The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-26
ABOUT THE ALDER
MAN.

rus hrother quill-driver bending oenea'"
= n' ;,bt of honor, which he hopes he VIII na''
,be strength to enjoy with all due eq"A"
II, He confesses himselfa little env'ous' '"'
somewhat disposed TO doubt the wisdom o. ou
o Lords and masters, the sovereign peop'e, "
e this exercise of their will and pleasure W.
that the individual in question 10 po'' J"
respect, we'll qualified TO administer uS"'e
M, that there ca be any doubt OF his capa
CITY, so far as the kead-rork is cohce'"eu
not that he has the smallest concep"'n ~"
his decisions will not be, in all cases. sallsiac
tory alike TO plaintiff and defendant ih''e
are important qualifications we aui'''
thew are moi the most important, as ihaS "
Issr,aa from precedents out OF NUMBER ru"
ming through the whole history OF the eouu"'
from which we derive the title ana 'he i'iS"'"
ton .rd continued in all the cities, towns and
horoucbs of this goodly republic. There
have been Aldermen who had no brains, OIL
Jns,ice Shallow was not copy from nature
There have been Aldermen without principle
&C there are thousands of instances to testify
There have been Aldermen who slept on the
bench, and decided cases between sleeping
and waking, as every man who has attended
the courts of these civic guardians can testify.
But was there ever an Alderman without a
reasonable protuberance in front-an Alder
man who did not fill up, to hair, the chair
destined TO hold his portIy person-an Alder
man who had not fat enough in his whole
body to grease pair of shoes-an Alderman
| who fitted his chair as the coat of giant
hangs upon halfgrown boy? If there was
ever before such a monstrosity, when and
where did it occurl
II may be said that the Alderman in ques.
| ton may make up for lost time-may put fat
upon his bones, as Iago advised Rodrigo to
put money in hispurse. All this may be pro-
bable enough, and il all we hear about "turtle
soup" and "Aldermanic dinners" be true, it
certainly does appear that he is bent upon
| qualifying himself for his honors. But he has
not done it yet, and, in the meantime, if the
| Dispatch was to be honored in the premises,
there was an individual, whom modesty for
bids us to name, that is qualified to fill a chair
respec table enough, in size, to crafty the
pride of all those who concur in the ancient
opinion, that the recipient of civic honors
should be man of some size. Why the good
old rule was broken through we cannot con-
ceive; and we begin 10 sympathise with the
old barber in the Antiquary, who maintained
that the bench had never given proper deci-
sion since the baillies ceased to wear queues
and have their heads powdered.
However, lest the writer Of this be suspect.
ed of even more jealousy than he entertains,
and he confesses to tolerable share, he will
cut this matter short, and agree to drown all
unpleasant feelings in a bowl of turtle soup
at the frs, Aldermauic dinner.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILRoAD.-The New
York Tribune announces, with great satisfac.
ton, that the Underground Railroad has just
elected new Board of Directors and is doing
very extensive business in the forwarding
line. 1t adds that sixty five passengers have
passed over the Underground" since January
last.
Well, let the Underground only do enough
business and the States through which its line
passes will tear il up and dismiss its officers
Following the example of the States of the
Northwest they will prohibit altogether the
importation in self defence. The ancestors of
these Underground people stole away the
long teethed Cannibals of Africa and sold them
TO the Southern planter-and now that throug h
successive generations they are civilized and
appear somewhat in the dignity of humanity
in It's better conditions, they wantto steal them
away from the planter and carry them North
wardly. So its all the time stealing. They
cannot forget their instincts-sane or insane,
the predominatng passion for roguery ap-
pears
The African is not born for the North, and
he will not thrive or be happy there-as we'll
take the monkeys of the tropics there, or the
elephant, or that hairless little dog of Mexico,
and expect them TO be suited, to thrive, and to
be always comfortable. The negro degene.
rates as he goes North his life is cut to the
shortest span-he becomes burthen and an
offence TO society-and society at the North
cannot permit that burthen to become great.
Thei Underground and Greedy will yet learn
this.
huniS oIHduOH1 III INC way Vi marrying Oetl'
cate white girls to the rough hewn woolly.
headed African, is thing that the Northern
people are not going to allow the Underground
nor Horace to visit upon them. A mulatto hy-
Bird child will be no pleasant relation to aunt,
or uncle, or grandpa. The Underground has
already begun its tricks in this way. Some
months since there was great row at Fulton,
New York, caused by a marriage that was
about to take place between Miss Mary E.
King Of that place, the daughter of the Rev
Lyndon King, and black teacher at Nc Graw.
vile, where there is an amalgamation school
The people enraged at the affair interfered with
a mob and prevented the bans, very much to
the delight of the Rev. Mr.. King, who, al
though an abolitionist, had no notion of having
the poisoned chalce brought to his own Iips
The teacher was frightened to death and mar
rowly escaped lynching. But the union ha:
, at last been accomplished in New i ork where
Mr.. w. G. Allen, colored, (callsd Professor j,
married TO Miss Mary E. King. So, poor ole