Thet the fears of a monkey, whose holt chanced to fail, So, wen one's chose to Congriss, ez soon ez he's in it, Resolves, do you say, o' the Springfield Convention? They 're a cheap kind o' dust fer the eyes o' the people; An' chat fer a spell o' the crops an' the weather, Then, comin' to order, they squabble awile An' let off the speeches they 're ferful 'll spile; Then Resolve, Thet we wunt hev an inch o' slave territory; Thet President Polk's holl perceedins air very tory; But 't would be a darned shame to go pullin' o' triggers So they march in percessions, an' git up hooraws, Ware A sot afore, B is comf'tably seated, Now, to keep unimpared all these glorious feeturs I'm willin' a man should go tollable strong Coz then he'll be kickin' the people's own shins; On'y look at the Demmercrats, see wut they 've done They 've sucked us right into a mis'able war Thet no one on airth aint responsible for They 've run us a hundred cool millions in debt, (An fer Demmererat Horners ther's good plums left yet;) They talk agin tayriffs, but act fer a high one, An' butter their bread on both sides with The Masses, Now all o' these blessin's the Wigs might enjoy, * That was a pithy saying of Persius, and fits our politicians without a wrinkle, — Migister artis, ingeniique largitor venter.-H. W. An' they notice it less 'an the ass did to Balaam; In this way they screw into second-rate offices Wich the slaveholder thinks 'ould substract too much off his ease; The file-leaders, I mean, du, fer they, by their wiles, Wal, the Wigs hev been tryin' to grab all this prey frum 'em An' to hook this nice spoon o' good fortin' away frum 'em An' they might ha' succeeded, ez likely ez not, In lickin' the Demmercrats all round the lot, Ef it warn't thet, wile all faithful Wigs were their knees on, Some stuffy old codger would holler out, "Treason! You must keep a sharp eye on, a dog thet hez bit you once, An' I aint agoin' to cheat my constitoounts," Wen every fool knows thet a man represents Not the fellers thet sent him, but them on the fence, – An' make the fust use of a turn o' the tide, Who compose wut they call a State Centerl Committy. But arterwards don't weigh the heft of a pin. It's the folks thet air kind o' brought up to depend on 't Now here wuz New England ahevin' the honor "She don't want no more Speakers, but She's hed plenty o' them, wut she wants is a doer”? Thet her own representatives du her quite brown. But thet's nothin' to du with it; wut right hed Palfrey To mix himself up with fanatical small fry? Warn't we gittin' on prime with our hot an' cold blowin', Acondemnin' the war wilst we kep' it agoin'? We'd assumed with gret skill a commandin' position, On this side or thet, no one could n't tell wich one, We were ready to come out next mornin' with fresh ones; Fer could n't we du wut we would with our own? An' ef a man can, wen pervisions hev riz so, Eat up his own words, it's a marcy it is so. Wy, these chaps frum the North, with back-bones to 'em, darn 'em, 'Ould be wuth more 'an Gennle Tom Thumb is to Barnum; An' these few exceptions air loosus naytury Folks 'ould put down their quarters to stare at, like fury. It's no use to open the door o' success, Ef a member can bolt so fer nothin' or less; Wy, all o' them grand constitootional pillers Our fore-fathers fetched with 'em over the billers, Wile to slav'ry, invasion, an' debt they were swep' on, Ef members in this way go kickin' agin 'em, They wunt hev so much ez a feather left in 'em. An', ez fer this Palfrey,* we thought wen we'd gut him in, * There is truth yet in this of Juvenal, "Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas." H. W. An' wen Sam gits tipsy an' kicks up a riot, An' reads, with locked doors, how we won Cherry Buster; Hides his crown underneath an old shut in his bureau, You say, “We'd ha' scared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these"? Who is it dares say thet "our naytional eagle Wun't much longer be classed with the birds thet air regal, Coz theirn be hooked beaks, an' she, arter this slaughter, 'll bring back a bill ten times longer 'n she ough' to"? Wut's your name? Come, I see ye, you up-country feller, You've put me out severil times with your beller; Out with it! Wut? Biglow? I say nothin' furder, * Jortin is willing to allow of other miracles besides those recorded in Holy Writ, and why not of other prophecies? It is granting too much to Satan to suppose him, as divers of the learned have done, the inspirer of the ancient oracles. Wiser, I esteem it, to give chance the credit of the successful ones. What is said here of Louis Philippe was verified in some of its minute particulars within a few months' time. Enough to have made the fortune of Delphi or Hammon, and no thanks to Beelzebub neither! That of Seneca in Medea will suit here: "Rapida fortuna ac levis Præcepsque regno eripuit, exsilio dedit." Let us allow, even to richly deserved misfortune, our commiseration, and be not over-hasty meanwhile in our censure of the French people, left for the first time to govern themselves, remembering that wise sentence of Eschylus, Απας, δὲ τραχὺς ὅστις ἂν νέον κρατῇ. H. W. |