e discussed, the most prominent was the state of the political parties in this country. Mr. Slick, who paid great deference to the opinions of Mr

at do you think of the p

, that I am heartily tired of them; our political world is divided into two c

aware on; we have tried all them things they are a jawin' about here, and they naterally want to know the results. Cooper says not one Tory called on him when he was to England, but Walter Scott; and that I take it, was m

if no Tory visited him, I should like you to ask him the next time you see him, how many gentl

, here you are, as a body might

mo sum, humani nihil

all that whe

zen of the world. I belong to no party, but

like to have you answer me one question now, and if you won't, why

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onsarvative, were as the Indgians say, "all

it looks amazing like taking new principles, or, at all events, like loosenin' old ones, and I hante seen the creed of this new sect yet-I don't know what its tenets are, nor where to go and look for 'em. It strikes me they don't accord with the Tories, and yet arn't in tune with the Whigs, but are half a note lower than the one, and half a note higher than t'o

l you a Unitarian, and you can remain Episcopalian still. We are tired of that old fashioned name, it's generally thought unsuited to the times,

Christian, and the other don't; that's the difference. I'd die before I s

a man with an alias is the worst character in the world; for takin' a new name, show

be good kind of people, and I guess they be, seein' that the Tories support 'e

ion agin' me, to Slickville, for takin' away his character, about stealing the watch to Nova Scotia; well, I jist pleaded my own case, and I ups and sais, 'Gentlemen of the Jury,' sais I, "Expected's character, every soul knows,

n'; and the jury, without stirrin' from the box, returned a vardict fo

ories one that the whole nation had very great reason to be proud of. There is some little difference, you must admit. My English politics, (mi

aid Mr. Slick, "he is a cl

nearly as possible, answers to the title of 'your Excellency.' Honour, we are told, should be given to those to whom honour is due; and if we had no such authority on the subject, the omission of titles, where they are usual and legal, is, to say the least of it, a vulgar familiarit

nd shoved you into the House of Lords, black apron, lawn sleeves, shovel hat and all, as sure as rates. 'The right reverend, the Lord Bishop of Slickville:' wouldn'

I will shew you that the Tories are the men to govern t

en it's biled and the skin

know that? Have you forgotten

ly jist altogether nohow, as it we

slang, picked up from the lowest refuse of our population, both east and west, you had cultivated your mind, and enriched it wi

ke, and I feel it. I was only a sparrin'; but you took off the gloves, and felt my short ribs in a way that has g

, very wrong indeed, and I am sorry for it; but don't teaze me no more, that

we was a sayin', for you do talk like a book,

gether,' as the old maxim goes. N

ufacturin' folks, the independents, the baptists, the dissentin' Scotch, the soci

supported t

le of the Church of England, the whole of the methodists, amost the principal part of the k

ut as an American citizen, judge for yourself, which of those two par

operty, and respectability, is on the Tory side; and where all them thi

it. Perhaps if they attended better to their own financial affairs, they would be in a better situation to laugh. But s

th all t

the Whigs

h America. Every great interest injured, some ruined, and

nd cents. How did the To

lus revenue

id the

ade the nation scratch th

rance, with us, in the colonies, and everywhere else. Whenever property, talent, and virtue are all on one side, and only ignorant numbers, with a mere sprinkling of property and

lords, and commons, as by law established; that he is for the connexion of Church and State and so on; and that as the wealthiest man in England, he offers to prove his sincerity, by paying the greatest part of the taxes to uphold these things. Well, then I ask what is Co

a Tory, Sir,' said he, 'is a gentleman every inch of him, stock, lock, and barrel; and he puts a clean frill shirt on every day. A Whig, Sir,' says he, 'is a gentleman every other inch of him, and he puts an onfrilled one on

r tact, or expediency, or any other word that ever was devised to conceal, or mystify a deviation from the straight line. They have a sartificate of character, these consarvitives, in having the support of the Tories; but that don't quite satisfy me. It may, perhaps, mean no more than this, arter all-they are the best sarvants we have;