Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-20
The 4Esis ON Col. De witt, again.

Our neighbor, the .Egis, is distressed be-
cause the Wings Of the Ninth district have
generally consented to sustain Colonel De-
Witt, as representative to Congress. Our
neighbor feels bad about it-now uttering
most doleful complaints to the argent moon
then muttering hoarse soliloquies about the
good old times when wings 'oere wings. Some
times it will be as plaintive and tender as Sc
pulchral Shenstone, over the degeneracy of
the wings of Worcester county; at other
times he will be as hot and ironical as a the
atrical lover, to his false mistress, at the bare
idea of their supporting Free Soiler. Our
neighbor is not like patience on monument
smiling at grief; it is like grief, mounted on
donkey, frowning at patience 1t may not
be able to prevent Col. DeWitt's election but
it is bound to frighten all the wings who in
tie nd to vote for him. 1t does not mean to sit
quietly down, at this time and permit the
gallant Colonel to walk over the course with
out anybodys saying so much as bug-a- boo to
him. II will say bug-a-boo to him and to his
constituents too. Inaprimus, the -Egis broad
ly insinuates that Colonel Dewitt is New
Zealand Chief. 1t does not say that he is ex-
aeby-
"Hokey. Pokey -winkie-F um-
Fliberty- Floberty Musky Blum,
the king of the cannibal islands," but it al
most leads you to infer that he can be nobody
else. Our neighbor says
IS A course of reasoning, not exactly plain
to us, has brought out the fact that whenever
Neao Zealand Chief takes a manly stand "
against the man eating proclivity of his fell
lows, he is entitled to the support which we
should otherwise have given to some ordinary
white man.
Now, the New Zealand chief" of the
above paragraph is Colonel De Witt. Per-
haps some persons may consider this 90 New
Zealand CHIEF" as nothing but an categorical
figure, but they are mistaken if they think
SO, for our neighbor is in earnest about it.
He evidently meant to intimidate vegetarian
wings and nativist wings from voting for a
cannibal and New Zealander.
After exhausting the New Zealand chief
idea, the .Egis next shows up Col. De Witt
as I" believer in the theory of free trade"
and it solemnly asks the Wings if they can
vote for man with such principles. If they
do, the .Egis, with sardonic irony, says it
will show the wonderful efficacy of charity.
In the language of our contemporary:
50 Such il doubtless the wonderful efficacy
of charity-to work over old antipathies,
make a confused pulp of the political garrett
full of hard feelings, and therefrom manufac-
ture the paper on which a new "platform"
is to be written, transmute jealousy into
friendship, turn hate into fawning, and like
a necromancer's diG6lerie, put the incongru-
GUS chaos of broken politics and policies
under hat (the hat of an Office seeker and
bring them out again, all as nicely fitted as
the ivory sections of Chinese puzzle"
We know it is hard for any man to stand
upagainst such dreadful broadsides of inu-
endo as that which We have quoted from the
.Egis but still we think that Colonel De
Witt viii survive it and we think, also, that
sensible Wings will not be deferred from
voting for him, by all that has been said by
our chivalrous neighbor.