The Minnesotian. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1851-1852, 1852-02-14
tine some years before he turned out to
fight the Dutch. Here it is:

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fight the Dutch. Here it is:
ssDorinda's sparkling wit and eyes,
United, cast too fierce light
Which blazes high, but quickly dies
Pains not the heart, but hurts the sight.
Glove is a caImer, gentlerj Joy,
Smooth are his looks, and soft his pace;
Her cupid is a blackguard boy,
That his link full in your face"
Very neatly but somewhat provokingly
said, old fellow; and we expect, if the
truth were known, Dorinda gave you the
" mitten" for that same temerity of yours,
which induced you to turn Cromwellian
railer at the follies and foibles of the
world and the crest of mankind - and
in the end, a rough, sea-faring, tar-scent-
ed old bachelor.
JAMES G. BIRNEY.-This gentleman,
who died few days since, was formerly
opposed to the Colonization Society. It
is now said that he had changed his views
on that subject, and that letter will soon
be published in which he signifed and
gave his reasons for that change
change.
Seeing this individuals name again in
print, which it appears is only now ex-
humed from its oblivion to announce the
death of its possessor-reminds us of a
Renaissance, historical and political. In
1886, during the days of our " cubship"
to the printing business in Cincinnati,
James G. Birney edited and published in
that city the " Philanthropist," well
known Abolition sheet of that day. One
Saturday afternoon, in August of that
year, meeting was held at the Lower
Market House, composed chiefly of the
leading "Democrats' of the city, and a
few southern strangers who were spend
ing the summer there, at which it was re-
solved to pitch the said James G. Birncy.
his aiders and abettors, among whom was
Salmon P. Chase, the present "Demo-
cratic" U. S. Senator, and his press into
the Ohio river. Accordingly, at ten
o'clock that night, the deed "was did,"
so far as the press and printing materials
were concerned Birney, Chase, DR.. Bal
ley, now of the "National Era," Wash
ington,) and others of the fraternity, only
escaping visitation of Democratic
rotten eggs and tar and feathers by leav-
ing town. But times change and men
change with them''-at least &C Democrat
ic" men. The year lS48 found Mr..
Chase occupying the same platform, so
far as the Abolition question was involved'
as in 1886. But the same " Democratic
party then elect Mr.. Chase to the U. S. SEN
ate, and make him a leader of '' Ohier'
Democracy! But neighbor Robertson,
having been prominent actor in this
strange drama, knows more about it than
we do.
There is good deal of sober, old
fashioned philosophy, as well as naked
truth, in the following, which we take
up as a waif among our exchanges
Those who consider themselves as be-
longing to the ellie, can make a useful
scrap book item of it:
"Twenty years ago this one butchered,
that one made candles, another sold but
ter and cheese, and a fourth carried on
distillery, another was contractor Of ca
mails. others were merchants and mechan-
les. They are acquainted with both ends
of society-as their children will be af-
ter them, although it would not do to say
so out loud. For often you shall find
that these toiling worms hatch butterflies,
and they live about year and no longer.
Death brings division of property,
and it brings new fnanciers the old
agent is discharged; the yonng gentle
man takes his revenues, and begins to
travel-toward poverty, which he reach
ed before death-or his children do if he
does not. So, that in fact, though there
is sort Of moneyed rank, it is not hered-
itary it is accessible to all three good
seasons of cotton will send generation
of men up, score Of years will bring
them all down, and send their children
again to labor. The father grubs and
grows rich; his children strut and use
the money, their children inherit the
pride, and 60 to shiftlcss poverty; their
children, reinvigorated by fresh plebian
blood, and by the smell of cold, come up
again. Thus society, like tree, draws
its sap from the earth, changes it into
leaves and blossoms, spreads them abroad
in great glory, sheds them to fall b ack to
the earth: again to mingle with the soil,
and at length to re-appear in new trees
and fresh garniture."
Some of the papers in the States are
circulating paragraph founded upon our
white owl article, published some months
ago, by which it is made to appear that
said owl was shot near Hudson's Bay, and