The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-08-14
PoLlTICALCURTAIN LECTURE. J

III f4SaN ptESOoAHS tAOfuoN 3 OoAAA
Tyler and James K. Polk a-bed together
at the White house. John asks James for
an office for his son Robert. James IN
Inmates that he has none 10 spare.
You've got nc Office 10 spare, then, have
you?-you hay'nt hey? so this is the way that
you are going TO repay me and my family
for all that We have done for you! So this
is what / get for abandoning the wings aud
making over my party 10 have you elected.
No office TO spare and 10000 officers TO turn
out, that ought to be turned out-that had
no business 10 be in Office they amt fit FOR
any office, and you tell me that you have no
office TO spare.
Whatdid Iput them in for? didn't put
them in-Robert put them in-no! they put
themselves in. I--I-put them in because
wings must be put out-you know they
must, and how could know who was Ct for
office. Do you suppose / knew every body9
| kae'o they wasn't fit for Office, | put Them
in because they wasn't fit. ! put them in
TO put wings QUITO carry Out the greafdem-
ocratic>principle. Now James you know you
treated me shabbily, and yoRRay as well
own it. You wanted to get Hd0f me apd
steal my thunder. You wanted 10 ride my
Texas hobby, and | helped you 10 mount him.
You know you did, Jim.-Now that a good
fellow-just give Robert a good fat Office
and iii be a friend to you as long as | live.
Robert wants 10 travel. Give him a foreign
embassy; make him minister plenipo. 10 Eng
land; that's the pIdd& for Bobby. How he
would make the cs4t of Victoria stare! L
can see him now,, among the lords and the,
ladies'. What a sensation he would make!
You 3rtsT torn out that fellow Everett and
Robert-
What do you say? Everett a respectable
man. Who says he is a respectable mani
Don't tell me he is a respectable man. If
he is a respectable man, then he's no bugi-
ness TO hold an Office. He ought TO be turn
ed out because he is a respectable man. A
respectable man can get along without hold
ing Office. Send Bob TO England-hell an
mex Oregon and California and Cuba-Bob-
by-wiII-I know he will. He'll challenge
Aberdeen and fight Prince Albert and put
down O'CouneIl the abolitionist, the agita-
Tor, The incendiarv, the f%anatical an:i-slavery
man, / should like TO fight him and John NJ.
Bolts too-I'd knock the breath out Of both
ofaiiem. I'd
Peaceable? Who says amt peaceable?
AN peaceable. If any body say | ain'tpea-
ceable, I'll challenge him-Iil horsewhip
him-.Ill beat the slanderer 10 an inch OF his
life. Bul that's neither here nor there, Polk;
I want TO know what you are going 10 do for
Robert?
Qualifications? Bobby's qualifications
What has he done? Why he's done every
thine. Didn't he come out and make a
speech for O'Connell and Repale, and didn't
he tell the Itishmen that The democratic par
ty was in favor of repeal p%araiies, and mate
and tay, and the poe and the prastes9 And
didn't he laud 10 the skies the patriot OCon-
nell as the greatest, the plresi, the worlhiest
champion Of freedom that ever lived? And
didn't the same honest Hiberuians all
vote for yon for President You will know
you will.
Cant! Do you pretend TO say you cant.
| know you CAN, and know The Senate will
confirm him. Tell them you'll veto every
thing if they DARE rejecthim. Only think,
James, what | have done for you and the
great democratic party. Wasn't | chosen by
the wings, and DIDN'T Turn my back on them
that voted for me? Didn't | abuse Henry
Clay, and Gen. fIarrison's cabinet? And
didn't they call me TRAITOR, and Bolts try
10 HEAD me? And is this what ! get for il.
It's shameful, its ungrateful, us rascally, its
villainous.
Kcep cool, you say. How can | keep cooI?,
| CAN'T keep cool. IwoN'r keep cool. You
have made a fool of me. You've cheated
me out Of my second term. You've cheat
ed Van Buren,, You've cheated my son Rob
ert and the whole democratic party. Faugh!
The democratic party is all q sham. a dem
ocraiic humbug, you know it is, Polk.
Keep COOL. you say a again? / tell you
| am cool. | never was cooler in my life
I'm cool as Tophet--I'm Did cool. If
it had moi been for me, yon n%eYerwould have
been president. You stole my Texas-you
bribed my conventio you got away my
yoters--you stole Bobby's Irishmen-you--
neutrality-suspicious. Bous--Veto--Bo
Observation-Disclosures
Here, says the Polk manuscripts, John was
over come by sleep, and soon followed him,
and we both slept soundly until we were
awakened in the morning by the thunder OF
the Inauguration guns.
RATHER S~EvERE.--"IfI give you Office"
said a l~ocofoco in power TO an applicant for
a place, evil you aid the party in carrying
out its principles?'' 81 should, most willing
said the other, shut 1 don't beliese the
party has got any principles" &
A MoNsTER-Wake, Snakes pI-The Ouacfi-
Ia Courier says:--'sA gentleman from Arkansas