The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-01-29

md them that can make the best and tht
most stump speeches commonly gets in.--
Now | know we hav'nt got any body ia
this country. from Maine TO Texas, nol
from Dan 10 Beer Sheeba, that can hold .
candle to you, ia that kind Of business
lOf course, when say this, mean tho old
bible Dan and Beer Sheeba There 10 anotA
er Dan in this country, that il YOU should
happen to run a-foul Of, | don't know but
the case might be different.
Now il seems 10 me you better 60 in
for the Presidency instead Of going back to
Hungary; a bird in The hand is worth two
in the bush any how; and this country is
fairly under your thumb now, but Hungary,
is still under The paw Of the Russian Bear.
So that although you are the Governor of
Hungary, IT'S likely enough there would be
a pesky bard scratch before you could gov
fern il, -if you went back. Bnt see some
Of the papers say that YOU amt Governor
of Hungary now, although they dom deny
but what you was once. ! wish them pa
Ipers had better manners; they might Jest
as well say that ] amt Major now be-
cause | amt all the ,ime ridin' hoss-back
at the head ofa regiment Of scgers. No,
no, that won't do; IFS nonsense, and i'm
pndence tu. The rule in this country is.
once Major always Major, and once .
Governor always Governor. A mans
title belongs TO him as much as bis name
does. nv Major belongs to me and your
Governor belongs TO you, and nobody hasn';
any right to take il away from US any more
than he has right to upset a nation. Be-
cause it's principle, and founded on ever
lastipg justice; therefore. it's not only the
law Of this country; but it's the true and
just Law Of nations; and our Government
and our country not only ought to respect
il themselves but to make Others respect 1t!
Well, now, dear Governor, if you shouldn't
think it best to accept my offer about the
Presidency, and should rather 60 back and
run your chnnce in Hungary, the next
question is to see what can be done for
sou on that score. You say, you want
that we. that is, all America and the uni
versal Yankee nation, should say you have
a fair right 10 be called Governor Of Hun
gary. Agreed; Eve already proved that
you have that right, and shall have as long
as yol live. There won't be no more
trouble on that score. That question is
disposed Of forever, hope.
In the next place, YOU want US to say
that Hungary got her independence of Aus
'ria fairly, and ought to have il. Agreed
TO that, too. We say it all wea,hers.--
Hungary fit out like man. and ought to
] be free forever and thousand years after
wards. And the traitor Gorgey onght to
have his neck stretched, and the Russian
Bear ought to have his toe nails cut of and
and his nose muzzled, so that he couidn,
bite and scratch. any body again, nor inter
fere 10 other folks domestic affairs.
In the next place, you say you want
'ssometbing else, which as near as can
find out by the papers, means money mat
ters, food aud raiment and clothes and a
few guns and the like OF. that, because you
are going back to have another tussle
with Austria and Russia. Agreed to that.
too. You shall have all YOU want. Jest
hold yo,ir basket and well fill il, if il is "a
dozen times day. see money is begin
ming to pour in upon you in thousand
little streams and some pretty large riv-
ers, and il won't be long before you'll have
whole mint Of il, besides guns and KNAPP
sacks and cartridge boxes. When read
some of your speeches TO our folks about
your poor down.trodden country, it made
the tears come, tell We. Cousin Nabby
said she would knit stockins all winter,
and send 'cm over for your scgers, so they
shouldn't have to go.barefoot rs ours did in
the Revolution. Aunt Keziah said, them
two great cheeses, that she was going TO
buy silk gown with. she would cell for
the money and send it to the Kossuth fund
in New York. Uncle Joshua said he would
sell his three year old steer, for he could do
his plouehing next summer with the old
oxen, and dteni the money to you. Cous.
in Sargent Joel sot in deep study; al
last says he, 81 don't know as I've got any
thing TO send bu, that little piece Of remon-
strancc," and he pointed TO his old rifle
that hung up against the wall; says he,
"i'll send that over to Hungary to shoe,
he old Russian Bear, il he comes growing
|around again" And then he sot thinking
a minute longer, and he jumped up and
emit his fists together, and, SAYS he. "no. !
wont send il, PH go and carry il myself
So you see, dear Governor, there isn',
much danger but what you'll get 'ssome.
thing else"
Ia the next place. when you come TO the
scratch, you want our Government and
this whole nation to hold the Russian Bear
back and not let him meodie, while
Hungary and Austria has fair tussle.
And you want we should give him fair
warning beforehand, and tell him he shan'l
meddle,. no how; and, il we do, you think
he'll mind us. Maybe ho would, md may
be he wouldn't, what then? Then you
want US TO 60 right at him, and fight him
down, and make him mind because it's
right and just; and now we've got TO be a
great and powerful na,ion, it is our duty to
look round and take caro- Of The world, and
make folks do right every where.
Well, now, dear Governor, as &c that,
don't know but VIC ought 10 stop and think
about il little In the first place, we
havo rule here that call just government
derives its powers from the consent Of the
l.