Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-10-07

For The aJournsl. 'sss-2.,si'-
One of We Unterrified Ola tn
Stump!
lie enlighteneth the Mattress as to the An
Client Tenets of ye Great Democrat
Party.
VEST LIBERTY, Sept. 80.
The evening Of the 29th inst. will long b.
remembered by tie citizens Of the Estate o
Wapsinonock." Notice had previously beer
given that there would be speaking at th'
estate House" on that evening, upon TIL
political questions of the day; and at candle
iig ting that spacious ediice was Tiled Will
study citizens of this Great and Galoriou
Commonwealth" .---.-
The me citing was called to order, and Mr.
John Wright was appointed chairman, afIe'
which, the speakers were invited to tn.
stand whereupon an individual OF the
most nondescript appearance imaginable ap
preached the desk and announced that be
was one of the pure s'unterrified," and that
he purposed to give his reasons tor his an
fertilization, &C., after Mr. O'Connor had
finished his discourse; provided the audience
would stay and hear them. t,f.
After he had taken seat fconvenlent to
the altar, astonishmcnt, not unmlng'ed with
CONSERVATION, was plainly visible on every
countsnance. 1t was evident the people were
afeerd something awful was about to take
place. They had marked the terrible inean.
ing in the eye of the presence before them.
They held their breath and sazed at one an
other with blanched faces, trying to gather
courage to meet the storm that each felt was
about to bust over his devoted head. The
suspense was all the moro awful from the
fact that no one knew where the lightning
would strike" .... H.
Mr.. O'Connor came slowly forward, his
attitude indicative of the inward fear and
awe that posse: sed him. he gazed with en-
curing glance at his antagonist, as II to as
certain his position, and draw his ire For II
moment it seemed that the lrishman woulo
"come DOWN. without firing shot, but he
finally screwed his courage 10 the sticking
point. and event in" and tor about two
hours all that could be seen or heard amid
the IN oise and confusion was the long ta'l
OF the obdurate Kilkenny waving aiofs H.
fearful gyrations over the devoted head OF
the "unterrihed" one. Again and again LIE
charged home with horse, foot and GragoonS,
tooth and toe nail, accompanled-by the mos
awful coptortions of the human face divine,
but all in vain-that desperate man sat there
and stroked his magnificent whiskers. and
twirled his cane and-and shook in his
boots. but wouldn't run. He knew his
power. and could abide his time ; and al
last when the fierce Kilkenny had ceased ms
efforts and found refuge from the unequal
fight in the arlLs of Murphy, the ltlsh goo
OF Peace, he arose and broke the awful ST.
! ~ AZ col l,>f \
prociaining that he was only man IKE
those before him, and withal IN Oldest Dem
ocrat, and didn't mean any pariicular harm
to any body in particular, only the hsPuo''-
can party must look out. Yes, ne was
Democrat, and if they would but listen t.
him for the short space OF few minutes, ne
would prove it to them as clear as irud ID
fact there seemed to be quite variety OF
matters and things that he intended to show
up in their proper light, &c, Whereupon,
the assembled multitude gave long sigh OF
relief and once more brea,hed freely. The
fact that the awful thing which had So
frightened them was only Democrat stump
er. although of little different stripe from
any that live about here, was sufficient t.
allsy the widest fears. Even the rate,
Eiikennv arose frt m the arms Of Murphy
" here it seems he had only been acting Fa!-
staff for his own benefit.
Meanwhile our two-legged friend had
forced the respectable old chairman INTO the
rem o,est corner Of the ''State House, by the
violence of his gesticulations. Ia the course
of his labored effort he traced the history OF
the Democratic party through all Its wind
nps, and twistiugs, and turnngs, and SUM-
from the days OF the Amalekltes
down to the present time, including that in
teresting passage in their history concerning
the destruction of the main body of their
party at the crossing of the Dead Sea, some
wears ago, of which catastrophe he 1.-THE
pcaker) was the only one OF all those that
died who lived to tell the tale, consequently
he was at this tine the only person capable
Of enlghtening the people upon the Original,
simon. pure doctrines OF the Democratic
party, oar excellence! Therefore he had no
hesitation in saying that Thomas Jefferson,
ESQ, of some renown, did not mean what
he said in certain newspaper article OF his
en,illed-"a charge to keep | have,' where
in he made the novel assertion that "ali
men were born free and equal
1t was demon strated to dead certainty
that the white man only could claim the
benefit of that declaration, and now that this
perp!exipg question is forever at rest: beg
leave to suggest the idea that in this one
trait in the character of the aforesaid
Til omas. lies the secret of the remarkable
venera,ion in which lie is held by the Dem
ocratic Party. A man who did mean what
he said in political affairs could never hope
to be considered "sound on the geese more
than about twen,y-four hours in succession
He was free to acknowledge that he didn't
like the slavery question in fact, he utterly
ubhorred anything that in the most distant
manner was tainted with Aboltlonism,
Black Republicanism, or any OF the kindred
isms that now distract cur glorious land OF
liberty. -,
lie gave it as his firm belief that in the
coming contest Sen. Augustus Caesar
Dodge. Elk U, S. Senator and Ex-Minster
Penitentioru to the Court of the Tonga
Islands' f." wonld run like "scared dog :
an assertion which no one seemed Inclined
to dispute; and finally, in winding up, he
gave such a truthful description of the In
sane Asylum ut Mt. Pleasant as induced
every one to believe that he had been there
"a fact Which lie himself admitted, and
boosted that it was do ly practice of his TO
ride once around the building, on RAIL-
o feat which he could usually accomplish in
about one hour and just as he was begin
ing 20 interest the audience with the rec't-
al Of his pranks at Mt. Pleasant, the meeting
ended, and he came down from his pedestal,
the ACKNOWLEDGED lion Of the day. l.. L..
News Paragraphs.
During the week ending Sept. 10th, ILL
persons died in London. The: Q were some