The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-04-10
stump Speech Of Ethan Spike, on the Dan-
ger Of q Dissolution OF the Union.

The honorable gentleman having noun
ted the ros,rum, plunged into his subject in
the following eloquent style, viz:
"Thunder and guns! whar are wei This
are day for the citizens of Homby, and il
want too modest, its day and half for
all creation--including the rest of mankind,
and the people ginerally The world, feller
citizens, is a looking at us, an on the heter.
ogenous exertions of this here society hu-
man liberty depends, an hangs like bur.
dock to TO boys trowsis. Are we up TO the
crop? Dus every indervidooal feel the res
,onsion,i;,v io:,;,v Of the great criesis bearin' on
him like fla; rock on t0de's back Dus
all feel like young Hekealauium ready 10
take hold and choke the orrygone stables as
in wormin' in to skweeze the daylights out OF
our infant liberties? answer-ue is! Let
the hot. ot.in.tates of the hull airth hear and
tremble!
Feller citerzens, we have come up here
every man prepared 10 take his life in his
trowsis pocket-to preserve the Union-that
blessed Union--ft for, bled for, and died for,
by our reverend posterity on the bloody fields
of Buenny vistey, Yorktown, Madawasky,
and Waterlieu. This here glorious Union,
feler citerzens, is threatened within an inch
of its life. By whom' Why, by set of
onsarc umsized, mean, nasty critters, who
cam. .depreciate this blessed purlaydium that
provides every man fig tree-ukder which
we sot an our fathers has sot, an no one darst
molest or skeer US.
Feller citerzens Pm for the Union Yes
sir! An though the hull world agin me,
though the devil lined in with the aberlsh-
onists, yet, as Webster said in his Newbur-
yport letter-Pus satum, santa rairissima histo-
ra saers lez tarlionis, eeeo signun ct broada Iy-
though pelican lowered on ossy, I'D fite till
all was blew! Hear hear and stompin
Feller citerzens The pint we've met
here 10 consider is: Shall the Union be pre-.
seived-shall the star sprinkled banner still
fount and fouuce in the salewbriety of the
onmitigated space of either-shall the Amer.
lean eaale-God bless him !-[s,ompin by
the men, and sobbin and sniffin by the vim
men, 1-shall the American eagle continue
TO soar aloft an-an do as he darn pleases
Or shall he be Just slowed up and broke in
like worn aout syder berrll-your flag torn
and slit like little Ephe Libby's trowsis over
there by the winder--and the glorius fowl
Ct liberty plucked and picked like a thanks.
given turkey! Saints, ministers, elders, and
dseeons, forbid the latter Wharf, say,
whar will Hornby be found when this great
cattle army gideon which is comm on is fit ?
Will she be skulkin and slinkin about like a
woodchuck in tater fell, or tow tie mark
like raj III ;a ,ae corhe:i, What are your
Libbeys, yer Peabodys, yer Virgins, and
yer Lyers, names illustrious in the Madawas.
ky war! True, the fisrt run away afore he
got thar, and tother didn't go, but then, eff
wust had come to wust, thar's no KNOWN
what they might have done for their country
Sterits of 46! even from that all the way up
to ihis-from the hype eIbolical infewence of
aiaycent surcummumbincy--ye behole this
criesis !--smile on yer predecessors who are
about to jine issoo with ungodly aberlishion-
lists and cussed niggers for the preservation
of the Union, parladyums, an what not
Feller citerzens, Pm iE artist. A criesis
is riz An 1t is waken up the free onterri-
fed suvrins of there ere still moro suverner
states TO the reskew!
Thar's mus TERM of nations,
A wakin' of snakes
| The DEVILS broke out again,
And all creation shakes.
Yes, everything is wakin' up, aud takin'
of its coat-Evea the sleepy lion Daniel
Webster, is rousin' and shakin his tail and
name, prepared 10 fite for newman rites and
democratic usages. 'The great confounder
! of the constitution, as he is justly termed,
J ir his last letter to me, very truly and gassac
ally says: "Ethan," says he, pen up your
turkey, counteract my powers--,he hull
continent, however bounded is mine" "Bat
he continers, "thlngs haint rite in the Ian.
guage of Julyus Seizer to the pope OF Rome:
"Abinito lum jun spire spere p which means
somethin' is broke and everythin' is out of
jint." Finally he concludes in this touchin'
way-"My dear Spike," says he, '"I'ye un-
dertook the job Of fixin' and paichin' the
Union; Iluk to Hornby to lay holt and sus-
tain p' [Hear, hear--hooray J and then he
adds this postcript-N B.
S.-Nobody, fur as I've heern, says a
word agin the fewgitive slave law, least
ways, nobody whose opinion is worth a
cuss
Meow, feer citerzens, thar's a good dele
[ to be did In the name Of all that's----
| there the elerkent speaker was interrupted
by somebody calm aout to see what was 10
be did-and what he'd been abaout q Now,
Teller ci,erzens in the ,alkin' name Of all
that's sacret un dimecratc, shall we be found
waitin'i No, teller citerzeu,, no! no From
your borders, from the remorseless precipiia-
tions of Bethel hill un the dark and inskrew-
table caravans OF Lilly pond to the ramified
ossilation of Dan Wiggin's caow pastor,
comes up a thunderin' patryotic, double
breasted no On, then onerd! Let the
watchword bs-Webster, newman rites, and
d--n niger!
Feller citerzeEs Nv done. My speech is
afore you. hope it's done you good, for
n's laid as heavy on my stomach for the las'
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