Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1851-10-15

J"9' p'P''uudeu, 10 enteT luUy INTO The mer-
lis OF the case, | will give brief, succInc,,
and condensed account Of Mr.. CoIumbus's
lie and exploits. Sir, who was Christopher
Columbus Sir, echo answers the creates.
man OF his times. Sir, Columbus was the
offspring of a man Of The same name, who
was an indignant baske,-maker in small
town called Rome, situated on the river II
gers, stream which takes its rise in the
fyranIne mountains, and flows in a south
easterly course into the Gulf Of Mexico
AT an early age Columbus evnced decided
talent for the sea, and occupied the leisure
hours OF his infancy in perusing books of
travel and works on navigation; it was
while engaged in these pursuits ,ha, he in
adver'en'ly met with the works Of Robinson
and Crusoe, and Capt Cook. The defni-
ton he made from them was far away over
the trackless main, hitherto un,roIden by the
loot OF man, was an undiscovered country
As he approached manhood, he was filled
with desire to discover that country which
he so often saw in his youthful dreams :;
ac'uated by this desire, he pe,iIoned the
great Pontihcal Pope of Rome to give him
three yawls and jolly-boat to carry out
his desi gn. That distinguished man a, FIRST
refused, but his wife Cleopatra, being pleas
ed with the promising looks Of Mr.. CoIum-
bus, actuated with a magnanimly which is
carcaure of her sex, prevailed upon him
to grant Columbus's request, whereupon,
providing his vescels with stores and men
out of his own pocket, Columbus got ready,
and on certain day of certain month, and
in certain year, he set sail from the Holy
Sea of Rome, and after long and tempest
uous trip, he SET foot, at last upon the Ply
mouth Rock, in the Island Of Juan Fernan-
dez; it was on that occasion that he ex-
claimed-'Brealhes there any man with soul
so perfectly dead as never TO himself has
said, this is my own, my native land!'
"Slr, Mr. Columbus did not long survive
the hardships Of that voyage, and was final
y taken prisoner by the King of the Cam
non-ball Islands, and, with all his crew, cast
into chains and slavery, where he died at an
advanced age, an ignominious natural death,
with his whole crew, leaving no one to tell
The tale. Peace to his ashes and their'n.
'.Slr, the discovery Of this continent was
the greatest invention Of 1892. Fernandez's
Island the stepping stone TO the settlement
of this conntry, sir. Look around you and
behold the populated world, the United
States, North and South America, Oregon
and Asia, Hindoos,an and Beloochis,an,
England and Turkey, France and China,
and many others, too numerous 10 mention
behold these countries traversed by steam
boats, railroads and telegraphs, and ask your
self would these things have been if it had
not been for Columbus and your reply
would certainly be, 'Certainly not, sir III
it hadn't been for Mr.. Columbus, General
Washington wouldn't have been born-but
Washington ever do that was a great bene
fit to this country? There is much said
about his talents for war. To be sure he
performed several mas,erly retreats, but
what's that an evidence of? Sir, it is that
he was coward.
"General Washington a coward" scream
ed Foster, the village doctor, in voice of
thunder. "General Washington coward
who so base as dare say it: Look at him
a, the battle of the Nile, look at him at Wa
,erloo, the Cowpens, on the Plains of Mara
thon, at the Pyramids, at Siillman's Defeat,
at Bad Axe; and sir, look at him at the bat
lie Of New Orleans -
"GineraI Washington a. the battle of New
Orleans! - exclaimed huge backwoods-
man, ges.iculating violently. "Mr. Speaker,
is there such a ignoramus in the house9 Sir,
any school-bov knows that the battle of
New Orleans was fit before General Wash
ing.on was born. Let the gentleman read
PIutarch's lives, the lives of the signers Of
the Declaration of Independence. or let him
read Ark wrights' history of the Black Hawk
War, and he'll find that General Henry
Dodge fit the battle Of New Orleans ~
Here the noise and confusion became so
great that our traveller might have been seen
vending his way to the inn, wiser man
than when he arrived at J--.Spirit Of
the Times.
Happy the man who is an early riser
Every morning, day comes to him with a