The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-09
'COldEactS' and Consistency.


'COldfacts' and Consistency.
Our friend of the Michigan City News,
copies late article of ours on the posi-
ton of the Wing candidate-or rather
the candidate of the wings of seven coun-
ties out of the sixteen composing the dis
trict and accompanies it with the re-
marks given below. 1t will be seen he
raps us lightly over the knuckles and then
goes right on and does just So himself,
as faithfully as though obeying the in
junction. GO thou and do likewise
is not our friend Lowry rather 100
hard upon that young man. who he thinks
should 'tarry at Jericho until his beard
be grown?' 1t is true that SCHUYLER is
pushed along kept moving. rather fast,
and the graybeards have abdicated or
been eucred for the young Greedy of In
diana but then Schuyler is a broth Of
boy good natured, easy, fluent and flip
pant;
But you want Schuyler Ito speak out
-eh! Well, hasn't he? Didn't he speak
out on Native Americanism, or wink that
way most awfully? Wasn't he Jupiter
Tonans for the Wilmot? Didn't he thun-
der and tighten against the Texas settle
ment and hurl his burning bolts foremost
in the Flu, itiveSlave Law & scourge Fitch
with three horse hairs? Now we call
that speaking right cut. But perhaps
friend Lowry will say that Colfax has
crawfshed, backed out right square,
thrown sommer3et from his own plat
up upon the Plymouth platform.
vot of ii? Schuyler is politician, and
politics, amt they like Pindar's raisons,
made to sell?--What have you to object
to his dickering off one set of principles
and starting with spandy new set; but
he is inconsistent, and has whaled Fitch
like Jehu for alledged violation. of SINH
lar pledges, Consistency! fddlesticks.
What on earth.has consistency to do with
Wing principles? Did not the wing con-
ventions of 1910 and 1913 scatter wing
principle to the winds. and slaughter in
that same Philadelphia SLAUGHTER
HOUSE, all the distinctive principles of
whiggery at the shrine Of General avail
ability? Was not the whig position on
the Wilmot basely deserted by the God
line, and the portion of the whig party
and its thunderer left to ramble in sub
terranean caves and free sile left found
ering. plunging. kicking. and gasping in
every qnagmire of Tree dirt, whilst they
with the agility of mountebank alight-
ed on the Cass platform? Consistency!
nonsense.-Schuyle has found more a.
uailablc position. new expedient (the
wings are famous for exbedients LET
him alone. We shall see what we she'll
see.
Whether this wiring in and wiring GU.
Leaving the people still in doubt
Whether the snake that made the track
Was going South or coming back.
Whether the flexible shank resolutions
and availability platform will elevate
him to congressional chair or leave
him to muse upon the disadvantages of
a Janus faced position as he leisurely loi-
tiers upon the bank OF the beautiful St.
| Jo.'
DEATH FROM UNNEcEssARY ALARM
DR.. Josiah X. Skeen, highly valued cit
izen of Jacksonville, Illinois, retired to
bed in good health, last Tuesday night,
and in half an hour afterwards, started
suddenly from his sleep, exclaiming that
he had the cholera. In his alarm, he
dranY off large tumbler full of brandy.
and two or three ounces of strong es
sence of peppermint, which occasioned
his death in a few hours. There were
no cholera symptoms present, and physi-
clans concurred in opinion that his death
was occasioned solely by the draughts
taken.-Cin. Nonp.
Jewelry in some parts Of the country
is becoming quite fashionable again. An
editor of an exchange paper says he met
lady on the street, who had farm on
each wrist. four story house around her
neck, and at least six life mem berships
to the Bible Society attached to each
ear.
! There were three hundred and sixty
] three deaths in New York last week.