Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-11-23
A Stump Speech.

The following specimens of quaint humor
we flnd in one OF our exchanges, under the
! head Of "Cafornil Correspondence. They
purport to have been delivered by stump can.
ddate at San Francisco:
"FELLoW- REPUBLICANS AND FELLowSur-
| rEIERs: am 4 plain and modest man, born at
an early period of my cxistence-which great
event occurred at home one night while nv
Imotherwas out have struggled from the
obscurity, to which an unlucky star had doomed
me, till have risen like bright exhaIa,ion in
the evening, to the very summit of human great.
ness and grandeur. Gentlemen, 1 profess no
prnciples--untortunately Ihave none. On the
unhappy occasion of my birth, a dismal and
melancholy man, clothed in the sombre hucs
OF mourning, swapped me away for another
baby and subsequently lost me at rattle. Sad
event But who can control his fate !! We arc
the creatures of destiny-'therc Is a divinity
that shapes our ends, rough hcw them how we
Will
II was intended by nature for great states-
man. Had lived in the days of Hannibal. |
should have beaten that great chieftain in cross.
ing the Alps; and it is dead certain thino that
lcould have distanced Cortcz in crossino tbc
lsthmus. He never performed the f.ats ! did:
ne never came up the Chagres river in n canoe.
with deaf and dumb 'hombre,' without red
cent, or change OF summer apparel. But n Grbt
heart and thin pair of breechcs, goes merriy
through the world
olr, every man who has come here is
columbus! tie comes to discover new die
gins. am Columbus! was dead broke at
home as Columbus Was and have come ont
here to strike new vein. But am not ooinr
to the mines! Oh, no. You don't catch me- nn
to my waist in ice water, with a juvenile nick
axe and an lnclpIent crow bar, Iaborinc under
a SUM of one hundred degrees in the Shade to
dig out the filthy lucre. No, sir Iam not IN
that lay. hate labor-it was an invention to
vex mankind. Iprefer an office, one that's lu-
crative and not laborous; what Won cali n sine
cure. And if cannot get one myself I will
go In Tor any man who will divide on the dead
level, and no splits.
Ssr, where will you find country
fke this! Talk not of oriental eorycousness
OF eastern countries Tell US not Of the f,irv
scenes which poets, who revelin the great warm
bath OF heavenly imaginations, paint, with gol
den pens, on leaves of satin The description
OF ths beautiful country should be written
with the golden wand of an angel dipped in the
sottest rays OF the sunbeam upon the blushing
and delicate surface of rose-leaf. Excuse me-
gelit!enaf, except only the rainy season and
the time when the dust flies.
I'VE love our native land--we honor her flag.
and would not rob the Custom House if we had
fair show. But Congress must not put on
any alrs' or we will take charge of the Custom
House and Post Office, and make great nuss
generai!y; These are my sentiments, gentle
men. II 'hey don't admit US into the Union, we
VIII burst open the Custom House and admit
an liquors free of duty. And now, with part
ing pressing upon the girls we left behind US,
ana the boys who are coming after US, we will
adjourn and take private drink"