Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-09
For tho Dugle.
JEREMIAH AND | ON lIONORABLES.

Mr.. EDrrUR As I was a setten by the fire the
other mite, q kitten, and Jeremiah THAT'S my old
map) was q setten by the fire a smokin, and ar,er
we'd sot quite q spell and said nothin, all tew INST
1 spoke up, and says |, Jeremiah and says he
who'll and says | what does the hen afore the
names of some men mean +? Tho WHAT says he
lookin up surprised like. The HON says |, afore
the names of Horace Greedy, and Dan Sickles, and
Preston Brooks. and SO on. o! says he, o bust
in out q latin, what fool you air Betsy, to be
sure. But tan! to be wondered at bein as your q
woman. but if you must know, that hon stands
for honorable, which is a title gin to men what's
ben tew Kongress or the legislator. The massy
soul says l, II that don't beat me. What beats
you ? says Jeremiah. Why that mems goin to
Kongress or the legislator should make folks cell
EN- honorable. What is there so astonishin in that,
says he. Nothin in purtickeler, says |, only calm
en- honorable don't MAKE EN- so that's surtun says
]. What dew you know about that2 says he
What dew | know ? sure enuff says |, spunkin up,
don't l know Gin Hull that went few the legisla-
ter last winter from this deestIick, he's got an
honorable afore his name, and he'll cheat q poor
man out of his eye-teeth every time he gifts a
chance l heard you say he was the manest man
tnat ever lrOu eueW-lttDeE. Nuas ueW L hhOhi
sure enuf? haint l heerd you and 10 Brown tell
over and over again how that the men that go tew
the legislator dew jist as they're a mind ter, how
they 20 off on the cars tew sprees and make the
people pay for it, besides spendin they're time
when there at the Kapital jest as they please
And then tew cap all they vote themselves gold
pens, and everlastin sights of paper (enuff to make
ritin books for all the children in Bobtown) be-
sides crate lots o! something they call stationery
though l am sure l don't know what that is-all
tew be paid fur with the peoples money. Good
LUX if they don't git the governor to help them
steal-that is, l meant TO say oPpropriote-a cool
hundred thousand.
Then as to the ~big-bugs they're wuss yit. LoOE
q. the duius in Kongress! A ftin, and swearinr
an calm names that's the way they arm their s
dollars a day. Wall, wal, says Jeremiah, tant ex-
pected that wimmen folks should understand all
about politikal matters, and tant necessary they
should. NIFTY Dinar says l, you dom say so i
When men calls black white and white black, tant
to be expected that wimmin folks will believe them
as IL? OF course tant expected they will make
sense out of nonsense. | want tew ask ye one
question. Did putin HON afore the name Of
Preston Brooks make that sneakih, %cowardlJ bully
an honorable man? Well, says he perhaps not,
but But What! says l. Or dooz it make a
man honorable that can have a face to scare his
wife into ~confessin a crime that he's guilty on him
self, and then after frin ii up to suit his ocn purpose
blaze it before the eyes of all creation, to keep
his own neck from bein stretched for the most
cowardly murder ever committed.
You've hurd of the old woman that thought to.
tai depravity was a good doctrine if folks would
only live up to it. l never believed before thai
any body did quite, but Dan Sickles has proved
that a man kin live up to it and a lefHe more, de
clar Jeremiah, says l, beginning tew bile over, e
twant for takin tew much notice on SIGH a miser
able vagabond. l should like tew jine with othe
women and burn him in efergy.
And then look at Kongress-men in gineral. On
half on EN- lives by sellin babies away from thar
mothers, and tother half swears by all that's goo
to bear 'em out in it.
Don't you think, says l. they deserve tn
title Ct honorable, something on the sam
principle, | should say. of calling Tom Thumb
General.
But by this time l seen that | wus treadin onJert
MARS corns SO card that | thought I'd let tn
matter drop for that time.
81. BETSEY BIGELOW.