The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-06-30
A Stump Speech.


The following specimen of quaint hu-
NOR We find in one Of our exchanges un-
der the head of California CorrespOn-
dence." They purport to have been de-
livered by a stump candidate at San
Francisco:
Fellow Republicans and Feliow Sut-
tcrers: am aplain and modest man,
born at an early period of existence,
which great event occurred at home one
night when my mother was out have
struggled from the obscurity to which an
unlucky star had doomed me, till have
risen like a bright exhalation in the even
ing, to the summit of human greatness
and grandeur. Gentlemen, l profess no
principle unfortunately have none
On the unhappy occasion Of my birth, a
dismal and melancholy man clothed in
the sombre hues of morning, swapped me
away for another baby, and subsequently
lost me at rattle. Sad event But who
can control his fate We are the crea-
lures of destiny-there is divinity that
shapes our ends, rough hew them as
we will"
was intended by nature for a great
statesman. Had l lived in the days of
Hannibal, l should have beaten that great
chieftain in crossing the Alps; and it is
dead certain thing that l could have
distanced Cortes in crossing the Ithsmus.
He never performed the feats have did /;
he never came up the Chagres river in a
canoe, with deaf and dumb "hombre, :"
without red cent, or a change Of summer
apparel. But light heart and. a thin
pair of breeches goes merrily through
the world. " Sir, every man who
has come here is Columbus! He comes
to discover new diggins. am Colum-
Fbus l was dead broke at home as CO.
lumbus was, and | have come out here to
strike new vein. But ! am not going
to the mines! Oh, no. You don't catch
me up to my waist in ice-water, with a
juvenile pickaxe and an incipient crowbar,
labvring under sun. one hundred de-
grees in the shade, to dig out filthy lucre.
No, sir ! am not on that lay. | hate
labor--it was an invention to vex man.
kind, / prefer an office, one that is lu-
crative and not laborious, what yon
call sinecure., And if | can not get
one myself | g in for any man who will
divide on the dead level, and no splits
Sir, where will you find a country like
this 2 Talk not of the oriental gorgeous
ness of the east. Tell US not Of the
fairy scenes which poets, who reyel in
the great wafm bath of heavenly imagi-
nations, paint, with golden pens, on leaves
of satin. A description of this beau
tiful country should be written with the
golden wand of an angel dipped in the
sottest rays of sunbeam, upon the blush
ing and delicate surface of rose leaf
Excuse me, gentlemen, l except only the
rainy season and the time when the dust
flies. We love our native land-we hon
or her flag, and would rob the custom
house if we had fair show. But con-.
gress must not put on airs, or we will take
charge of the custom-house and p0st-of-
fee and make a great muss generally
These are my sentiments, gentlemen. If
you don't admit us into the Union, we
will burst open the custom-house and ad-
NIT, all liquors free.of duty. And. now,
with parting blessing upon the girls we
left behind us, and the boys that are CON-
ing after us, we will adjourn and take
private drink"