The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-07-07

them as 30 many ring -taheu nnonaeyo' NM
very likely, will make much by the opera
ton. Here, Bill, turn up clean tumbier, and
give me drink of water)-
al was among these grand old hilis, my sweet
felow-citizens before the oldest OF you were
born and, snipes and night-owls! did you ever
with il Pm 80 tired of barking that would
like bite. Try YOUR teeth in this tough old
hide. va whipper. snappers. There's blood in
me that would make YOU as drunk as blazes for
the rest of your lives, and give you the first
peep of glory that ever opened upon your be-
nghted souls. -,
THE follies of the dead are buried with
them. They we're not worth mindlng then, nor
remembering now but didn't | tell your re-
spectacle daddies that they were making fools
of themselves in the whiskey lnsurrection
Black guardsm isn't Democracy When Wash
ington came to Bedford with the army, the AL
legheny mountain rocked under his footsteps,
and the diminutiye little manikins that danced
like drunk monkeys around their pig-nut hber-
ty-pOle in the diamond over there trcmbled IN
their shoes till you could hear their toe-nails
Jingle. | was Democrat Jeffersonian DEM
ocrat-.hen, as | am now but wasnt DEM
agogue, a coward, or a broad-mOuthed brawl-
er against my country, its laws and the Con-
stitution.
"Your grandmothers can tell you what
rumpus the same nipnies raised around me for
the first wsgon-rOad made over the mountains
to Pittsburgh. 1t would break up the pack
horse men, forsooth, and the tavern-keepers and
horse-breeders would be ruined when one wag-
ON could carry az much salt bar-irOn and
brandy. from Baltimore, as whole caravan OF
halfstarved mountain ponies But told them
then, that of all people in the world, fools have
the least sense, and that they would live to
learn that the best way is as good as any; for,
when was but boy, discovered that moth
ing less than too much is plenty in the Amer-
can meaning of the word. That's the differ
ence between q man of faith and the snobs
that do all their travelling in tread-mill.
"But with such snipes nothing can be done.
Cure them of witchcraR and they slide into
fortune telling, or some other stupid kind OF
wonder working; for they understand nothing,
either by insight or experience. After while,
when the prosperity, which they at first resist
ed, poured down upon them from spout, they
went crazy, and was mobbed again for stand.
ing by Simon Snyder's veto Of that batch OF
shin-plaster banks which the Legislature char
tered by two-thirds vote, and gave you your
keepsakes of Owl-creek and Mutton-tOwn bills. |
y
went haw before, you are believing at the top |
of your voice, and at the end of your wits,
against all bank paper! II
ais it any wonder that | keep up my old |
grudge at the devil for making such people
Jack, to darkie carter, occupied at the other
end of the table upon the breast-bone OF tur-
key, which he was polishing,) "you may as well
quit beating and bothering your mules; make
their breech- bands of sheetiron and the traces
of cob-web; for the more you wallop them, the
more they won't CO. My donkies are OF the
same breed percizely, and they are all on a
spree just now, kicking out their hoots at free
masonry! That's the secret of all the villainy
and laundering in legislation, is it! Butter
your brains, and give them to the dogs for
New-Year's gift, and let somebody else do your
thinking Oh, it's enough to sicken snipe to
hear two-penny petifogger railing at the great
men who have given us our free institutions,
and built up this model Republic into worlds
wonder and to see q herd of dwelling moo
lies drinking in his profanity like the words Of
life! But Providence always had his hands
ful of such forlornities If He can bear with
hem, may He will find the men somehow,
when the time comes to do up the worlds work
lpon the principles of everlasting truth, The
Universal laws keep the earth in it's orbit and
III the crawlers on its surface can't shake it
nut of shape, or turn it from its track. be-
ieve and live. Behold, ye despisers, and won
Ter and perish. sssa.s
"And there is the common school system
hat have been laboring for, until it is at last
airly on foot See that you keep it alive, and
make it answer the glorious purpose Of its es-
ablishment. Don't clip it down to nothing by
,our beggarly economy. wish to the Lord
hat YOU understood thinking as well as you do
,ating, and could feel an empty head as pain
'ully as an empty stomach. Can't you under
stand that keeping money in your pocket is not
saving it! A dollar in a buckskin purse won't
breed sixpence in hundred years; but EN-.
ployed wisely in the service of soul or body, it
will bless the one and glorify the other. If
you can't see the policy of education, make
religion oft The world of ideas is the world
of spirits. Introduce your children there for
every good thought is guardian angel to the
dear little lambs And don't stop just where
reading writing and arithmetic, can be worked
into dollars and dimes carry them through
and over this sordid world into Gods world
up to the circle of the heavens, where He sits,
governing the universe by his laws. Every dis
cOvery in the truths of nature, is so far into the
counsel and confidence of the Supreme Ruler.
Only the man that has the mind of God is God
like. Now, for Heavens sweet sake, educate
your children. You may talk stupdities about
the salaries of public officers, as you did against
me for voting gentlemanly per diem to the
members OF Congress but don't cheaper your :
schoolmasters till nobody but bankrupt cob :
bers, habitual drunkards cripples, consump-
tives, and such other ugly incapabes, can be 7
got to serve you, for very shabbiness of the sal
airy. Buy cheap store goods, if you like for
when they wear out you will know it, and can
replace them; buy cheap provisions, and eat the
less Of them; buy anything cheap but cheap
talents. Don't venture upon that speculation,
tor you are no judges of the article; and the
only way for you to insure the excellence of the
quality, is by thelberality of the premium which
you will offer crit That will bring the genuine
into the market and the bogus will be clearly
exposed by the difference of the ring, weight
and shine
ii 90 in, ye see, for the arts of peace, the
prosperity OF the people, and all that blesses
and embelllshes the life Of man but | would
not forget on this great Sabbath-day of the
nation, the glory our country has won in the ,,
held and on the wave. II isn't the pluck of
the bulldog or the game-cock in soldier
which | admire, but the high. souled heroism
that chooses liberty above life, and knows how
to make victory blessing to the world.
In the Revolution, and in the late war
against Great Britain we fought against foes
who were, only generation or two back, bone
OF our bone and flesh Of our flesh born broth
ers, they were Of course our equals in all quail
ties OF manhood. They had the advantage in
numbers arms, and oil the appointments of
war; but the strength of the cause was ours
we had the right and the Lord of Hosts was
with us. But if we had been unworthy and
incapable-if we had been poor in faith or
ieeling-poor in heart or hope-we would not
have been elected to the office Of banner bearer
In the army OF universal freedom The covenants
OF Heaven are made with faithful men; and a
people that falls away from its worthiness ia