The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-01-12
From the Washington Republic.
Sam Storms Letter about Organizing.
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- StormVil9s, Kentucky:
Sir: came on here to get Aunt Polly's pension
By way fpaying expenses, and to see Congress by
way Of learning something about things in general
l md however, that am like to be fIscdted in
both particulars. for they won't pay out till Cong
ress is holganzed, and Congress won't do it.
Yet there is something to be learned here worth
mans money in coming on, provided he can get
enough out of the pension to get home again. =
Don't believe there is a man in our parts who
knows what's meant by Aorganiziag the House.-
line the boy what's seen the thing, and tell you
all about it
Well to begin, must go little back of that
as lawyer johnson says and in the first place, de-
scribe the premises The place they call the House,
is no house, but big room, inside. But before |
go at the Reorganization, must tell you what kind
of room Il is Its neither square nor round, nor
long nor short but kind of all these mixed upi and
when one gets in you can't tell how you got there,
nor how to get out again. This is not all my own
sentiments, for Iheard member say, " The Lord
only knew how he got there" But to be partcu-
lar itlooks for all the world like mighty big halt
bushel cut square off on one side. with a painted
beehive over head which has hole in the top to
let in light One feels, while sitting in the gallery,
like fly stacking to the ceiling of meeting house,
what don't know whether he is inside or out
About half way on the square side, there's nigh
ty grand fxin with red curtains; right over is a
spread eagle, what looks as if he had half notion
to fly of with the whole consarn 1 believe he'll
doit too, il they don't make haste to put some
body in to keep it down. ~.
j This here 6xin they call cheer. but it looks to
me more like setten-down pulpit, with the dea-
cons seats in front The whole consarnment of the
inside house is enclosed With high board fence,
like race course, which, suppose, is meant to
keep the members in or the eonstables out am
not certain which
When got in-Lord only knows how--what
they call gentlemen's gallery, (which you must not
suppose means gentlemen betwixt man and man,
but only in opposition to women,) the first thing l
see and heard was a man standing behind the dea-
cons chair calling out names, just like sergeant
on muster day, except that nobody answered to his
name, but hollered back somebody else's. For ex-
ample, when the man back of the deacon's seat
sang or. Joshua Giddens," Mr., Giddens holler-
ed back !" William ]. Brown" Every body laugh
ed atthis thought Mr. Giddens was only mock
ing the deacon's man by way of making as one of
the members said, a " little tomfoolery.''
Not knowing what all of this calling of names
meant, made bold to ask an old gentleman who
sat near me what they were at down there?
Stranger. said he's perceive you ere ignorant of
parliamentary proceedings, and I will with pleas
ure enlghten you. Them gentlemen down there,
arc bue representatives. el0cI, Dol yet SWOTu iI O
the thirty sovereign states of this confederacy and
they are now engaged in. horganizng the House,
according to the Constitution Horganizing the
House, repeated I; what's that? To horganize
the House, said he, is to place in that there
chair-pointing to the setting down pulpit That's
it, Ell then why don't them are fellers standing
dowl there doing nothing but looking at women's
gallery, just pick up some likely man and carry him
up them steps and chuck him right into that set
ting-place, and net be keeping old lacks message
back, and stopping all the widow pensions, includ
ing Aunt Polly's? Stranger, said the old man, /
dontknow where you were raised-not in old Yir
ginny, am sure. You have never read the reso-
lttt;oas of '9s nor Father Ritchey's paper called
the Uision. 1 tell you. young man. that the great
principle of malortes lies at the foundation of our
free institutions, and that it will take hundred
and fourteen members, which is clear majority of
the House. to put man into that there chair.
Mister, said L you complexify me with your
ilarnin' As to your '98 resolutions / never read
one of them, and don't mean to- 7 makes my own
resolutions, and keeps them or moi, as l please,
which / consider rale American liberty. And as
tosits taking one hundred and fourteen men to put
one man into that there cheer, it's all ga1nen and
habstracti6cation. tell you what, my old cock,
I'll bet you one-half of Aunt Polly's pension which
is all to have for my pains in getting it. that
if that there deacon's roll-caller down there will
just sing out my name 4Sam Storms, Of Stormville,
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 be-
fore you say over one of your '9e resolutions
What's the use said for had got excited
what's the use of making all this d--fustifcation
Just like swarm of bees in arevolution, when the
queen is dead. and they cant make another right
Oft because the yarrnints can't agree upon nothing
but singing each other, but after while come to
their senses, and do II for the love of the honey
Here / lost breath by my excitement, when my old
friend cut in and said Bees are royalists ace are
republican confederationists" jus then new
Justification in the House took my attention. What's
going on now said L Hush said he; they're 90
ing to put Speaker in the cheer, and no mistake,
this time Sure enough, one hundred and ten men
had shouldered feller bv the name of Bill Jack
son Brown, and were histin him up towards the
settn-place 1t seemed strainin work, thought,
for so light material; but they didn't all hist to-
gether; when they got to the steps, there was a
little fallin back like if they couldn't quite come
It Hold on above there" cried one; "tend to
the bracings below there, shouted another.
But Brown was up to the predicament; he had
been at raisin before, guess. for he just beck,
oned TO one man and winked at another, who stood
of little, ookin' on, much to say, can't you
lend hand at this raisin? The two fellows Jump
ed forward, as if they had only waited to be axed
one laid hold Of Browns legs. and the tother lit
Gle higher up. That's your Sorts said /; :" them
fellers 90 at it Ike hired hands who work for some
think besides vittels and drink. You've come it