Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-02-24
A UNION "SAVIN MEETIN.'

From the Portland Transcript, we
take the following account Of great
"Union Savin' Meetin,' lately held in
HOrnby, Maine.
do suppose that ef this ere blessed /
old country Of aourn has bin onct on the |
very varge an pint of etarnal smash
sence / fust wore irowsis, it has bin in
that alarmin' sitevatin at least fifty times.
And toe the intent and eend that oner
may be gin whar oner is dew, / want ii
kept afore the people as a everlastin re-
membrance-perpetooa suvener an mo
1aentUs n1osss-that in all kases whar the
union has bin gin over, when the pollti-
cal doctors elswhar hev pronounced 1t IN
ertreBais mortar and not likely toe live
afore mornin-Hornbyh has oilers kim to
the rescue, an never failed to put the crit
ter on its legs agin.
When aour folks fust heern that Sew
ard and Garrison had committed rese-
rection in Virginny an killed John Brown,
and that the 0ssywattimies an nlggers
had TUX Harper ferry bote. we was con-
siderably struck allow, but we didn't
lose aour presence of mind. 1t don't take
LONGER to rase the sperit of '76 in our
peoDle's buzzums than it duz TO get up
steam in your new fire engine. Thar 5
only one pesky niger lives into aour
taown. Let alone his bein a niger,
do suppose he is abaout as clever an Old
critter as ever lived, but then he's Il pos
terty of Cane and Abel wich slew aour
fust parents with the jaw bone of an Ass,
and consequently is agin both scrlpter
and the CONSTRUCTION. After an haour
had rolled away among the things that
never was, we tore his haouse all to
smithers. and the black cuss hisseR only
escaped by leavin part of his sculp and
wool enough for pair Of mittings, in the
hands of Zoorobabel Peabody. After we
had thus acted in accordance with the
pervisions an compromises Of the Con-
stitootion, we adjourned to meet agin into
the meetin house the next mite. whar q
meetin on the state of the Union was ap-
pinted,
Ell live till die Gan umbly trust
that Providence will continner me TO thai
time) shall never forgit the imposin ap'
pearance of our meetin-us on this mo-
menus occasion. Right over the pulpi
hung one of aunt Kyer's best Inning
sheets, wife ss It's owners head and !
darned site more spotlesser than her kar
skter, on wich, in karakters of imperish
able lampblack, was the patriotic sentl
ment of the immortal McDutfe of Souti
Carolina
"THE CoNsTITUToN-wHAT IS IT BU'
DARNED OLD RAG
Underneath was picter of that meddle
sum old feller-Hoar, who went aout t
Charlestun to steal niggers, streakin
for hum, his cote tails describin hori
zontal line of 81 degs. 49 min. and on
of the Shivalry's butes jest under en-
On one side was a likeness of one of aou
Southern brethren, proclamin his or
aleinable right TO caount his nisgers
the shadder of Bunker Hill. On tn
left, another of the same sort, q tell
Northern Senators if they should kim
Mississipy, his constituents would han
'em higher than Judas Icecarrot h1n
Mordiky. Chuck up in the deacon
seat was board, on which aour talen
ed Teller taownsman, Per;erbation Pill
bry, had drawn I'm charcole, grafhG
scene in the CRATE Virginny reserectio
The artist had, with characteristic eye
effect. selected that awfal pint, whar f
teen hundred of Virginny's bravest sto'
firm for twenty haours surroundin the /
jine haouse. jest aout of gun-shot, wat
for the Moreens TO cum an take old PC
tywatemy Seward and his fifteen bio
thirsty niggers.
When the scene bust upon my ey
together with the selickmen settin rite
the pulpit, lookin jist as solum as tho
twas sabberday, telt as releaved a:
did when onct arter eatin dozen ha
boiled eggs, and the last four not set
we'll, took a cream-a-iartar sloOtion
arb-drink wich brot EN- up hull. T
days I'd felt poorly-7-I was devisin wa
and means by day and by mite. +"
dreamin of dissoiuted unions and up
perlaydiums. But when entered
meetinus think heern suthin drap, al
lode of twice as heavy as PlgriE
Progress napsack, rolled rite off my mil
/ thought I was as lite as feather, bu