Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-20
TOWANDA:
ebrrsnap Alorninp, alan %, 1893.
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-, FIGHT OVER THE DEAD BODY OF KEITT

r,r FIGHT OVER THE DEAD BODY OF KEITT.
IN rpIc PASSAGE FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN EPIC,
Us AO@ THE wAsHINGToNiAD)
o.,,1ess. the wrath, the ontamable dander of
hsoatb Carolina, the clear grit, the tall, the on
t diuRG hath wopped his nggers till northerners
all all u.' piggers to wop and hills of the smallest po
S9 iS9r was the fight on the Constitution of Kan
,tn a. 6ossed into dusk, and dusk into lighting of gas
tba aoor of the house the heroes unwearied were
na7tes and tongues with excitement and ex-
eyob l.re Incoming exhausted, and Representatives
q, ass, %, 70 the war the anti-Lecomptonte phalanx?
Nll [,tiur straight from the shoulder the Pennsyl
.ae5 ylls Hickman and Potter the wiry from woody
r. ,t"rne Stood with his brother" "adwaader stood
MIN nnois sent the one, and woody Wisconsin the
e oonS mild as new milk, with gray hairs under his
OI, tS first chop location and water privilege near
fathers of old on the willow fringed banks of
r,y gps G2rode, too saw, and Montgomery ready for
,-in.t these TO the floor led on the Lecomptonite
r.. II smith Carolina the clear grit the tall the on
m ,nJ Reuben Davis, the raal boss of wild Miss
,.s i,Pr wcarer of wigs and Crage from North Car
.e g and scorny Mcqueen, and Owen and Loycjoy, and
VIA. V.-pui sent to the war. tres juncti in uno"
hal RACED the warfare Of words it was four in the
r..@. l,' and e1pectoraon and liquorn all were e-
r.. Eritt. rrd Of talk, bespake Reu. Davis, Reu-
sr. ', ,arnation blackguard, and I've concluded to
mi, j' i,j M to his feet he sprang and loosuing his
Ch0fer,
s-rbted himself fcr grip, as bar hunter down in
s, 10 90 in at the bar, when the dangerous varnnt
scomcrcd.
Come out Grow he cried, you Black Republican
Come da the floor like man, and darn my eyes, but
Him answered strighthitting Grow, "Waal now, cal
kllte keitt,
ygrer driver shall leave his plantation in South Car
Here 10 crack bis cowhide round this chds ears if he
knows it,
scare had be spoke when the hand the ehivarous five
fingers of kett,
Cltlel al his troahad they closed, the speeches of
GroW had been ended
ygermoc from stump had he stirred up the free and
enlightened
Straight from the sholder he sh0t-not Owen Swift or
Ned Adams
tdure.
As drops hammer on anvil 50 dropped Grows right into
keitt
INT where the uguar to the point at which kech
ties his drOp-knOt-
Prone like os sank Kett, his dollars ratified about
Forth sprng his friends DER the body first, Barksdac,
waying-wig-weaTer,
Cri,e and NcQIeen and Davis, the raal boss of wild
Fecy they gathered round Grow, caawamously up as
10 Chaw him:
Gtwlhout Potter they reckoned, the wry from woody
lie striking cut right and left like catamount varmint
aud vicious,
Dashed to the rescue and with him the Washburncs,
CliwalaIer. EIihu
Sick into Barkales eadbaSket walked POtters one,
tw,-harl and heavy;
ylgsdae fetched wind in trice, dropped Grow and let
ou at Elihu.
Then Ike fountain had flowed the claret of washburne
8thr rCldwallader's are-Cadwallader, guard af his
brother
Cutng at BarksjaIes mob, into Chancery soon would
have drawn il.
Vel was it then for Bar-daIc tn wig that waved over
his forehead
O1n Cadvaaders hands it came, and, the wearer re-
leasing,
Left To the conquercr naught but the scalp of the bald
headed foeman.
Meanwhile hther and thither, dove on the waters of
trouble,
Moved Mott mild as new milk with his grey hair under
n his Oroadbrim,
reaching peace to deaf ears and getting considerably
damaged
l4ioas Coyode in the rear as doubious what it might
come to-
5adi>heda stoneware spittoon gainst whoever might
, seem to deserve it
Lille i mattcred to him whether Pro or Anti-Lecomp
ton
% but he found in the Hall foeman worthy his wea-
pom
'ased this battle of men, till into She thick of the
. melee
Lac to The hcrads of old stepped the Sergeant at Arms
andthe Speaker.