Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-01
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with imagination and she compelled her
husband, by the omnipotent persuasion of her
genius, to break his vow.-to spare her heal,
and to listen to lone Thousand and One
Tales" We promised o,wselces, and our
readers, that ace would henceforth refrain
from the delicious intoxication Of revealing
among the literary delights OF the Worcester
Transcript; but Sias, inspired with genius
as lofty as that of the Oriental princess, or any
other "old woman" has exerted such a
powerful influence over all our thoughts, our
passions, and our delights, that he has COM
PEELED us, not to forget, but to forego, our
promise. The recollections of convulsive CO.
ordinations aud aching sides are feeble per-
suasives against INDUCING in Silas, when
opposed to the attraction of Silass seductive
talents. Memory shuts her eyes and falls
asleep, as the enchanting emanations of his
philosophic fancy come leapng from his gor-
gon brain; and, common sense, taken
aback,' goes down on her knees, and gives
right up to them. We have been forced to
give up to them several times; and if Silas
continues to be himself we never expect to
get to the bottom of them. There is rank,
racy freshness-we had almost said green,,ess--
of mortal vcrbage, in every succeeding article
which Silas writes, which completely ont
mystifes all its predecessors; and, warping
the intellectual soul i'll the mazes of literary
confusion, causes the vexed, but delighted
spirit to exclaim, What can he mean"
We copied part of an article from the pen
of Silas, and presented it to our readers as
a specimen of the extensive historical, topo-
graphical, and political requirements of our
illustrious neighbor. Netherlands ventured
to express our admiration of subsequent
Incubation, which glowed with the wit, and
grinned with the satire, of the extraordinary
man who has. for years, go admirably, sue
cessfully, and satisfactorily conducted the
leading Wing press of Worcester County,
Our readers Will bear with us if we once
again venture to present to them gem from
the Transcript of Silas.
Cnttims Bnit.
1t is really amusing to observe the various
attitudes certain persons are capable of assum-
ing to perpetuate their short lived official ex-
istence, and also to watch the specimens of
'sgrapd and lofty tumbling,'' of which certain
newspapers in this vicinity have lately shown
their capability, by their grand e1stree, i'll
throwing double sonersets. We are not to
suppose by all this, there is anything in their
operations like Fishing" o, no they are
not Jfshing-only cutting bait.
1t was once said 1.-The Ok knoweth his
owner, and the Ass his masters crib !" and
it may now be said that natural instincts will
predominant. The man who would attempt
despotic rule of the people to crafty his per-
sonal desires to domineer over their cherished
rights, and be revenged for an offence against
his self imposed dignity, might therefore be
expected to side with any movement or oper-
alton which would go to favor despotic rule.
But while we would be led to expect all this,
we would not naturally be induced to believe
that press which had once opened Its columns
against those oppressive institutions which di-
rectly tend to subverve the principles Of Re-
publicanism, could for once be induced to hold
up or defend institutions exactly the reverse
of what they claimed to be advocating. But,
as we have before said, natural instincts will
predominant, and for the sake Of the " loaves
and fishes the hungry deyotees of official
spoils, will seek the crib from whence they
expect to draw the s'pap" To this end they
make splurge, but find they only catch
porpoise. Anon they dive again, but find
they have seized upon shark and they let
him drop through their fingers as quietly as
possible, and then, like the porpoise, they will
blow away and bluster, because they have not,
caught something better.
We might here refer them, for solution of
the problem as to which side of the question
they really occupy, to Hamlets soliloquy.
"To be, or not to be, that is the question"
But after all it resolves itself into the mere
operation of cutting bait. 1t is an easy thing
to praise and tacitly adore those institutions of
despotism which would despoil our country of
her dearest rights, but it is not SO easy, even
by turning more than dozen double SOM
mersets to convince the firm lovers and up
holders Of her holy institutions, that the base
instincts of their depraved natures have not
turned them to the crib of despotism for the
sake of few kernels of its official corn.
We do not pretend to understand the above
article. We do not feel certain that Silas un-
derstood it when he produced it. We think
it bears internal evidence of not having been
written to be understood. There is a deep,
profound, abyssmal mystery about it, that be-
longs to no class of literature now existant
that we know of; and which only finds a par
allel in the sibylline volumes of antiquity,
which nobody ever read, and in the riddles of
the Sphynx, which nobody ever could under
stand. Sometimes you think that Silas meant
to be severe on somebody, when he wrote that
article, and then you reject such an idea as a
suicidal and preposterous one, for the severest
and most painful thing about it, must have
been the act of production. If Edipus were
to revisit the glimpses Of the sun in these
days, he might disclose the meaning which
lies hidden in the lexiconical labyrinth we
he or Silas was ever equal to such a task; but
as he sleeps in his Attic urn, and Silas, who
| is sui gsneris, knows no more than he knows,
and won't impart more than he can impart !;
we must continue to admire the lucubrations
of Silas, as the ancient Egyptians admired
the heroglyphics Of their pliests--because we
find it impossible to do anything else with
them.
| RoBBERY.-On Thursday, June %, three
young men from Providence, named VIM.
M. Bacon. james Webb, and Thos. Haley,
robbed desk in the house of Mark Aldrich,
Esq, in Smithfeld, of fifty dollars, and sun
dry valuable papers. They were arrested in
Milford, and after an examination at Woon-
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