The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-08-08
ANNEXATION ORATORY.

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We take the following sample 0
annexation oratory from the Waverl,
| Magazine:
| Fellow citizens and horses: Hurra
there's got TO be war! Pm in 70
whipping Great Britain right Of
without stopping for compliments
We must hustle the British lion heel
over head out of the everlasting bor
ders Of this here western continent
Hurra Tor the annexation OF Canada
We must have the critter, neck ant
heels. if we have 10 wade in blood VI
TO our knees to pull it from JOIN
Bull We must do it ! repea
again, we must do it. if we have t;
drive the pick.axe of vengeance clea,
to the handle into Johnny's add.ec
brains! Where's the possum who's
little soul don't echo them sentiments!
lie amt nowhere, and never was.--
Can't you and ], and every one OF us,
rouse UP the wolf of human natur till
he'll pa " the whole oi old England
clear down below low water mark
Yes. stree! Every citizen OF this tall
land. from the owl on the hemIock
stab 10 the President in his great arm
chair, is in favor cf this alI.,hundering
and lberty-spreading measure Just
let these glorious ideas pop INTO the
United States c'anium fairly. and see
if an earthquake shout, bursting from
tweniyIsix millions of Indiarubber
lungs, don't shake the whole earth
"crack the zenith" and knock the very
poles over!! tell you there is noth-
ing this side the millennium like our
own everlasting national institutions !!
nor you can't scare up a flock Of civ-
iIIzed beings, on the face Of the whole
universal terra frma, who know so
well how to defend and spread them.
Where's the Yankee who won't fight
for his country within three quarters
Of an inch Of his life. if it "lries his
soul, yes. and his upper leather too ?"
What's England? Why. it ANT moth.
ing at all scarcely! Uncle Sam will
take it yet for pocket handkerchief
to blow his nose upon when he takes
IA cold We are bound to "wake up
snakes" and no mistake. Let US once
get hold of the job in right earnest,
with all Of Uncle Sans boys, and if
we don't dig hole as deep as elerni.
ty with the spade of Yankee spunk,
and scream the grease spots off the
face Of the universal world, and pitch
them erd over end clear to the bottom
of it then am no "two.Iegged crock.
odi'e ~ When this is done, you will
see the great roaring eagle of liberty
tapping his broad wings up and down
the sides of the world, like a big
rooster growing on the top Of a bar.
reI!! Why you are all ready and
prlmed for the onset--all you want is
live coal or two of fire dropped on
your devoted heads TO touch you oil !!
Me,hinks the flashes CT fire in your
eyes to-day lorebohc blood and thun-
der; only mind you don, flash in the
pan! If you do your bounden duty
in this crisis. yon'!' spit the tobacco
Juice of determination in John Bulls
eyes till he has the "blind slaggers,"
when YOU can take him by the tail
and sling him beyond all human re-
collection !! Rouse ye--rouse ye.-
Let the shout penetrate every nook
and Granny Of North Amortization
the tip top Of the Arctic regions clear
TO the straits Of Gibraltcr, Canada,
and the United States forever. Be.
got in a war,hoop--born in blood
Graded in thunder, and brought up
in glory!