The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-08-04
RACY STUMP SPEECH.

The subjoined eloquent, grand, lofty and
stupendous effort was recently made by a
promising genius who had announced himself
as Il candidate for Congress
Friends and feller-citizens, Of this conilic-
tious community, Use ris up to give you war
min and make political speech, and what I'm
goin TO speak about I'll allude to. Now l'de
like to have you pay partcu lar attention, as
the preacher says when the boys is pitchn
beans ut his nose. say crisis has arrived,
the wheels of government is stopped, the ma-
cIinery needs greasin, the rudders unshipped,
the buster billed aud hc,l's atioat and the river
Isin. Our glorious ship OF state, that like u
bobtaied gander is floated down the peaceful
current OF time, has its harmony disturbed and
is now drifting with fearful rapdity towards
the shoals and quicksands of disnnion, threat
ening to dash everything into flindring, aud
pick itself up in the end gone goslin. Hank
en- no longer ye worthey denizens of Hog
Hole, Terpin Neck and adj cent regions, to
that siren voice that whispers in your too
creduIous ears, the too delusive sound of
peace has done sloped and flewed to other
lands, or div to The depths of Tecumscrum,
gone Pickering threw the fogs of other clnes,
tn ade the miser watcher in his dimes. Or of
the great Alexander ut the battle of Hunkers
Bill, who in the agony OF despair. frantically
shreaked, % gravy! peace has gone like my
schulz boy days and don't care darned.-
He was whole horse and team, sure.
Feller-cilizens and gals tOo-in our halls of
legislature conirshun runs riot and anarchy
runs supreme. Rise up then, like porkers in
tatcr patch, and shook off the dew drops off
her huntingskiris, and fell into rlnks. Sound
the tocsia, 6eai the drum! and blow the tin horn!
till the started echoes reverberating from hill
top to hill tor, and from gopher hill to gopher
hill, shall cause the ad.imaItine hills of New
England, the ierruginous disposition of Mis-
souri, and the auritorous PARTICLES of Californy
to prick up their ears and in whispered ac-
cents, enquire Of their nabors, 'whol's the
mattcr'
Feler-citizens and the wimmen-I repeat
it, to your posts, and from the top-most peak
in the Ozark mountains bid defiance to the
hull earth by holcrin whose aleard, in such
thunderin tones, that quaker with terror,
they'll forget what Niger is. Don your dusty
regmeutals, grease the locks of your guns
and put in new iints, grind your old scvthes
and make sords out on EN-, mount your bosses
and save yOur nation or bust
Lndes and gentlemen; the great bird of
American Iibertys fewcd uloit and sorin upon
the wings Of the wind, and now hoverin high
over the cloud capped SUBMITS Of the Rocky
mountain, and whcn he shall have penetrated
into the unknown regions Of unlimited space,
and then shall have div down and lit on dad
dy's wood-pile, shall be led to exclam in
the language OF Paul, the ostler, root pork
or die.
The time is critical, bloods goin to be pour
ed out like soap.suds oulen of waslltub,
and every man that's got soul MS big as the
white OF nigger's eye ill BE- ready to fight,
bleed and die for his country! Them's the
times-you want men in the councils of the
nation that you can depend on-that's me
Elect me to Corgris and I'll stick to you
through thick and thin like lean tick to n
niggcrs shin! I'm not goin to make cleo.
tioncrrlng speech. I'd scorn the act. You
know me; I've been fetched up among We; al.
ready on the wings of topIottica imagina-
ton ! fancy see you marchin up to the polls
in solid phalanx, and with a shout that
makes the earth ring, 'hurrah for Jim Smith
come down on my opponent like i thousand
OF brick on rotten punkin.