Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1860-07-21
A RA6H aTuMP SPEECH.

The following eloquent, grand. lofty and
stupcndOn5 effort was recently made by
promScuoue genius, who had announced him
self as a candidate for Congress:
Friends and frllow.citizenS of this conflict.
uous community: Use ris to give you warnin'
and make n political speech, and what I'm
going 10 Speak about and allude TO.
Now, Id Ike to have you pay particular
attention, as the prcather says when the boys
is pitchin' beans at his nose. gay a crisis
has arrived, the wheels Of government is stop
ped, the machinery needs grcasin', the rud.
dcr'S unshipped, the bier busted, and we're
nioat and the river risin' Our glorious Ship
Of State, that, like a bob.tailed gandcr, is
tioNiCd down the current Of time has had its
harm"hr disturbed, and is now driiln' with
fearful rapidly t"wa'''s the shoals and quick.
sands Of diSnnion, thrca.cn,n' to dash every
thing into ilintcrS, aud pick itself up IN the
END sr!ic go,ing. llarkcn no longer ye
worthy dCrIt>ruS ut Hog ftuir, r---arirr NSrtk
and adjacent regions, ~ thr s,rcn +O!Cc :hat
whispers IN your ears the too dclualvc sounds
peace; peace, for peace has slOpcd and flowed
TO the lands, or driv tu the depth Of the mighty
deep, or in the emphatic language Of Tcchum
Serom, gone tlickerin' through the frogs of
other cimcs; tcuadc the niSer watcher in his
dimes Or the great Alexander at the battle
If llunker's Bill, who in the agony Of despair
frantically shrirhcd. ., Gravy! peace has
gone like my scule.hoy days. and don't care
darn. lie was whole hraS and a team
sure.
Fellow citizens and gals .cc - !n our halls o.!
Legislation confusion runs riot and anarchy
rcigns Supreme. Rise up, then, like pokerS
in Il tatcr patch and shake the dcu-dropS of
yer hunting shirts aud fall into raukS. Sound
the tOcsin beat the drum! and blow the tin
horn TIL the Startled echoes revcrberatng
from h'l top and from gopher hill to gopher
hill, shall reach the adman!!nc hills OF New
England, the ferruginous disposition Of the
Missouri, and aurifcrouS particles Of Californy
top.ch up their ears, and i'll whispered accents,
inquired OF her vEo-s what's out ,"
Fcllow.citizenS and the wimmin-I repeat
it, to your posts, and from the topmost peaks
Of the Ozark mountains, bid defiance to the
hull earth by hOllern' whose afccrd in such
thunderln' tones that quaken with terror you II
forget whit nisger Is Don ygtr rtisty rrg!-
mcntals, Ehd grease the locks Of your guns
and put in new HIntS; gr.;d your Scythcs
and make swords cut on 'cmi Inq2Hi vcut
hOSSeS and save your nation or bust
Ladies and gcntlemcn-thc great Bird Of
American libcrty'S ilcwcd aloN AMI Corn upon
the wings of the wind, aud now hovcrih, high
over the Handicapped SUBMITS Of the Rocky
Mountains, and when we shall have penctra.
ted into the unknown regions Of unlimited
space, and then shall hav div down and lit on
daddys wood.pile, shall be led to cxclam,
in the language of Paul, the ostlcr, root
pork, or die"
Time is critical, blood's goin' to be poured
out like soap suds outen wash tub, and every
man that's got soul as big as the white of a
nggar's eye, II iite, bleed and die for his
country. Them's the times-you want men
in the councils of the nation that you can de-
pend on-that'S mel Elect me to Congress
and I'll stick to you thro' thick and thin like
a lean tick to nigger's shin! I'm not goin'
to make an clcctionecrin' speech. I'd scorn
the act. YOU know me, I've been fotchcd up
amrng ycJ already upon the wings Of top
lifted Imagination fancy see you marchin
up to the polls in solid phalanx, and with
shouts that make the earth ssring, " "llurrall
for Jim Smith" cothc down on my opponcn,
like Thousand o brick on rotten punkin.