The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-08
Communicated.


JEFFERSON.
Communicated.
"Do you see anything green in my eye l"-Ho'aee.
"The shoes in which he walked his Inauguration
still reen."-NattonA Intrutgeneer, May g.
The great error, # not crme of the present day is
Ii is found IN the church and in the FORUM at the
altar of God and at the altar of Baa II is found upon
The lips of beauty and upon the tongue OF manhood Re
gon sacrees herself at It's altar, and Virtue dies in It's
sanctuary CANT is the language OF hypocrisy so dis.
gused 10 pass for the ulteance of truth and whether
used by the statesman, the churchman, the soldier is
far more denorazng than the flash jargon of Asata
the slang OF Bhngsgate Pick my pocket, but save me
from CANT The wing party of this country famous for
CANT In the days OF Harrison it usurped the language of
holiness, and made mockery of the last supper The
ministers OF God, at political gatherings passed round
parched corn and hard CIDER and babe their hearers re-
ceive those embems IN remembrance of Old Tip 1t
clothed The viest and most depraved men in the garb
oil honesty; claimed for the freeman who voted for
one indvidual-'he nominee OF convention of free
men--virue, patriotism, talent, deeency, and common
sense, while II denied TO the freeman who voted for
other indlvidua-the nominee Of another convention of
freemen, equally large and equally patrocevery spark
OF wisdom, honesty, or truth PHARIsEE and PUBLIC AN
the two parties stand before the emplethe one in its
guilt thanking God that it is not other and
the other in its truth confessng It's sins and eschewng
niqulty When any one doubts this declaration. let him
look at the host of consistent wings who hrong our public
places waiting for the bloody and the yeiow eouer
Let him the indignant thousands who denounced the
immortal jackson Tor merciess prescription, waiting
a murmur blush We recolIect an Irish temperance
man who went about drinking all the whiskey he could
nd Tor the purpose OF getting the cursed stuff out of the
country IN the shortest possible time Perhaps these
proscrponsts design to try the Homeopathic sys-
tenn upon the Offices, and by surfet clear the stomach
of the great Ostrich of Prescription In the Meditera
aean, where the plague exists less quar-
tiers every year. seafang bound through the Arches
and among the Cyclades, Tor sick ladies', they
Familiarity termed by the men of junk endeavor 10 catch
some cuaneOus d,sease 1t being understood that such
a companion will efecluay keep off the pague-tha
dreadful malady being yrant that will not share
throne.
The assumption, therefore, of the doctrine of "pro.
ser6ing prescription by the present wing party may be
ascrIbed to an ardent desire its part to repdae the
same after shall have turned out every democrat and
put wing in each vacancy thus created This is what
we gather iron the leader of the lntegencer of May
9Th, entitled The Charities of the New Opposition" This
leader is remarkable for one hing- is free from the
and like all other enascated productions is stale. flat
and Improbable" We lost our breath before we mas
tered the first period, and lost the Of that
amanuensis Of brother Gales 10 work himself up to to
the :" Ercles ven," to read King Lear and Marnus
Scriberus, John Gilpn, and the remarkable history
OF Goody Two Shoes These, taken with Pollock's
Course OF Time and the Fredoniad, in broken doses
would cure him OF his inveterae spleen, and rpen
hun for more successful field preaching. One would
think from The Heroics OF the lnlegencer and the Epcs
of the National Wing, that the "Unon" was as captious
and as free from every fair and honorable influence
they are themselves that the pot called the kettle black
ana the kete called the pot black and proved II to be
But notwithstanding all these msdeeds-these short
comlngs and long goings-ths shooting with the long
bow and picking up milk with fork-we should have
left the eaden slumbers of the leaders of the Or
gans undisurbed, ha not the InteligeAcer put Gen
cral Taylor in green shoes the day of his in
auguration, and kept him in them since
Green shoes, forsooth and this of course be the
court color. We saw great many green things about
on the day Of the inauguration and not far from the
White House Many verdant gentleman seen
iourishing at that time, and snce many green in
ofce and many are TO be daily in hotels and in
streets, chasing the rainbow like the boy, and pursu
ing Offices which they will never catch Many green
thing is afoot, but thought before that the Gen
era had put his foot in them But this is green age and
for the benefit of white muzzled friend of the lnte
gencer, him that by using the hair dye
used by the Hon Tittleba Tmolse, M. p for Yaon, as
recorded in Warren's Ten Thousand Year, he can
be made green also at the head if not at the feet and thus
uniformed can walk in the platoon with the hero
though preserve the unity and harmony OF tae thing
so as to have the green things together to w.t. the green
whiskers and the green shoes
But seriously, think the lntelligencer, dgnifed and
classic it is should not forget repudate all It's old
sentiments. 1t is always in bad taste to explain any
thing; but when individual undertakes to offer
ned much BEFORE that nothing but sin doubly distilled
root out or put down sin, have rather confused
ideas oil the preachers morality and require chapter
two from Wapole to set everything right in our mental
chambers
The administration. understand, regulates the
green shoe: and will not wear green spectaclcs after this
great is the power of association Of ideas If will
only give the office seekers green's and let them go out
long fodder upon the wild land of our country the tune
of green sheaves it will do much itself of green
"HEROIC AGE"