Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-03-16
Mrs. Tompkins and the Presidency.

anu FEeSlOcuCys
No. 2.
Mrs. TOmPkins just returned from tea party at
Mrs JoneS's
Well, Tompkns, if haven't got a dose for you,
I've lost my senses You don't knOp phdt mean
Why Miss Clarence was over 10 Miss Jones's and she
says, she believes, that Taylor's loky. She says,
he's writ letter where he says he'd 60 for Clay afore
any body ese because Clays politics is the most like
Jeffersons of any body he knows Of Now, Miss
Clarence says, that her says, this is enough
10 keep any good whig from voting for Taylor, as
every body knows Jefferson was a loky and went
against bank the strongest kind So did Clay for
ty years ago! l know that as well as you do, reck-
on Haven't hearn daddy say, as often as I've got
fingers and toes, that Clay used to be lOky and made
the greatest speech aginst bank he hearn, in
all his life. But, in the of wonder, doesn't
Taylor know that Clay's changed since then! He's
been on the frontier euer since and hasn't had chance
to klo,o any thing about POltcsa Yes, Miss Clarence
says, that Taylor's like the man she read of that
went sleep when this country belonged TO the Brit
sh and walked up after the revolution, expecting TO
see every thing as it forty years before. But,
my goodness, if Taylor hasn't know'd anything
about politics for forty years wouldn't he be nice
man for presidents I'd like TO see what kind of q
message he'd write. Miss Clarence says she's
ashamed of that letter he writ Ingersoll its SIGH
bundle of stuff He wrote his dispatches rery ,0eA
Miss Clarence says, he never writ 'em at all; she
says she's sure the that writ them dispatches
didn't write that letter, for they're alike than
day and night. Miss Clarence knoloS nothing about
it! Now, Tompkins, do stick to the truth. Haven't
hearn you say that she was the highest larnt wo-
man in your knowing. and haven't the children larnt
more, since they've been going to her school. than
they ever did afore; but see how it is; you want
to pick with her, because she's aginst Taylor;
but goodness-sakes if you to quarrel with every
wing that wont 60 for Taylor, you'll not have much
time to tend the corn this summer, can tell you. If
he gifts the nomination the WhigS'R all go for him =!
Why, Tompkins, that's gist good saying there's
not an honest man in the wing party. After their
abusing and beratng the lokys about the war and
calling it unjust war, a war against God and all
that, how, in the name of conscience, if they are
honest men, can they vote for Taylor, the rngleader
of it! The achigS cOulfnt nominate Taylor If they
thought they could elect any body else! Why isn't
there Clay and if they have had him up for the last
twenty years might'nt they try him agin. To be
sure didn't like his tryin to make SIGH blow about
sending them niggers to Lybera. They wasn't his
nggers; a man give'em TO him to send there, and he
knows it as well as do. If he wants the niggers
sot free why doesn't he set his own free; they say
he's got fifty of the poor black critters No he was
gst tryn to curry favor with the abolitionsts and
though, l said afore always did hate deceit, I'd
rather have Clay president han Taylor. The Dhigs
out of heart about Clay. Well, my goodness, if they're
tired of tryn Clay isn't there any body else in the wing
party but Taylor, Why, Miss Clarence says, that
Taylor says in that letter. he's willing to be nominated
by the wing party. the democratic party the Native
American party now to be sure, he must be In a
terrible taking for the nomination. after all his palaver
ing about not wanting it. It's bad enough for man
that calls himself wing to be willing TO be nominated
by the lokys; but that abominable Native American
party Why, Tompkins don't you know they're the
very men that burnt the churches in Philadelphia tore
down houses and driv and children out to die on
the cold ground with nothing them but the blue
canopy. They pas nothing but Catholics Well,
what if they WINS catholics In the name of wonder,
aren't Catholics human beings! and isn't this free
country and hasn't every body got right to believe
as they please Now, Tompkins, you know we're
wings, and gist suppose the lOkys would come here
and tare down house and drive and the chill
dren out to freeze because we don't think as they do
would that be rightl no, you know it wouldn't. Ma
tive American party Why, that's the very party
that don't want to let foreigners vote. Tompkns that
is bad daddy's foreigner. and know foreign
ers is gist as good as other people.
They're all lokys. Well don't if they are
and though said afore I'm wing to the back bone,
this is free country, and don't want to hinder people
from thinking they please. I've got to be much
of politician I'D better change clothes cih you. No.
I'll do that thought wouldn't bea bad idea in some
families know. But, if you think to shut my mouth,
by hingng out SIGH fouts as that, you're nightly
mistaken; my tongues my own, and I'll say what
please about Taylor, the old yarmint. You'll fnd
a ,oay to shut my mouth Oh dear, l. believe my
heart will break. We've lived together now nigh
upon one and twenty years and you've said as
many snappish words to me, in all that time, you
have since the wings has talked of setting up Taylor
for president. Dear me /; dear me I! what shall do
what shall do Here Mrs. TOmpkins wrung her
hands and ,cept bitterly.
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