Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-02-15
Great Union Meeting at Hornby.


! PATRIOTIC SPEECH OF HON. ETHAN SPIKE.
Thunder and guns, Where are we! This
are day for tie citizens Of Hornby, and if
want too modest, its a day and 4 half for all
Notwithstanding the rest Of mankind, and
| the people leegenerally The world, feller citi-
zens, is a looking at us, and on the hetroge-
nous eXertions Of this here social newman lib
crty depends, and hangs like a burdock to 4
! boy 5 trowsers. Are we up to the crop! Does
| every inderyidooal feel the responsibility of
4 great erie sis bearing on him like Il flat rock
| on toads back +? Dus all feel like young
Herklanium ready to take holt and choke the
orygone stables as is a wormn: in to squeeze
the daylights out of our infant liberties!
| answer-wE is Let ethe bot-m- tates Of the
, hull airth hear and tremble!
Feler citizens, we have come up herc--eve-
ry man prepared to take his life in his trowsis
pocket to preserve the Union-that blessed
union-ft for, bled for, and died for by our
reverend posterty, on the bloody field of Buna
Visty, Yorktown, Madawaska, and Wa'erlieu
This here glorious Union, feer citerzens, is
threatened with an inch of its life. BY whom !!
Why, by 4 set of onsarcumsized mean, nasty
critters, who cant depricate this blessed per-
laydrum that pervides every man Il fig tree
under which we've sot an our foretathers hev
sot, and no one darst modest or skecr us,
Feler cterzens: I'm for the Union. Yes
sir. An though the hull world was again me,
though the devil jned the aberIishunists, yet,
as Webster said in his New buryport letter
"Pue stulteus, santa palissmt Historic sacre
leytaglionis, occa signum erbroadanh rho
pelican loWerd on ossy. I'd lite till all was
blew. Hear, hear, and stomping
Feller citizens: The pint we've met here
to consider is: Shall the Union be preserved
shall the star spanged banner still hount'
and hounce in the solewhrity of the onmitigated
space of ether-slall the Eagil God bless
him II [Stompn by the men, and sobbn by
the weimmen. Shall the Amerken eagl CON-
tInue to sore aloft an--an--an do as he darncd
pleases? Or shall he just be stove up an
broke in like a worn aout syder herriel-aour
flag torn and slit like little Epbe Lybby's
trowsis over thar by the winder-an the go-
rious faowl of liberty plucked an picked like
a thanksgivin turkey! Saints, ministers, ell
ders and dekins, forbid the Iatter What--I
say whar will Hornby be found when this
great battle of armygdeon which is cumin on
is fire VIII she be skukin an shakn about
like Woodchuck in a tater path, or to, in the
mark like a rat in the corner? Whar ar yer
Libbys, yer Peahodys, yer Whiggins, and yer
Kyers, names lustrious in the Madywasky
war. True, the fust run away before he got
there, and the other didn't 60; but, then, if
wust but comes to wiser, there's no knowing
what they might hev did for their country.
SPORTS of '76 cen from that all the way up
to this-from the hyperbolical contlewence of
adjacent sarcumumbiney-ye behold this cri-
sis smile on your predecessors who are
about to jineisson with ungodly aberlishunists
and cussed niggars for the preservation of the |
Union, parley dinners, an what nots
Feler citerzens, I'm in airnest. A crcsis is !
raz An it is wakin up the free, onterrifed |!
survins Of these ere still more suyriner States |
to the reskew!
That's musterin Of nations,
AWakln up OF snakes .s@zzsz
The devils broken out agin, z
And all creation shakes
Yes, everything is waken up, and takin off
its coat, even to the sleepy Daniel Webster, is
a rousn, and shakin his tail an name, prepares
to fire for the newman rites un dimocratic usa-
shun," as he is justly termed, in his last letter
to me very truly and gassically says-aEthan,"
says he, II don't speak as Massachusetts
man, nor nothing else-no pen up your-tur
keys counterfeit my powers-tbe holl conti-
nent, however bounded, is mine s'But," he
continers, s'things haint rite; in the language
Of Julyns Seizer to the Pope of Ryme.
Abni o jun spire sphere which means
somethn is broken an eyerythin is aout of
int" Finally, he concludes in this touchin
way.
ssMy dear Spike, I've undertook the job of
ixin and patchin the Union. loke to Horn
by to lay holt and sustain me Hear, hear,
nooray n And then he adds this postcript-
n. B. P. S.-Nobody, so fur as I've heorn,
says word agin the iewgitive slave law, least
ways, nobody whose opinion is worth a cuss
. Now, Feller citerzens, thar's a good deal to
De did! In the name of all THAT'S here
he clerkent speaker was interrupted by some
body callin aout to know what was to be did,
ind what he'd bin about T Naow Feer cit
,rzens, in talkin name of all that's secret un
shall we be found wantin NO
eller citizens, no From all aour borders, from
he morsciess procipi'ations of BotoeI hill un
he dark and inshrewtable caravant of Lilly
Pond to the ramifed oscillations of Dan Whg-
,in's COW paster, come up a thunderin patryo-
ic, double-b breasted No!-On, then, onords
Let the watchword be-W ebster, newman
ites and ID niger! - -
! Feller citerzens, I've done, My speech is
fore you. hope its done you good, for it's
aidas heavy on my stomach for the last tew
lays'as would cold billed tater.
a PRAY1NG CAPTAN.--A good story is told
f arou9h captain, in storm, when the terri
led passengers persuaded him to petition Heav-
coti IF fop,r oo$