Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-08-30
Fred Emmons and the Michigan Dele
gallon.

Every body knows "Fred Emmons," the
steamboat runner and wag of Buffalo = but
every body does not know how he "took
in" the Michigan delegation at the late
"free soil" Convention.
On the morning cf the great day" a
gaunt long-heeled procession was seen
coming up from the river and travelling
throug the city, making wonderful dis
play Of badges and free soil ribbons EN-
mons, on the lookout for game, assuming
to be committee of ssreral, walked up
to the head of the delegation, and asked if
they were provided with quarters-n taoo
shillin pieces-but place to "put up.''-
The chief of the Wolverines answered they
had no place to eat, drink nor sleep, and
expected to have to camp out. Fred told
them it was just as he expected, that having
great respect for the Michigan delegation,
coming as they did from Cass' own State,
he had reserved accommodations for them
at the St. Charles Exchange, where they
would find victuals, drink and lodgang.-
The ivory of the Micbiganders showed it.
self all-a-round at this announcement, and
Fred discharged them with the promise that
to their dinners. In the meantime Fred
slips down to old Mother Tanners, who
lives, it is said across the canal, in the "dis-
trict," and told the hostess of the "St
Charles" that her house would be honored
at dinner with the Michigan delegation. A
squint from Fred was all the explanation
the old bell-dame needed.
Dinner hour came and so did Fred and
his delegation. "Rather queer place for a
tauern," some of them remarked. "Guess
they aint used to so many all at once, said
another. But they all agreed there was
enough to eat, which was the main point j;
besides they had some ALFRED pretty serr-
ant girls waiting on the table. although
l go against slavery, and slavery extern
sion," says one, Il can't bear Niger wait
ers" ''There is odoar in that argument"
says another. "There is fitness in things.
can relish my victuals better coming from
the hands of pretty waiting maids than from
any of your Ethiopian quintessemces.
The dinner progressed, no politics were
discussed,
'For when there's ladies in the case,
All other things must need give place."
But such @queer looking ladies'" says
one, "dressed so oddly, and how very socia-
Bile they are for servant girls" "They must
belong to the "free speech party, the same
as we do" says another. The waiting
maids,'' did get rather rude, and at last
made very free with their @free soil" ac-
quaintances, chucking them under the chin
and slapping them on the shoulder with the
familiar salutation, "Come, amt you going
to treat, old hoss?"
1t is needless to say that dinner wound
up. without dessert. A few bottles of bad
smelling gin and a plate or two of collapsed
dough-nuts were passed round, but of this
none seemed to take. Of the joke, however,
they did begin to take, and as fast as it got
through their wool they took to the street
Fred, the william, was to be found no aohar.
He had adjourned to "Chaumcey's," to tell
the B'hoys how he had "solds' the Michi-
gan delegation, and to drink to the free soil
movement. Several bad ges were picked up
in the streets that day labelled "Michiga,a,
and not few were seen in the Theatre that
night, high above the "dress CIRCLE" and
worn by ladies.-Plai,s Dealer.