Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-09-19

R6S~Oh for Lodge in some vast wilderness-no'
very particular about the sort OF Lodge SO 1t De not
q Know Nothing Lodge-some place, IN fact wnere
we could lay down or rise up stand or walk without
hearing about copy and such like denominations
Where we could hear no news and nobody would
ask US about it, where we would taste the sweets
that liberty can give.
We read once a sketch of the state Of things in
Jamaica or some other tropical country, and we re-
member that it was therein gravely stated That
when two planters met, instead OF the usual no"
do YOU do or d" how are you" of other chimes, they
always asked each other show do you persplre,"
that being the criterion. they perspire freely all
was right If rot, they went off quietly and made
their wills, their friends going home and making
their preparations to attend the funeral. Now, We
think that there was philosophy in all this, at least
it is somewhat corroborated by our own experience
and feeling. During the extremely heated term OF
midsummer, we feel hot and uncomfortable, but
like the Jamaica planters, we perspire comfortably,
but the Fall comeson there comes with 1t lever
sh nervous feeling, aggravated by confinement the
energies seem to be Frustrated, and even the tacul-
ties of the mind are no longer under the control of
the will. Mental effort becomes labor OF the most
rksome character and the most equable disposition
irritable and captious The teeth are set on edge
with nsi,y suggestive of biting Oft ten-Penny
nails, the whole combined infue nces resulting IN
fit of what is vulgarly known as the blues"
From all that has gone before, our readers might
be lead TO the conclusion that the editor ohe Journal
although never "blue," has got " the blues or
speaking more properly, the blues have got him.
AS to how this may be- we unwilling to pro-
nounce an opinion, vet certain it is that like Nebu
Standardization some person more fond OF scrip
tural illusions than versed in Biblical loTe called
Saint Ncb1chadnezzer,-we feel like going to grass
At anv rate, we do not feel like writing editorials
or getting up copy
| All this is nothing and worse than notnlng we
SUPPOSE and we only introduce it as preliminary and
explanatory, to account for the meagreness OF our
columns and the absence of any thing in the editorial
line possessing either point interest. The human
organization is most remarkable affair, but not a
piece of machinery, in the usual meaning OF the
word. 1t can't always be made to do this or that,
thus and so. So dull do we feel that we are even
now somewhat in the predicament of one Enoch
Dodge of Boston, comic singer OF some little noorety,
the possessor Of a lugubrious countenance: black
suit and white CHECKER, who happened to form one OF
a company Of stage passengers stopping for dinner
| in the interior OF Vermont. From his clerical ap-
pearance Dodge was selected by the host to say
grace and at it he went, and started, the only
difficulty with him was TO wind up. The hungry
passengers grew impatient and still Dodge kept on
until an idea struck him and he concluded his prayer
by remaining yours truly Enoch Dodge & Co.; on the
same principle we assure the reader that we remain
his very obedien servant etc. etc and so forth.
The excitement in the Northern States must I've in
tense, and growing still greater as the campaign pro
crosses such meetings have been held, are ever
now assembling, and will doubt be yet held, are
without parallel in the political history of the
z try. At New York, Tippecanoe, Cincinnati, Chca
go, Pitsburg, and Concord New Hampshire, the
Democratic gatherings have been measured by acres
8 and numbered by twenties of thousands; Douglas
Richardson, Cass and Others rousing the Nortl
West and all that is brightest and best in the North
Q ern Atlantic States, is pushing the column. Tn
times out of joint, but need falter, dis
# pair, while, even in the very hot beds of abolition
factionism, they turn their eyes to such noble
champions such faithful Masses devoted to the Con
: stitution.
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