Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-01-21

books and kiows a smart chance about
law that they're guine to be lords and
masters"
"Hurrah ltr old Waginny" rosred a
third, " 1'mthe man what can lick any
yanquoise thai ever slept"
"Gentlemea" said a young fellow
who seemed to be The one they called
Dona,o--"I have not the least earthly
doubt yos see the propriety OF exercising
the sacred and inaienable rights of free
men without suffering any one, be he
from he north or be he from the south,
the rectllineal course which your supe-
rior wisdom has N arked fer your observ-
ance. Permit me toobserve gentlemen,
that the description Of persons you have
named-I mean the Fanquose--possess
principles entirely hiscerdant with our
own. They ough, never TO receive he
countensnce OF liberal minded and hon.
orsble men; and tn IS deduce from this
weiehly circumsaue {. You always find
these men advocating such neiarious pro.
ceedings as lend to disturb our harmony
and good fellowship, by shutting up
those temples OF hilaiiiy usually denomi'
mated grog shops Now hold this to
be invading our rights and irampling
upon our liberties, and therefore de-
nounce any nan who holds such danger
Gus principles, as unworthy Of public
Suffrage"
Hurrah for Donato-D-l take all
ysnquoise--Fasles' nag on the course
Hes the clare grit"-and a hundred
such exclamsions burst all at once IRON
he group, with such vociieratioD and
zeal as made the ralters trenib bic. My
guide gave me the wink and We were in
s,4n,ly seated on joist in oeighborlng
house, where there was a collection OF
men about as numerous, and employed
IN a manner noi very dlfferen from those
IN the first The chef speaker, here too,
was young witt >omelhine more OF I'M
pudence in his manner, though te'er or
,orical tlourishes. He was speaking
When We entered.
Now dou't tell me that story
these were the first words we heard
& don't | know that Donsto's drilling his
Tuc k hoes over in TIE other house yon-
der Eyes, and he'll make 'em AL swear
that there's not an homes yanquoise in
the province before be quits 'em.
"l don't see as we've got any other
way of workin ont" SAID anothe'--"they
ha'n't got gram more sense than year
lin critter. You cant convince 'em now,
and do your best, but ,nat every yspquoisc
is a tin pedlar or wooden clock maker.
! vaow Pm clear out o patience tryin."
" Yes, and know they stick iogei
like wra,h"-said third" heard
couple on 'em 'alkin ont over a fortnight
ago, and hey swore, right up and down,
ia, 'he id yaoquoise shouldn't ge a
vote Ter my thing thar they could keep
EN- from. They'll do their pret,issi--
ssrtin.
Well, | guess we can be as stout as
they can" said q fourth, whose lit,le eyes
peepine cut OF the deep 'ecesses over
hung by bis heavy eyebrows, looked like
ru.hights, iaced in the farther ends OF
d couple oil gloomy vaults, and has peak.
ed nose corled up as In scorn Of those OF
whom he VAS speaking-" they're no.
thing but set Of shitiless, good for-no.
hing critters tho, han'l got eGecatlon
enough to know figure from pig.
yoke. lynn I'd like to see haow some
nm 7au, ,,,3 ~ b A o,,t az ,vr,t,p!, racoiu
tons and drafting bills ct the lesisister
but il they do get ahead on US, they'll
DC as proud as dog with two tails"
The young fellow whose voice first
heard, again began to speak bui he had
proceeded iiule further than 10 assure his
auditors, with many of those figures OF
speech used by certain orators in order
to adorn and give energy TO their Ian
guage, usually called oaths and curses,
that it would be the height OF folly in
them to enttust their dearest rights III
the hands Of any one who, from the cir
cum stance Of having been born in part
Of the cou. try different from that in which
they had received their birth and educa-
lion, had necessarily imblbed notions 10
which they could not assent; when Sc
late, elderly person arose from bis sea,
in one corner oil the room and interrupt
ed him.
My friends-pardon me Signor
GoilieImo" said he" my friends and
fellow cnlzens, | have been a silen, lis
tener whitley have been expressing
your determination to set yourselves IN
hostile array against your nelghbors and
your friends. |, is true the inhabitants
have assembled here from various parts
of the Rennhlic. md have. CONSEQUENTLY