The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-01-20
DECEMBER GOTH, |

DEcEMHER 2OTH, lS+S. J
Dear Old Cecil Wig.-" These Presents
come Grectine:' -Whereos more than a
year has stepped out since you and I
luxuriated in the unspeakabls enjoyments
of a pen and-ink bear-fght; and JThreas
you and your captain (the EDITOR have
been in the habit of smiling a welcome
now and then TO some of my sketchif-
cations and Whercas this is a right con-
venient track (namely, through your
columns) by which to travel, OCCASION
ally, great distance to pay my regards
to, and reach the hearts Of many of your
readers: (ny 'auld acquaintance once
more / beseech Your friendly presenta-
ton OF me to your intelligent readers,
while I invoke their patient and induI.
gent perusal of the s.unconsidered trltles''
l may now offer them.
After journey Of three times the
ordinary length, owing to the low stage
of water in the Ohio, I arrived at Mem
phs-would you believe 1t glad to per-
ceive our boat sometimes going at all,
inch by inch, on that river, a thousand
miles long: A thousand miles, by iuches'
creeping, crawling, sparring and warp.
ing over sandbars in view of lightning
wires laughing at one, on the shore close
by, is not just the thing, say you. Yes
it is though, to foster the growth of pa
tience and that is expressly what that
blessed stream was invented for. 1t is
good in its way, like some folk-that is,
if you'll just give them their own way,
and take them as they nm. The Lord
be praised for it, and all the rest of the
streams of our well watered, highly ia
vored country. Think ofdry, arid Mex,
leo, that Polk has been watering with
American blood, and then talk. But
hope old Fac will soon s,raghten out his
kinks, and unite his double knots.-By
the way, before l dismiss the Ohio this
time, I couldn't help thinking that it,
like some other great folk, (great at
times,) often flows under perfect mis-
homer and that O-low-ho would have
much more beftted it while, like them,
moving in its narrow, shallow, deceitful,
circumscribed course Ipropose there.
fore for the grave consideration Of Con,
gress, that said river shall be voted hi,
when it is high, and lou when it is low.
| hate inappropriate names. And al
though have no more right to object to
my friend Adam Shorts, than to my
friend Adam Whann's, still can't help
thinking, and 'dod-zoockers' if I don't
think and now l think of it, it strikes
me that the name ofthe former was much
better adapted to the days of his cradle
dom, than to those of his SIX foot man
hood Women change their names when
they marry and so ought men, when
they will not grou according to those
given them. No lady ought to call her
infant, Julius Crow, unless it's black as
thunder: nor no colored lady has a right
TO name her lisping "pledge of love-"
Andy White, till it has been sent to the
paper mill and put through the bleach
ing process. I suppose these two last
propositions will be agreed TO, and adopt
ed in our next Congress, both by spro.
viso' members and non proviso men,
without wasting thousands OF the peo.
ples' money over their ridiculous hair
splittings bout the curl OF the wool, or
the straight breed Of halr, being the most
profitable, and best adapted 10 the growth