Rhode Island Republican

For the Rhode-Island Republican.

THE Land-lubber: Ah! I have made so all fcif (and it is probable he holds as much land as Satan did when he proudly offered all the kingdoms of the world as a bounty!) the Laplander, we should have said the Landholder, because he has said so, though in strictness he ought to have blended the two and called himself the Land-lapper: This Land-lapper, or Land-lubber self-titled "the Landholder." has in the last Mercury come out with his fourth number of "something or nothing." or the Lord knows what! for it surpasses the sagacity of the son of man to conceive the drift and object of these rare productions. They bring to mind this old, and therefore venerable saying, that

A man of words, and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds,

It is true they give rise to a current of thought; but then it is entirely of a jeering, a ludicrous description, such as is exemplified in the following anecdote.

There was a certain Lawyer who was remarkably squint eyed: and the more his sensibilities were excited, the more his eyes would squint. He happened to be concerned in a very interesting case, and the zeal which he felt in it, operated to distort his optical organs to an unusual and truly laughable degree. A brother lawyer who sat over against him, and who had attentively observed the ambiguous, and in short squint cast of his ever, humorously inquired him what he was looking at? Looking! Why (said he) I am looking at the true point of the case!

The Land Lubber who writes in the Mercury, may have had his attention occupied by the true point of a case: But his manner of writing, like the Lawyer's eye, is so very much a squint, that we are not only at a loss about the point, but even about the case itself.

So it has been said that at a time when Judge Chase presided in a Circuit Court in this town, he abruptly stopped one of the Lawyers in his argument, and gravely inquired of him which side he was on? This, however, we do not mention as being applicable to the Land-lubber. Whatever uncertainty may attend a conjecture relative to his particular object, few will doubt the completion of his general principles in politics.

Suppose it should be propounded that he was preparing for, and paving the way to the Spring Election: or the next choice of Representatives to Congress; or of a President of the United States: Who, judging from what he has written, would acquiesce in either proposition?

In it that he calculates upon a beginning de novo and educating the public in the science of politics according to his own maxim of a judicious, and prosperous administration: If the people of Rhode-Island, aspiring to his instructions, become improved by his counsel, public gratitude requires they should rally round his person, and remember, and reward him.

It is more than probable however, that his four spirit numbers, however generously and patriotically meant, will eventually prove to be superfluous; for as there is a possibility of traveling too far back, tho' it were even in the laudable task of reformation; so there is an appearance that the Land-holder has laid his rudiments too low for the progress of those whom it would seem he considers as his pupils.

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