The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-02-19
PUNCH AND The LECOMPTON CON-
STITUTION.f

STITUTION.
The following catalogue" from Punch, is
too good to be lost to our readers, though
portion Of the wit Of it is at the expense Of
the South. rit
Mr.. Punch.-T don't seem quite to under
stand this disturbance between your Presi-
dent and Mr.. Douglass. Can you tell me in
few words what is lis character, Mr.. Slick?
MIR. Slick.--Guess can Bucks in fix.
Mr. Punch.--By Buck, IL a2prehend you
Alright, sir, you would indicate the head of
your Republic? .fi
Mr.. S.--Ihst's the critter. Promised Le-
compton Con should be overhauled.
MIR. P.-Promised the gentleman what?
Mr. S.-Who on airth said gentleman! By
Kansas
MIR. p Promised Mr.-a--Lscompton
Con that he should 20 TO Kansas.
Mr. S.-Guess you've brick in your hat,
stranger
Mr.. P.-My facetious friends, sir have been
! pleased to say there IL brick under H.
Mr.. s.-'rain't that. Have YOU iquored I?
Mr.. P.-I never take anything before din
ner.
g Mr.. S.-More fool you. Yes, sir-ree.--
| ouVoo NC ~ hlHutT llhlIp lOT le, Out uOn '
banker after your old world habits. Take
notice now. Walker thrown up, his dander
being riz by Buck.
Mr.. P.-Alr Buchanan should hang the
ruffinanly Fillbuster.
Mr.. S.--Jerusalrm aud snakes! Don't be
in such n dnrned hurry. There's bruce of
Walkers, and ones not t'o.her.
Mr.. P.-Oh! | beg pardon.
MIR. S.-Hold hard, and grin. You see,
Douglass has peeped through the hole in the
blanket, and seed bit of light.
Mr.. P.-The blanket Oh All! A bit of
light Ell?
Mr. S.-Spec you don't see none. Well
begin ut fust causes, and come on promiscu-
Gus. Air the great and glorious republic, the
only nation in the world where the golden
eagle of liberty can wave her alabnster wings
and scream her
Mr.. P.-I know all that
Mr.. S.-Guess you're hard to please, stran-
ger. Well, sir, are we to have any more
slave States than we've got that's the ques.
ton.
Mr.. P.-I trust not, and that the abomina.
BILE
Mr.. S.-Caculate you'd better shut up
Slaves or none, we'll always be ready to
whip you. Besides, look ut your Irish anC
your Jews, and the others thht you keep il
abject and grinding slavery. Cock-a-doodie
dou
Mr.. P.-l am silent.
Mr.. S.--Wall, then. Bucks with th
, South, and meant to have il all his own wa,
, in Kansas, and make n slave State of il, bu
l the Kansas boys kicks and Governor Walker
, (not the Fillibus,er, mind, you, old opos
sum-
Mr.. P.-Really, Mr.. Slick
t Mr.. S.-Shut mp, tell you. Governo
i Walker, who was sent by Buck to Kansas
e do the work, finds it ain; to be done, say
{ Buck promised him that the Lecompton Cor
: s,itution should be submitted to the peopl,
nnd 40 tlirBws up. Back's n widp-awnk
bhoy, but Douglass, he's wide-awaker, an
e he sees tha: to force laws on free and Ell
: lightened citizens, like uur'n won't pay, sp,
a ciallv when n critter has his eye on the ele
tion in 1860. So he just throws Buck owe
and there's a difficulty.
: Mr. P.-Mr Douglass being, If I am rich
J. the most influential man In the States, h
|. opposition TO the President would be mo-
, formidable.
u Mr.. S.-That's it, reeled out un commo
8 fine.
r. MIR. P.-Sir, thank yon for your explain
: ton, and hope that no serious trouble wi
e arise in the United States, for which alwal
entertain the warmest regard.
Mr. S.-Don't worry yourself into no so
:. Of perspira,ion about that, stranger. In
e corrupt and debillated old rotten count
, like your'n n political difficulty might bril
. rniE and dismay, but where a Western 81
giIds the proud pinnaces of American libe
~, such things mir but the wandering breez
y that cool the wings of our glorious eagle, M
b. help him TO fly still higher towards the ira
|, scendental iirmament. VIII you liquor?
SLAVERY IN AlIssoUnI-We find in the
= Louis Daily Evening News the folowii
paragraphs
"The profitablcncss of slavery in Nilsson
is not becoming so attenuatcd MS the emant
g pationists aver. Notwithstanding the irr
= parable damage which we are told, vas dor
;. to the institution BY Kansas becoming pra
tical free State; Notwithstanding the rapid
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