The Georgetown news., 1855-06-28
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A DAGUERRLoTYPE LIKENESS.

The following daguereotype likeness of
that mysterious parsonage, commonly called
Sam was drawn by the master hand of
the eloquent Rayner, of North Carolinia.-
1t is picture worth looking at:
There is a certain parsonage abroad in
the land, at the sound Of whose voice the
shackles of party drop from the hands Of
our people, like those of Paul and .Silas at
the approach of the angel. Although the
echo of his footsteps is not heard, yet to the
demagogue and party hack, he is as terrible
as an army with banners He is no ma
gician, and yet touch of bis wand, like
that of the spear of Ithuriel causes the mask
to drop from the face of hypocrisy, and ex-
poses selfshness and party bigotry in all
their deformity. He comes with his fan in
his hand and purges his floor as he goes
They call him Sam But it is not Uncle
Sam Uncle Sam is venerable in years,
with a sound head and an honest heart
But he is grown DID, bent in form. bowed
down with the heavy burdens which the
lazy and the avaricious, the cunning aud
selfish, have heaped upon his shoulders and
compelled him to wear. This person to
whom | allude, is the first born and dutiful
son. He has come to his fathers relief
With all the wisdom and honesty of his SIRE
he possesses the buoyancy, the vigOr and
strength of youth. His muscles are elastic
and his sinews tough. His mission is to Wis
it every city, town and hamlet in the land.
He is equally at home in the mansions of the
great and the cottage of the lowly. He
takes his seat at the council board of the
wise and ministers at the couch of the af-
ficted. He whispers the word of hope,
which nerves the arm of the mechanic in his
workshop, and walks beside the farmer as
he turns up the furrOws Of his field. His
march is onward. He passes rivers at a
bound scales mountains at a leap, and
through swamp and forest he never loses his
way. He never stops, except to drop a tear
on the grave Of some revolutionary hero, for
his heart is as tender as his nerves are
strong. He watches around our dwellings,
when we are asleep, and slumber never
weighs heavy on his eyelids. He carries in
his hand the flag of his country, which has
so often withstood the battle and the breeze
The halo of freedom beams upon his coun-
tenance, and the enemies of the Union fly
at his coming like kites and crows at the
eagles swOop. He never strikes without
warning, bnt when he does, the edge Of his
claymOre sewers joints and marrow, and a
hecatomb falls at every blow. The creed
of his faith is the constitution of his coun-
try, and Luther and Washington are his two
great exemplars of religious and civil free
dom Bars and bolts cannot screen the
chcanery of midnight caucuses from his
ken, and convent walls cannot be too high
for him. Chattering demagogues- grow
dumb at his approach, and bishops mitre
and JesnitS robe fall from the head of pam
pered insolence and skulking knavery at his
touch. He cheers the heart of the honest,
patriotic and good, with the smile of hero
at their country's deliverance-and to the
wicked, the hypocritical, the selfish, he speaks
their day of doom. After having gone his
destined round, he will finish his labors by
lashing, with the thongs of public indigna-
tion, from the temple of legislation at Wash
ington, those who have been desecrating
freedoms affairs by offeIing victims Of polit-
ical idols. After such Herculean labor,
he will need at least four years repose, which
he will spend in the white House When
he returns again to private life, he will leave
his warning admonition with his country
men, to preserve our institutions, from evil
and corrupting tendencies of foreign inhu-
ence; and to maintain and defend the Union,
to cherish cordial, habitual, and immov-
able attachment to it; accustoming them
selves to think and speak Of it as the palla-
dium Of their political safety and prosperity;
and watching for its preservation with zeal
Gus anxiety"
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