Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-11-09
From the Washincton UniOn.

From the Washington Union.
seThe Bltter End.''
sPatrick. do peaches have legs :"
eWeh, then, BY the holy poker I've swallowed strad-
dle-bug "-Afikey Free.
Almost every thing in nature has a sweet and Bit
ter end sometimes not sweet, and sometimes not
SO bitter It therefore behooyes every individual
who has refined taste to be and get the sweet
end first and never to chew the bitter end until for
ced by that old tyrant, necessity, if at all.
The present administration, that has such kind
and aectionate regard for red Russia has two ends
but is a remarkable fact they are so much alike
that it is almost impossible to tell from the 9TH
er Under these circumstances man may be Justi-
fed in chewing either, for he will receive equal sat-
isfaction, and never grow fat by the operation.
The 'heroic age" can hardly be said to have COM
menced in glory. Its first act was to make mon
grel cabinet, which, like the Frenchman's punch,
was one dam Contradictions 1t has not its counter
part in the earth It acts together like string of
dscordant tom-cats tied together by the tails and
thrown over clothesline for little innocent
else and recreation; and what with growing and
splitting and caterwaung and scratching it has turn
ed the peace of the Union upside down, and wound
up with terrible catastrophe until everybody seems
to have been scratched bitten and the whole at
ternoon is filed with eternal ''me1Um
The present green dynasty has, by its indescrimi-
nate proscription-its system of espionage and its
pudence, and order for anarchy rnd now it sits
like mad bull in china shop, believing over the
eartherns and damnng its own reflection, seen in
mirrow too high for its reach. The bitter end,
though toleraby strong Of aIoes is not bitter it
will be when the present chaotic administration gets
into full play when it gets into war with all the
powers of the earth when it attempts to get Bank
of the United States, under the specious of a
fscality, established; when it gets entirely under
the influence of Solicitor Clark of conservative
TTb whose stay in the Treasury will we prophesy, be
as short as goats TAIL if not shorter when it gets
few etterwriters into Office to sing its prais-
es and make its speeches; when it loses few more
States, few more friends and finally expends the
last trimmings of the little capital OF common sense
and character it possessed at the outstart. Then
deed will it be in the gall of bitterness, and even
then will both ends be alike unfit for heaven, and
/ hardly for Halifax.
| But why should it be so bitter, and why should it
be chewed to the bitterest ende 1t composed Of
old federalism sweetened with toryism, and topped
off with abolitionism. All clear molasses deem
ed to be too sour for it; and lquorceba was hard
ly sweet enough to make it palateable for a first
taste.
1t is remarkable fact in dentistry that person
may set of teeth against all decay by tax
ing up live rattlesnake, and chewing it from the
head to the TAIL from end to the other, at one
sitting Perhaps, therefore, the democracy may i'm
prove their ivory by chewing the green dynasty from
one end to the other bitter sweet bitter bit
terer, as the case may be. There is nothing SO good
to eradicate bitter article therefore the
bitter of both ends of the present condition of things
if we'll chewed, may effect permanent cure in the
stomachs of the true opponents Of the people. We
recollect an old lady who once cured by chew
ing mountain root which, after ALL turned out to be
rats tail, dried in the shade and dppedin piera.
But the end IS bitter; and why should we endeavor
to account for that which is fixed fact, and always
will be fixed fact until the genius of American IL
berty shall descend with coarse towel and wipe out
the green age and its bitterness together!
We read in the Testament of little book that
sweet in the mouth and bitter in the belly: This
book is something like the record of the heroic
age" We think its acts equal to the plague, at
least and well calculated to beat wormwood all hol-
low.
Like the patricians of Venice, the American peo-
pie 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 green to be sucked in by white horse,
a cooked hat, and brown surtout.
The long and short of the matter is, that the de-
moeracy have cheated themselves and, like the med
cal student who mistook the label have made their
tea of noafU0ida and tansy, aud discovered
their mistake until the whole drawing had been drain
ed to it's lowest dregs.
Well, there are weaker things in the political
world than the Second Washington; but where they
are, we cannot exactly say; and there are worse
things than the present cabinet, but for 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 present sickness! as the lame
man said when he broke out with the measles, and
tapered off with the mumps.
But it is bitter and teeth no teeth, it must be
chewed and those who make the least fuss about it
will get through with it the easiest We have eat
en- saw-dust bread and pine bark in Norway; we
have eaten oatmeal cakes and blue buttermilk in
Ireland; we have eaten the black bread of Russia,
and the soggy root bread of Minesota but we never
did chew upon a thing, with end or without an
end, that was rdiculousy bitter-so unmitigated-
ly horrid-so nauseous and SO everlasting, as the
end of the rope that to string up the
herring-head glories Of the
| "HEROIC AGE.n