The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-12-06
a RACY STUMP SPEECH.

The following eloquent, grand, lofty an,
slupendous effort was recently made by
promiscuous genius, who had announced
himself as candidate for Congress:
Friends and felow-citizens of this confic
tuous community:
Now, I'd like 10 have you pay parlicula
attention, as the preacher says when the boy.
is pichin' beans at his nose. / say crsi.
has arriv', The wheels of government is stop
ped, the machinery needs greasn', the rud.
ier's unshipped, the ber busted, and we're
afoat and the river risin'. Our glorious Shir
of State, that, like a bob-laied gander, i:
foaled down the current of time, has had its
harmony disturbed, and is now drftin' with
fearful rapidity towards the shoals and quick.
sands of disu nion, lhreatenin' 10 dash every.
thing into ninters, and pick itself up in !he
end gone gosling. Harken DO longer ye
worthy denizens Of Hog Hole, Terrapin Neck
and adjacent regions, TO the siren voice iha,
whispers in your ears the loo delusve sound,
peace, peace, for peace has sloped and flowed
10 other lands, or driv TO the depth of the
mighty deep, or in the emphatic language OF
Techumserom' gone fllckenn' through the
frogs OF other climes leusid the miser watch.
er in his dimes. Or the great Alexander al
the battle of Hunker's Bill, who, in the ag.
ony oil despai franlicaly shrieked, o, gravy
peace has gone like my skeule-boy days, and
| don't care darn. lie was whole hoss
and team, shure.
Fellow-citizens and gals too--in our hall
of legislation confusion runs riot and anarchy
reisns supreme. Rise up, then, like porkers
in tater patch and shake the deu-drops off
yer hunting, shirts and fall into ranks. Sound
the tocsin beat the drum and blow the
tin horn till the startled echoes rever-bera.
ting from hill top, and from gopher hill 10
gopher hill, shall reach the adamanline hills
of New England, the fer:ugnous disposition
of the Missouri, and the auriferous particles
of Californy to pick up their oars, and in
whispered accents, inquire of her valors-
"What's out 2"
FeIIow.ciizsns snseendd end The The wiilm,min-I repeat
it, 10 your posts, and from The lopmost peak
of the Ozark mountains bid defiance TO the
hull earth BY holerin'-" Who's afeeid ?" in
such thundeIin' tones that, qnakin' with ter
ror, you'll forget what niger ;s Down with
your rusty reg egimenials, aud grease the locks
of your guns and pu in new anls; grind your
old syihes "F-' make. swords ""t - 'c.,,
mount your hosses and save your nation--cr
bust
Ladies and conference.-the great bird of
American llberly's Aewed aloft and sorn up
on the wings of the wind, and now hoverin'
high over the cloudclopped summi;s of the
Rock Mountains, and when he shall have
penetrated into the unknown regions of un-
limited space, and then shall hav div down
and lit on Gaddy's wood-pie, | shall be led 10
exclaim, in the language Of Paul, the ostler,
" Root, pork, or die.!'
Time is critical blood's coin TO be p CURED
out like soap-suds out in wash tub, and ev-
cry man that's got soul as big as the white
of nigger's eye, u fite, bleed and die fur
his country. Them's the times-you want men
in the councils Of the nation that you can &c.
pend on-thal's me! 'Lect me to Congress
and III stick TO you through thick and thin,
like lean tick to ni5ger's skin! Pm not
goin' 10 make an eleciioneerin' speech. I'd
scorn the act You know me. Pve been
fotched up among ye; already upon the
wings Of top.lifed imagination | fancy see
you marchin' up 10 the polls in solid phalanx,
and with shouts that make the earth ring,
"Hunah for lin Smith wcone down on my
opponen, like thousand o. brick on rotten
punkin.