Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-08
From the London Punch
The Fight over tho Body of Keitt.

a Fragmen. from the great american Epic, he
Wdshingtoniad)
Sing goddess, the wrath, the Ontamna0e dander of
him that hath wopped his own niggers till Norherners
all unto Keitt
Seem but nggers wop, and hills of the smallest po-
tatoes.
Late aad long fight the Constitution of Kan
sas;
Daylight passed into DUSK and dusk into lighting of gas
lamps
Still the door the House the heroes unwearied were
Dry grew psates and tongues with excitement and ex-
pectoration,
Plugs becoming exhausted, and representative es
also.
Who led on the war the anti-Lecompton phalanN?
vania Sasher.
Him followed Hickman and Potter the wry, from woody
Wisconsin,;
Washburne stood with his brother-Cadwallader stood
with Elhu;
Broad Illinois sent the one, and woody Wisconsin the
other.
Mott came mild milk, with grey hairs under his
broad brim,
Leaving the chop location and water privilege
IL,
HELD by his fathers of old the wowfringed banks of
"ra'hy covode, too, saw, and Montgomery ready for
Who against these the floor led on the Lecomponte
Aeitt Of South Carolina the clear grit the TALL the on
daunted-
Ket, and Reuben Davis the ra'al hoss of wild Mssis-
sippi;
Barksiae, wearer of wigs and Craige from North Car
olina
Long had ranged the warfare of words it was four in
the morning;
Whiting and expectoration and iquorn' all were ex-
hausted;
When ket, tired of talk bespake Reu. Davis, 80 Reu
Grows a tarnaton backguard, and I've concluded to
clinch him."
This said up to his feet he sprang, and loosning his
ehoker,
Strengthening himself for grip, as bar-hunter down
in Arkansas,
Squares to in the bar when the dangerous varnnt
is cornered
"Come out, Grow" lie cried, 'you black Republican
Come on the floor like and darn my eyes, but I'll
show you"
Him answered raighthitting Grow, "wa now, cal
Nongger driver shall lis plantation in South
Here his cowhide round this child ears he
knows it
Scarce had he spoke when the hand the chvalrous
fingers of K.itt,
Cutehed at his thrOahad they closed the s4ssches of
Grow had been ended
never more from stump had he stirred the free and
But though Keitts mauleys mauleys of Grow
were still smarter;
Straight from the shoulder he shotnot Owen Swift or
Ned Adams
Ever put in his right with delicate feeling of dis
AS drops hammer anvil dropped Grows right into
Just whre the jugular the point which Ketch
ties his drop
Prone like log sank Ket, his dollars ratified about
him.
Forth pang his friends over the body first Barksdae,
waving wig wearer,
Craige and McQdeen and Davis, the raal horse of wild
Mississippi;
Tlercely they gathered round Grow mpousy up
to chaw him
But without Potter they reckoned, the wry from woody
wisconsin,;
He striking right and left like catamount varmin
and vicious,
Dashed to the rescue, and with him the Washburnes,
Cadwallader, Elihu
Slick into Barksdaes bread basket walked PotterS
two-hard and heavy;
Barksdale fetched wind in trce, dropped Grow and let
out at Elihu.
Then like fountain had flowed the caret of Washburne
the Elder,
But for Uadwaaders are-Cadwallader, guard Of his
Cutchng at Barksdae's mob, into chancery would
have drawn it.
Well was II then for Barksdale the wig that waved
his forehead;
OF in Cadwalladers hands it came, and the wearer
leasing,
Left to the conqueror noueht but the scalp of his bald
headed foeman.
Meanwhile hher and thither, dove the waters Of
trouble,
Moved Mott, mild milk, with his grey hairs under
his broad brim,
Preaching to deaf and getting considerably
damaged.
Cautious Covode in the dubious what it might
Come to,
Brandished spittoon 'gainst whoever might
seeui to deserve it
Little it mattered him whether Pro Anti-Lecomp
So but he found in the hall foema, worthy his wea-
pom
So ragged this battle men, into the thick of the
melee,
Like the herads old, stepped the Sergeant Arms
and The Speaker.