Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 20, Number 7, Vincennes, Knox County, 28 March 1829 — Page 4
POETICAL ASYLUM.
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FROM THE WESTERN TIMES. PARODY ON PSALM XXIV. This earth with all that it affords, The fulness of the sea and land. With all their glory are the Lord's They sprung from naught at his command. His power rules the boundless sea?, His voice the roaring Hoods obey, The raging winds, the gentle breeder, Confess his universal sway. Who shall ascend the mount of God, Or in that holy place can stand, When worlds are crumbled bv hh nod, And lightning's fly at his command ? 'Tis he who hath an upright heart, Whose hands arc wash 1 from every stain, Who doth from vanity depart And truth and purity retain. The purest blessings of the Lord, Shall surely unto him be given, 'Tis promised in his sacred word, Firm standing at the base of Heaven. 1 his is the time, with Israel's sire, The Holy Covenant was made Praise ye his name, ye Heavenly choir ; Ye mighty gates lift up your heads. Let angels in his praise abide, Let every tongue the theme begin, Ye everlasting doors stand wide, And let the king of glory in. The king of glory who is he ? The mighty God, the Lord of hosts,
Arrayed m glorious majesty, 'Tis he who shall reward the just.
rnoM tub united st.v. ks' telegraph. STANZAS.
In anHcihation ortke afifiroach of Gent, jack-
sos to the Metrofidis of the Union.
He's coming, but not in a conqueror's car,
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made by the mind to create fiction!
by which to maintain and justify her
ephemeral empire. From dress and
furniture, queen fashon has extended
her despotic reign also over the scien
ces. a he nas twistea the human
mind into every fantastic curl, her wayward humor can imagine. The
Medical science has, of course shared
largely of the magic influence of her
Majesty's sceptre. The old dispen
satory of comparatively mild, vegeta
ble remedies, has iled before the
modern rats-bane and calomel, and
the lancet leads an exterminating war
against all efforts of scnative nature
The humble "servant of nature "as
the old fashioned physician would
call himself, has now become the
haughty arbiter of life & health, sick
ncss and death ; like a presumptuous boy, who unsheaths his father'ssword
to wield it against the picture of
lion. He takes the fever into hi
hands and crumbles it into fragments
like a pancake. The old venerable vis medicatrix natwea, he kicks out
of sight and covers it with new fash
ioned rags of learned ignorance. He
boasts that he "can cure all." when
in fact, he cannot cure even the Itch
without pulling old mama nature from under her, rags to help him out.
That discarded matron must nit the broken bones, fill up and cicatrise the
wounds.reproduce bones,sinews, and
".r .i "J ik ,,atile-uie te"ors OI ;v. ' i skin create new arteries, veins and liut the mild beams of peace will around him be ' shed, nerves for um,and then the charlatan
And the wreath of the Patriot encircle his head, exclaims: It Was I that did it all' As
well might the loom proclaim: I have
woven that cloth because I held the
threads of the chain, or the duck call
herself mistress of the stormy lake, because she paddles the waves, or the
cock fancy himself to the Apollo, In
cause the sun rises after his clarion
What else but independent self
thought can direct the choice of sob
Vhei e the righteous from trouble eternally rest: UfjinrPG fif fnr nutritive rhvlo nut r,f
Shp emtio tnn rpp-tnn t:r h.mnipr thnn this- I . .
I .eft an carthlv abode For a mansion ot bhss. vuuuilb tuinuii& ui tuu vitrei il.
Whar else but mind in the semuuna
i ne spienaour oi inumnn is ciouueu wuu tu l f u n t-
The tears of a nation in unison flow : u..vl(U(., w. ,.
They glitter like dew-drops of morn in the ray, the great brain, Can Urge SO Violently Which gilds the bright dawn of Democracy's day fu ru. nofl.nf in mil for col, ,
A new Saturnalia its glory displays ! Kcjcice then, O Freemen ! rejoice in its rays : Lo ! Astrea to earth has descended once rore,
Our wrongs to redress, and our rights to restore.
