding para
graph Of his card:
+" | think, if you will refer to the docu-
menfs, you will find that the whole expense
of the war, including the $l5, 600 COO, paid
to Mexico for the territory obtained, and
the amount to be paid our citizens Tor
Mexican spoilalions, will not exceed
S75,0CO,OC0, instead Of the amount spo-
ken Of in your address. You will also
find from the statistics of the battles fought
in Mexico, that the whole number killed
will not exceed 5000 instead of 25CCO as
you suppose. cannot agree with you in
branding every man as traitor to his
Country and to humanity who is not dis
posed to vote as you and think best.
ain disposed to be more charitable towards
those who differ with me on this subject.
| could not therefore subscribe to that sem
timent. | am also disposed to sympa,hize
with the STAKEHOLDER rather more than your
language would seem to warrant. | look
upon them as objects Of charity rather than
OF hatred. am therefore inclined to think
that some Of your language is rather more
severe than | could subscribe to. But in
much the greater portion of the address |
can most heartily agree with you, and must
compliment you for its eloquent and con-
prehensive style. f. STREET"
.TPut it directly at the Wings on tie
day Of the election, that the Mexicans pub
lished the speeches of leading wings of
the United States, and that they constitu-
ted them honorary members of their PHI
lanthropic societies, while thew practisctl