The true Democrat., 1856-03-18
Letter from Searcy County

how he laid Know Nottingham in the mud = The Colonel did not arrive till late hour on the 23d February, and there was several per sons gave him out and had gone home But those who waited for him were richly paid for theT time, and there was goodly number of them too. There was many persons here that did not get to see the Colonel, until they saw him speaking, for my word for it. he came speaking and lost no time. Now. Mr. Editor. shall not give much of the Colonel's speech for If yon are acquainted with him and his manner of speaking you know with what force he can speak. Suffice 1t to say that he dwelt upon all the issues now pending between the democracy and the dark anternites. And after Col. ilmdman concluded, the Know Nothings. what few there Is here, sent up feeble voice from under the sinking blows of Col Hindman ealing upon Col. Boliver to come forward and come quick, to defend them for they were al- most Tn despair. And after an impatient wait Ing, sure enough BoliveI came, side at time. he came up slowly, looking rather pale about the SllIs, as though he had just emerged from the elder thcket And in his old and pecu liar way, he said that he did not come here to- day prepared to say word, and sure enough he was not, but said he had not memorized his sermon as the gentleman who had preceded hlm-and pulled out of his pocket small bnndle backed pamphlet, Furnished him no doubt by goodness and grace of your city, , and proceeded to read something about old Rome. and when he was through reading you may guess the fun came. Said he, why my friends wish was posted so I might say something. He told his hearers that he knew nothing of the oaths that Col. Il. spoke of, and then said he whoe-up--l wish 1 was posted then said he used to be what was called a whig: then whooped, wish was posted; then sail tn at he had not joined the order, but approved the platform; mhee-up, l wish 1 was posted Then Col. H. arose to reply, said that Col Boliyer put him in mind of an old story which is this: There was gentleman who once had a house for hIs chickens. and there Was a fox found its way into the house, and the gentleman endea. vored to stop it out but could not, at last he thought he would hang a large bell over the hole, so that when the fox polled his head in he would rattle the bell, and thereby keep him. self scared off; so the fox came the first night. poked his head in, and the bellrattled, the fox wheeled and run for life, the second night the toA came little more hungry, the bell rattIed, the fox ran, but not so fast nor far as the nioht before, and the 3l night came the fox, almost at the point of starvation, poked his head in, the bell rattled and the fox iumpeI back lit tie, and in moment concluded he would sec what it was, poked his head in looked up at the bell, viewed 1t we'll, and then exclaimed to the bell, You bjg nsout4ea, brazen face{, h072os0 headed dlng dere is notling j1s you ro-h -ho,0, you a0as put here just to make c fuss. Here Boli- yer interrupted, by saying he was not put up. Col. Hindman told him then, we'll he got up.
 And Col Hindman, in viewing the position in which Boliver had placed himself compared hlm to what We Rp here call the pig and puppy tale. Said that there was man in Tennessee. who had neighbor settled close by him by the name of Jones, and by way of introduce ton to nelghborship promised MT. J ones a pup ny, and when the puppy was ready for delive- ", started boy with the puppy in a sack, and the boy stopped at a shop on the way to take drink, when some person took the puppy out ot the sack and put pig in the place. the boy shouldered the sack and went on to MT. Jones, told Mr. Jones there is the puppy mas- ter promised you, SO Mir. Jones opened the sack pifr tplJ +b, ln, +b- :. that he did not want any of his masters pigs, therefore take it back, and tell your master: so the boy was very much troubled, started back and stopping at tn, shop to take another dr k, while the man took the pig and replaced the puppy in the sack again, the boy wagged off with his sack to return it to his master, told hlS master that It was a pig instead of puppy he had sent Mir. Jones, his master said he knew better for il was puppy, picked up the sack and emptied it, and found it to be the puppy, when he exclaimed to his servant, vou rascal. you see 1t Is not pig, it is puppy. When the boy replied Lord of masaa, master it can be pig or puppy just as it p.e.sas
 So it is with Boliver he can be pic or puppv eitheir CT neither, just as he chooses, once a whig, now a Know Nothing advocating its prin- ciples and when he began to close down on him he would say, 1 know nothing about it. Now this Col. Boliver is an old office seeker as von have heard before, and his manner of cleo tioneering IS to be as good democrat as any body; as good whig as any body, or as good a Know Nothing as any body (Any body, Lord, so you elect mel You also heard of his threatening the boys out here in the mountains, with having served the people of Tennessee Now Isuppose from his political course here that his services rendered the people of Tennes- sec, consisted in the shoe and boot blacking bu sness. For you know, Mir. Editor that is mixed up affair, and some mems political course will be shaped by their previous occupation
 Now, sir, there was some body else at the speaking guess who he was I will tell you It was the Doctor. The Doctor was fzzing around first upon one side of the crowd, and then upon the other, ready to dress the wounds inflicted on Boliver But Col. Hindman in- tiicted such wounds as Dr., Fissa did not under stand. Now Fissa professes to understand all about the spinal column as you have doubtless understood by the Gazette edited by Goodness and Grace. And l will tell you more, he un- derstood all about the cranium and expulsion of worms, etc. But when Boliver's wounds were to be dressed his cranium was like the he'll there was nothing in it. We frequently hear Dr. Fissa talk of the billiany duet, and the of.
 
 fensive sag ncht bile, but on the 23d, he had no medicine to stop the belching of it up, or turn 1t down. When he examined his pill box es and found he had nothing in them that would do he wheeled about and spent the remainder of his time trying to sell couple of his stlange Know Nothing friends pork at four dollars per hundred, and himself never having raised hog in this county