The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-05-12


sion bred is bona fide negro, and no
mistake-none of your bogus, such as had
performed in sold Dan Tucker" sole Vir-
ginny,D sc. bred had knowing look,
and kind of cunning wink out of the cor
ners of his eyes, which plainly said, Gem
men, put my plank in de platform !" and
he threw down his burden, and went into
regular breakdown" Great sensation. J
1t should be remembered that just at
this time the stage managers, consisting of
Cochran, Randell, Tourney, and Yancy,
were busily engaged in tinkering up a
platform on which to have grand "South-
ern Reel" A little giant Of the far west
had also sent "squatter sovereignty"
plank to go into the platform. This was
borne by some rude fellows, headed by
Richardson, Cagger, Cassidy & Co., who
threw it heavily down upon the toes of
Yancy, Tourney and some others of the
extreme slavery propagandists. (Tremen-
dous sensation So great, in fact, was it,
this time, that there was cessation of all
operations; even old bred held up his
heels, and Southern warmth rose up to the
boiling point.) Here the curtain fell, and
there was heard behind the scenes hurry
ing to and fro Of busy feet.
When the curtain rose again, we had
presented series of interesting tableaux,
consisting of ground and lofty tumblings
and agile somersaults. These were per-
formed round the old Democratic oak tree,
the shelter of the sachems for many long
and weary year. Steve Douglass, jeff
Davis, Hen Wise, Bob Hunter, Rashe Sey-
mour, Jimmy Buchanan, Jack Slidell, jim
my Guthrie, Jack Breckenridge, and Frank
Pierce were the chief performers, old I'm
Gle Dan Dickinson-familiarly known as
Scripture Dick fetching up the rear,
and the whole ending in general break
down, in which Steve Douglas led off.
Tremendous effect, and great cheering
from every side of the house, especially
the Northwest
We next had 'Hail Columbia" by the
whole troupe, and then "Oil on the trou-
bled waters" new piece, performed with
but Indifferent success. Next was piece
entitled "Babel, or the Confusion Of
Tongues" which appeared to do its own
work, for they all seemed as if they had
drunk the wine that maddened the gods,
and portion of them rushed out with bat
tle-axes and began to cut away at the ia
NOUS cid tree of Democracy; and then an
other portion of them, amazed and con-
founded, struck up in plaintive and truly
sympathetic manner the well-known air
'Woodman, spare that tree
Touch not single bough
1t long has sheltered me,
And III protect it now
The strain was truly touching-so much
SO that our Anglo-African eyes ran over
with tears. But it was of no use; the
woodmen would not spare that tree, and
they hacked and hacked away till the old
tree-the dear old tree-tottered and fell:
and oh "great was the fall thereof, my
countrymen y
The curtain fell also, behind which we
could hear what we supposed to be a grand
medley, else we are at a loss to know what
to term it. Distinguishable we could hear
"Hie away to the mountainsp "Pm off for
the West p "To the old Plantation"
"Away wild yep and high above all, ave
won't go home till morning we won't go
home till morning, till daylight doth ap-
pear;" and when daylight did appear, all
had vomoused.
Thus ended one of the most remarkable
musical festivals and breakdowns ever Civ
en- in this country; and as it was national,
and not sectional, it must result in great
good to our glorious nation in particular,
and mankind in general. When, oh
when, shall we have another? Baltimore,
| shades of the monuments, answer