Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-06-06

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hood-that it was seen abroad, and in an
hour or two a full meeting was almost
I. spontaneously convened. the news re-
ceived with enthusiasm, speeches made,
resoltions passed, their organization and
discipline reviewed and perfected, when-
ever found any way susceptible of i'm.
provement, and nothing left undoue that
patriot men and true, determined Wings
resolved on victory can do. Mr.. Gran
ger then reviewed Van Buren's Penn
sylvania letter, in which he Wan Buren)
read the democracy Of the Union lee
lnre upor propriety. and piled The lash Of
wit, irony and ridicule. so playful, snug
aud skillfaI, that ] lancied I beheId the
little fox6zed Dutchman bleeding at eve
ny pore and calling significantly on the
very hounds of Undertook TO fall on
and devour him, conc luding with his old
excruliating asseveration "for my suffer
ings is intoIerabIe." He commented on
Vans expression, in the commencement
of that letter. in which he says The feels,
under the circumstances, lille pecu.
liar ;" and went on. pIayfuIIy, to COM
pare his peculiar position. under the pc.
culiar' circumstances Of the case, Penn
sylvania having more than once rejected
him) TO that of an enamoured and sensi-
live gentleman, offering himself for a
third time, with scarce hope of sue
cess, TO his adored lady love, who had
once mischievously flired with, twice
coquetted and twice fiat Iy rejected him.
Hence, verify he thought, MIR. Van Bu
rem might, under all the circumstances
very naturally 'Jeel little pc culiar. -
He commented on the letter IN question
throughout, with equal felicity, of the
fears there expressed by Van Buren, o.
the song singing, ball-rolling, log-cabins
coon symbals, &c. &c. of the campaign
Of 1910. affecting our national charac
ter, in Europe, for propriety, respecta-
bllity. geniiIiiv and all that-but said he
RI did not at all wonder at the fears express
sed in that letter, for he had no doubt al
the while he was writing it, under sucf
peculiar feelings, and at intervals, cast
: ing his anxious eyes through the win
dows of his study over The lawns ant
down the howry vistas of Lindenwsld
Mr.. Van Buren, in the twilight of hi
Imagination saw and fancied he heart
"that Same Old Coon," setting on ;
rail and singing
Don't you hear the people coming, coming
< coming, &c,
/ He ridicuIed the hypocritical fas!idious
3 ness of the Locofocos about these viii.
3 practices, and of their censures for VIII:
D ladies attending whig meetings. whel
they had made the hog, The achote tir
Y HoG-the dirtiest and most abominabl
S of all unclean beasts. their party stand
s ard and idol-borne it on their banners
: followed it, grunting, grovelllng ant
s squeezing, at the head Of their process
sons, and gone it WHOLE. hide, bristles
all, as their boasted and chosen emblem
of modern, patent, Jackson Van Buren,
d proprie,y ntility-Democracy. He rid
y iculed the Loco exceptions 10 ladies' at
= tending Wing Conventions, who, them
!, selves, hesialed not to take their sisters
wives and daughters 10 Theaters, Circu
ses, &c. where such coarse and rIbal'
), jests and vulgar slang was often heart
often heard as made even men sometime
blush, and not unfrequently Disguised
\ them. He maintained that the ladies
I were always prompt in good cause
alluded, most thrillingly. to the noble par
. our mothers took in the Revolution, buck
E ling on the armor Of fathers, husbands
3 brothers, sons, and lovers, and bidding
them "God Speed" and finally dismissed
that part of the subject with eulogium OF
: women, as just as it was beautiful, and in
style and manner not TO be surpassed
q Mr.. Granger then entered, at some
t length, on the merits ola permanent pro
, tective tariff, connected with the Public
land distribution scheme; showing. to dem
t onstration, it was indispensable to adoP
t the latter as the only means of securing
J the former; because, inasmuch as thu
proceeds of the sales of the Public Land
varied, every year, it, as the Locos de-
I sired, those proceeds and the tariff wer'
made !lhe joint funds for the support o
the General Government, and no NOR