Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-08

lves elect, not yet sworn in, Of the thirty
sovereign States of this contederacy, and
they are now engaged in horganlzlng the
House according TO the Constitution
Horganieing the House, repeated :;
what's that! 70 hOrganize the House,
said he, is to place a man in that there
rhair-pointing to the setting down pulpit.
That's it, eh then why don't them are
fellows standing down there doing nothing
but looking at the women's gallery, just
pick up some likely man and carry him
up them steps and chuck him right into
that seting-place, and not be keeping old
Zack's message back, and stopping all the
widows pensions, including Aunt Polly s!
Stranger, said the old man, don't know
where you were raised-not in old Vlr-
ginnv, | am sure. You have never read
the resolutions of '98, nor Father Ritchey's
paper, the Union. Itell you, young man,
that the great principle Of majonties lies
at the foundation of our free institutions,
and that it will take one hundred and four
teen members, which is a clear majority
of the House, 10 put man into that there
chair.
Mister, said !, you compleXity me with
your larnin'. As to your '9S resolutions,
| never read one of them, and don't mean
to. makes my own resolutions, and
keeps them or not, rs | please, which |
consider rale American liberty. And as
taking one hundred and fourteen men TO
put one man into that there cheer, it's all
gamcn and habstractihcation. | tell you
what. my old cock, I'll bet you one-haIf
of Aunt Polly's pension, which is all |
am to have for my pains in getting it, that
if that there deacon's roll-caller down
there will jiSt sing out my name, Sam
Storms, of Stormvlle, Alligator county,
old Kentucky" I'll pitch down into that
enclosure and put the biggest man there
Dixon Lewis being gone) into that there
cheer before YOU can say over one Of your
90 resolutions. What's the use, said l.
for had cot eXcited-what's the use Of
making all this d. fustiliation, Just like
swarm of bees in a revolution, when the
queen is dead, and they can'tmake another
right of, because the yarmints cant agree
upon nothing but singing each other, but
after a while come to their senses, and do
it for the love of honey. Here | lost
breath by my excitement, when my OLD
friend cut in and said, "Bees are royal
lists; more than that, they are unionlsts
IRE are republican confederationists. -.
list then new Justification in the House
took nv attention. What's going on now!
/ said |. Hush, said he; they re going to
nut Speaker in the cheer. and no mis-
take. this time. Sure enough, one hun
dred and ten men had shOuldercd Teller
hv the name of Bill jackson Brown, and
we're his,ing him up towards the setten-
place. 1t seemed to be trainin' work, ]
thought, for so light material; but they
didn't all hist together; when they got TO
the steps there was a little taIlIn' back
like, as if they couldn't quite come 1t.
Hold on above there" cried one tend
to the bracings below there" shouted an
other. But Brown was up to the predlca-
mem; he had been at a ralsin' before, |
guess, for he Just backOned to one man,
and winked at another, who stood oil
little, lookln' on, as much as to say, can
Won lend hand at this raisin'! The two
icuers Jumped forward, as if they had
only waited to be aXed one laid hold OF
Browns legs. and the tOther a little higher
IN. "That's your sorts, - said |; g them
Cellers 90 at it like hired hands who work
for something besides viuels aud drink.
, You've come it now, Mr.. Brown" No
: Won don't, tho, quite; for, no sooner had
the two new hands hitched in, than three
.old ones hitched out, letting 90 of Browns
under timbers, as if he had needles IN his
trousers, which commotlOn threw the raI-
sin out of the perpendicular-a little
pitchin' over towards the south side OF the
house. "Hold on to the bracins," cried
4 man ON the west side. "UnlOn, now
, or never" shouted feller on the cast
:. Stand from under" haIlowed respect
able individual from the North. The
/ hammer came iist in time to save many
valuable lives, for down come the whole
tetotal concernment SQUASH !-Jlst Ike d
barn-raisin', when the under-bracin' Is
knocked out before the holdin' peg Is
driven in above. Poor Brown fell under
the timbers, and some of the hands which
run from under trod on him, in order TO
escape their share of the business. l
thought he was dead, but one of them new
hands who was knocked down with him
had the manners to pick him up and carry
him TO a chair-not the setting pulpit but
one what common folks set in. lie then
rive him some water, which reused him :;
and he cot up and said he had the honor
+ TO thank them what had lent hand to his
raisin'; and he would be glad to return the
compliment at one of their ralslns' when
, called upon, on some future occasion.
/ al W