The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-04-06
From tie Boston Museum.
THE WILMOT PROVISO In HORNBY!
nense Marsc Mecfin!:

1
noIogcalIy reported for the Museum, by ErHAs
SPIKE, Esq., orther of the 's Fust Visit to Port
land,'" His own Letters" etseterer
! When in the coarse of newman eyents-no,
that's not the way | meant to begin. That
ere, eff don't disrember wrong, is ordashus
sentiment invented by old John Adams to
head the Hartford Convenshun.
Tempus teDrioso, ipsy dicksy" That'll
dew better. That ere is jarman text, an
means "The devil to pay an no pitch hot, -
which is pertickerly impertinent to the Okla
shun. Besides, like to see furrin potations
intersperserated in writin', no matter whether
orthor or reader understands 'em or not it
looks larned like.
"TER THE RESKEW!
The sittizens of Hornby, without respects to
pollytieks or religion except Comeouters Sha-
kin quakers an other unsurcumsized disturb
ers of the pease-is requested to meet at the
Red Skule-us termorrer nite Subjects of
great nashunul consarn an dstracshun will
come afore the meetin'. A gineral turn aout
is desired"
The aforegoin' is fact-simmyle of notis
stuck onto Ben Kver'e sine post, last Sabbar-
day. 1t made cen jest as much stir and talk
as though ralerode had come inter taown
without nockin'. Every body asked every
body what on airth it meant, an nobody know
ed nothin' about it. Ant Judy streaked it
around so much through the slosh to talk
abaout it. that she took the rewmytiz properly,
an couldn't 90 to the meetin' in consequence.
This, however, father says was preverden-
shul dispensatory as efshe'd gone to the meet
in, she'd probibly spoken tew the bisness an
when she does get talkin', she's some an it
takes few to he'd her off
When got to the skule-us it was chuck full,
the meetin' organised, Squire Israel in the
cheer, an Elder Peleg Pepperel, jest risin'
to speak
as this here great meetin' ?" began the
Elder a speakiu' thraough his nose "Is it a
sponteraneous Dustin aout of feelin'? Aint
it preternashus bubblin' an bilin' of publick
exercises of newman indifference? What is
this here WiImot Proviso that's naow roarin'
thraough the land like a ralerode or a mag
hectic paragraph broke loose? That ere is
what we've met to consider What is it then
Why, it's abaout the ugliest thing ever skeer-
ed up in free onmttygated country It's
agin' the consttooshun! its agin' all natural
an aleenyble rights an parquesits, kalkulated
to onhang the instertooshuns of the hullworld
an the rest of mankind in gineral An on
less we take hold on it at onct, an GIN it -,
as gineral Taller did the Mexicans at Buny
Gardy-then l say our free instertooshuns
haint worth a -- ahem! that is, they haint
worth nothin', so to speak! It's heethenish
abomInation of desternashuni it is an it haint
nothin' short
The fust accounts we have out, we find
that ere onholy, black old Egipshun, Fre-e-oh
king of the niggers, a tryin' it on tew the chill
dren of IsriL, somers in the old country, to
gether with pentytewks, levitety-cusses, DC
But consarn his old picter, he couldn't come
it! an l was oilers proper glad when he got
drowned an come to an ontimely eend. -
"Heari hear! hoora," from the ordinance.
"Daown with yet Fare-e-ohs an pentetewks! !!
Give it tew 'em Ederp' an other tokens of
enkuridgement an reprobation
The Elder bowed an went on at has
bin practysed more or less from that time till
the last tew hundred years when it went aout
with the rain of Jewdus Mackaboys, last king
of Jewbilee, I've bin studdyin' the classicks,
an know all about itl" screamed the Elder, a
stickin' his thums in the armholes of his wes-
cut and struttin raound the platform. "l've
been Through the hull mess" says the Elder,
says he, "constitooshuns, dewteronomys, an
what nots! But why linger in the onmittiga-
ted shades of the dusty futer? Haow come
the perviso agoin' agin? Thems the question
Feller siLtizens, this here is what I've bin abel
to larn abaout it 1t was dug up about tew
years ago, sumers in Yarmouth by William
Lord Garrison an Gineral Cass an is naow
spredin' over the land with the speed of an
iron locofotive with the cars onhitched, an l
hear that Gineral Taler's orderd aout the
standin' army to he'd it. An well he might
for it's abaout the pisonest thing, ackordin' to
all acaount that was ever set agoin' an thret-
ems to onderpin the very tenderhook of hew-
manity, sap the faoundashuns of onsofsticated
distinckshuns of indervidooal generations, be-
sides breakin' things generallyl Let us rise,
then, feller sittizens,'' says Peleg, windin' up
his pearoration, "let US rise like-like-like all
possesst an dew aour darndest!"
'Hooray for Elder Peleg! Three cheers
him!'' says when he sat daown. An three
cheers was GIN.
The follerin' resolootions was then reported
Resolyed-That all Perpisos is rank pison,
an haint good for free nstertooshuns
Rcsolved-That eff Gineral Taller needs it,
the Hornby Falanx be offerd to help him tite
this here Perviso.
This ere one was opposed by Cap'n Isaiah
| Wiggin, who's cap'n of the falanx. Haowseves,
when the cheerman stated, that this beein' a
free meetin' anybody who undertuck to op-
pose rosolootions would be put rite aout of the
haouse, the Cap'n gin in.
ResoIped-That copies of these here reser-
looshuns an the Elders speech be sent to
Gineral Taller, the gineral court an the En-
peror of Rooshy
IeesogUed-That when this meetin' ajerns
it sings Hale Kerlumby." Then alerned
Syne dye.
A trew copy, Attest ETHAN SPIKE.
P. S forgot to put in that atween the
eend of the Elders speech an the reserloo-
tions, Dea. Obed Jinkins stated he hoped eve
rything would be done right eend foremost, as
the eyes of the hull universal woold is sot rite
on u.s. an that figgeratively speakin', we was
sot up as sort of ennmylation to light the
dark places of airth. The deacon also offered
a resolootion that 'We go the hull agin VIM
minis rites" This here raised storm among
the female wimmin present. an the way they
squalled was onairthly But the deacon stuck