American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-10
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY TO- 1876.

"OLD ROUGH AND READY" ItappeaIs that
portion of the democrats of the Northern
Liberties of Philadelphia, have determined that
Gen. Taylor shall be their candidate for the
next presidency. Among the proceedings of a
meeting few evenings ago, we find the follow
ing resolutions, which were unanimously adop-
ted.
Resolved, That we disapproVe Of the course
adopted at the last Presidential struggle of array
ing host Of candidates against each other, so that
when the Convention, to nominate assemble,
they, by dtSdgreeing TO name any one, of the
prominent candidates, have it in their power to
bring forth a 1lelg man for President, and f,eto
man for Vice President, of whom, and for
whom the people have never even expressed
word of approval prior to their nominations
Resolved, That we dsapprove of this partg
mode Of cutting out Presidential candidates for
the people, and to cm up This system, root and
branch, we recommend, at this early day, Gen
elal Taylor for the Presidency, soldier who is
known to every man, woman and child in the
whole country, as he has recently written and
published his history with his sword on the Rio
Grande.
Resolved, That we recommend the forma-
ton OF Trough and Ready Clubs" forthwith,
and that from this time forth, we will rally
under the Taylor broad banner.
Resolved, That in Gen. Taylor we recog-
Mise the fearless soldier and the clear headed
american Citizen, who, like Gen. Jackson is
as well qualified to serve his country in Peace
as in War.
Resolved, That, in our opinion, "Old Rough
and Ready" is second edition of the old Hero
of New Orleans, and that we recommend him
to the people as their candidate to succeed
Col. Polk, in lS48, and that we farther recon-
mend to the people of this country to take this
subject into their own hands, and elect Gen.
Taylor by an overwhelming majority.
A TEMPERANCE SPEECH BY THE RAZOR
SrRop MAN. Almost every one has either
seen or heard of Henry Smith, the 'Razor
Strop Man." He is a noble, whole-souled fell
low, always ready to sell "raziour strap" or
preach Temperance lecture. The following
extract from one of Smiths speeches, is fair
sample of his ready wit and unique style of ar
gument:
"When | was a drunkard, not only was nv
wife and myself half starved, but my old cat was
also reduced to perfect skeleton. And not
only that, but she grew wicked, and became an
out and out old thief Cause why? Why,
she couldn't get enough to eat at home, so she
went prowhng and stealing among the neigh
bors
"EVery once in a while, I'd hear the neigh
bors cry out, 'Cuss that Smiths cat, she's stole
my meat-cuss that Smiths cat, she's stole nv
| ashland, cuss that Smiths cat, she's drank
up all my milk But why didn't she stay at
home and catch mice and live on them, sa VS.
you; reason enough says |, for our mice couldnt
get crumbs of meat and bread like a sober mans
mice can, so they had TO live on the recollec-
tons of what they used to eat before their mas
ter became drunkard and at last they got so
thin and sclaggy that fifty of them wouldn't
fill the old cats hollow tooth.
"But when reformed things took different
turn. Smiths table had plenty of fish and
meat on 1t, and Smiths mice had plenty of
crumbs, and grew nicely, and Smiths cat had
plenty of mice, and didn't have to steal the
neghbors' fish and meat any MORE No, sir,
my mice were fat and plump, and my old cat
was spry and active, and didn't take fifty to
make meal nuther. No stree. The old cat
would catch two mice, and these two was as
much as she could eat at one meal, and when
she eat them, she would lie down and 20 to
sleep, and after good nights rest, she'd wake
up in the morning with the pleasing satsiac-
ton of knowing that the nice, fat, plump mice,
were not all gone, but there were fen more
left Qfthe same sort