Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-08-03
From the Washington Unisn.
MITES AND REAMS.

YOU have soured all the milk in the cellar by play
ing thunder storm."-Mrs. Darlington.
"Make good roads and good harbors, take the
Re public, and keep your heads cool. your bowels
open. and YOUR feet warm."-Dr. Taylor on the
Constitution.
" Had you seen but these roads before they were
made,
You would hnve held up your hands and blessed
General Wade' Irish Engineer.
In the early days of Christianity, it was as
certained that he who was the most particular
to observe a mote in the eye of his nelghbor
had a COMPOUNDED large beam in his own eye,
which. in his dsinterested benevolence to wards
his fellow, he had never been able to dIscov
er This extraordinary circumstance Is stlli
apparent even to the most skeptlcal at the
present day, when the Second Washington Is
king, and hy-time is the &c heroic age"
Speaking of notes, we recollect once to have
heard of Dutch farmer who went out to
NOV. About II o'clock in the day, after a
good piece of timothy had been laid as flat as
the hopes of Fuller, of the Evening Mirror
who came very near being made marshal of
New York, and missed 1.-THE Dutchman re-
paired 10 the spring house 10 take drink of
buttermilk. Soon he received from the hands
OF his wife stone crock which contained
sing it 10 his lips in hasty alteration, drank
quart before he took breath. At this mo-
Inent, however, his eye rested upon the sur
face of the buttermilk in the crock, and he
started with establishment. excIaiming, " Mol
ly, what is this IN the buttermiIk?' "Why,
Ia, Hans" said she, "you are always seeing
notes in everything"
GA damned pretty mote this is" said he,
quilting out a green buil-frog that would
weigh pound,) " to sit on his hams and look
a man in the face
Such a mote as the old Dutchman saw in
his crock we have seen about the White House
at the present hour; and unless something is
speedily done 10 destroy the nuisance, there
will be terrible hopping next winter in the
wing buttermilk. By the way, the term
"wHIG" took its name from tchey, and that is
the next thing to buttermilk-the former being
relic of cheese making, and the latter of
Churning. But to proceed with the canoni-
calls: The practice of hunting after NOTES is
not only Improbable, but it is impertinent,
and unless speedily stopped, will play the
deuce with sore-eyed people. If the demo-
cratic clerks in the service of the United States
at Washington would throw up their appoint
ments on day certain, and leave the Second
Washington and his cabinet 10 do their own
business in the best way they could, the wheels
of government would be stopped at once; and
those who would rejoice over solitary re-
moval for opinions sake would laugh out OF
the other corner of their mouths when con-
WINGED that the experience of years had been
snapped for bevy of young wings whose
names could fill up the rolls, and whose hands
could grasp the salaries on payday, BIN who
could no more perform the duties of their off.
ces than the devil could oficiate at the gov.
eminent church in the Presidents Square on
feast day.
The acute action of the lireY and lights o.
Taylorism InteIligencer and Republic
satisfies us that our medicine has been proper
~ applied, and that it was greatly needed
They howl like spanieIs suddenly scalded, ant
streak it through the ranks of the American
people like the aforesaid animals with tn-pot:
filled with gravel stones tied to their illustr
Gus tails. Their grumbling is our delight
Their endeavor TO pull out notes from ou
eyes while their own are full of beams, is su
premey ridiculous. Their snarlng is music
10 our ears, and their biting is pleasant irri
tation 10 the skin in these days of condensed
perspiration. What !' say they, find fau
with such general as Zachary Washington
How mendacious! His ilustrious name i:
too sacred even TO be mentioned by demo
crat and his honesty being purely whig hon
esty. (nOt ultra,) is of such a nature that i
cannot be handled without manifest injury
We always thought there was something ten
der about the peace administration of the Gen
eral of two bloody wars-that it would no
do TO be over-nice in our inquiries as to his fit
ness or unftness for the chief magistracy; blu
we did not think the American press had be
come so servile as 10 advocate the muzzlin:
of an independent paper, because it was per
severng enough to ascertain the truth and boil
enough TO proclaim it.
We presume that the General will SOL
dress himself in lamb skins and green shoes
and attend the Peace Convention in Paris, a
a delegate from the western empire. How
pretty he would look there, sitting between
Friar Tuck and Boernerges Giddings, swear
ing like Sir Peter Teazle, that he'll be ID
he is in passion, and if he is not friend O
peace. We would give months salary t
see him squatting among the peace-makers Xix
old Butcher amid council of burgomasters
sucking his finger nails, and growing like
bear with the erysipelas.
Should the Second Washington visit Europe
he had better get letters of introduction froT
Daniel Webster and Senator Seward He wi
then be known at court which is great thin
for a modest man who never travelled, an
who leaves everything TO his advisers. TIL
papers of the neuter gender of the Unite
States, which for the most part believe
whigery, and pretend 10 be passive, are re
sponsible for the election of the Second Wash
ington. They made him by fancy sketches
and it is not strange that they should feel sa
when they see the tinsled glory pulled off froI
him like the plumes from the silly jack-da'
of the fable.
We are sick of halfway men and measure
Give us something sweet or bitter. somrthin
cold or hot but away with this lukewar
administration, which the American poop
will spew out of their mouth, as neither h'
nor cold.
But it is dissertation TO attack the follies
the Second Washington; it is unrighteous
expose the falsehoods and the frauds perpetr;
ted in the name OF the convention held at Il
slaughter-house in Philadelphia on the nation
al Sabbath. Let US recur 10 the past. Whe
Andrew.Jackson became the President of ii
United States by the almost unanimous voiC
of the American people, who censured hin
his person, his acts, his policy-who pulle
his nose-wbo beat tin-pans and cleavers III
der his windows-who caricatured him as
hog and an ape, roasted him upon grldlron
DETAINED the character of his dear wife ar
hurried her to an early grave-who were Il
Jack Downings and the X Y rs, the ArlstId
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