Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-10-06
Racy stump Speech.


The subjoined eloquent grand, lofty.
and stupendous effort, was recently made
by promising genius who had announ-
ced himself as candidate for Congress.
"FrendS and feller-citzens of this CON
ilictious community, Use ris to give you
warnin' and make political speech, and
what I'm going to speak about I'll allude
o. Now I'd like to have You pay par
ocular attention, as the preacher says
when the boys is pitchin beans at his
nose. | say crisis has arrived, the
wheels of government is stopped, the ma
chinery needs greasin', the rudder's I'M
shipped. the buster billed, and h-ps atloat,
and the river rIsin'. Our glorious ship of
State, that, like bop-tailed gander, is fioa-
ted down the peaceful current Of time.
has had its harmony disturbed, and is
now drifting with fearful rapidity towards
the shoals and quicksands of disunion,
threatening to dash every thing into fin
dring. and pick itselfup in the end gone
goSlin. Hearkcn no longer We worthy
deniZens Of Hog Hole, Terrapin Neck and
adjacent regns, to that siren voice that
whispers your too credulous ears the too
delusiye sound, peace, peace; for peace
has gone sloped and hewed to other lands
or div to the depth of the mighty deep
or in the more emphatic language of Tc-
c,gmserum, gone iiickerin threw the fogs
Of other chimes, tn ade. the miser watch
in his dimes; or, Of the great Alexander
at the battle of Ilunker's Bill. who III
agony of dispair frantieally shrekied, 20
gravy peace has gone like my schuleboy
days and ] don't care darned." He
was hull horse and team sure.
| Feller citizens, and gals, too! in our halls
of legislature confushun runs riot and and
archy rains supreme. Rise up, then, like
pokers in later patch, and shook off the
dew drapS off yer huntinskirts, and fell
into ranks. Sound the tocsil! beat the
| tt1umi and blow the tin horn, till the
started echoes revcrberate from hin to-
i to hill top, and from gopher hill to go
pher hill, shall chuse the adamantine hill
of New England, the ferruginouS diSpo.
stion Missouri, and the aurferous parti-
Giles of Caiforny, to pick up their ears
and i'll whispered accents inquire oftheiI
! naberS, what's the matter?
| Teller citizens. and the wimmen--I re-
peat it, to your posts, and from the top
most peak in the Ozark mountains bic
defiance to the hull earth. by hollerin
! Who's aieard? in such thunderin' tone:
that, quakin' with terror, they'll forge
what niger is. Don your dusty regi
lnentals, grease the locks of your gun,
and put in new tints, grind your ole
scythes and make swords out on 'em
mount your bosses and save your nation
or bust!
Ladies' and gentlemen! the great birc
Of American Libcrty's flowed aloit, anC
soarin' upon the wings of the wind, anC
hOyerin' high over the Handicapped sum
nit Of the Rocky mountains, and wheI
he shall have pentrated into the unknown
regions of unlimited space and then shall
have div down and lit on daddy's wood
pie ! shall be led to cXclaim; in the Ian
guage of Paul the oStler, root pork Oh
die!
The time is critical blood's goin to be
poured out like soap suds outcn wash
/ tub. and every man that's got soul as
big as the white of "a nigger's eye Ii be
ready to fight, bleed and die for his coun
try! Them's the times you want men il
! the councils of the nation that You Cal
/ depend on-that's me! Pm not a goin
to make a 'lectioneerin' speech. I'd scorn
/ the act! You know me; Eve been fetch
ed up among We; already on the wings
Of toPloftical imagination | fancy sec
you marchn' to the polls with a shout
that makes the earth ring, hurrah fol
jim Smith !! comes down on the oppo-
sition like thousand of brick ON a rot
ten pampkin.