Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-02-17
Correspondence of the Portland Transcript.

oREAr UNfoN-sAv1N MEErtN' IN uopNpvtt
do suppose that eff this ere blessed old
country Of ourn has bin onst on tho vory ros,.o
an pint of etarnal smash senco ~, Vs.
rowsis, 1t has bin in that olorrin, aitona,;,
at least fifty times. And toe the linton, and
eend that oner may be gin wbar onor l. H.,
want 1t kept aiore the people as a everlastin'
ieinem orance- -porpctooal suvener and p,o,oen-
t"s moses-that in all kasos whar the union
mas oin gan over, when the political doctors
eIs"har nov pronounced it ia eriremis mortar.
an not hkely toe live aforc mornin' -IIornby
mas oliers KIM to the rescue, an never failed
TO put the critter on its legs agin.
w hen aour folks fust heern that Seward
an Garrison had cumitted resurrection in
Verginny an killed John Brown, and that
the Ossswattimies an niggcrs he'd TUX Har-
pors ferry botc, we war considerably struck
allow, but we didn't luse aour presence of
mind. IL don't take longer to rase the sperit
ol % IN aour peoples buzzums than it duz to
&c. up steam in your now fire ingin Thars
only one pesky niger lives into aour taown.
Let aloone his ben Niger du supposehe
Is abaout as clever an old critter as ever liv-
ed but then he's postcrty Of Cane and Abil
wlch slue aour iust parents with the jaw bone
OF an Ass, and consequently is agin both the
''N' AiNNi "AN ANt AhuHNlNhOllNus Alter
haour he'd roOled away omong the things that
never was, we tore his haouse all to smithers,
+ and the black cuss hissclf only escaped by
leavin' part Of his sculp, and wool enough for
pare Of mittins. in the hands of Zuorobabcl
Peabody. After we he'd thus acted in ac-
cordance with the provisions an compro-
misses Of tho CONSTRUCTION, we adjourned to
meat agin into the meetn haouse the next
mite whur a moetin' on the static Of the union
was appntod
IF live till die IAN ! umbely trust that
Providence will continner me to that time)
( shall never forgit the imposin' appearance
ov oour mcetn-us on this momcntus occa-
shun Right over the poolpit hung one Of
D aunt kycr's best Inning scots, white as its
d aowner's head, and a darnod site more spot
- lesser than her karaktur, on wich. IN karak-
n turs Of imperishabe lampblack. was the pat
D riotck sentiment of the immortal McDufie, Of
/ South Carolney-
. THE cONsrIrooTtoN-wHAT Is IT But
DARNED OLD RAG i!'
f Underneath was picter Of that medlesum
q old feller-lIoar, who went aout to Charles
tun to steal niggers streakin it for ham, his
cote tails discribn horizontal line Of 81 degs
40 min. and one Of the Shivalry butes lest
under EN-. On one side was a likneness of
] one of aour Suthern brethren. a proclaimin
his onalienable right to caount his niggers in
the chadder Of Bunker Hill On the left an
othor Of the Same sort. a tcllin Northern Sen
ators if they should kim 10 Mississippv. his
constituents would hang EN- higher than Ju-
das lcccarrot hung Mordiky. Chuck up in
the deacon's scat was a board. on wich
oour talented ieller taownsman, Perturbation
Pillsbry, had drawn in charcolc. a prafick
IN fns..
artist had, with characteristic eve to effect.
selected that awful pint whar fifteen hundred
of Nerginnys bravest stood firm for twenty
haours surroundin the min haouse. lust aout
OF gun-shot, watin for the Moreens to cum
an take old Pottywatcmy Seward and his If
teen blood thirsty niggcrs
When the scene bust upon my eyes. togeth-
or with the selickmen settn right to the pul-
PIT. lookin jist solum as though twas
sabberday, felt relieved as / did when
onct artcr eatin dozen hard billed oQps. and
the last four not settin we'll, / took a cream.
a-tarter solootion of arb-dunk wich bro't EN-
up hull. For days I'd felt poorly was de-
visIn ways and means by day and By mite
was dreamin Of dissolutcd unions and unshnt
perlay diums. But when entered the mee-
tin-us think heern suthin drap. an q lode
of twice as hevvy as Pilgrims Progress nan
sack, rooled rite Of my mind. | thought [
was as lite as iether, but want For when
arter three cheers for the Union, | lodged on
the top Of an then pitched head flst night
onto Miss Deacon lsrl futile, who sot in the
next pew, an she's bin ladc up with the rumi-
til ever sense.
Darn an blast yer evcrlastin pctcr." saws
Miss Deacon lsril, when we'd picked our
selves up.
Woman, says ''what do you know A.
bout pollytcks, This ar a crisis" saws /.
ian ef hadn't jumpt ! should hey bust"
IL wish to the lord you had bust sed she,
as she limped aout of the haouse.
, Deacon lsril be was quite hufy abaout it.
/ even goln so fur as TO pull my nose till hol-
Tered like a loon. Mootooal friends interior
in, however, we shook hands and went aout
/, an lckered. When we went back. the meet
/ in was organized and Peltiah Pettibones was
goin it in 2;40 speech. Is the Deacon an
5 not only lickerod but "smiled." an then
/ took suthin, we only heerd the peeroarration.
over the sky-bew sirrulian vastness of
the eyerlastin hill tops"-says Peltiah. saws
5 he, up from the peelin antiquities, the on
e speakable kerruskations an ossillated per-
e. meatons of the howlin wilderness, borne on
; all the hreezes that sweeps the eternal cir
cumambent, shriekcd by every eagle as he
iiSSH Hph MS cry ana sores into bOundlCss
I contguty. | hearn but one cry Union
union ag'n everything hereafter. hence
o. FORTH and torerer more linen 70
Perhaps there want no siompin when Pol
tiah sot down. OF coarse there want
The kommitty on resolutions then KUN in.
and reported the follerin, which was adopted
syne dye
ls Resoirsd-Ihe day we celebrate, NAV il. sbadder
@ never be less. ny ''' s''"''
"a hesofred-Ihat things has kun to pooty pass an
= hught NJ so 10 be- so they oughtent.
3D. hesoirea-Ihat all abcroncss Is resercetionists
an that hangu the hull lot would promote tho interests
Of traid an serve TO make free institutions terror
TO the world ''N'
e 4th Resoired-Thot Gov Wise IN hangin ole Seward
an Garrison is entitled 90 the generous sympathy Of al
who keep step with the Union. And ef he wants the
ornby falanks. the seckmcn be authorized TO send
that corpse on, ef they will CO.
ON heA0ffed--Ihat we recognize in aour Southern
Brehcun the Irew ShiycrDry Paytriois and PaytaTks.
That thcyr oilers right that we Of the North Is prone
10 wrong the sparks Is 10 up chimhly That slave
up in the covenant with AbTam when he was
ia the bnrushos, and It's therefore sacred instit-
, ton Long may IL wave.
9th Rcsolred-E aour Southern Brethcrin dom think
the forcgon strong enough, and will writc aout sch a
one as they want wel pass IT, we are wiin 10 he
umhle and meancr than Puukinville dirt e thereby we
can save the Union, an traid IN horn spoons
KfSOfrfd-Ihuf he H.