Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1855-11-14
A Raey st ump Speech.

Tie following eloquent, grand, Lofty,
was stupendous effort, was recently
made BY promiscuous genins, who
had announced himself as a candidate
for Congress: III
Friends and fellow citizens of this
CONTIGUOUS community, Use riz to give.
you warnin' and make a political
speech and what lam a going to speak
about and allndeto. H.
| Now, 3Fde like to have you pay par
ticular attention, as the preacher says.
when the boy is pitchin beans in his
nose. ! say a crisis have arrived,
the wheels Of government is stopped,
the machinery needs greasin', the rud-
der is unshipped, the boiler busted,
and we're alIafoat, and the river RI
sim Our glorious Shipof State that,
like u bobtail gander, IS now drittin'
with fearful rapidity towards the
shoals and quicksands Of disunion,
threatellin' to dash everything to fin
tiers, and pick itself up in the end Of i
gone goslin. Harken no longer ye
worthy denizens Of Hog Hole, Terra
pin Neck and adjacent regions, to. the
Siren voice that whispers in your ears
the two delusive sound, peace peace,
for peace has sloped and flowed To-
other la nds, ordiy9to the depth Of the
mighty deep, or in the emphatic Lam
guage Of Techumserom, gone flicker
in thro ugh the fogs Of other climes;
to aid the miser watch his dimes. Or
the great Alexander, at the battle Of
Bunker Bill, who, in the agency Of
despair, frantically shrieked, Oh,
gravy! peace has gone, like skule-.
boys, and don't care a darn. lie was
a whole hoss and a team shure. HI.
I Feller citizens and gals too--ill our
hall Of Legislature confusion runs riot
and anarky reigns supreme. Rise up
then, like porkers in q later patch,
and dew-drops off yer hunting shirts
and fall into ranks. Sound the tocsin,
beat the: drum, and blow the tin horn,
till the startled echoes reverating from
hill TO hilltop, and from gopher hill
to gopher hill, shall reach the ada
mantine hills Of New England, the
forrugenous disposition Of the Mis-
souri,, and the suriferous particles Of
Californy to pick up their ears, and
in whispered accents, inquire, Of the
valors |"what's outl" III
Fellow citizens and the wimmin-
I repeat it, to your post, and from tile
topmast peak Of the Ozark mountains,
bid defiance to the hull earth by hol-
lerin' whose afeed, in such thunderin'
tones that quaken with terror yo'll for
got what niger is. Don your rusty
rigimentals, and grease the locks Of
your guns, and put in new fints, grind
your scythes and make swords out On
'em, mount your HOSES and save your
nation or bust! ##
Ladies and gentlemen--the great
bird of American liberty's fewed aloft
and sern upon the wings Of the wind,
and now hoverin' high over the cloud
clapped SUBMITS Of the Rocky Noun
tains, and when we shall have penetra-
ted into the unknown regions Of IN
limited space, and then shall have
div down and lit on daddy's wood pile,
/ shall be led to exclaim, in the Ian
guage Of Paul, the ostler, "root pork,
or die"
Time il critical, bloods goin' to Be
pourd out like soap suds' outen q wash
tub, and every man that's got 3 soul as
big as the white Of q nigger's eye, II
fife, bleed and die for his country.
Them's the times You want men4in the
councils Of the nation that you can de-
pend on--that's me! Elect me to Con-
gress, and I'll stick to you threw thick
and thin, like q lean tick to nigger's
skin. Tn not goin' to make 4 cleo
tioneerin'' speech. I'd scorn the act.
You know me, I've been fetched up
among ye; already upon the wings Of
Itoplifted imagination. ! fancy ] see
fyou n,archin' up to the polls in solid
Ephalanx, and with shouts that make
the earth ring, "hurrah for John
Smith, !" come down on my opponents
Hike q thousand Of brick on q rotton
nnnkin.