The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-09-12

raj tact Is peculiarly eppneaoie 70 rouho
heads, and is partly owing TO the capacity
of such forms to resist any external inju-
~, or to sapport any great pressure, and
partly to the difficulty with which any
great force is made to bear upon such bod
les. Indeed it is almost impossible to
even infiict severe blow upon such body,
because the blow viii either glance, or the
body will move; and the result is the
same in either case. Its sphericity is its
great defence. The great ease with which
such bodies move, or rather, are 4aored,
permit them to pass through the world
without ever being brought into severe
conflict; while ether bodies are subject
to having their corners knocked of, and
being otherwise severely battered and
broken. The greatest difficulty expert
enced by round heads is, their want of in
herent force, or ability to move themselves;
but not unfrequently they find themselves
upon dozen grade. Here they are en-
tirely at home, and move with greater
ease and velocity than other heads, wheth-
err they be long heads or deep heads. But
if obstacles are to be overcome, if difficult
ties are to be surmounted. or grading is to
be done, round heads are of "no account u
You not only cannot rely upon them in
such emergencies, but are frequently al
no little trouble and perplexity, when the
strength which numbers sometimes gives
is wanted to block them up. And it will
often happen, after all your painstaking,
that the blocking gives way, or round
head moves little to the right or left,
and is soon at the bottom of the hill: his
velocity sometimes buries him deep in the
mud.
1t is perhaps in some measure owing to
this circumstance that politics have be-
come SO corrupt, and good cleanly men
| feel such aversion to entering the muddy
waters" Nevertheless these men must
be dag out and made use of; for, above all
others, these men are politicians. They
are popular men; and, notwithstanding all
their filth and summersets, they pride
themselves upon their consistency, and
defantly challenge you to show any differ
ence in their present and former positions.
And however certain you may be that
they have often changed, you are put to
your trlmps to show it; for their smooth,
spherical surface always presents itself,
and you cannot convince q careless locker
on that they have ever changed at ALL
Should you enter into conversation with
one of these shrewd politicians, and at
first he seemed little wrong, very little
quiet rolling would put him all right, and
you would hardly be conscious yourself
of the change. As ever their sphericity
is their defence.
Not so with other heads: they have
strong points and always indicate some
thing. Like the needle they are some-
times disturbed when in too close prox-
unity to certain metals; and it may be
that their polarity will yield to equatorial
influences, and for time they will point
you to the east and the west as we'll as
the north and the south. It is necessity
of their nature to be outspoken, and al
ways to have some specific and well m
derstood object in view.
This popularity renders them liable to
the charge of Inconsistency" of being
zone idea men," of always having some
hobby" &c. All this round head escapes.
for ne always indicates one thing as much
as another; in short points to every spot
in the heavens, and what is still more. to
every spot in hell.
This class of politicians, owing to their
peculiar organization, may in some sense
be considered non-resistants. We hone
no non-resistant, who is SO from principle.
will suppose We confound him with the
class who are SO owing to their organiza-
ton. The one will not resist, not because
he has not the requisite force or ability to
do so; but because he deems persuasion
stronger than coercion; the other does not
resist, because he cannot. Either wind or
tide is too strong for him; a popular cur.
rent is too strong for him, and as for as
cending the chill of difficulty" the thought
is not to be endured.
From the ease with which round heads
change position, or, in other words, roll.
it would seem that motion was their nat
ural state; but like all other bodies they
are subject to the same law. If they arc
inmotion it is because they have been put
in motion, and so of rest.
By keeping this fact in view we arrive
at many important solutions. Not unfre-
4uently this class of persons are considered
Headers" aye, "sagacious Leaders,! By
keeping in mind their history, this is all
made plain and easy of solution. On a
io,czs grade round heads are certainly hard
o beat; and it matters not whether the |
Tade lies toward the depot you have left
md hoped never again to run into, or to-
Yards the one you seek. Ten to one, af.
er you have leveled the hill that Law
'etween you and equal rights, round head
viii beat you on to the field of common
motherhood; and once on the ground, his
enunciation of oppression viii entirely
rown all other heads and voices, and he
I'LL be the principal stockholder in inal-
'aabe rights. Very likely round head
I'LL be President of the Emancipation
poad, provided colonization stock be dull
n change.
Thus IL NAV not unfreouently hapnen