The southern press., 1852-04-17
For the Southern Press,
Relies Of Sc faps and Musings.
No. IS.
amoNEY MAKES THE MARE CO."

money MAKES THE MARE CO."
This venerable adage seems equally true
whether the animal be harnessed to dirt cart,
or the wheels of government. She wont stir a
peg until the wheels are well creased. This
appears especially evident in the proceedings of
Congress. Subjects involving great national
interests, foreign and domestic, hang fire like
old rusty muskets. They are brought forward,
calls made for information which if given is
never acted upon, and the affair consigned to
oblivion, unless money or political capital can
be made out of it some way or other. But if a
bill or resolution distributing money or lands,
and especially books, is brought forward, the
old mare at once feels the spur, neighs like a
young colt, kicks up her heels, and canters of
as merrily as stage hack when he comes in
sight of the well known sign of"good entertain
ment for man and horse" If any "undeveloped''
old fogie of a country member comes limping
behind the spirit of the age, and attempts to
argue the matter by appeals to that obsolete
instrument, the Constitution, in the House OF
Representatives, he is allowed FIVE minutes to
talk about something else according to rule, or
say his prayers before being gulotined by the
previous question-"off with his head-so much
for Buckingham
Almost the only exception to this uniform
course of the old mare is when the drivers are
not agreed as to the division of the spos 1t
is then that patriotism awakes from its slum-
bers, and the ghost of that long buried obsolete
idea, economy, is invoked from the gulf of OBJ
livion. The old mare plants her feet as stiff as
poker; the log must roll an inch further and
the dirt cart, or the government machine stands
stock still until this vital question is settled
Truly there is much truth in old proverbs.
AN AUNclENTE PREpHEsIE FROM RARE OLD
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When legislators bold invade,
The laws which they themselves have made;
When the parson 'gainst the Bible breaches,
And modest virgins wear the breeches;
When women scorn domestic cares
And bold intrude on mems affairs, g..
Aspiring with mistaken pride ..-
The war horse Of the world to ride, g..
Then will wild chaos come again,
And Eve with her old serpent reign; 49,.
second time will pay the price
OF wit, by loss Of Paradise.
The world, tail foremost, will advance,
Like freedom in regenerate France; 49,.
By going backwards all come right, ...
= And men grow blind by too much light.
RIGHTS OF WOMAN.
These petticoated philosophers who are GO
ing to reform the world with the distaff, had bet
ter ''go spin" as old Lear says.
IMITATION.
Goldsmith affrms that "the most initiative an.
inal in nature is a Ounce" If so, Brother JON
alhan ranks high in that category. He has
never even aspired 10 the invention of coat or
pantaloons, nor have any of oas female reform
ers yet ventured on an original bonnet or cloak
Even the Boomers are copyists. DO they ex.
pect to govern mankind by initiating the cos
tune Of the Harem, whose tenants are slaves
They had better stick TO the pettcoat, the true
female flag under which men have marched ever
since Adams fall. .'....