The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-01-23

do suppose that eff this ere blessed old
country of aourn has bin onct on the very
varge an pint of etarnal smash since | lust
wore trowsis, it has bin III that alarmin
sitavatin at least fifty times. An toe the
intent an eend that honor may be gin whar
honor is dew-I want it kept afore to the
people as a everlastin rememberence-per-
petooal suvener and momentus moses-that
in all cases whar the union has bin gin over,
when perlitical doctors elsewhar hev pro-
nounced it in extremiS- mortar, and not
likely toe live afore mornin-Hornby has
oilers kim toe the rescue, and never failed
to put the critter on its legs agin.
When aour folks fust heern that Seward
and Garrison had committed a resurrection
in Virginny and killed John Brewn, an
that the Ossywattimies an niggers had tux
Harper's ferry bote, we wus considerably
struck, allaow, but we didn't lose aour
presence of mind. 1t don't take longer to
raise the spirit of -'76 in aour peoples buzz
Gums than il duz 20 get up steam in your
new FIRE ingine. Thar's only one pesky
nigger lives into aour taown. Let alone
his being niger, do suppose heis abaout
as clever an old critter. as ever lived, but
then he's a posterity of Cane and Able witch
slew aour filst parents with the jaw bone
of an Ass, an consequently is agin both
scripter an the CONSTRUCTION. Aforean haour
had rolled away among the things never
was, we'd tore his haouse all too smithers,
an the black euss hisself only escaped by
leaving part eff his skulp wool enough
for pair of mittings, in the hands of Zoor-
obable Peabody. AFTER we had thus acted
in accordance with the provisions an COM
permises of the CONSTRUCTION, we adjourned
to meet agin into the meetinus the next mite,
whar meetin on the state of the Union was
appointed.
Eff live | die tan | umbly trusts that
Providence will continue me to that time1
shall never forget the imposin appearance
of aour meetinus on this momentus occa-
sion. Right over the pulpit hung one of
aunt Kyer's best Inning sheets, wife as it
owners head, and darned site more spot
lesser than her carakter, on which in car
acters of imperishable lampblack, was the
patriotic sentiment of the immortal McDuf-
fe of South Carolina.
1.-THE CoNsTITocTIoN-woT is 1T BUT a DARN
ED OLD RAG r.
Underneath was pictur of that meddle-
sum old felIer-Hoar, who went aout to
Charleston to steal niegers, streakin in
for hum, his cote-tails describin horizontal
line of 81 dogs. 40 min, and one of the
Shiyalrys butes jest under 'em. On one
err brethren proclaimin his onalienable
right to caount his niggers in the shader
of Bunker Hill On the left, another of
the same sort tellin Northern Senators eff
they should kim to Missysipy, his constitu-
ents would hang EN- higher than Judas Ice
carrot hung MOrdiky. Chuck up in the
Deacon's seat was board. wich aour
talented Teller tawnsman, Perturbation Pills
bry, he'd drawn in charcoal, q graffick scene
in the great Virginny resurrection. The
artist had with Characteristic eye TO effect
selected that awful pint, where fifteen hun
dred of Virginny's bravest stood firm for
twenty haours, surraoundin the injine house,
Jest aout of gunshot, waitin for the Moreens
to kim and take old Pottawattemy Seward
an his fifteen blood thirsty niggers.
When this scene bust upon my eyes to-
gether with the selickmen settin right into
the pulpit, lookin jist as solemn as though
twas sabberday, felt as releaved as l did
when onct arter eatin dozen hard billed
eggs, an the last four not settin WE'LL took
a cream atarter solootin of arb drink witch
brot EN- up hull. For days I'd felt poorly
] was devisin ways and means by day an by
night, l was dreamin of dissoluted unions an
upsot perlaydiums. But when entered the
meetinus thunk heern suthin drop, an
lode twice as heavy as Pilgrims Progress
napsack, rolled right off my mind. / thought
/ was light as feather, but | want. For
when, arter three cheers for the Union, |
undertook to jump clean over the pew, |
lodged on the top and then pitched head frlst
right ont Miss Deacon Isril futile, who sot
in the next pew, and she's bin laid up with
the rumitis ever since.
e Darn and blast yer everlastin picter,"
says Miss Deacon ISril, says she, when we'd
picked ourselves up.
" Woman, says /, " what do you know
abaout pollytics? /" q This ar a crisis, y
says !, a an if hadn't jumped Ishould have
bust {"
q i wish to the lord You would bust,
said she, as she limped aout of the baouse
Decon Isril, he was quite huffy abaout it,
even goin SO far as to pull my nose till l
hollered like a loon. Mootooal friends in
terferin however, we shook hands and went
aout an lickered. When we went back the
meetin was organized, and Peltiah Petit
bones was going it in 2:4O speech. AS
the Deacon an | not only lickered but
"smiled, an then took suthin, we only
heerd the pearoarration.
over the sky-blew sirrslian vastness OF
the everlasting hill tops says Petiah,
says he, sup from the Peelin antiquities
onspeakable korrnscations an ossilated per-
meatons of the howlin wilderness, borne on
all the breezes that sweeps the etarnal cir
cumbient shrieked by every eagle as he
rises from his cry ane scars into boundless
contiguity, / hear but one cry-Union -
union agin thing-naow, hereafter,
heuceforth, and forever morel Amenl
Perhaps there want no stompin when
Peltiah sot daown. OF course there want.
The committee on resolutions then kim
in and reported tie follerin which was
adopted syne dye.
Ist. ResoE0ed, The day we celebrate, may
fts shadder never be less.
I'd, ResolUed, That things has kim to
pooty pass an oughtent so to be, so they
oughtent.
Sd, ResolOed, That all aberlishoners is
resurectionists, and that hanging the hull
LOT would permote the interests of trade, an