Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-11-09
Parody on tl.e one Deela.aa.an q Insspensenes.


accord. forsook him. leaving behind them the follow
ing parody on the Declaration of Independence:
1sWhen in the course of human events, It becomes
necessary for alf-hungry halffed inposed-on set
Of men to dissolve the bands Of landlord and boarde
decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which have I'M
PEELED them to the separation.
ssWe hold these truths to be seIf-esident that all
men are created with mouths and stomachs and they
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalena
bic rights among which is that no man shall be COM
PEELED to starve, out of mere compliance to a land
lord; and that every man has right to fill his stom
aeh and wet his whistle with the best that's going
The history Of the present landlord of the White
Lion is history of repeated INSULTS exactions and
injuries all having in direct object the establishment
of absolute tyranny our stomachs and Threats.
To prove this, let facts be Submitted to a candid
world.
He has refused to keep anything drink but bald
faced whiskey
He has refused to set upon his table for dinner
anything but turnp SOUP with little tough beef and
sourcrout whick not wholesome and necessary for
the publick good
ale has refused to let his only servant blink-eyed
Joe put more than six grains Of coffee to gallon
of water
He has turned loose a multitude of mosquitoes
to assa us in the peaceful hours Of the night and eat
our substance.
''He has kept up in our beds and beadsteads, stand
ing armies of mereiless savages with their scalping
knives and tomahawks whose rule of warfare is unds
tinguished destruction. ~
81 He has excised domestick instruction among u.s.
by taking bitters before breakfast and making his
wife and servant do the same before dinner whereby
there is often the deuce to pay. efs 50 So tf
ale has waged cruel war against nature herself,
by feeding horses with broom-straw and carrying
them off to drink where swine refuse to wallow.
He has protected one-eyed Joe in his villainy, in
the robbery of jugs, by pretending to give him
mock trial, after sharing with him the spoil.
He has cut off trade with foreign ports, and
brO,1 ha1d had
sent to buy better liquor abroad and with perfdy
scarcely paralelled in the most barberous ages he
has been known to drink foreign spirits and fill
up our bottles with his own dire potons.
'He has imposed taxes upon u.s. to an enormous
amount, against our consent and without any rule
but his arbitrary will and pleasure.
GA landlord. whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define tyrant and a miser, is
unfit to keep boarding house for Cherokee Indians.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to
Mrs B. and Miss Sally. We have appealed to their
tive justice and magnanimity-we have conjured
them to alter state of things which would nevita-
bly, interrupt our connexion and correspondence
They, too have been deaf to the voice of Justice
We are, therefore, constrained to hold all three of
these parties alike nimica to our We-bcng and re-
CARELESS OF our comfort
ave. therefore, make this solemn declaration of
odr final separation from former landlord, and
cast our defiance into his teeth.'
The seragIIo and Mosque at ConstantinopIe.
The Serago is no longer inaccessible to strangers,
and by aid of q frman purchased at a high price
from the Government have visited with small par
ty of French and English, this far-famed palace
Crossing the Golden Horn from the Suburb Tophane,
we landed at the Gardeners gate, of the % en-
frances of Stamboul and few minutes walk brought
us to the Sublime Porte, the spacious unornamented
archway from which the Ottoman Empire first deri-
we'd its name Escorted by couple Of very conse-
quental State constables passed through into the
outer court of the Seraglio large plain area sur
rounded by buildings formerly used infrmaries for
the sick and lodges for the menials of the palace
From this we proceeded to the inner court, which
laid out in verdant grass plots and intersected
with paved footways. Around were arcades leading
into various Offices and kitchens, and at the eXremi
y was the Justice hail. where the Grand Divan for
merly held its sittings. Entering narrow vestibule
the gentlemen Of the party were made to exchange
their boots for slippers, and we were ushered into
that confused mass of building long the residence
of the Ottoman Sultans We were conducted through
all the audience halls and saloons of the palace, and
| the baths and private apartments OF the Harem.-
| Though many Of the rooms were rich enough in ap
thew presented little of that extraordinary
splendor with which travellers have teen accustomed
to invest the unknown interior of the Seragio The
walls and ceilings generally were wainscotted an6
gilt in the Moorish STYLE and the floors cover
ed with elegant palm leaf mating. The furniture
was far less sumptuous than that have in 9th
er palaces and there were no statues or paintings
Almost the only works of art We're a few French
engravns representing the battle scenes OF Napoeon
ana certain UtDleCS ult1u SOlu pOECelaIIl
and diversified with flowers, miniature landscapes
and inscriptions from the Koran. The window-lat
ticed halls of the Harem, and the skyghted chamber
where the Father fall the Sovereigns ofthe Earth
used to 90 to sport with his and mutes, possess
no ornament. The throne of his Serene Highness wa
quite an ordinary affair." and in interest far out
matched by the twenty golden and magnificent,
iewelled State keys of the Sublime Porte. The gar
dens around the palace abound in many Orienta
plants and flowers, but much exceeded in beaut,
BY many private grounds in England In short TIL
Turkish Seragio has been indebted for its fame
to the unequalled superbness Of its natural situation
and the jealousy With which it's precincts have beer
guarded, than to any thing actually done for it b.
human taste and skill. The present Sultan has new
made it his residence, preferring one of the ney
palaces on the Bosphorus to place associated wit
SO many private intrigues and public iniquities.
4 The same frman, aided by a goodly supply Q
bachsheesh, admitted into Santa Sophia the grea
boast of the Eastern capital Entering small sid
: door, we descended several steps, and traversing
: short yestibule were at in the body of tn
d church. AS my eye ranged through the stupendou
arches whose vistas were bounded by brazen gates
and up the polished walls benched with tier tie
: of colonnaded galleries. and still mounting, swep
along the ceiling from cupola to cupola, and halt
dome to half dome, TILL finally, it reposed the grea
central vault which, $50 feet above sprang from tn
shoulders Of four seraphim and spanned the distarc
of lis feet at angle fearfully dlsproportionate
the immensely Of the leap, saw much that trul
grand and imposing; but nowhere could discer
that richness of material Or magnfcence of decors
: tion that stimulated the Emperor Justinian to ez
claim over his work, II have surpassed thee O Solt
mon!n Since the old Constantinople Cathedral, ded
Gated to the Eternal Wisdom, has been degraded il
Ii to the metropolitan temple of the False Prophet
has been despoied Of most of its Christian ornament
and Santa Sophia owes its present celebrity lnhnit
It ly more to what it has been than to what it now
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