Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-20
From Punch.
DIALOGUE ON THE DOUGLAS DIFFICUL.
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Mr.. Punch.-I don't seem quite to understand
this disturbance between your President and MIR.
Douglass. Can you tell me in a few words what
is its character, Mr.. Slick
Mr.. Slick.-Guess | can, Bucks in a fix.
MIR. ply Buck, if l apprehend you Alright,
Sir, you would indicate abe head of your re-
public?
Mr.. S.-That's the c%ritter. Promised Lecomp-
ton Con should be overhauled.
Mr.. P.-Promised the gentleman what?
Mr.. S.-Who on airth said gentleman By
Kansas.
Mr.. P.-Promised Mr.-a-Leeompton Con that
be should 90 to Kansas.
Mr.. S.-Guess you've a brick in your hat
stranger.
Mr.. P.-My ~facetious friends, sir. have been
pleased to say there is a brick under it.
MIR S.-'Tain't that. Have you liqucred1
Mr.. P. l never take anything before dinner.
Mr.. S.-More fool you. Yes, stree. Guess
I've a kinder liking for We, but | don't banker af-
Walker throws up, his dander being rz by Buck.
Mr.. P,-Mr. Buchanan should hand the r%ufian-
ly Filibuster.
Mr.. S.-Jerusalem and snakes! Don't be in
such a darned hurry. There's "a brace OF Wal
kers, and ones not totber.
Mr.. P.-O, | beg pardon.
Mr.. S.-IIold hard, ard grin. You see, Doug
las has peeped through the hole in the blankat,
and seed a bit of light. .
Mr.. P.-The Blanket-Oh! All! a bit Of
light, Ell
at fust causes, and come on promiscuous. Air
r the great and glorious republic, the only nation In
the world where the golden eagle of liberty can
wave her alabastar wings and scream her
' Mr.. P.-I know all that.
Mr.. S.-Guess you're hard to please, stranger,
h Wall, air we to have any more slave states than
q we We got2 That's the question.
O Mr.. P,-I trust not and that the abominable-
o Mr.. S.-Calculate you'd better shut up. Slaves
$ or none, we'll always be ready to whip you. Be
sides, look at your Irish and your Jews, and the
Others that you keep in abject and grinding slave
# ry. Cock a-doodle-doo!
Mr.. P.-I am silent.
Mr.. S.-Wall, then. Bucks with the South
and meant to have it all his own way in Kansas
e and make a slave state Of it, but the X ansas boys
n kicks, and Governor Walker, mot the Filibuster
a mind, you old o~possum)--
Mr.. P Really, Mr.. Slick
Mr.. S.-Shut up, | tell you. Governor Walker
a who was sent by Buck to Kansas to do the work
finds it amt to be done. says Buck promised hin
that the Lecompton Constitution should be sub
a mitted to the people, and SO throws up. Buck'
- a vide awake b'hoy, but Douglas he's a wide
J., awaken, and he sees that to force laws on free an,
lie enlightened citizens like our'n won't pay, especi
H. ally when a critter has his eye on the election ii
I'd 1860. So he just throws Buck over and there's
be difficulty.
he Mr.. P.--Mr. Douglas being, if I am right, tn
he most influential man in the States, his opposition
&C. to the President would be formidable.
in Mr.. S.-That's reeled out uncommon fine.
to Mr.. P.-Sir, l thank you for your explanation
to and | hope that no serious trouble will arise j
the United States, for which | always ~entertai
nj the warmest regard.
,ly Mr.. S.--Don't worry yourself into no sort
est perspiration about that, stranger. In a corruI
ad and debilitated old rotten country like yourn
on political difficulty might bring ruin and disma.
a but where a western sun gilds the proud pinnacle
ar Of American liberty, such things air but the wal
I'd, dering breezes that cool she wings Of our glorio,
ey eagle, and help him to fly still higher towards Il
Sc. tTanscendental armament. VIII you liquor