The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-06-19
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LED BY THE NOSE.


the way 10 amy special place, are apt 20
answer, F." Follow your nose, and you are
sure to 70 right | know not how this
direction may have served others for
my own part, my nose has often led ne
wrong. Indeed. | have sometimes
thou ht it pity that we cannot smell
the polar star as well as see it. Asccr-
tanning the point of the compass in which
our desired goal lies, we might then, by
shutting as we walked, follow our noses
to some purpose. Moreover, this would
extend the utility Of the star in another
way. At present it serves the traveller
only on bright nights. But if, to use
lamct's verb, we could "nosc it " as
well aseyc it, we could derive help from
it on dark nights, and all through the
day Sec where am wandering; the
polar star is not required to lead many
noses in England nowadays. But |
have story OF Il man who once followed
his nose to some purpose.
About the close of the last century,
William Sedley was apprcnticed to Il
farmer near Nottingham. At the time
his father was butcher in the town !;
his books showed good returns. He had
been "Jom Painitc:" in religion,
sceptical in politics, republican. The
"iSucicty of Sons OF Freedom" accounted
him leading member not for his clo-
oucncc, assuredly, though i'll many
speeches he had literally disposed OF the
king and peers of England and Of their
property; but, | am afraid, for his
money. lncorruptiblc patriots uncover
to the man with the purse. The frame
work knittcrs looked upon him as a faith
full Abdicl among that company of the
faitlless, wcll-doing tradcsmcn. They
the chorus of the play of liberty, UNI
covered to him in tho ';'rkct-piace
TEcse distinctions grati!icd Tie pompous
butcher. Though to be large among tic
little, is really smaller than being little
among the large, it seems greater. John
Sedley accepted the seeming; he mag
unanimously sacrificed the being. Auto
crat was his fancy. So that he had it,
it was of small nnment whether blues or
tri-colors gave i him.
So for Il time he ruled among the tri-
colors. But c,e spring day an event
occurred wlsh wholly changed the
politics Of ~ republican butcher. Meat
was at a wy high rate, and continued
to rise heler. The mob had been told
a great pnly times that they were the
people, that everything belonged to
thepeople. One evil May-day, they cot
out Of bed, under the dclusion that thcv
were the people, and marched to the
shambles to attest their right to their
own. They tore down the shutters and
doors; they loaded their wives and
children and themselves with the meat :;
they seized the butchers books, and
burned them, like necronancers and
hcretics, i'll the market-place. This
made meat no cheaper; but it made j ohm
Sedey a tory.
He ceased to subscribe to the Jacobin
periodicals.. He found no more money
for fiery tracts. He received no drapers'
invoices for rbands of three colors any
longer; nor did he hand them over to
his housen!aid to stitch into cockades,
lie gave halt-a-guinea toward the mar
tyrdol2 Of Thomas Paine, lin straw and
intcntion.) lie even became a wooden
well-holdcr in st. Nicholas Church, and
went thithcr regularly Sunday morning
and evening. Nor was this the loss it at
first appeared. Though two entire hours,
twice on Sunday, was great sacrifice of
business to propriety, he had compcn-
satlon in the gain of the hours heretofore
spent with the /" Sons of Freedom. -
And after two or three Sundays, he found
more positive benefit therein. 1t cave
him a quiet opportunity to examine his
weekly accounts.
But the younger Scdlcy could not get
over his republicanism with the ease of
the elder; for Master William also had
been bitten with the .turor libertatas.-
The disease was epidemcal in England
at that time. But men caught it ac-
cordlng to their constitutions, and were
cured of it according to their constitu-
tons. His autocratic disposition had
led John Sedley into it; incense pleas
ant to that disposition had kent him
there. But William became republican
from the emulation and hope that CLOVIS
IN young man. The young were more
susceptible to this disease than the old
,ay' and IRE; almost every youth
whom Hod is about to use passes through
1t. External influences also farthered
ts growth in William-thc Greek and
No,''''l heroes in school books, the lean
iho measre framework knittcrs who
passed hi him in the streets. Hereditary
causes also must be counted. An infu-
sion OF lneparental vanity had crcpt into
voice. ana T1 could speak without stun.
into lo1dne; . dropped It low, did what IT
and clearly, will convince and al carry those
whom talking wisely nsro s' would u" T 1"
and the recolle'ten that h eO was rich ,
name among the Sons &c I Erood q ,"' ;
:.Father," said wiI Ii nf0o ouo d,v.
i" they have been duck n' n u"u NJ NJ !
Sandy in the Leen." us Pooi -'ou
"Poor Ncd." saidMs ea ,,1,
a past-hope Jacobin. VINE S' hor ii1 hs . ,
lent the Rights of Man t: to 10y, ;uo Nv :
tice Ben. See me catch p' our PLen- ,,
on that book again, and III ~, as ioo uns
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