The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-04-12
WHO BIDS?
GOING GOING ! GONE !

UcHullIul White liOuSC, III IOI TillCC.
all the requisite out.houses; four years
possession, and perhaps eight without
rent. and an annual salary besides OF
$4,000! No drawbacks cxcep. the
privilege Of being skinned alive by
the newspapers, and handed down to
posterity as an enormous rascal
Speak quick! Who bidsn
'One hundred and sixty acres of the
public land to all actual settlers, after
four years occupation screams Il brisk
little fellow from Illinois.
One hundred and sixty acres after
three years POSSESSION growls dark
looking Titan from Massachusetts.
'One hundred and fifty acres to all
the world (my own couutrymcn cx-
epted,)--Russians, Austr ians. Turks,
Hungarians. Poles. Germans. Greeks,
Englishmen, Frcnchmen, Swiss. Ro.
mans, Chinese, japanese, Hottcntots,
Africans, Tartars" shouts a phlan
thropic gentleman from New York.
One hundred and sixty acres to
every body who hasn't land or money!
roars burly hunter from Texas.
One hundred and sixty acres to all
mankind. with money or without, for.
eigners or natives cries Il portIy per,
sonage from Michigan.
is there no higher bid. gentlemen?
This fine mansion is perfect palace,
surrounded by the most eIcgan,
ground, and within stones throw of
every man, woman and child in the
United States, going at only one hun
dred and sixty acres to each foreigner
and native Why gentlemen, You
certainly must be able to afford bet
ter bid than that, seeing none OF you
own an acre of land you are putting
up. Why not say IL thousand at once,
as we'll as a Aundred. and, instead OF
Asurrendering it all to foreigners. give
a portion ct it to the widows and or.
phans OF those brave men who fell in
fighting our own battles with foreign
nations I!
A pause succeeds. Widows and
orphans, indeed! The Auclionccr
must be fool Widows and orphans
have no more right to vote than their
dead husbands and fathers. The men
BY whom thhH. were slain, however,
wiN have notess That makes all the
difference in the world. At least the
hunter from Texas rises and offers a
small piece of prairie for women as
we'll as men. Thus stands the race
for popularity at present, Texas being
decidedly to windward of the whole
squadron. The lone star has made
the taIlest bid for the imperial purple
Going! going! gore! Alas! it is not
only the public lands which arc offer.
ed. Would that it were! Individual
consistency, political integrity and
common deccncy appear in these
times to be all brought to the hammer.
Who can look without disgust upon
grey headed old sinners, who ought
to be at home raped in llannels and
slipping hot cruel, as they crowd
around the auctioneer's desk and bid,
bid, bid, at the top of their cracked
and wheeling lungs for four years
grant of power, when they would
much better bid for four years
tenure of life, that they may have
time to make amends to their coun-
trymen for the evils which their per.
sonal and political ambition has
brought upon their native land ?
"Going! Going" Here is some
thing more costly and better than the
White House! Walk up, gentlemen
: and examine this magnificent estate,
commonly called the american Union
with all its beautiful tenements,
antique furniture, rich land, enormous
water power, immense cotton, tobac
ca, wheat and cornfelds; an indefinite
quantity OF forest, any number of land
and water vehicles, and an undoubted
capacity of becoming the richest es.
tate in the whole world! Going! Go.
ing! Who bids!
"DOn't all speak at once, gentlc-
men! The land is sold for no defect
or drawback whatever. The present
tenants can't live in peace together.
The occupants of the Northern part
swear that the Southern occupants
shall have no share in any future ad.
ditions TO the estate, and are daily
stealing their laboIers from them, and
thrcate ming to rob them Of all their
property. 1t is clear that the tenants
of the estate can live no longer to-
gether upon such terms. For that
reason, this most magnificent domain
is brought into the market. Who
bids?
Going! Goingl l shall certainly SELL
gentlemen, if it goes for a mere song. |
The estate is we'll worth your atten.
ton. 1t cost an immense sum. -
Mountains Of yellow gold we're paid