Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-01-13
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For the Spirit Of the Age.

AO AOOIsGCDs
Deferred before The Hfaiatiaiana Society
on the 35b Of Surrender.
DELECTABLE AND sUPEREFFEMINATE
HEARERS :-"Lend me your ears for the
short space Of no time at all most hardly,
and III expaGate, substantiate, equiyocate,
prevaricate and sxpluvicate my ideas right
down on your caputs'as thick as brickbats
on a mcetiu' house, in prose and rh, mes
about matters, things aud curious times.
/ appear before you the very quintessence
Of good humor and happiness. I'm as
mild as a domesticated giraffe, and harm
less as q thunder storm before bray deak.'
I'm the individual that supeIobstructed the
extremity Of the North Pole with my old
hat, to prevent the winds from escaping and
congealiDg your liberality. My great, great
Grandmother says that I'm degenagerated
from old Vulcan, who confabricates fire and
lovander way down in the lowest pits of
- Mt Vesuvius, and blows it out to
warm the folks of Constautinople, the CAPT
tai Of the Lilliputians. I've got my ~brough-
ten up in various places, but the most pain
full place l ever was brought up to was the
whippin' post. / Amt got over it yet. My
edi6caton and larnin, like myself, hasbesn.
most wofully neglected, therefore didn't
rise before this contagious confugration,
to eIplo6cuate in the hyporastical language
Of a Milton, OF in the soul.shivering, giz-
zard-tickling strains of a Washington, but
in the mellnlous excavations of Demosthe-
mes when exploding simultaneously on the
William Mot Proviso Bill.
Ide like very much to address you ex.
temporaneously, but as I'm just getting
about from a hard shake Of the delirium
tremendously, I'll spoke rather outrageous.
ly. Excuse this little circumlocury phra
seology concerning myself, and I'll proceed
to cuss and discuss my subject somewha
pbilosofcally, categorically, dramatically
POLITICALLY, logically, metaphysically, hypo
thetically, hyperbolically, hyperGlabustical
ly, and to the best of my hy%perability.-
What I'm going to speak about I'll allud
to fore l get through. o! that my pei
were dipped in the dyes of the rainbow
plucked from the wings of some turkey
buzzard soaring aloft in some atmosphere
cal atmosphere, that | might explaDify al
superhisticuities, from Mathematics an,
Geometricks up to these big polly ticks
then down to the reason why a tad pole
tail drops off when he turns to a hoppln
animal vulgarly called q b-cattle frog.
o, how my cogcboutivo cogebontation
cogebontified when l thinks of Old Buck
big kingdom. This is a monstrous couu
try, sartin and we can lick the man tn;
says it ain't-kase nobody's gwine to sa
80. Haven't we the largest mountains, tn
tallest rivers, the latest horses and tt
fastest women of any people this side
sundown2 We are the very bifusticate
old Hsery to fight, too. We whipped o.
England and Great Britain too, time of I'll
Revolutionary war then the skinhi
Msxicans insulted Uncle. Sans diguifC
tion-he became Observation-Disclosures o
Rough aud Ready on a Biographical TEL
graph 'Eetri6ed with leetrifying l~ectrici
-he swan the Rio Graudaddy and marc
ed around the syllabus of Buenner Wis
and lit over on the Mexicans like a the
sand Of bricks. What you recken he d.
when he got thar? Why he jist simI
accidentally somehow or other on purp
Whscked off Sanity Anpy's leg, "and as
pluoked the cursed steel away" SIN Jeh
kim how the MexicaRs did run,-anC
General Scott hadn't been eating his 81
We wouldn't have left a piece of EN- big
the white Of a niggers eye. IfOld N,
canezzer and Bigbelzebug was dead,
could whip all creation afore breakfast
the rest Of mankind remediately afterwal
Hthat amt so, you can take my mousta
for 3 chiutz pasture.
You may ask why we are such tarnai
follers to fight l answer in the langu
Of Byron
"Bokase Nettick to each other through I
and thin,
Like q lean tick e a nigger's shin"
We haveh had soue eircumferosticalt ii,
%sartain. You all do recognaciate the
pocrastical time whea the wheelbarro
this magnetical Republican rot scare
Uncle Toms Cabin'-ruu of-broke
axle tree against secession, and somel
were gwyne to bust, if Daniel We
hadn't grabbed the wheel, aud cried O
.conhugiastic tones Of thunder, Wo T!
%teEnal long cared critter you, Wol