Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-06-24


Try your teeth in this tough old hide, ye
whipper-snappers. There s blood in me
that would make you as drunk as Dlazcs
for the rest Of your lives, and give you
the first peep Of glory that ever opened
upon your benighted souls.
"Thc follies Of the dead arc buried with
them. They were not worth minding
then, nor remembering now; but didn't l
tell your respectable daldics that they
we're making fools of themselves in the
whiskey insurrection? Blackguardism
is mt democracy! When Washington
came to Bedford with the army, the Ale
gheny Mountain rocked under his foot
steps, and the -diminutivc little manikins
that danced like drunk monkeys around
their pig-nut liberty pole in the sdiamond
over there, tremblel in their shoes till you
could hear their toe-nails jingle. was a
democrat, Jeffersonian democrat then, as
| am now: but l was MT a demagogue, a
coward, or brcad-mouthed brawler against
my country, its laws, and the constitution.
"Iour grandmothcrs can tell you what
a rumpus the same ninnies raised around
me, for the first wagon-roaI made over the
mountains to Pittsburgh. Itwould break
up the pack-horse men, forsooth, and the
tayern-keepers aud horsc-brceders would
be ruined, when one wagon could carry as
much salt, bar-iron, and brandy from Bal
timorc, as whole caravan of half-starved
mountain ponies. But told them then,
that, of ail 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 1 was but boy, l discov-
cred that nothing less than too much is
plenty, in the American meaning of the
word. That's the difference between a
man of faith and the snobs that do all their
travelling in a tread-mill.
But with such snipcs nothing can be
done. Cure them of witchcraft and they
slide into fortunc-t telling, or some other
stupid kind of wonder working; for they
understand nothing, either by insight or
experience. After while when the pros
perity, which they at first resisted, poured
down upon them from spout, they went
crazy, and 1 was mobbed again for stand
ing by Simon Snyder's veto of that batch
of shin-plaster banks which the lcgis!a-
ture chartered by a two-thirds vote, and
gave you your keepsakes of Owl-crcek aud
Mutton-t town bills. And now, wheeling
gee, as much too far as ye went haw, be-
fore, you are believing at the top of your
voice, and the end Of your wits, against all
bank paper!
as it any wonder that I keep my old
grudge at the devil for making such peo-
pie! Jack, Ito a darkic carter, occupied
at the other end of the table upon the
breast bone Of turkey which he was pol
ishing,) you may as well quit beating and
bothering your mules; make their breech-
bands Of shect-iroH, and the traces Of cob
web; for the more you wallop them, the
more they won't 60. My donkies are Of
the same breed perciscly, and they are all
on a spree just now, kicking out their hoofs
at freemasonry! That's the secret of all
the villainy and blundering in legislation,
is it? Butter your brains, and give them
to the dogs for New Years gift, and let
somebody else do your thinking. Oh, it's
enough to sicken snipe to hear a two
penny pettifogger railing at the great men
who have given US our free institutions,
and built up this model republic into
worlds wonder and to see herd of driy-
Cling noodles drinking in his profanity
like the words Of life =! But Providence
always had his hands full of such forlorn-
tiles. If He can bear with them, 1 may.
He will find the men somehow, when the
time comes, to do up the worlds work
upon the principles Of everlasting truth.
The universal laws keep the earth in its
orbit, and all the crawlcrs on its surface
can't shake, or turn it from its track. l
believe and live. Behold, ye despisers,
and wonder and perish.
q" And there is the common school sys-
tenn that l have been laboring for, until it
is at last fairly on foot See that you keep
it alive, and make it answer the glorious
purpose of its establishment. Don't clip
it down to nothing by your beggarly econ-
omy. Iwish to the Lord that you under
stood thinking as well as you do eating,
and could feel an empty head as painfully
as an empty stomach. Can't you under
stand that keeping money in your pocket
is not saving it? A dollar in buckskin
purse won't breed a sixpence in hundred
years but employed 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 OF it
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