FROM THE WINTEK's WREATH. niLYICt'OLEXCE. Oil, Ictus never lightly flinr A barb of wo to wound another ; Oh, let us never haste to bring The cup of sorrow to a brother. Each has the power to wound 'out he Who wounds that he may witness pam, Has learnt no law of Charity, Which ne'er inflicts a pang in vain. 'Tis godlike to awaken joy, Or sorrow's influence to subdue ; But not to wound nor to annoy, Is part of virtue's lesson too : Peace, winged in fairer worlds above, Shall bend her down and brighten this, When all man's labour shall be love, And all his thoughts a brother's bliss. FROM FREEDOM'S DAN'XER. THE DRLLYuWIRD J .YD J.1CK.1SS. A drunkard in his crooked track From grog-shop home, oft met a Jack, And tried to make some conversation, About the meanness of his nation. The Jack so quiet by the way, Had hardly any thing to say. But only look'd with consternation Upon the dupe cf dissipation. " You shaggy long-eared beast of thistle, Don't know enough to mind a wistle. Your race are meanest of creation, Shame to yourself and to your nation." 41 Speak plainer, sir," replied the ass, " Your tongue is bigger than your face, Say what you will of head or trunk, You never saw a Jackass drunk."
He comes, not as Cxsar in martial array, To trample on freedom with absolute sway ; But like Cincinnatus, the good and the great, Resigning the plough, for the helm of the state. He comes, but in sadness and sorrow of mind,
And the cypressleaf with his wreath is entwiened; All lonelv he comes! tho' bv thousands attended;
His consort, alas ! to the tomb has descended. She's gone, where the sland'rer no more can mo lest
family, who have been regularly j mow it in two days, so he played " nVivrciplfr hntr rlinrl on1 f nnl v I that An r Thp npvf mnrnlnrr IioIaaT
ed at it again, and after scratching his head and ruminating a short time on the subject, he came to the conclusion that if he worked 4tright smart," he could accomplish his task in one day ; so he spent that day as he had done before. On the morning of the third and last day, he arose late, and it was nearly ten o'clock before he reached the field. After casting his eyes over it, he began to doubt whether he could accomplish his task in one day ; the field looked considerably larger than it did the day previous, lie stretched himself under a shady tree, to rellect on the subject ; presently he heard the dinner horn it was noon ! lie jumped up ; swung his scythe over his shoulder. &, turned his face homeward, muttering to ,-.,.. . .
himselt that he wan t a going to kill himself if the grass never got mowed ; " and that he'd "be darn'd to darnation, if there was a man in the six
VA1UETV.
AN ESSAY ON BILIOUS FEVER AND CALOMEL.
arids, and reject the putrescent ani
mal food, often in spite of the offici ous nourse with her broiled chicken, or the strutting quack with his beef
soup? hat else but salutary self judgement of the upper ganglions & the great sympathetic nervecan rouse the heart and arteries to so powerful an assistance to the poisoned lymphatics, in order to eliminate the contagion by urine, sweet, or cutaneous
eruptions r Or what else commands
arteries like other arteries, out of
blood,to recreate bones and not flesh, skin and not hair, sinew and not cartilage, just as place and circumstances rationally demand ? What else but sanative sagacity, inherent in our ani
mal combination, and independent! v
of the great brain enclosed by the scull, can arouse the lymphatic sys
tem, when the digestive and lacteal
vessels lie prostrate portending a speedy exhaustion of the vital fluid, into an increased absorbtion of every
spareable substance of the body in order to convert it into lympha for a
rich, already animalised repast for the
heart and blood, that the actions of
life may be sustained for 340 weeks, until a salutary crisis can be
eflected by the united energies of the system ?
I could greatly multiply examples to prove to the learned physician the existence of a substance endowed
with creative, conservative, and san ative powers in man and other ani
mals, and even vegetables, but ray
one, that refused all medical aid, re
covered. Such cases every reader
will remember. Old 4 knowing la
dies have cured (as it is believed)
with simple (inert) means, what the most learned physicians in vain es
sayed. That is : nature cured, in spite
of them all!! e know a man of co
lor, without education, unable to read or write correctly a total stranger to anatomy and physiology who is not only more popular, but in fact, more successful than other, academical
physicians. His medicines are most
ly, quite insignificant, of the vegetable kind, or mixtures which he com
poses from some receipts, got somehow or some where and administered at random in all cases before him.
His ignorance and the comparative
innocence of his medicines throws less obstacles into the way of the sal ubrious elfort of nature, than the sickening, heroic, deleterious, miner al poisons of the academician. A professor in L ,related to me,that he told a typhus patient, whom he had for some time treated with opium, to little purpose, that he must quickly die, if he desisted taking it, that the patient obstinately refused to take any more medicines, whatever, and that from that hour the patient began to mend, and speedily to re cover. A gentleman, whose name shall remain with me, unless lie should expressly authorise nie to give it. related to me. that he had studied for
three years dilligently with a regular physician but after having practiced lor some time, he concluded consci entiously, that he had done in the whole, more harm than good. He collected money enough to go to
Philadelphia to attend the medical
lectures. He returned auin into practice, & tried the effects of Rush's
lancet and calomel, but experienced . t e
even worse success man Delorc.
