Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-01-16
1851

consider is-Shall the Union be presarved-'
shall the star-spangled banner still flOunt an
tounce in he soewbrity of the onmttygated
space Of ether shall the American eagle-God
bless him. [stompn' by the men, an sobbn'
an smlIm' BY the winnh I-sEu! the American
eagle cOntnJo to soar All. -an'-an' do as he
darned peases Or shall he Jest be stove up
an broke in like worn out cider belril,-our
flag torn an slit like Eph Libby's trowsis over
there by the wnder-an' the glorious faOwl of
liberty picked and picked like thanksgiving
turkey? Saints, ministers, elders, an deacons,
forbid the latter. Whar, say, whar will Horn
by be found when this great battle of armygideon
what is comm is fit? Will she be skulkin' an
glinkin' about like woodchuck in tarter field,
or toein' the mark like rat in the corner
Whar az yer Llbbys, yer Peabodys, yer Wig
gins, an yer kyers, names lIlustrious IN Inc
Madywasky war True, the fust run away
Ofore he got thar an tother didn't 90, but then,
ef wust had come to wust, thar's no known
what they might have did for their country
Sperits of '76. cen from that all the way up to
this-from the hyperbollycal conhewence OF
aiaccnt sarcumumb.ncy-ye behold this crisis
smile on ye predecessors who are about to join
$500 with ongodly abberlishunists and cussed
niggers for the preservation of the Union, per-
ladIum an w0t nots.
! Feller cterzens. I'm in ARREST. A crisis is
rz. An it is wakin' up the free, onterrified suv-
rms of these ere still more suvrner States to the
reskew
Thar's a mustern' of nations,
A wakin' up of snlkes-
The devil is broke out agin,
And all creation shakes.
Yes, every thing is wakin' up, an takin' off it'
coat Even the sleepy lion Daniel Webster, is
a a rousn' an shakin' his tail an name, prepared
tew fight for newman rights an demmercratlt
usages. "The great Coufounder Of the Const
tutlon," as he is Justly termed in his last ette
to ne very and gasicaliy says -" Ethan" say
he, 81 don't speak as a Massachusetts man, no
nothn' else no, pen up yer turkeys, counterac
my powers--the hull continent, however bound
ed, is mine But" he containers, ''things hahn
right, in the language Of Julyus Seller to tn
which means somethin' is broke, and every thin
tpuchin' way" My dear Spike I've undertoo
the Job of fxn' an patchin' the Union. | loo
10 Iornby to lay holt an sustain mew Hea
hear; hurrahs. N. b. P. $40 body, SO fu
as I've heerD, says word agin the fewgltlv
save law, leastways, no oody Whohc opinion
worth cuss
Now, Teller citerzens, tIar's good deal to b
did In the name of all that's Hear the eli
quent speaker was interrupted. some body calm
out to know what was to be did, Now fee
citerzens, in the talkin' name of all that's unden
mercratic, shall we be found wantln'? No, fe
Ter clterzens, no. no. From all our borders
from the remorseless precipltations of BETH
Hill an the dark and lnscrewtable caravans {
Lilly Pond TO the romfed oscillations Of Da
. Wiggns's COW pastur-comes up thunderi
p1triotic, doublebreasted NO On, then, onerd
Let the watchword be, "Webster, hewma
rights, and d---n niger"
FeIler citerzens, I'm did, My speech
. atore you. hope its did YOU good, for it hi
, laid as harder on my stumc, for the last tie
f days, as would a cold billed later.