Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-21
TCorrespondence of the Portland Transcript.]
THE PEOPLE IN CONVENTION!
Great Union ,Sdvias Meetiu IN Hornbyi

Great Union ,Savie Meetin IN HornbyH
I do suppose that eff this ere blessed
ole country of aourn has been onct on
the very yarge and pint Of eternal smash
since / fust, wore trowsis, it has bin in
that alarmin sitovation at least fifty
times. ..--.. .... ....a5.,s--.
And toe the intentand eend that honor
may be gin. ,whar honor is dew-I want
it kept afore the people as a everlastin
remembrance e-perpetooal. sevener and
momentus moses-that in all cases whar
the union has been gin over when; per-
litical doctors elswhar have pronounced
it in extremis mortar, an not likely toe
live .afore mornin- -Hornby has always
kim toe. the rescue an never failed to
put the critter on its legs, agin. II.
When aour folks first hearn that Sew
ard and Garrison had committed reser-
ecshun in Virginny and Killed John
Brown, and that the Ossywattimies and
niggers had tuke Harper's ferry bote,
we was considerably struck allaow, but
we didn't lose aour presence of. mind.
1t don't take longer to raise spirit of rs
in aour peoples buzzums than it duz to
git up steam in. your new. fire. engine,
Thars only one pesky niger lives in
aour town. Let alone his bein nigger,
l do suppose he is about as clever an old
critter as ever lived, but then he's pos
terity of Cain and Able, which slu aour
fust parents with the jaw bone Of an
Ass, and consequently is again both
scripter an the CONSTRUCTION. Afore an
haour, had rolled away among the things
as never was, we'd tore his haouse all to
smithers, and the black Gus hisself only
escaped by leavin part of his skulp and
wool enough for a pair of mittings, in
the hands of Zoorabable Peabody. Ar
ter he had thus acted in accordance with
the pervisions an compromises of the
CONSTRUCTION, we adjurned to meet agin
into the meetinous the next mite, whar a
meetin on the state of the Union was ap-
pinted. zfs HlaI
When we went in the meetin was or
ganized an Peltiah Pettibones was goin
It in a2:40 speech AS the Deacon and
l not only liekered but smiled" and
then tux suthin, We only heerd the pear
oarration.z: - r..;..rlli. ~. z;..gs .5...s
cover the sky blew sirrulian yastness
of the everlasting hill tops says Pei
tiah, says he-9iup, from the Peelin am
biguities onspeekable korruscation. an
ossillated permeatons of the hoWlin vii
derness, borne on all the breezes that
sweeps the eternal circumambient
shrieked by every eagle, as he rises from
his prey and sores into -boundless con.
tiguity, hear but one cry-union!---
union agin everything, noaw, hereafter
henceforth and forever morel Amen!
Perhaps there warnt no stompin wher
Peltiah sat down. Of course there
Warnt. r.s.-g
The committee on resolutions then kin
in and reported the following. which
was adopted syne dye: ~ *
l. Resozued, The day we celebrate
may it's shadder never be less.
g Resohed, That things has kim to a
pooty pass and oughten SO to be, so they
oughtent. .,r -f.as
81 3. RESOLVED, That. all abolitioners is
ressurectionists, and that hangin the hull
lot would permote the. interests of trade
and serve to make -aour free instertoo
tions terror to the world. i.
4. Resolued, That Gov. Wise, in hang.
ing old Seward and Garrison, is entitled
to the ginerous sympathy of all whe
keep step with the Union, sand if he
wants the Hornby Falanks,' the selick
men be authorized to send that corpse
on, eff theywill go. l.
s. ResoEeed, Thatw recognize in aoul
Southern Brethren the trew Shiverly
Paytriots and Paytriarks. That theyl
oilers right and that We of the North Is
prone to wrong as the sparks is to go uE
chimbly. That slavery was sot up in
the convenient with Abram when he was
caught in the bullrushes, and is there
fore sacred institootion. Long may II
wave! .r.5- .sa.. sI -. .s
g.. Resozued, Eff aour. Southern Breth
ren don't think the foregoin strong
enough, and will write about sich one
as they wants, we'll pass it. ..
.. Resozped, That the, Falanks remain
under arms until further orders, with
pour to arrest all niggers, Peddlers, book
agents and aberlitionists found running
at large agin the statoote, and that the
town be considered under marshal law
for, the present. i 5 I .sa.aa
31Adj djourhed syne dye.
...ss ETHAN SPIKE, sec'y.
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