The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-09-21
s. EHtlenS-Ths Cock and the
Coon.

The Lebanon (0hic) Star has over il
all for a Wing County Convention, :
soo, aHride 81 "a chicken cock, which !
IN. by the throat, tearing il 10 pieces, fh'
man rspresents whiggery ia that county
ina chicken cock the Democracy-lhe ont
rampant the other PROSTATE. The emblems
so far as The Democracy are concernrd, art
-,xell chosen, bu, not their p sliion.
In the contest Of 1910, the wing party
.chose. as,i,s emblem, the coon-Ibe "samt
.oId COON" as they call %ilswhlch the editor
NJ ,he.Slarr slil ,parades. 10 The De
.mocracy they assigned the chlckencock'
and the cmbiems are still preserved. We
,s.S ,bcy were well chosen, and so they
are. rRheocooa is by nature a GaipA'",
IA providing, skulkirg GalPhin' oil the wors'
.Nass-iiyinp by lhieving and by lrlekery--
rkulking by day; lhieVing by night, II
v,sver attacks an enemy openly, but Sc
.uores all its advantages by stealth anu oy
,,oskety. When night draws her sable
.aar,aip, and oil honest animals anu men are
~, rest, the cool is ab~road--pro"'iag 'ounu
.b,nesl G,rmer's hen roosl, and seIzlng The
,sleepiug. poultry, makes oil IN order 10 Sc
"a, S n,ey al leisure. A Galphin born,
aIGNthin il will remain, stealing the good
msewife's sweet. meas-Frow'ng around
outing its dirty nose into every ln'ng II
comes across in lis search l0r pluhuet'
Tie coon Is the bane Of a good farmers
,I,le-;t lives a life Of Piieti g. anu lis
death is regarded as a blessing; Tor men,
and only then, can it be turned 10 account.
When lis hide is stripped of aud dried II
,is4ssu, To Russia, and there made INTO
rl,,hipC for the Cossacks Ut the Emperor
Nicholas, to protect Them from the cold
,,xhil, executing his villainous ed'c's aganS'
tho Poles. Hungariaas, ard Others VINO
dare 10 bre alhe' The WISH for liberty Sueh
"a The emblem ehusen by the Wings as the
yrmbodineu, ofNhei nfiples:
The chicken COD b different from
ube.coon, in rs habits, as Democracy oil
s+rs in principle from whisgery. l''s emf,
,,en,ly a domestic bird, and is tue pr'de o.
the farm yard, and will battle tie The 1ea'l
.o,ipsl the intruder. With the going down
Il me sun, it gathers its family and rell[e'
10 rest. During the sill hours oil me L'g"''
rrcular as cluck work, It's shrIll Voice Is
l,tard, proclsiming "aFs weH!' At day
.irsh, i, Is of The perch and ready lor Inc
Dor of the day. The earliest account we
u,w recollec, OF The chicken cock, was The
one which noticed lis shriIi cry when re'eF
denied his Master.
The .chiuken cock is not only brave hui
lids a patriotic bird. During the last war
with England, one of lhe most bloody ana
host contested conflicts vas uu axe Cham
main. On board of one of The merlear
.hins. under command Of Commodore
McDunough, was a coop containing d
a,rgp. line r ,oslcr. During The engage
mcn,, a cannon ball Striking he end III The
coop. Knocked il In pieces, but. Fortunate
T., no, inluriNg Me cRieken-coek. Thu
liberated, it finally fund a resItg pltc,
among the rigging, where it could command
a view Of The battle. During one of IT,.
s-uAal in that awful s,rlie. when The Ion
a lar of cannon was succeeded by a sill n
mora dreadful than the rage Of battle,
4trill cry Of cook G-dOOdte-doO, va
Alpa.d from one Of the masIs, az
there, breathing forth its shouts uf drfanC
W the enemy and Of encouragement 10 i
friends, was that gallant emblem Of DE-
mocracy. Sailors, prOyerbia.ly suPersl
ilous, regarded it as an umen of victory, an
the loud huzzls with winch they cIircre
their gallant bird. showed theif spprecia
non of his presence. During tie gcmair
der of that conflict, history relates the fac
,hat amid the fury Of battle. that gillaI
a,ir crowed its notes Of defiance and {
Encouragement, and when tie battle Wa
ended, and McDonougl and The American
were victorious, lbe cheers for victor,
which swept across to the discomiued en-
emy, we're mingled with IhP shrlll notes o
triumph uttered by The noble and pa rioli
lird. winch whigg'ry has assigned as al
emblem to the democracy.
Ol late years. Whigscry has not had il
p,rades and landansos, and hence has M
exhibited its party em'lem as i, did il
DAYS gone by. ! he last exhibition of lhj
kind,-and we trust il will be the las, eve
seen-was in 1871, and consisted Of
live chirken cock lied fast on board, witt
coon tearing its hinder pat' 10 pieces
aud this disgusting exhibition was carrie,
IN a Wing procession through The street
of Columbus, on lie day lhat their candi
date for Governor, Mordvcai Barley, mad
his speech in Stewards Grove. The in
dignant feeding exhibited IN that Occasio
BY some Of the whigs, will, We think, pre-
vent anolher such a dsgraceiul and di
gushing exhibit. The editor d the "Slar
can exhibit a spmewhI II similar one in b
paper. but the better sense Of the COlun
bus Wings disearded the reality.
The Wings choose the coon as the en-
Aem u themselves and their party prime
pies-hey also choose the ehicken-cor
as the emblem Of The Democracy. Ho
well they succeeded in representing eac
the readx will determine %. $. Dem
Graf.
fTAn Epglish writer thus pictures
necessity for the determination Of rum.
Pore over The laaguagc he puts into {