Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-09-26

cam dagnitate.
Unless it really be with them, as
once heard friend Of mine say, in tht
course of lecture, he was droll fellow
-he said that '.the South were alway:
threatening to dissolve the Union, if we
did not toe the mark. Dissolve the
Union, Why, as well might cur towr
paupers tell the selectmen, if they didn't
mind their P1s and Q's, that they would
dissolve the union between them" He
was queer fellow, and perhaps he did
not mean what he said. There are a
great many 'sscunding and glitterine
generalities about Declarations of Inde-
pendence nowadays.
guess, if ! were you, I wouldn at
tempt to "seize the Archives and the
Treasury Of the Government, as you
Will. Because, you see, you can't all
leave home at once. You must leave
somebody to keep house. For if your
slaves are left alone, they will get discon-
tented, and lonesome after their dear
masters, and all be hurry scurrying into
our big free pasture, for frolic. Then
all we shall have to do, is to run, Just
pull the doors to after us (latch-string
outside, and placing our free-born hands
upon these same Archives, this same
Treasury, say to you, with your slaves
peeping over our shoulders, and wink
ing knowingl ly at you-"Come and take
them y Don't you see, Colonel, how
cute we shall do it.
Why, Mr., Sumner, and Mr.. Wilson,
and Mr.. Burlingamc, and lot of So
torths, are not all there is of the North.
They are only a few surplus heroes we
happened to have. Didn't you know
that One blast from Freedoms bugle,
like the whistle of Rodcrick Dhu, would
be echoed back from every mountain top
in New England, reverberated along her
valleys, and thundered adown her Nj
agaras, (where you were invited to rus
tieate,) until Washington would be
garrisoned by Burlingames, and Wilson's,
and Summers, in less than two minutes
and half. What do you think of that !:
Sit down here, Colonel, close by my
side, and I'll tell you something else
| am Maine girl, myself-a kcnnebccls-
er. So, speak by the card. If one
of our stalwalt, lion-hcarted, six-feet-
five backwoods lumbermen should plant
one of his feet on South Carolina soil, it
would shake her like a Calabrian earth
quake, from centre to circumference.
Did you ever go to Maine: If not,
you had better reconnoitre a little
Call for me, and I'll go Through the
enemys country" with you, and keep
that bear of Burlingame off your track.
Some OF our bonnie lassies shall make a
chair with their round, fair arms, while
others shall surround you like halo of
glory in all your royal progress, and see
you safely through. We will see to it
that you are not too snugly ensconccd
in your chair, 50 that, in the accident of
an attack, you can run-according to
proper authorities. For Shakespeare
makes honorable mention of ''runing
brooks ..brawling BROOKS" &c. |
should like him better, if he were not
so personal.
want you to go to Maine, because
have got to be rather proud OF her late
ly. She was bound that Squire Choate
should not force any of his patent soft
soap, his precipitate, unctuous ointment
upon her. She declared she vould "break
ont whenever she had a mind to.
speak of Maine particularly, because
she is my mother and l always like to
notice my Down East relations. Her
sisters are all just as independent as she
is. My Aunt Vermont and my Aunt
\. Hampshire (tho' she had cne son that
cidn' turn out Very well-he took to
Prcsidenting, got into bad company. and
failed all up J but all my Aunts are as
independent as my mother. It's Of no
use for the Squire to go to peddling his
quack ncstrums among them.
Say, Colonel, will you go? As you
say, ''if we must dissolve the Union,
let us do it with a full appreciation of
the consequences. When you come to
see some of our hard-handed freemen,
our merchants, our lumbcrmen, our me-
chanics, our scholars and our momen,
you'll believe sit will be no childs play
as you say,) when the conflict does
come"
But You see can't tell whether You
are in.earnest or not-you are such a
joker. Every since you joked Burlin-
game about that duel, and then ran when
he got all ready for you, have been a
teetle suspicious about your big talk.
Now, seriously, Colonel, do you really
suppose Mr.. Sumner is gagged for good
and all j: You've talked so much about
his good looks, that l suppose if l
should tell you ! had sort of liking
for the man, you would tell me that this
is the very reason. Well, Colonel, I
think he IS pretty handsome myself
The first time l ever met him in the
street, after came up here, bran new
country girl, inquired who he was, and
one of my friends said, "Why, don't you
know : That is Charles Sumner" !
replied "Do tell ?" And ever after that
took on great airs about my quick per-
ceptions. You see, Colonel, there is a
calm, unAinching, moral intrepidity in
that collected eye, in that arching nos
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