The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-19

8 You kHotc The story Of Sims'-on page 81, OF
the rhapsody, Marc Antony fermentation over
Cesar rushed upon my memory" You al
DO kn0lo this mantle"
You all do know this jacket! remember
The first time Thomas ever put il on;
Twas near the clothing shop OF Coffin Pitts;
That night he battled with the constabes.
Look where the catchpole's furious hook ran
through
See what rent the envious Butman made
Mark how the sweat of Thomas followed it
And what has Mr.. Curtis done 10 bring
upon his brows such clotted mass of filthy
Free-soil from the hands Of this consecrated
scavengerl His duty-no moreno less. He
has done it well, ably. faithfully. should be
very sory-very-if thought my own stand
ard Of duty was lower than this gentle crea.
lures, who cannot persuade even the stick at
nothing Abolltlonists TO agree with him as tc
the righteousness of peuury-or than that OIL
the conscientious gentleman who breaches trea-
son, but cOunseLs no UiOLence, and who has late
ly been Struggled into the Senate; yet would
have performed the very same duty, God help
ing me, with less ability Of course, but, / trust
with no less fidelity to the laws and the Con
stitution of my country, than this Commissioner
has DONE
The maledictions of the jacobin in the opin-
ION OF an upright magistrate, are not less the
seals of his ministry than the appreciation OF
those who-would support the Constitution and
the laws.
To some of these maledctions, from other
quarters, Mr.. Curtis has thought it expedieni
to reply--not unwisely, perhaps-since they
were cast upon his professional relation. But
there are some Of US old enough to remember
the primitive character of certain fountains
which have recently resumed their original
functions of sending forth bitter and dirty
water.
Political leprosy is worse than the Hebrai-
cal. generous diet and clearly associations
may remove the latter, to all appearance, for a
time; and the former may seem to disappear
for years, under the influence Of kindlier and
more gentlemanly connexions. But there is
ever great danger of a relapse. There is
something in the mire of free soil irresstby
attractive to the swine that is washed; the dog
instinctively returns to his vomit; and jaco-
bin, dyed in the wool, acquires color almost
as fist and Interchangeable as the Ethiopian.
An honester man never lived in New Eng
land, nor more perfect gentleman, factlis ad
u,iguem, nor more devoted patriotthan FISHER
AMEs. He was the pride aud delight, the
8 dutce decus" of his peers; and who were
they? The very first men Of our country, in
point of talents, and Of integrity, and of learn
ing, and of wisdom, and Of political, social, in
tellectual, and moral worth. He died at the
comparatively early age of fifty years. His re-
mains were brought from Dedham, his native
place, to this city, and his euogy was pro-
nounced by that pre-eminently great man and
genuine patriot, SAMUEL DEXTER The tai
ents and eloquence Of Mr.. Ames, though of the
highest order, were even less remarkable than
those courteous and bland, and amiabIe, and
generous qualities which made ready way for
him, even to the hearts of not few among
his political opponents.
Is it matter for marvel that one who, when
little better than beardless boy, turned his
jacoblnical venom upon Fisher Ames, should
now, in his latter days,
"Canddior postquam tondenti barba cadebat,"
pour the bitter residuum of his phial of wrath
upon the. head of Daniel Webster?
Among subjects equally offensive and dis
gusting, there is some slight relief in turning
away for an instant from one that we have con
templated so long. Let us return to Mr.. Par
ker =
The sermon of this jacobinical priest is an
Ola podrida, in which there is something of
many things, however the garlic may predomi-
nate. He rails against the rich, is bitter about
the tariff, runs up and splits at Daniel Webster,
resembling, while performing the feat, the Scotch
Covenanter who fired his horse pistol against
the walls of Stirling Castle, is sorely exercised
because some of our shops are higher than the
churches, and comes out with the bitterness of
wormwood against all manner of cotton, unless
perhaps 1t is gun-cotton.
know some clergymen quite as devout as
this teacher of piety who refuse TO make use of
every article the product of slave labor, with
one sacred exception in regard to tobacco. Now
have not the slightest objection to this mans
regular reception Of his dividends from his stock
in the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, in
which am credibly informed he is stock
holder, but when he lays out any part of those
dividends in stationery for the preparation of
sermons on the propriety of treason and perjury,
or any other comforts of his life, he must not
forget that he is using the product of slave labor.
If the receiver be as bad as the thief possibly it
may quadrate with his super-carbonated theo-
ries of morality that those dividends from his
cotton mandatory are unalterably tinged with
the sweat of the slave If so, is not this teacher
of piety as bad as the ''mail- Steaier?'' SIGMA
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