Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-08-12
For the Portage Sentinel.
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For the Portage Sentinel
Gentlemen "Bock Of Amuse-
ments" which keep by me, I find the
following observations entered at the time
they pdrpbft 10 have been made. I do not
feel certain that they will be interesting to
your readers. Yet 1 think there is some
point in them. Yours, v.
SJ.ne 18th. Mrs. Swishelm of the Sat-
urday Visitor is down on Daniel Webster,
and the sGod-like" has sunk to a Byron,
or brute, beyond ren,sds. He may con-
'auer in the arena of debate in the Senate
chamber. and go from victory to victory
elsewhere. But the lance of woman has
drawn his best blood, and be grows pale
from the loss. The Priestly robes of And
over may now be flung over him for his
protection. But they too will become tar
nished; nor can they be made white again
by all the soap and Shebas in christendom.
Somehow have taken great liking to
this weman. She talks the truth so fearless
of consequences that she scarcely seems like
one Of the wemen of our age and times.
She strips things naked wher the dress is
wrong one She is one who might possibly
think the wolf considerable Of an animal if
hs did not undertake to appear in @sheep-
skin. Still think she betrays a weak
ness, (possibly it is sort of ignorance,)
in tie view which she has taken of things
atsWashington. If such things were aaeau
to her it would have been more considerate
to have reflected little longer upon them
before putting them in print for her lady
headers.
On the whole, am inclined to think that
Mrs. s., did not visit Washington with the
same objects and Impressions that many
do; and that she did not know how courtly,
and partisan, eur capital had become. Had
she understood this, and had she clearly
studied the road to popular distinction, she
probably would have suffered herself to be
willingly led by Webster, as sthe queen of
the South" was by Solomon, through all
the ornamented passages Of the social edi-
dcs at our Israelitish centre, and finally
would have gone home with the exclama-
ton upon her lips that @the half had not
been told her" as-as-many others have
done. Mrs. S., has got some things to
learn yet. She has not learned human ma
ture perfectly-nor society-nor herself
Marshes generate disease no more surely
than do many of the first maxims upon
which society stands, as now organized.
When she turns her attention to these
properly, she will no longer wonder at the
violations of which she complains.
But taking the Jewish standard for our
Jeag, and that creed whose leading heroes
we have immortalized in our syna gogues,
can any one say that Daniel Webster may
''St safely 'mong the saints
At Davids hip yet2"
And il SO, of what use this attempt at
rebuke? Why attach SO much importance
TO things hich are winked at, and only
laughed about, the higher up in society
they are transacted? Ii Webster can be
made Saint Of, as he is, and will be, why
I ask trouble ones self about the matter?
Is it not evident that condemnation and
denunsiation grow fainter, the nearer you
come to our social centre-to Washington
--tiie capital and Representative Of our
system, and most perfect exponent Of our
religious. political and social ..progress2 1t
would seem that prostitution does not even
need harem for ceneealment there-and
that Anthonys and Cleopatras, attended
by their slaves, publicly. proclaim our
slight remove from paganism. So long as
we icsH have Solomons and Davids we must
have Websters and Burrs. The difference
is little bstwesn the old form of expression
and the new, @after Gods own heart" and
-ihe God like"
Don Juan will always be read where @the
Songs Of Solomon" are. 1t is vain to ex-
terminate the one and preserve the other.
The probability is both will be read as long
as there are "tongues to utter human
thoughts"
"Jaly 1oM. "a change come over the spirit
Of my drean.n-BYRoN.
5. @Bshold, one man among thousand have
found, but woman among all those have not
soand.n nd.n-SoIoMos.
Precisely SO, my old friends. Since Mrs.
Swisshelm has commenced her attacks on
Forest I have given up the hunt. 1t was
as half suspected at first. Webster was
not well enough Grained" He did not
come up 3te the standard of Bulwer or Sue"
or N. P. Willis, as she says herself. Hence
her loathing and disgust-and this is all it
amounts to. She filings her apron shield
over the smooth insiduous fashionable iber-
tine, and locks him in secret chambers, and
garrets, in order that the sanctity of private
life may be violated the more secretly
This kind of licentiousness she can put up
With-and defends it indirectly. She is
not 80 much different from other women
after all. Things in New-York suit her
better than they do in Washington. A fig
is toe costly for her consistency. She would
lionize one who
aStsals through winneck* from W.,
But point the rake who takes the deor,D
and by the way, the probability is, no bet
ter description Of the spirit of her teachings
can be found than is contained in the poem
from which the above is taken
eWindow.