The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-10-01
From tho Transcript and Eclectic.
Letter from Ethan Spike.
IIoRNBY, 1856

| aCc1OuntaDle cr1JteTS-tO.uay We grow
up like green bay horse planted by the
water rivers-to-morrow we are cut
down like Jonah's gourdstick Mortal
critters is made subject to vanity and
none can tell the day thereof. believe
all the foregoin is scripter and in my
sitooatiou, very eddyfyin,
Ii did seem to me that l was not
praoud-that I was kinder bum proof
agin all airthly vanites, an that could
stand any amount of blusbiu onners a
generous publck could bestow,-but
taint so. I've been weighed in the bal
ance an kicked the beam. | do believe
I'm as praoud as Cock-tuikey with a
new set of tail feathers. The sudden an
unexpected manner in which | ris, per-
haps accaount for it. As Sinsinnsty was
called from the plaow, so was tuck from
chopin fire wood to my present sitooa-
tion. Ef I'd been kinder boosted up by
| dcgroes-ef | hadn't ris right up at
wunst-'twould bin different As tis,
| taiDt so.
Ny feelius is ondescribable, twoomul-
toous, omfbyous an fast risin. All my
vitals seem to be slngin comck songs
conspickerous among which is, Hale
Kerlumby,' All raound my hat au the
Roguo's march,
want ter know what I'd best do
baout sosbaytin with the neighbors.
don't want TO be hard on them, but it
sceIls sort Of proper that body should
magnify his offs. 1t sartinly stans to
mater au reason both, that thar should be
a lectle difference atween a parson elc-
waited by a sponinash1s outoust Of the
sovrin will TO high place, in the
rcrlisital Judy-Kature an civil ambi-
guilty an common every day fellor crit
ter. Leastways them is my sentiments,
an [ should like to git your idees on il:
Cos ef fellcr aiut ris by gottn into Of
fs what's the uso gittin into it anyway ?
Ny idce oilers has bin that offs should
looked u2 TO, an in course, eff you look
up to the offs, you nat,oraly take iu the
inkumberaucG of that oGis with tic Same
look.
Bat. as [ said, don't waut to be hard
or oronjust. | only want e proper line Of de-
narration atween pao9ers that 60 and
paowcrs that bcaut. As yet | haven't
done much abaou; it. I've bin kinder
sottin up with Patience pillsbury lately,
but as her fathers never been in oGis--
though Ls was ccndydate for hog reef
twice, au run daoun both times, felt |
couldn't g. less than let her know thar
is qaIie heap Of difference tween Mr..
Spike al 8 Spike, Esq 60 to;her night
oonin aout Of noetin, / hope to heller
Of that ere gal dilu't come right up an
hitch On .ny arm jast as. s.though she'd a
nqtrral onnleenablo right | list drew
/. p to my full statooary. Marm,' said
j, apeerantly you ar mistaken in the in,
dividooal,' says |.
Lord Ethan says she, what d. you
mean ? don't I know youl
Ef you do says I, the acquaintance
aint mootooal-I don't know you any.
howp So sayin | shook her of, and
was marching off as diguiiiod as Gineral
Crimeah, when that tarnal gal flew at
me jist like sottin hin, aud ef Ben Pea
body hadn't smoothercd her with h;3
bat, my two eyes would have gone far it,
sastin. AS It's my face looks though l
lin fghtin o match with q wild cat and
come on second best.
Republics oibt half so ongrateful as =
used to think they was. Wauiin CHS
aud gottin oiiis is altogether different.
In the fust condition [ used to think
everything w,,s wrong and cussad
everybody, naow everything looks jist a.
baout right, and love all my .eller crit
tcrs everywhar, exceptin or course that
ere scratching gal, niggers, an them as
don't vote aour side.
Curos haow modest merit is sure to
lie faound aout sooner or later, taint in
its natter to lay hid long, though twas
considerable time afore mine spraouted
SO as to be seen an noticed. But its al!
aout now, TIA appreciated Tin a mag
natary of the land I'm pillar of State;
prop Of the cons,itootion en- one of tho
main stays Of the eternal perladyum OF
hewman ipdurance,
| wish | wGs more meceer, but its no
Use, can't be. Perhaps some thar ar
daoHn in iie eonmau craowd may think
its proper easy to be meek, but ee .hey
ever find themselves in my Si.ooaton, (I
hope they Wont i'll | got a better)
they'll b. rasl'es apt to find I. castor to
preach than praotyse.
Sioh hyialutin emotions rise continoo.
ally in my bussuil, sieh patriotic swell,
lins aud hecyina; why ef | had the
toungs Of Greeks an Jewsharp, with
saoundin brass an tinker symbols I
couldn't give expression more'n tho l
/ was stoan blind. Sometimes there's a
blazin feeling comes over me, and | long
TO do something for my country, At sich
times it raaly seems Of J. should catch
fcller saying or doin anything agin the
eonstitootion, I'd pitch into him like 76
e, Of didn't think he could lick me.
rd kill a mexican in a mint
! The press has done the harnsome thing
in noticing my permOtion. oilers went
in for ontramelled presses, l shall now
60 deeper. l was the or,her or anyhow
! oTter bin, for its my sentiments, of tho
lines commencin
Here shall the press the peoples rights
| maintain,
The lion beat the unicorn, &c, &C.
! am praoud Of the press, nraOud OF
my country and praoud Of myself
Hooray for all three-iong may they