The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-09-10
An EiectiOncering Geg,r.

age is Mr. Dln!el IL. NusSell, Candidate
for Aoditor, IN Mississippi His mote Of elec.
tisneering is to deal With the soysreigns
With the NEST blum, ffankness--disce ding ev.
CRY particle of bsrueyirg hunbey. ghe fol,
Iowing sketch of lste speech delivered by
hla, mus. have puzzled hls o9ponsxt to re-
ply to:
Ladies and Genilemen riso-bui ltsse's
no use Of telling you that, you know am Up,
50 we'll ss | do. sm modest mal--vefy
but | have never losi plcsyure by i, N
my hte-bslpg a scarce commodity amoug
candidates, | thought | would meutloniu, for
fear if didn't you never would hear il.
Candidates are generally cousidered nus.
dnces, but they are not, they are the pp'iest
men IN the world. shake you by the haId. ask
how's year family, what's the prospect for
crops, DC, aud ! an tho politics., nan shere
IS in the State. Dayy Crcckeu SAYS, tie po.
iilesl man he ever saw, when he askt 4 man
10 drink, turned his back SO that he might
drink az much as be pleased. | beat ih,t all
hollow, give a man a chance 10 driDk as nee
# he wishes, cor | nol only lufn around, but
shut my eyes. am not only the po'itestlman
but The best electloneetet- t--you ous hi 0 see me
shsklug hands with the variations, tho pgmp
handle, aud pend1lum, The sscui, and tg.
ge-wagge; ! understand the science pc kct-
~. und # eny ef the county candidates wIsh
instructions, they must call 90 me
Fellow cilizsns, vas botn-f | hadn't
been | wou 'dn't have been a candidate, bu, |
am gong TO tell you rhere--'twas not lnl VI ls.
sissippi, but twas on the right eide of III re.
gto line; yet that's no compliment, as TIE re.
gtoes are mostly born on the same sidt. |
started ia tie world SIS poor as cn,rch.
mouse, We, ! came honestly by my poyFrtv,
for | inherited il; aud # did siart pod, 90
man can't say but hat h4yo he'd ny own
remarkably well.
Candida es geuerslly tell you--if you think
they are gcah6ed &c, Nos don't ask our
thoughts, ask ,cur votes. Why there's no
lhIng TO think Of except 10 watch aud see hst
Swans nsme is not on your ticket, Il 60 think
10 scratch 1t Of and but mine on | sm Ger.
tain that ! am competent, for vhe had ovgh,
TO know bsrer than | do l--nobody. | vii
allow that Swan is the besl Auditor in the
STATE; that is till am eleclcd-,hen perhaps
i,'s not proper for me 10 say nylhng uofe
vet as an honest man, a;a bound to ssythaI
| believe lts gflevnus sin TO h,ds anything
from my fellow cu'2eus therefore say ihatit's
my private oplulou, publicly expressed, hai
l'il make the best Auditor IN the Uiittd
\ aies.
'Is not for honor wish 10 be Auditor lor
10 my own county was offered an office that
was all honor Coroner ahlch respectful.
II declined. The Auditors Office ls vrth
some So 600 year, aud | srn in (or i, Ike a
thousand Of brlck. To show ny gooeneis O.
heart, I'l make this o1er TO my competitor
sin sure Of being elected and he vii lose
something by the canvass, therefore am will
lng to divide equally with him, ard makelhese
two offers. IN tskH the salary, and he may
have he honor, OF he may have the homer sGd
+ III take the salary. 10 the way Of hosors
have received enough TO s3tisly me for lte.-
| went out 10 Mexico, eat pork and beins-
+ slept in The rain and mud and swallowed eve
i ty,hiug except live Msxicaus. W hen rss or
dered lie go vent. "Chafce, CHARGED
+" And break Tor the cbapparail," YOU he'd bel,
Ter believe beat Q qnarler nag 10 doing m,
duty.
Ny competitor Ssnn, is bltd Of colder
pum0Ge, who has been swimming for The las
four years in the Auditors pond OF S5 600
year. | an for rotation. wan, 10 rotate
him out, and 10 relate myself u. There
plenty Of room for him 10 swim outside oi tha
pona-iheTe'ore pep 10 your votes for NE
III pop hin our, and psp myself in.
attn for division OF labor. Swan SAYS ht
has to work all the time with his nose dowI
upon the public gfludstone. Four ears mus
have ground It 10 pint Poor fellow, th,
public ought no, to mast on having the hand,
Of his mug ground clean of, have large
full grown aud Well. blown sosS, red as bee
aud tough as sole leather. rush to the pos
Of duty. | offer II up as a sacrifice. ca
il on the grndstone. Fellow CIT zers, gtn
away grind u holier enuf, and tha1'I b
sometime first, tor I'll hang ike grim dcat
to dead African.
Times most out, Well ike to forgot /
tell YOU my name. lis Dlnlel; for shor
i Dan. Not handsome meme, Tor my parent
were poor people, who lived where the qua
lry appropriated all the nice aames, lherelor
they bad TO take what was lel and DIVIDE 9
round among us-buI us as handsome as ! a,
r Russell Romember cveiya one Of yo
,ha, IT'S not Swan
an sure to be elected, 80 one aud oil, etet
and snail, short and TALL when you come dow
to jackson after he eectlor--itop a, The ~
dltors oilice-he latch string always hans
out-enler without interchangeable of yot
! things end nuke yourself al home.
Dan tshed out oi the stand, boGbn
his heud about; enid cheers for '' Dan,
: DIN Russell and " oung Davy Crockett
Y or When Alexander the Great saw Die
;. encs in cemetry, he askdd him, What
, ,,os damn ihpte ~ a. am sseklnn ~ said II