Washington sentinel., 1854-05-28
DEAD AND BURIED.


lamentation as of Rachael weeping for her chill.
dren. One voice Of distress, Of mourntulness
and sorrow, mingles its melancholy tones with
the swelling peals of general joy; it is that OF
our venerable contemporary of the Ndfso"ds
Lnteiligencer. 1t pauses in its wailings to tell
the tale of its distress !, and in solemn strains
it thus relates it: t& .tLh
i "The final blow was inflicted on the venera-
BILE Missouri Compromise on Thursday night
last, and this ancient paciicator OF the country
this healer of dscord, this friend of the Union,
was dispatched in the Senate House little
after midnight by a majority of almost three 10
one"
1t seems from this that murder has been
/ com ommitted-murder " most foul and most un-
natural" 1t is not sweet but useless babe
who has been slain-it is not a wild and reck-
less young man. but it is a sober, venerable
old gentleman, whose throat has been cut from
ear to ear. His name (Phobusl what namely
/ is Missouri Compromise. He was born in
| 1920, and died on the morning of Friday, May
26 1854 This would make him but about
thirty-three years Of age; but, as the hatelk-
gencer pronounces him venerable, we must even
regard him as old. Perhaps the Latelligencer
regards him as identical (except in point Of
name) with that other old gentleman known as
the ordinance of 's7 We think this likely.
1t is cruel to laugh while others weep; it is
more cruel to convert into source of meri-
/ fha law, ,fx,+ hot Il.
Dor with agony. The Latelligencer merits much
of veneration by reason of it's years, much of
respect by reason of its gentle, gentlemanly
old-fashioned an&unvarying courtesy, and much
of admiration by reason of its ability, and of
the quaint but almost faultless style of its ar
ticles; but despite these things, we cannot re-
press smile at its ludicrous misery. We
speak but our honest opinion, when we say
that the style Of its articles is that of the real
classic old English. We hope that this COM
an ample atonement for any small liberties we
may take in the way Of harmless merriment.
The obituary it writes is dotted with sighs,
punctuated with groans, and sprinkled with
tears instead of sand. The illustrious deceased
| has many virtues accorded to him. He is re-
| presented as pacifcator healer" and
a friend of the country" Had he died in
the ordinary course of nature, it would not
have been so bad. A marble slab and short
| eptaph over retired grave in the Con-
gressional burial ground would have told the
tale But the bloody hand of violence was
laid upon him, and his venerable jugular and
his sacred carotid were profanely and savage
/ ly severed. Under such circumstances, the
Iatelhgencer, friend of his family, very ftly
aments his decease:
! ut aments in rhyme-laments in prose,
With salt tears trickling down its nose" s,s
| To the prose portion of its notice of the
death and burial Of Missouri compromise"
it bitches on those delightful stanzas that tell
Of old "Gasper," and his grandchildren, :" Will
helmina," and Peterkin,' which we used to
read and love in boyhood.
The Ltelligencsr plays the part of young
I Peterkin, and rolls over the skull Of Missouri
compromise deceased, who was cruelty slain,
! and, like the innocent grandson, asks what
Missouri compromise deceased, was killed for.
The only answer given is that it was " a famous
| victory"
Now, the Istelligcncer will pardon us for
suggesting that the part Of the melancholy
| Hamlet would better suit it. When in its visit
to the yard it takes up the skull of Mis-
souri, compromise, as the Dane took the skull
Of Yorck, the player, assuming tragical look
and pointing with its finger, it might say, and
say truly:
sHere hung those lips that have kissed so Oft"
| 1t might also well wonder that it should smell
So for the odor arising from the deceased is
not by any means pleasant.
Now, in our opinion, the measure which the
Latelligencer has seen fit to impersonate-the
Missouri compromise-was very wicked, in
dividual. He repealed the Constitution, and
he deserved himself to be repealed. An eye
for an eye, and tooth for TOOTH" He slew,
and he deserved to be slain. He deserves no
able Journal as the Iatelligencer bending over
the grave and weeping so bitterly. 1t is the
chief mourner in o bad company of mourners.
1t stands with all the abolitionsts, all the free
soilers, and all the incendiares, who tear their
hair and wiring their hands in frantic violence.
In that band of mourners, how few there are
in whom the Latelligencer can recognize fit as
sociates, and how sadly out of place those few
look. They look crestiallen and ashamed, and
well may they SO look.
= y
BsS@ The Virginia papers tell a sad tale of
the ravages committed by the jointworm on
the growing crop of wheat. 1t is said that
the crops never looked more fourishing or
promised better yield than they did before
this destructive worm made its appearance.
1t is the privilege of farmers to grumble. They
have been called o grumbling generation.
But the lont-worm, we are sorry to say, has