Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-08-17

contempt for splits even unto the day OF their
death Well, we consider the democrats,
who supported Zachary Washington, for the
benefit Of the whig party, as in the predlca-
ment of the monkeys, with their paws in the
cleft log; and if they don't denounce their lea
ders and teachers hereafter, it will be because
they have less sense than the real monkeys,
and better claim 10
" A Jacket of green, with brooches of blue,
And hole just behind for the tail TO come thro'.
The clique of Georgetown, Notwithstanding
IFS glorious commencement, has OF late been
split up like lath-5oard in plasterlng lime
The appointment of northern Virginian 10
the navy agency, in preference 10 worthy
man who felt sure of getting the ofhce-flrst,
on account of merit I'd, on account OF posi-
ton; and Sd, on account of positive promise
from Zachary Washington had much !, 10
do with the matter; and the turning out OF The
collector of customs, and the appointment OF
the mayor OF Georgetown in his place, has
capped the climax. The great importing mer-
chant of Georgetown, who has lately had a
big arrive from Ponce with green turtles on
board, has sent one of the latest of the fel-
lows 10 the Second Washington, as token oil
his continued love for g the heroic age not
wilhstanding he has disappointed him in every
particular, and denied his reasonable request
to have the old collector continued III his
place. A split ticket in this instance prevail
ed and the upshot of the matter is that the
mayor of Georgetown has got an Office. The
importing merchant-who, by the way, is a
sterling man-has "got his gun. off" and
Zachary has got a green turtle Monsieur
Heudebert were only here to make the green
animal into soup for the cabinet, everything
would be complete but As i state to
care of themselves. ss--a...z 5., 80
The omission on the part of Georgetown
College to. make the Second Washington an
LII D. has made great talk among the sdUGns
in office; but as the Hero is soon to ride Old
Whitley to i" Eastern Massachusetts" and will
doubtless visit the classic. shades of Harvard
we have no doubt but that he will come back
LII. D. and A. SIS, if necessary. The wings
of Boston, who lined General Jackson's wash
bowl with redevelvet and shod his horse with
silver, will do their prettiest for the Hero OF
that Sc awful war; which George Ashmun SO
ScathingIy denounced, and will put green lau-
rels all over those spots of blood which speak
of Palo A Ito and Buena Vista. l
The god-like man of Marshfeld-who is
famous for splits and tom-cod, who deemed
the nomination of the Second Washington
:" one not fit to be made. and who after elec-
ton was the first TO kneel and worship the
rising sun-will doubtless entertain the Hero
by the wild New England shore, and perhaps.
while the two worthless are pulling up had
dock with glowing hands, will compose the
next annual message. We understand many
a good speech has been made by him while
thus occupied !; and if he could work for John
Tyler in such situation, why can't he give
our friend Zachary lift in the eloquent line
at the same time that he teaches him how to
manage his fish line? Fishermen were con-
sidered A No. when apostles were wanted +;
and now, when apoStateS are needed. inasmuch
as there was one Judas among the twelve,
perhaps another may be found with another
name in the scaly line on this eastern tour.
We had a dream the other highland such
a dream! Had we drank milk punch with
our breakfast with the Premier, or had we ia
ken good pull at the halliards with the man
Of war in the middle of the day, or had we
taken pot luck with him whose business it is
10 see that Indians are as good as white folks
any day, we might have accounted for it but
no, we dreamed without cause, and with an
empty demilohn. We dreamed that we were
upon the dome of the Capitol with the sages
Of '76, who had stepped out of the pictures in
The rotundo, and congregated around the great
and good Washington, like children around
a kind and beloved father. And while we
stood there the whole Union, acild land and
all, like Donivan's panorama, passed before
our eyes. 1t commenced with 1881 and as
it began with the district of Maine, province
of Massachusetts,, and gradually unfolded the
old thirteen, it was pleasant sight to behold
the eountenance of our own Washington
Then there were negro slaves on the banks of
the Merrimac, the Charles, and the Connect
cut, and the banjo was heard at the corn
huskings, and the tune of Clar de Kitchen as
cended from the farmers neat mansions in the
valleys of the Willlmantic and the Housatonic.
Then the North sold TO the South the slave
labor, and the planter reclaimed his swampy
land from the encroaching flood without fear
of fevers or alligators. Then the Connecticut
deacon imported Sumbo in exchange for a
mule, or rum hogshead ready made, and
sold him 10 the gay planter on the Pedee, who
paid for him in tobacco, and all was peace and
quietness. The New England man and the
South Carolinian slept in their bloody shrouds
at Eutaw and Camden, and as they fought Sc
they ded-side ndsside for liberty. 1t was
a fresh picture-an Eden-like land, where the
foot Of civilization had made its footprints few
and far between, and where the red savage
slept in his wigwam in the woods. and the
pioneer white man built his rude cabin by The
dam of the beaver and the haunt OF the fallow
deer. IS
Time, which knows no law, kept slipping
away from beneath our feet, and the country
from land of hamlets and forests, bristle(
and hustled with towns and cities. Sectiona
feelings began to show themselves in acts. A
war between black arool and asltite woel of tn
most deadly character was waged; and TIL
land of the Pilgrims that was the first to intro
duce slaves, and whose fathers sold the Indian
Kings OF Bristol and Pokanoket to the Span
iards in Cuba, after having got rid of thei
importations of human flesh, damned the Soutl
all up in heap for being slave owners, an
went to spinning cotton raised by those yer,
slaves by white labor, and grumbled the loud
er as they made the more money, while Eng
land, the old hypocrite who gave US the bless
| ing of NEGRoIsM in our provincial state, afte
enslaving all OF India that she could get, an
after giving Ireland arsenic and dog collar i
exchange for her Parliament and liberty, push
ed on the Puritan on point of conscience t
make civil war with the cavalier, so thu
she might make grab at the middle State:
and repair damages by strangling liberty o
her own eagles nest forever. At this momer
the benevolent Washington started, and, wit
a frown upon his brow, pointed to this SCI
tional controversy, and said, GO Did not war
you of this terrible evil Did | not"-ju
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