Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-11-19
From the Washington Union.
The Bitter End"
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FROM tne washington Union.
The Bitter End"
ePatrick. do peaches have legsY
"No, you fool, no"
swell, then, by the holy poker, rve swallowed
o straddle-bug"-Aikey Free.
Almost everything in nnlure has sweet
and bitter end: sometimes not SO sweet,
and sometimes not so bitter. 1t therefore
behooyes every individual who has refn-
ed taste to be sure and get the sweet end
first, and never to chew the bitter end until
forced by that old tyrant, necessity, if q,
ALL
The present administration, that has
such kind and affecllonate regard for red
Russia, has two ends; but it is remark.
able fact, they are so much alike that 1t is
almos, impossible to tell one from the other.
Under these circumstances man may be
justified in chewing either, for he will re-
celve equal satisfaction, and never grow iat
; by the operation.
: The "heroic age'' can hardly be said to
have commenced in glory. Its first act
was 10 make mongrel cabinet, which.
like the Frenchman's punch, was one dam
contradictions. 1t has not its counterpart
in the earth, over the earth, or under the
earth. 1t acts together like n string of
discordant tom.ca,s tied together by the
taIis,and thrown over q clothes line, for n
liile innocent exerciee and recreation; and
what with growing and splitting, and
cater.wauiing and scratching, il has turned
the peace Of The Union upside down, and
wound up with q 7iertibie cat asirophe,
until every body seems to, have been
| scratched or bitten, nnd the whole niier.
noon is filled with one eternal ''meio"
The present green dynasty has. by lis
indiscriminate proscription--ls system oil
espionage and its attachment 10 mepofisn1
-swapped experience. for impudence, and
order for anarchy; and now it sits like q
mad bull in china shop, believing over
the broken earibens, and damning its own
reflection, as seen in mirror too high for
lis reach. The bitter end, though solerably
strong of aloes, is not so bitter ms il will Le
when the present chaotic administration
gets into full play; when it gels into war
with all the powers Of the earth; when il
attempts 10. &c, Bank Of the United
Siaies, under the specious name Of 6scali-
ty,. essablisheds when it gels entirely under
the influence OF Solicitor Clark, Of eonssr-
ratirs aissnsory whose stay in the Trea-
sury will, we pro4'hesy, be Us short ns
goat's tail, is not shorter; when il gets q
lew more letter writer's into ofhce to sing its
praises and make its speeches; when it
| loses few more States, few more friends,
| and finally expends the last runniDgs Of
nj ha iittIo is,t of nj
character, j, possessed at the outstart.-
| Then indeed will it be IN the gall Of bitter.
ness, and even then will both ends be alike
unf. for heaven, and hardly for halifax.
Blu, why should it be so bitter, and why
should it be chewed 10 tbs biuerest end!
II was composed of old iederaisn, sweeien-
ed with toryisn, and topped off with abolit-
ionism All clear nolasses was deemed to
be too sour for it; and lieuoricc-5ail was
hardly sweet enough to make il palaiable
for frs, taste.
I,is remarkable fact in dentistry, thai
person may secure n sci Of teeth agains
all decay by taking up a live ratilesnake,
and chewing it from the head 10 the tail,
| from one end to the other, al one sitting
| Perhaps, therefore, the democracy may
improve their ivory by chewing the green
dynasty, from one end 10 the other, bitter
or sweet, or sweet or bitter as tue case
may be. There is nothing so good 10
eradicate worms rs bitter article: there
fore, the bitter OF both ends of the piesen,
condition OF things, if we'll chewed, may
effect permanent cure in the stomachs oi
the true exponents of the people. We
reccolleci an old lady who was once cured
by chewing mountain root, which. after oil,
turned out to be rats tail, dried in the
shade and dipped in picra.
But the end is better; and why should
we endeuvor to account for that which is q
fixed fact, and always will be a fixed fact,
| until the genius of American liberty shall
| descend with coarse towel and wipe oul
the green age and its bitterness together!
I We read in the Testament OF n little
book that was sweet in The mouth and bitter
in the belly. This book is something like
the record of the "heroc nge." We think
its ncts are equal 10 the plague, at least,
and well calculated to beat wormwood all
hollow.
Like the par,ricians of Venice, the Amer
ican people are now eating their bitter
bread above the graves Of their glorious
dead; and while the bitter tear courses
down their pallid cheeks, they wonder why
they were SO green as to be sucked in by a
white horse, cooked hat, and brown
| sur,oul.
The long and short Of the matter is,
that the democracy have cheated them
selves, and, like the medical student who
mis,ook the label, have made their tea OF
asafelida and ,ansy. and never discovered
their mistake until the whole drawing had
been drained to its lowest dregs.
! Well, there are weaker things in the
political world than the Second Washing.
ton; but where they are we cannot exactly
say; and there are worse things than the
present cabinet, but Tor the life Of US we
cannot find them in The upper regions.
But who knows what diseases we may
have escaped from by having had our
presen, sickness? as the lame man said
when he broke out with the measles, and
| tupered off with the mumps.
/ But it is bitter; and teeth or no teeth, it
mus, be chewed; and those who make the
leas, fuss about it will get through with II
the easiest. We have eaten saw DUST
bread and pine bark in Norway; we hnve