The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-28 00:00:00

FLOWERS OF RHETORIC.

The following patriotic speech was delivered on the frontier,
at. a meeting called for the purpose of taking into consideration
the expediency of getting up an expedition against the hostile
Indians:—'• Friends and Feller Citizen Sogers :—We are met
here for the purpose of excussing the subject of the hospitalities
lately convicted against our peaceful and blooming frontiers by
the condacious red skins. I say we are met here to instigate
whether we will sit still in our shattees, and see the spoiler whet
his deadly and bloody and murderous knife against the hearts
of our friends and feller squatters, them are fearless spirits that
have gone forth with a bold heart and strong arm, to dig ditches
and drain the swamps of the west! and whom we lookempha-
tically and tetoly as the pianoes of a new world ! 1 say, whe-
ther shall we sit still in our shantees, and see their corn fields
ravaged, their wives inviolated before their very eves, and their
smiling prattling infants used up in the most barbarous manner,
or whether we will march at once upon this second champaigne,
and by our timely valerosity save them from a state of total de-
function, and at the same time extinguishing ourselves in eter.
nal fame! Ah I my feller citizen sog'ers! I fully propitiate
the syniptomising feeling of your hearts. I need but remind
you of your duties towards your suffering and distresstul and
conflicted brethren ! Their woes cries aloud for redress, and
are heard, perhaps, even now, in the rit racy of our firesides and
chimbly corners ! Behold they lay down at night with a bloom-
ing cheek, and a ruby lip. And oh! my feller sogers, must I
revulge the cruel, the dreadful, the fatal catastrophy t They
wake up ere morning in death ! But I cannot dwell upon this
horrible, this appalling, this dreadful subject, feller citizen sod-
gers, whose horrors runs firmest the very grain as I .may say of
the soul, without, I say without (stranger will you hand me a
gourd of water with a little sprinkle of the crittur in it) without
feeling insquinchible thirst for (a leetle more of the crittur if you
please, stranger, jist a sprinkle) that wengeance which all the
gods of war, Wulcan, and Plato, and Wesuvius, claim as their
high prerogatives, but which I would shower, feller citizens so-
gers, unconstitutional, and uncivilised savages, which skulks
amongst our bottoms by day and night, sallies forth to kill and
murder our families and rob our po'atoe patches !—Yes, gentle.
men and feller angers ! my soul rises spontaniously as 1 conta-
minate the glorious event that must extinguish our names in the
hearts of our countrymen, till time shall be no more! Our suc-
cess in this expedition is sartin—it is a mere carcumstance. The
pianos will be rouled, and we will all light on urn and tetotallv
obflisticate theta on the face of the vearth ! I know you are all
on real grit. I myself am particularly a caution, a raal snug
boat, and will lead you where a good chunk of a fight is sartin
to be hit against. I will flank you into a deep column, and
receding by a retrograde advance we will away to the field of
glory— the field of garnish and of flood ! Yes siv friends
and feller sodgers ' • we'll meet the enemy in their own diggings,,
and the way we 'lluse um up 'll be a sin to Cocket.—New York
Times.

BLACKBURN OPIIRATIVR CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.—
The annual dinner of the members of this association is adver-
tised to be held on Thursday, the 10th of November. As up-
wards of three hundred individuals have already enrolled them-
selves, ttid the presence of each of them may be confidently ex-
pected on their first anniversary, no room in the town was con-
sidered by the committee large enough for their accommodation,
with the exception of the Cloth Flail, which Mr. Fleming has
generously placed at their disposal for the purpose required.
Evem this place will be small enough, as in addition to the work-
Mg people who have signed the declaration, a large number of
the conservative gentry, and tradesmen of the town and neigh-
bourhood, will attend in honour of William Feilden, Esq., M.P.,
one of the invited gnests, anti chief patron of the association.
A procession of the members will conduct Mr. Feilden into the
town. The arrangements fur the comfort and convenience of
the nartv are already in progress, and are of the best possible
description.—Blackburn Stundrrd.
PROGRESS OF CONSERVATlSM.—Conservative associations
are forming, and conservative meetings being held, in all parts
of the country. Preparations are being made on a very exten-
sive scale for a grand meeting, which is to take place at Nor-
wich in the beamning of next month, to celebrate the triumph
of conservative principles in East Norfolk and Norwich, which
will, it is expected, be as numerously attended As the glorious
meeting in that city last year. We understand that a deputa-
tion.has been sent to that amiable and highly-respected noble-
man, Lord Wodehouse, the Lord-Lieutenant of the counts, re-
questing hilts, to preside on the 1.)42 io rt.-: lid id.