Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-06-08
From the Washington Union.
BLUNTS AND SHARPS.
"A painted ship
Hmm nainfnd a.

The American people are famed for brave.
~, generosity, democracy, and velocity Onr
fathers, turnedout of doors by bigots and brass.
topped arlstocrats-set adrft upon the ocean
IN mld winter In tub with holes in the bot
tom-casi ashore, hungry, weary and sick.
on black rock, called the Pilgrims Stepping
stone-chased by Indians, narrowed by wolves.
pecked at by the Dutch, and tormented bv
witchcraft and other devitries, built up ma.
ton in less than two hundred wears after
sprouting time, and now occupy, in the per.
son of their descendants, the chief seat in the
synagogue of the world. Having thus, after
the fashion of the inimitable Macaulay, given
a concise and graphic history of our republic
from the year 1900 to the present day, we
proceed to the men and the deeds of The hero.
ic age. The mad prophet of Arabia, who
rode through seven heavens on red camel
and borrowed from Adam pair of green silk
pantaloons, left his inexpressibes as royal
the court color throughout the East And
now, when the pious Mussulman returns from
weary pilgrimage to Mecca he adds green
stripe TO his magnificent turban and looks
down upon his less adventurous fellows with
unmltlgated scorn. AS Mahomet was sue
cesstul military general, perhaps the worthy
old gentleman. whose Inauguration shoes
are still green" has devoted his leisure hours
to his life and character; and when called up
on 10 fill the chair of the ma este Washing
ton, has, in his haste, adopted the virtues and
example of the former and the name and walk
of the latter. If this be so, we can account
for the proscrptive and iIiberal course pursu-
ed by the Executive towards the democracy,
and in the daily decapitation of worthy VIC
TINS behold a second propagation of the Alco-
ran OF whigery, bearing the name of illustri;
Gus deeds and clad in the verdancy of the
man of Mecca. We must, however, accor-
ding to the Intellgencer, recoect that the
American people elected their present octavo
President, and that whatever may be his
course, we must bear with him for &c cor DO
pull is ' ror dei," and to find any fault with
their choice would be to censure those who,
) in an evil hour, made the astonishing selec-
ton.
Mrs. Darlington, that good old lady who
blends philosophy with knitting, and who in
variabIy drops a stitch when she perpetrates
a wtticism, has lately turned her brilliant
mind from the Green family to State affairs
&c La me- said she the other day, as she read
the list of the new appointments made-not
by the President of the United States, but by
the Secretary of the Interior" they have
Home Department al last to furnish homes for
all the idle politicians in the country who
want to live without labor, and Department
of the Interior 10 furnish the poor fellows
with vctuals to eat while they are doing no.
thing. How considerate in Congress, and
kind 10 poor folks !' and the old lady stoopei
down 10 pick up patch of moonlight for her
pocket handkerchief, and resumed her knit
ting without her spectacles.
r The Home Department, asit is now regulated
/ and administered, is another evidence of the
q verdency of the heroic age. That department
was created out of others, and 1t was declared
: on the floor of the Senate, before it could be
passed, that no new appointments were to be
: made that no Offices beyond those named in
n the bill were 10 be created; and at least that
there was TO be no extension of the area OF pat
ronage, and no tyranical expression of power:
yet when Mr.. Truman Smith, who was consti-
: tutionaIly ineligible, declined the office, Mr..
q Secretary Ewing the fiercest proscriptionist of
General Harrisons proscriptive cabinet, was
taken from the " bar and the plough" 10 man
age the new concern and 10! he has made it
q the first department in the cabinet, created a
host of officers 10 manage it against law,
brought Populations of clerks from each bu-
reau to his aid as assistants, and, in short,
made himself President over three-fuurh of
: the United States, appointing all civil officers
2 except dipomatques in the name of the Sec
. rotary of the Interior; and the illegal force
{ that he has brought about him is merely to
+ enable him TO violate the pledges made by the
). friends of the bill in the Senate, by recording
j.; applications for Office, appointments to Office.
:, charges made during this contemplate war
upon private reputation, and ISLANDERS too base
s. TO be whispered even IN the ear of power
y Prescribe prescription ~ Yes, my beauti-
Of full boys, it will be done by the Senate and
~ House of Representatives at the next session.
The Department of the Interior will be abol-
u ished in the civil and diplomatic appropriation
'e bill. The fierce proscriptionist at its head
l. will be sent back to the hills of Hooking, and
the force appointed contrary to law will 60
:. unpaid and unpitied to other and more appro-
J. pirate duties. "Proscribe prescription %
IS Yes; prescribe the old Daddy of ii, and you
a. will " prick the boil"
The harmony of the organs is theme for
:. angels with golden harps to expatiate upon,
'e when they have nothing else TO do and sleep
lie out of nights. The Republic" being Pres
a. byterian in its incipieney, and buckled on 10
rs the sword of 'Gdeon,'' if not also &c of the
Lord" will be some pumpkins in the green
u dynasty which, with the cholera, has come
E. upon US so unwelcomely. And unless oul
le Worthington should, in view OF the old adage
,e about "luck and children" trip up the heels
Y, of the organ an future, we calculate upon
;. witnessing as pretty bear fight between the
i. " Republic" and the Whig," as was evel
70 beheId in the slashes of Mesopotamia and The
% groves of Calico. In this fight, like the abused
ia wife, when her husband and bruin were hav
re ing back hug, we shall net care q" straacs'
o. which whips; but modestly look on, and thank
- God that in either case justice will be done
n. and the public taste improved
10 The anticipated recommendation to have thu
v public grounds closed, because the Executive
is lost shirt from the clothes line in the parl
v. the other evening, will be resisted by the un
b. washed Taylor men, upon the ground tina
is General Washington never kept the peopl
i. from the public grounds for shirt. and neYe
al would have put such thing in his message
3. 10 Congress even if the plunderers had taker
Is breaches and all; but Is De gustibus non es
r. disput0ndum," and so we leave that branch o
the subject
y. There is, however, another new view Of
at diplomacy intimaed by the Second Washing
10 ton, which, if adopted, will injure the finances
is of the country more than the purchase o
n. Mount Vernon for the country seat of thu
,b President of the United States. We under
70 Standard the wing organ can correct us
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