Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-17
JEU D'EspRIr.
PROM rnr ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.
Classic lSynsposium II NeW York.

| % me Translator 81 me hungarian Poems
oii-aF GOTHAM, DECEMBER l65l.--If mere Stranger
e 'ne erty of addressing to you few reh arAs con-
nectea with the cents which developing efore our
eyes the glorious destes of our UNPARALLELED era it is
because OF all your countrymen you alone ingenious sir
seem to have had some hacosscous premonton Of the
quarter from which this new impulse was to spring You
aiohe Dy sounding IN the ears OF your compatrios
years ago, the first notes of the Hungarian harm seem 70
have been the appointed instrument pepare them for
the hrst tap of the Hungarian drum. doubt not but
with the candor which belongs to all enlightened n;nds
you VIII pardon the presumption, if it be sucA which
leads me to invoke your literary pseudonym in order to
address, pa5 that dreaded public which onIv az Co.
ernors and Industrious exes can presume to take NV bs
nose ana lead Without ceremony whithersoeyer they will
FOR OBVIOUS reasons however, I must not spend too
much time IN formal explanation The SEQUEL viii show
you who and with what patriotic and disinterestd
views address you Since first landed with nv exiled
compatriots the shores of Staten Island wbep tbat
remarkable man. Major Hagadorn CALAMITY pledged his
myrmidons to the redemption of Europe its naughty
oppressors up TO the time of this present writing have
been involved in series of apoheosstc pageants and
banqueungs, which may possibly produce some ncohe-
renee IN my Ideas. But practical demands as YOU
wll have seen, wonderfully plain curt and signf
cant. VI them may have more to say in conclusion
AZ present my purpose to take notice Of proceed
g winch have strangely escaped the Argus eyes of the
press, but which think you will agree with me are not
unworthy OF report and cannot fail to cooperate with
has been unanimously agreed upon and ordered up forth
WITH like hot dish, by the ardent and magnanmous din
-giyers of the city of Gotham.
During our voyage being in need Of entertainment and
naturally DESTROYS of learning something respecting the
affairs of our land of PROMISE turned to the library of
the steamship and among other works bearing on the sub
Ject found there volume by one Boz containing the adj
ventures Of certain Martin Chuzzewit some years before
in the city of destination read there OF some of its
great menof Col Diver, Major Pawkns Hon. Jefferson
Brick, &c Judge of my surprise when found their
nan Gpr tl,n;,
citizens But have since learned the precarous
of fame in country whose destiny is always full gall
op and whose great men rise flourish, and disappear
almost rapidly their dinners In fact not
impossible that the great Sckes and the remarkable
Hagadorn themselves may be suppanted by cele
bres before the first nstalment of Hungarian muskets
shall have passed the narrows of Sandy Hook.
Perseverance, however is of its reward and by
dint of perseyerng inquiry last fell upon the track
Of those of whom was in search. The retreat which
these memorable and statesmen have chosen for the
sanctuary Of their declining years resembles certainly in
one respect the vale of Tempe 1t is valley Streams
trickle into it from Broadway the sde and from
Chatham street the other The pilgrim who it
might even imagine still further resemblance to the IA
vote haunt of Apollo and the Muses. the detes of physc
and Of poetry when he it crowned side by the
lofty towers Of Mofa sole maker and vender of the life
pill and the other fanked by that second summit of
Olympus, the Franklin Museum whose warbling nymphs
equally artess in the style of their songs and their
drapery Deep in the intermediate space les in Delphic
obscury of caves tripods and inspiring efuva that far
famed and mysterious ddytum, the Old Brewery.
After much anxious research, was at length di
rected ymph who seemed be of the prestesse
Of the region to what appeared certainly to mortal eyes
nothing more better than bar-room. In effect JEFF
ferson Brick himself whom able at to dstin
guish though much decayed and not little seedy
just then lifting umbler of the "rosy to his lips In
Producing myself him after the approved fashion, by the
suggestion of second baton Of the same had pre-
senty the satisfaction of finding through his commune
catveness that was in the very midst of those whom
had come far TO In truth, had but to mention
be on hand-all as affable as Brick, and all dry
is not my intention to trouble you with the details Of
the characteristic symposium which ensued selection
from the toasts and the spirited resolutions vocferousy
adopted all which can allow myself submit through
this medium TO the public eye The first fater myself
goriousy illustrates the excelsior soarngs of the spirit Of
progress in the boundless empyrean Of the Higher Law
while the latter, doubt borne the convolutions of
the invisible wires of animal magnetism shot an bolt
into the heart Of Nicholas and drove his patron bear int
the gloomy recesses Of the Uralian mountains.
" Toast girea By COL Drer The Washington Of eigh
eenth century lie might do for that century, BIZ he won't
do for this 1t fast man to keep abrea Of the loco
motive Of modern go-aheadativenes
BY Major Patotins Freedom Of speech exemplhed by
the glorious dong at late dinner Of the bar Too good
thing TO be shared with ones enemies Let those who quail
before the trumpet blast Of liberty do the stenng Wen DO
the talking ourselves.
the less glorious dong of the dinner Of the When
gathers its avalanche in the Alpine otudes Of popular en-
husasm to the traitor who prsumes to think that his soul
his own will take the concet out OF him as sure as ne IS
a living human.
BY r.. erchdm6etEdn The solidarity OF human des-
ny 1t at with modrontsD under all its FORMS and
with pdnsersm under all its deformes 1t knows Of only
two agents Of moral reform--muskes and money
From these sentiments, taken at hazard, you will per-
ceve the spirit Of proceedings and be enabled to enter
into the profound policy and mastery insight of the sub
sequent resolutions.
Resolred That in the instauraon Of the New Era,
proclaim leading maxim Action first Discussion after
wards.
Resoired the present generation being mounted
the shoulders of its predecessors vastly further than
they and sees thing, the alacy and doe
trina imbecty Of those Anticipated saws Mind your
business, and Charity begins at home
Rotrod consequently, That il i first and chief BUSH
regulate the affairs Of o neghbors and that
comfortable and that by ghbor in the
rending Of the law Of nations meant first the Hungarians
and. next, all the world and the Of mankind.
Resorcd That although the policy opens vista
Of boundess debt and endless trouble and would probabE
mper dissolve TIE Union hold that TO be matterf
little consequence since the Union itself be swallow
in the and grand discovery Of the solidarity oha
peoples Il
Rcsoped That Is mpertncnt to talk Of precedontsD
unprecedented and that being determined in fuure
hink with sonachs and with bayones weSu
adieu TO the old systems Of logic and languages referrn
selves for the first the lower yscer anu
the latter to that grand style Of orentaism which s pro-
iuced such paroxysm Of ecstacm in the organs ofoom
md abolitonsms
IL may be observed that resolutions do not prcend
70 entire originality each and every member oil ITEM
night find its exact counterpart in Of the demonsra
ions of the day But il is merit to have coleet
ind intensified them that the charge may 60 drecty
home to the point at which am which the wnkeng
destiny in setting the world to rights by of
bowie-knives and reviewers.
Our Governor is amongst you; but ON forced IN
,andor say that the States Of the South have Shak