Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-28

n, - eslte "a RpS boqRTH OF, JULY ORA.
T1oN:T"A AlFtenas WardsSss the quaint western
humorist, publishes his Fourth of uly .oration
in the Cleveland PlanRsa zsr, with hthefollowing
preface:
Surs:.-I send harewith synopsis of tho
skcdnle of my @orashun on. the 4tR &c JalE, nj
.Meathersf1eld. Pleas correct & punktooate it
IN y! proper stiie. | spoke Two hours, and. was
SIX minutes passin u given pint. There was
o2eetWcens two hundred persons present who with
'oReH I;t mouths and closed eyes listened to me
The grafton itself is n perfert gem, and one
OF the g. best things that '.Artemas" has yet got.
ten OFT We su6join an extract or two: After
I ne usual apostrophc to the Goddess of-Liberty
he says: - ~
Ihaln't time to notice the growth of Amcriky
rum IN tne ne time when the Mayfowers= gum over
~ tbon' Tue 5ngrlm and br3wt plymouth Rock with
oeen tr,eme'Jis. You will excuse. mo if don't
pTasc the erly settlers of the Kolonies. Peple
winch hung idiotic oldwimin fur witches, burn
.ns hoiGs IN Quaker's tongues, and consigned
.HelF ieiler critters to the tredml and pillery on
tne Stightest provocashun may have been ivery
5lce, ,, lolkS In their way, but must confess I
4oh,t admire their Stile and will. drop them MI
spose they ment we'll, and so in the novel and
tecnln Ice ilangwi9ge of the nusepapers, 'speas to
thelr ashis" Thare wasno diskount however.
on them brave men who fit, bled and died in the
american Revolushun. We needn't be afraid
OF setting them two steep. Like nv Show.
tney VIII stand a heap of prase
isee mnch.to admire in New England Your
galS IN partlcklar air abowt as snug bilt peaces
of Caiker as l ever saw. They air fulIv col1aI
TO the corn fed gals of Ohio aud Iniianna and
VIII " make the bestest kind ofwiges. 1t sets nv
Buzzum on fire to look at EN-.
Be STILL my sole, be still:
q you, Hart, stop Cuttiuuu!
Which atfecktin lines either from the non of
Govner Morril, of Maine, or Doctor Waite md
disremember which. Hike your skool hons
eSs' your meetln houses, your enterprise. gunn.
shnn, &C., but your favorit Bevridge desnisa
!, allgde to New England Rum 1t is wuss nor
the KIND oil whisky of Inianny, which cats
threw stun jugs IS will turn the stummack oi r
me most shittlis Hog Tsedum seek consola-
shun in the flowing Bole, but tothcr day wnr-
RID down sum of your Rum. The fust glass in
duced me to sware like intooratcd trooncr On
taEln the scckund glass | was see2cIl with de.
sire TO brake windcrs & artcr imbibin the third
glass Snockt small boy down. pckt his pock,
ct OF New York Ledger, and wildly comlnenc-
ed readin of Sylvanus Kobb's last Tail. / veri-
ly do bleeVe that if Tde histcd in another glass
shood hcv bin desperit cnuf to attack the
Mount Vernon papers.
Its drefful stuff-a sort of lickwid ltenin pot
up under the personal supervision of the devil
mtears ,n5S mems inard all to makes
you wood Wild hyenny with a fire brand tied ed
to his tale, while you mir abowt it you will do
a first rate thing fur yourself and every BODY
abowt yon hy shunnin all kinds of iotoxicatin
llckers. You don't need em no MORN a cat
needs 2 tales saying nothing about the trouble
and sufiern they cawsc. But unless your in.
nardS oir cast iron avoid New Englan's fuvorit
Bevrige. My friends line dun tear myself
away from you with tears in my eyes & pleas,
ant oder of Onyuns abowt my close In the
langwidge of Mister Catherine to the Rumuns.
go but perhaps Iisllall cum back agn Adoo
PePic Of Wetherstield. Be virtoous & you'll5be
happy