Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-30
Just In Time.

TBE ioiiuwing WAS culled from the rel
lets of The past. It's equal is no, often
found among the ruins Of by.gone days
1t /. probably Inc instrumen, which pre-
served the Union in he turbulent times
of 80. Ind the honor. therefore, Of TINT
grea, event.. truly belongs to its eloquent
author. Etaa.' Spike of-ilornby, Snake
County Caiiforl ia.
THUNDER and q ms? Whnr ar We
This ar n day for tho citizens Of iiornby,
and, if ! want tew mootst. lis q day ana
a halffor the hull creation. includin' the
res, of mankind and the people giperal!y.
the world, Feller Citizens, is = lookin' al
US, and ON the heterogeneous excrtions oil
this here society, human liberty depends
aid hangs like u burdock to q boys TOW
sis. Ar we up TO the crop? Does eyof.'
indervidual feel the responsibility of tho
greu, crisis bearin' on him like a fiat rock
on a loads backi Does all feel like q
young Herkerlanium ready to lay hold
and choke out The orTygnne stables rs is
wormin' in TO squeeze the daylights aout
of aour infant liberties2 | answer, we is
Let the h~o,eniales Of the hull airlh hear
and trenble!!
"Feller Citerzens. we hev come up
here. every man prepared TO take his life
in his trowsis pockets 10 preserve the
Union-that blessed Union. fit for. bled
for. and died for by our reverend poster
ity on the bloody fields OF Bony ,Visty.
Mudawasky. Yorktown and Waterliew.
This here glarious Union. Teller Otter
zens. is threatened within an inch of its
life. By whom? Why, by a set of mean.
nasty critters. who can't dspreciate that
blessed periadium as per,ides every man
a fg tree under which we sot, and aour
fathers has sot, and no one darst modest
or skeer us.
'.Feller Citerzens. I'm for the Uuioni
Yes sir. and tho the hull world was agin
me. tho the devil joined in with the alb
e%rlitionits; yet as a Webster said in his
Newburyport letter-"Pre Stultum. san
ia rariSsima historic SGcraler taglionis
COCO Signnm ct broadary!'--tho' Pelican
lowered ON Ossy. I'D o tie till l was blew!
"Feiler Citerzens, the pint we've met
here to discuss is-shall the Uuion be
preserved-saall the star. banked span
ner still nount and aounce in the salew-
briefly of the onmiligsted space of ether
shall the American Eagle--Goa bless
him--shall the American Eagle still COZ
tinue to soar aloft, and--and--and du as
he darned pleases?--or, shall he be just
slowed up and broke in like a worn aout
cider barril--aour flag torn and slit like
little Eph Libbey's trowsis over thar by
the winder. aour glorious fowl of liberty
plucked & picked to pieces like a thanks
givin' turkey? Saints. ministers. elders.
aud deacons forbid the latter! Whar,
say. whar will Hornby be found when
this great battle army gideon as is comm
on is fit? Will she be skulkin' and stink,
in about like a woodchuck in a later.
field. or toe the mark like a rat in a cor
ner? Whar ar yer Peabodys. yer Scrug
gins. yer Muggins. yer Virgins. yer Hig
gins. an yer Lyers, names illustrious il
the Madawasky war? True. the first run
away afore he got thar, aud the totheI
didn't 20. but then If wust had come ts
wust. ,har's no KNOWN what they mou
hev lone for their country. Sperits o
nc. even from that all the way up TO this
from the h%yperbolical confewence of ala
cent sircummumbiency. ye behold thi'
criesis-smile on yer predecessors. wh'
ar abeout to jins issoo with ungodly sb
erlitionists and cussed niggers. for tn
preservation of the Union, parladiums an,
J what nets.