Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-10-28
From Ne Me.v York Picaynne
AN ELECTION STORY.

which was peopled by the descehaah!S
of Germans, politics were running high,
though merely on local questions. The
opposing candidates Of the Wing and
Democrat parties were both lawyers.
One Democrat, nick-named Dignity
Brown, and the other Wing, known
to his brother lawyers and the public as
Volunteer Davis. and sometimes as
With.all .due.deference Davis"
Election was drawing noar--a meet.
ing was appointed by the Democratic
wire.pullers, to be held in the upper
portion of the county, for the purpose
Of making sure of the German interest
Our friend, Dignity Brown, had never
been in this region ofhis county enough
to be known, nor had the inhabitants
been at court often enough to distin-
guish one lawyer from another. AS
witnesses they hated them all alike, aud
as iurymon they admired all alike. He
had never been among these people, we
say, but as the contest was approaching
and the chances fof pigh.ly s'ay."s aI =,
home or gong 70 :. washington M I nacos.apv Sssvu
evenly balanced, u see,neu ',., "e.essp,S ~ )
that the Germans snou'a pe @ aIo"'eI Az :"
sense OF thelr 1a'S anu aa"se', LaI n.
cordlng,y, the eau tor 'he "ee''"s "a0
been PuoIisneu' =. .,,,,,r
Now on the meeting aay-1r ta'"g'
evenlng-it haPpenea' altose.ner gene: aSe, W,
denlaily, that our wing cen1.aa.e, r, W. "
antoer DAVIS was returning .,p"' .l o, w."
ference win ", n, his ttiehus o. .,.o uFPe,
emu emu. WIZ ", ma, . ,ba ,ararm Sbore
NY ~ as ~ usU ,sna Mi :, ,yhich he ,bo't
.nu y haes.iuH sI. W. 1 s,nns fsw minutes to
uhSgSeI s, tso,s ,e - ~ ItJ Il, bSrss and nick
.e'te'. M c a'''s. :,. q;a - D;an;,y,s p barangne
sP = 'sm "h po.a's ,,han : Wb;r meetin@
.a y Spees% r I'll ""0
s""H'p /, ~ ,s'.l "e% -, e.n,r. ,.er. roir,e1
AS no aso'o ". nuee'' taIa la ian,a n or
at him, short conferences ns'", Is Jo"le a,sous ..
the unterrihea were sm',5"S w ua" u''Ie, n.'
Laughing outtie".' an.ii 'ona,.oS' ,...eS -,
Wis began 10 thihk 'ney ne''ta'eu so"o ~
practical Joke upon nm iot l"us ~, uo'I,"s ..h
as spy into MS onemy 5 coun.ry,n"ea :, ~
all at once his donptS were .el'esea uy
the appearfance,ol d comnltsee CON, ,: M u. 'Mo W.,
who simultaneously .p1h M..n +. e g ,Is .Is
hand' Plying eacn arli.Nis"souS'y - ,.;"e ;"o
pumP'hanaie ana croSs:Gu. r.Sy, s.y'e, m;:,Ias ,as
al Inc same t,'he, "e,?o",e' ., - p,.'I' p.s,.,,,
Brown! Tree jeets 10, M,S.ne. , 80 ~, ,%a
and up wehl !nree lus.y e1Te. n. ',o. .I
lungs OF lhe ''o",ieu''ea Ds'A'..
oh, hop thought our hero sits Inc
wind in that quarter Well here goes;
I'll do 'once my friend but now my toe
u bit of service. III make speech 10, t"r
him If any mischiet's j. {: d0ne' "hy ! Il
prove an alioi, it fortunately these ms
taken men don't take out a VIII OF ma
beas Corpus tor my ooay oeio'o a"'
done
The meeting was organized while "a
Wis was hurriedly refreshing himself
concocting u speech, and trembling lest
the simon-pure Dignity Brown should
appear. But that individual was In
blisslul ignorance OF the state OF things
at Grundlc Town, for, having stopped
at the tavern of good Whig, he found
after travelling a mile, that his lynch
pin was gone and that there was no get
ting along without ii. NO Diacksmith
was nearer than the one at the inn he
had just lelt-so back he trudges to have
the loss repaired while the opposing
general was in his very camp. All THIS
was accidental OF course, and 1t was ac'
cidental that tie blacksmith was halt an
hour making the pin, and that he ', should .
burn his Gnsers SO seriously IN the Joo
that the apprentice should finish lt-ac'
cideutnl that it all resulted IN deten-
ton Of Blown for two hours from the
road. ~.
In the meantime affairs i, are approach
ing a crisis at Grunale Town.
Davis IS beginning his perora'ioh-
his German friends are all ear;
"Fellow citizens, with all due defer
encc IL the opinions which men enter
tain concerning their own language l.
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