Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-03-09


nifty notify timber to work in, | must have
sharp tools; if | cant make emmy thing useful
\ out of the stuff, | am determined to whlttel 1t
/ down so small that it wunt be In the way
And as my nose is my own reckon have
right to breed scabs 1t, SO crack the whip
and let the TEEN out for I'm standin with a
chip on my sholder, fer emmy Of them.
..Now." says Tom, ''that sounds like bully
raggin, in particular and that's no way to
work moral reform, as our friend Tom Pain
would say"
swell now says I, tom thought you
was better doctor than that for the men that
need curin the most wunt take their medisin,
and so it often has to be GRAINED down them
with the fist, and when its once down it either
kills or cures, moray speekin, either ansering
the purpose, besides it has strong influence
on the gineral helth, teeching the well ones
not to expose themselves in political atmos-
feres that their constitutions wont bear, for
feer they might have to take a similar dose
sarved up in the news papers,"
SaysTom tome "W hats your motive, every
act ought to have anne, 1t cant be that you
are lectioneerlng for sum Office, fur yol are
workin the right way to have the imperial
faction that dispenses offices, down on your
he'd at once like thousand of brick. Why
don't you go to work like true politician, and
marry into the faction, and when you wirm
yourself into their good graces, and getstrength
enough of your own, break off from them and
set up on your own hook"
Now says /, 'tTommy (for we ware gittin
nifty familiar) in logical pint of view that
doctrin wunt do, and | know you are only
talkin that way for the sake of augmentation.
| haY motive, and the strongest kind of a
one, and it ant to get Office favor either, it
is in the language of our friend Tom Paine
: to prevent them deluded victims the people
from bein led the wrong way by the nose
And to show them the public leeches that are
fattening on them. ] have heard story about
school master, that is in pint here. He used
always to humor his scholars as much as pos
sible. When emmy one of them asked him
for recess he would tell him that he could
have 1t but must return In a certin time. and
if you fool me this time it will be your falt,
but if you fool me agin it will be my falt, and
so they never cum it on him but once, and
that was jist my case with this here watch,
(and then [ showed him the turnip that
bought in Orleans and told him the story
about it.) Thems the principles want to see
the people work on and not be etarnaly caught
with the same old rusty hook
"Well'' says he ''Elik | believe your GIN
eraly right. Them doctrine of yours if car
ried out up to the hub, would bring things as
neer korrect as human nature will permit of.
Thar are a certain class that shood be marked
and suspishund. And them are the ones that
go In for their reashuns at all times and in all
places, whether right or rong. Now in SUM
cases it will do pretty we'll, for instance when
| Napoleon divided out a great portion of Eu-
rope among his kindred, but has relashuns
were in gineral smart keen fellers, and made
things go off RICH. Tho / have laid it down
in the Declaration of independence, that all
men are born free and equal, of course nobody
CONSTITUTES the equal to refer to emmy thing ex-
cept rights, for In evry thing else men are list
as different as emmy body, and one breed of
dogs will remain better than another for
thousand generations. Who ever seed boss
descend from jack ass
Says |, ''Mr. Jefferson, (for I seed he be-
gan to talk like the declaration of ndepen-
dence,) Them's my sentiments precisely
1t ant the fact that that man goes in for his
reashuns that's Objectionable, for if they are
the right grit its highly praseworthy in him,
but if he aPpints and gets appointed to sum-
thin all the mean mungrels III the kuntry, and
they happen to be his relashuns, why that ant
emmy excuse in my opinion for him Now"
says L, ''Mr. Jefferson, I've got very nice
pint to submit to you Suppose that you lived
in TERRITORY whar they were jist on the eve
OF becoming State; suppose that one of the
candidates for delegate nomenated by the
Democrats, had political karacter in his own
party, true spotless and without a blenish on
It, but that you had some-kind of personal
difference with him - and that his oppo-
nent was an old saturated brandy puncheon,
who had married some of your wifes relatives,
would you feel that you was acting the part of
the honorable high minded gentleman-by
staying at home on lection day-and keeping
under feer of lOoslng their wages several hired
men who wood have voted the democratic
ticket; and excusing it under the plee that it
was necessary to kill your hogs
''Now,' says he, ''I'll tell YOU what think
OF such case. In the first place, if man is
really attached to emmy particular principle.
he wood wish to see them engrafted on the
constitution of his State fur in that of all other
places they will have a lasting influence
The delegates who go into convention have /
no interests different from those who send |
them, 1t is purely matter of principle and /
the democrat who votes aginst a nonanee of
his party, when he cant lay his finger on a |
week spot in his principles or a black one in /
his practice, is strikeing bio at his party in
sted of his enemy. And if he dusent vote at
all he only shows meener trait, and one that |
units him for a public servant were he even
honest and Capable want of resolution TO
carry out his purposes"
"N ELL" says |, ''ist such case as that
happened IN Wisconsin, and when was lay
in 1t open with mall and wedge so the people
might look into the crack: you sed you was
little afeerd that | was breedin scab on nv
nose, but you see know them perfectly we'll,
If was up for sum Office they would all vote
aglnst me, on account of them letters, for tho
only sign them A. r they know we'll
enough who | am, fur it ant evry boldly that
VIII STIR up hornets hest just for fun, or 90
Into the woii S den to save his neighbors sheen.
now NV ram, ard "A Ill Q