The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-22

Enough, may be, John Quincy speaks Ing,
and sends out his gegents to give us the
small pox and rob our corn-crlbs.D
The backwoodsman had scarcely begun !
his speech before l recognized Barney
Blinn, and shaking him by the hand, IL
think I feel his vice-like grasp yeti dis
mounted, confident of safety under the
wing of his protection. 1 was received by
Tom, Dick, and Harry, with many ieers
and jeers; and for the soul of me, could
not keep from laughing Tin my sieeve] at
the rough courtesy with which they all
greeted !" croney" of Mr.. Barney Blinn's:
each offered me half pint after drinking
three-fourths of it HIMSELF and solicited my /
suffrage In favor of Barney Thus the
mystery of all this respect for my protee-
lion was unravelled-he was a candidate
Tor the Legislature, and his pepper and-salt
homc-spun' coat, high crowned hat, and
clean linen shirt, clearly proved it.
After a trial of skill in craftsmanship, In
which Barney showed off conspicuously
with his gaunt, yet Herculean figure, hawk
eye, and polished rifle, the men collected
under thick foliaged walnut, "with their
hearts soft with whiskey, and their heads
soft with blows" and began a slang about
politics. The spring of Barney's genius
was touched-he opened his mammoth
Jaws. and the silence of. death reigned
around, except the occasional hiccup of a |
few {" Jolly topers.n who wallowed in the
sand as drunk as cooter. Barney De-
gan with few rolls of his little grey eyes,
after pouring down good draught, hitch
ing up the waistband of his inexpreSsibles,
and mounting 4 stump that was just at his
elbow. "Afore begin the perambulation
of what | am going for to say, will Just
lx ofi inf af1ti that I hate
the present 'ministration as do pole-cat.
There groan was heard among the audi
tors, and Barney made a pause" an aw-
tul pause"-lowering his shaggy eyebrows
and glaring around with q most ominous
expression of countenance but nobody
knew from whence it came, so Barney pro-
ceeded9- "I have done my damndest to
castigate all them which supports it; for
the very root of it is rotten, so, sap, tree
and fruit must be rotten too. Gineral Gov
eminent and the 'ministration are going in
cdhoOt to undermine and override the I'M
dertakings of the free people of Georgia.
Amt our principles free liberty gratis for
nothing? tHear, hear.) Amt Georgians
sprung from a genewine stock of old CONT
nentalers, who was all pluck to the mar
row? Great cheering.) May Lwalk rough
~shod through the Creek nation afore / yield
an inch of the plantations purchased by the
rightiul Georgian treaty. tWhoop, feiterS. J
Besides, | and mother has both got to draw
IN the land lottery together, and | ha'nt no
notion o. seeing our own sacred invisible
vestered rights sacrificed afore our own
faces. Troup is the man of my cut
mought be better, mayhap; but, damme,
If he ha'nt more real blood in his little fin
ger than would swim a horse. War
Trh0op) | am afore you, my boys. as
Candidate for Legislater-you knows me
to be no fool in national affairs, and there
lore must help me out. | viii oppose the
elevation of any Adams to the COMPRESSION
al chair OF state, for reasons best known to
myself, which win tell you now about
There is too much depreciation and ex-
navigation with the peoples money. FF-
iy thousand dollars has been reprobated for
a quantity of bilious balls, which is sar-
tin cure for fevers, being invented by Gin
raj Lee. An act has been passed by the
rninistration, called the nonintercurs'd act,
that was brought about by one Colonel
Trade-which is one of your rankest COLI
TONERS and by it we have lost the States
of North and South Canada and the Tari-
tory of the West Indies. What are we to
DO now for sugar and coffee? And be-
sides, they have passed law to destrain
the liberties of the Press, and also to up
set the lection of Gin'ral Jackson, and ex-
crlminate every vestge of State Right.
And they have made another Congress,
which is to sit somewhere in Panama and
they have appointed another ministration
ton there, which is to join Gin'ral Bolivar
and the British, to set all the niggers free
in the South States, and in the Tarritory of
Hayti. Now arnt these pretty corruptious
doings? and arnt | right in calling Adams
a fool, and Federal, cOlitioner and rs-
to-cracy, when he does such sort o. things
as these? and prefers n E. Rum to lima
Ky, and gives his family bilious pills at the
nations expense IF Loud cheertng.) IFS
IN eierted, Gln'ral Government shall wear
the print of these FIVE knuckles. No man
that comes out here as regent shall take
upon himself more than what's his rightful
duty. lily great object shall be to benefit
my constitutes. I will take care to have 2
system of internal improvement discrimin
ated throughout the State. Macon and
ellltedgevllle shall become seaport towns,
and steamboats, shall paddle up the Allep-
many InoEntains. loud and continued
cheenng.) III have no taxes, for I'll have
EN- all paid ont of the public money
IWhoop) III have no mustersI (BeLLotc.
Ieorgians shall have their rights and their
lands Il HOacL.) Gin'ral Government shall
ride on a journey through the Creek Ma
ton with red-hot iron cotton screw down
his throati-( Ke.)Eand John Quincy shall |
de dashed round the world with bradoan
bit and curb, until he owns Georgians is
pluck to the back bone!" Here another
groan was heard, and it was found to pro-
coed from Yankee pedler, who, it ap-
pears, and found his way into bad compa- /
ny, and hearing his favorite thus belabored, |
could only vent his Indignation by groans.
He was quickly dragged before the ora