Squatter sovereign. [volume] (Atchison, Kan. Terr.) 1855-1858, 1855-05-15

Fellow-citizens! / join in this argumen-
tation as the lion with his mate. | appear
before you as the lightning leaps and pours
down in the lambent streams from the
black, imperyious, humid s,orm-cloud. As
the artillery of Jove rattles and clashes
about his eternal adamantine throne, as
tonlshing the heavens, and as the poets say,
desolating the earth. As the cascade leaps
from the precipice; yes, fellow-citizens, as
the avalanche rushes from the hen-roost.
Bright as the glaciers from the Alpine
summit of Pepocatapetl, which leap, and
twine, and curl, and cling, in smoky fires
about its up-lit apex, while expatiate In
ordinately on this all-absorbing question,
pugnibus calabus am as strong an anti
bonder as the rock of Chimborasian Glib
ralter, and will stand to my track though
the earthquake should tremble me, or the
wild strike me broad across. This Gues-
ton is boiling, is fusing in me like the
bowels of Etna and Vesuvious, and | will
not have it quenched. came here to-
night as the rushing Of many waters, as
the sweeping torrents of the mighty Mis-
sissippi, as it beats, and foams, and frets
at the rock of Gibralter. l am as firmly
planted on this floor as the peak of Tene-
rife begirt by the surging of a thousand
seas. My mind is as lucid as the flashing
Of fiery volcanoes, and fancy can see
this bond question in all its bearings, with
the unshackled eye with which the eagle
meets the sun, from this humble temple of
the votaries of justice to Chimborazo's S
most superior brow.
The morning sun rises on the eastern
hills; is she to go down before the night
comes ons No, no, no. This is the most
philosophical view of the question that the
human mind can present, OF the human in
tellect can comprehend. j am therefore,
teeth and toe-nails, opposed to the payment
of those Mississippi bonds. Men may
talk Of this matter as they please; but as
long as the Mediterran lashes her surges
at the foot of the Gibraltarian rock, there
will be found in Mississippi staunch men.
Gibraltar, Tenerife and Chimbarazo
may bathe their heads in oceans crimson
foam, but the broad spread eagles sons of
our State will never cover totheir beacons
or their talons. Careless of their bea-
cons or talons, like the whale in the NIGH
| ty deep, swallow my own Jonahs and
when my stomach can't bear them, / can
throw them up.
Hoice in the croscd.-You're a sword
| fish.
Toice-He's sucker.
Voices.-A Mississippi catfish. Order,
order!
Are the ends of justice to be impeded
| thus? No, stree. Let the ours bark
Her course is on the mountain wave; her
home is on the deep. Could any spectator
gaze on this view without being convinced
No, sir, no! Bonaparte in all his conquer
ing splendor, might march to Chimborazo,
Gibraltar and Teneriffe, with all his oppo-
sing armies, and if a repudiator stood on
the top, he'd march them down again.
Lightning may scathe, and the ocean
surges beat against me; earthquakes may
tumble me from the sunny summit of Mt.
Sinai. may be blown to atoms, and
will be still unmoved, unchanged.
AS nature, unassisted, created the uni
verse, human nature must take care Of it
himself. AS nature blew the breath OF
life into the nostrils of man, let man look
out to keep it there, and breathe purely
where it is there. As the vast expanse
sprung from chaos into form, and shape
and symmetry; as the mighty earth rolls
its seasons, presenting its rich benefits to
man, so do l, with feelings as tranquil as
the mighty deep, its rage tempestuous, SC
do appear before you, and so do take
my leave of you all, my everlasting repu.
diatcrs, my unquenchable water hosses.
Hand round the liquor, for I'm thunder
In dry.
Martha, have you hung up the
clothess''
"No. madam. | placed them in state
of fsuspension-hung is vulgar"
/
| "a Fifty-two persons We're arrested ir
New York on Sunday last for drunken
ness.