Then he fell upon the singular plan of giving nothing but bread-pills, and
water scented with inert aromatics, m
every case that came before him, and
mirabue dietul became uncom
monly successful and applauded!
Admonished by conscience he em
braced an other occupation, and left
the medical practice with the assurance that more harm than ood is
done by the present method of cure,
giving his friends the following gen
eral advise as preferable to any mod
ern recipe, viz : if a patient is hungry
or thirsty, give him to eat or to drink
whatever he wants but do not persu
ade him to do either against his desire.
If he appears too hot, uncover him :
if too cool, cover him. Let him enjoy
the clearest, best air, cc the company oi'j'ew friends of his choice.
By Anthony I hum, M. $ CH D. o. VI.
In modern times a new propensity limits constrain me to conclude with
lias manifested itself in the human a ,ew remarks which will come home
mind, of which the Ancients seem to t0 tne intelligent mind of every rea
have been entirely free; I will call it der
fashionability Whatever be the It is a fact, founded on experience.
lasmon oi ine uay musi oe Denevea mat persons, alter having been atten to be right, and acted upon as right ; ded and given out by learned physi
though it be in conflict with every cians, have got well without an y med
spark ot rationality. Every effort is icines : that not seldom all those in a
counties, that could mow that confounded big piece of meadow in one day and for his part he shouldn't try it." So after eating hh dinner, he went to play as usual. A turn out among the Lawyers The Sultan has invited the Cheick Islam or Chief of Law, to put on the military uniform, informing him that he wishes it fur the sake of example among his brethcrn. A meeting of the bar look place, to consult upon
i the subject, and afther a lon session
of 14 hours, voted an humble address to his Sublime Highness, in which they freely pledged. " their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honors," but begged leave respectfully to decline serving as soldiers The Porte fumed and ordered thern to rtcon-ider it. " Curia udvisare vult" replied the Ulemas, or, the Court reserves the point, as a blundering judge in Europe would say Anothei meeting took place, which was soon surrounded by the soldiers of the Sultan, with orders to confine them until they could agree. This soon brought them to terms, & they now form an impos dug force of nearly twelve hundred strong, under the command of the old Cheick Islam. There was some difficulty at first in preserving among so many professed talkers any thing like silence This has been obviated by putting to instant death any one who makes a motion in the ranks. They term this throwing a member over the bar They have latterly improved so much that they are under marching oiders, & expect soon to file a bill against the Russians Cemnnt arma togaeh inscribed on their parchment standard. Noah.
Velocity of Light. The fixed stars are at an immeasurable distance from
us ; we will take an instance from the small stars just visible in Dr. Her schel's forty feet telescope, and en deavor to give an idea of their distance, as follows : The earth moves round the sun with a velocity of one hundred thousand three hundred and twenty feet per second, i. c. fifty times faster than a cannon ball, as the greatest velocity of a cannon ball is two thousand feet per second. But the velocity of light is about ten thoushid four hundred times greater
uiuu mm ui me eariu, it travels in
Good toasts The following toast was given at a Jackson dinner in Baltimore : "Te Fair The only endurable aristocracy who elect without votes govern without laws decide w ith out appeal and are never in the wrong." The following were given at the celebration of the Mth anniversary of the Printers Society in Vashington City: "IVoman : a sheet of white paper May she never receive an impression
from a form that is not well justified,
eight munutes a space that the earth ! and may she present her partner with
illUll Y IUIII.IIU 'i llVt UIUV.IIWM,
would take near two years to travel ;
yet Dr. Herschel supposed that light had taken two millions of years to come to the earth from the small stars above mentioned.
"Man and IFifc, a diptiiong lir & She-Both in one person, though of different genders May none remain in the neutrc
"The i (U Our best capiiio tol-
Reader, perhaps you never heard !ou' not to correct."
of the boy who tool; a stent, (as the
phrase is down east,) to mow three acres of grass in as many days ? Pre suming you have not, we will relate it. On the first morning he visited the field Pooh ! (said he) I can
An Irishman who had blistered his fingers by endeavoring to draw on a pair of new boots,exclaimed,' by Jasus, I believe I shall never get 'em on until I wear them a day or two."
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