Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-04-15
For the Vermont Phnnix.
for the vermont Phoenix.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A FARMER AspxPo1t-
TICIAN.

share; what news from the hills this morning ,
Farmer. Newsl aye, not needle full-we
are as dry for news as tippler always is after
eating salt fish. The snow is so tarna deep,
and the drifts are so piled up like hay-stacks-
Omphl wish to goodness they were hay-
stacks; for | verify believe the cattle will all
starve.
II. That is bad--very bad-but what think
you our Congress folks are doing about these
daysi
+. Dell take if | know; at their old tricks
I s'pose, drinking champaign and making long
speeches. wish to goodness had them are
iellers up among the snow driits-I'd lather the
sweat out of 'em till they would say less and
do more to the purpose!
y. That would be desderatum greatly TO
be desired. But what think you of the speech
of John @. Adams on the loss of the forti6ca-
ton bill'
F. John Q. Adams! let me see-if mis-
take not he was once President of the Uni
ted States. have distinct recollection about
his getting up one morning and being po,cer-
fully dgitated by dose Of 'Gnii,nasonio pills, ,
through mistake put his coat on the wrong
side out! Ha! is it not so, Sir Suuirei ST.
lence gives consent, as the saying is. Well, il
is strange how bad habits will grow upon
mani Having a strong propensity for farming,
he has been turning ever since.
< p. What strange ideas, farmer Ploughsharc,
you have got into your head! You have been
listening to some of the lies of the sold hand
maid" She has been instilling some of her
poison into your brains but time and common
sense will purge it off like dross from molten
iron.
+. Umphl care not shad-scalc about the
sold handmade" as you call masonry. Folks
say I've got thick skull; but wish masonry
and antimasonry at the bottom of the Red Sea.
Masonry is good for nothing, and has probably
been a little wicked; and antmasonry is the
DEVILS own offspring Now amt mealy rnou-
thed, Mister speak right out what think
p. Well, friend Ploughsharc, ] see you are
drop. What think you of the speech of Mr.
Wise on the same SUBJECT
+. Mr. Wise! let me sce-aye, read il in
the Phenx. BY the way that PhGnix is a
pretty good paper-it keeps a steady hand-I
wish to goodness all the papers would; we
should have less quarreng & more unanimity
p. But what has that to do with MIR Wise,s
speech'
+. Umphl Mr. Wise's speech! Beg pardon
Why, sir, think it any thing but wise-re-
markable for nothing but impudencei Moth
ing like gentleman about it-nothing like a
gentleman, sir! If I'D been Mr. Pork-beg
pardon--Mr Polk, / ID cracked his eoeoanui
for him, and be hang'd to him! Why, only
think-he came right aiore Mr. Polk, and says
"You're a damn'd tyrant, sir! and you may
pocket the afront If you lkc!'' Now, by the
beard of Tom Thumb I'D knocked his day
light out ohm!
p. But, sir, you must acknowledge he told
some truths, although they might have been
expressed perhaps with too much severity.
+. Umphi truths! | don't know how a
man can speak truths in such a sassy way
Thre is the real gentleman in TRUTH! Yes,
sir, the real gentleman; but there was no gen.
teman about that speech of Mr. Wise. Aye,
and see by the papers he's at his old tricks
again. T'other day they had scrape with
two fellers by the name of Graham and New
land from North Carolina about which should
have seat in Congress. Well this was on
Saturday. Now they have been jawing and
clawing about the business ever since Congress
began last December; but they never come to
clapper-clawing till the Saturday Aforesaid
There was one grave fcler by the name of
Graves from old Kentuck, as savage as a meat
axe;-he could whip his weight in wild cats.
Well, he got the floor and begun to speak; but
it turned out that he had nothing to say; so
when he got agin stump, he'd pick up pa
per as if he had notcs-then he would blow
away agin; and when he had run agin another
snag, he'd pick up his paper, and so on for
eight hours on the stretch, on purpose to Kill
time and get the business over to another week.
Mind we this was on Saturday evening. Well
they kept speechifying and calling for the yeas
and nays till four o'clock on Sunday morning
before the house adjourned. Well before this,
ibis Mr. Wise let off the steam in his usual
way-impudence. Then up jumps Mr. By
mum and called Mr. Wise to order, and decar-
ed, that ''though the gentleman from Virginia
is a bully, he shan't bully mep' Mr. Wise
Jumped to his feet and exclaimed, 81 bully the
gentleman! should as soon think of bullying
fur "Scoundrelp' exclaimed Mr. Bynum.
"You're damn'd rascal and an impudent pup
py!" said Mr. Wise-and each sprung from his
seat at the other like two bull-dogs-while
twenty members rushed between them to pre-
vent disgracefu combat in the house. Yes,
sir, and all this on the Sabbath! A pretty bu-
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