Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-11-16
Southern Buster.

That the southern Fire eaters should |
make an extraordinary buster over the |
election of Mr.. Lincoln is the most natural
thing in the world 1t is natural for men
to repeat what they have been doing for
score of years and natural for clustering
men to grow at length to the greatest Of
blusterers. Moreover, Blusterers are ex-
pected, by both themselves an others, to
grade the degree of thor clustering some
what according to the greatness and i'm
portance of the occasion on which it is put
forth Add to all this the fact that the
peculiar cause of the South can be promo
ted only by buster and its kindred means,
and also the other fact, that clustering
men always buster most when most severe
ly smarting under defeat, and we mayn OF
be at all surprised that the blustorious
South, just at the present imc, is engaged
in most wonderful and unparalleled bIus-
ter. Their warm climate makes Southern
men blustorious, and thoughts of the North
have for many years been prone to make
them buster. As far back as 1885, we
have vivid recollection of certain gen
tleman, residing amongst the sand and
pines of Alabama, working himself up into
avery considerable miniature buster one
morning before breakfast, simply because
we, quite innocently, and with our usual
modesty, suggested that Northern people
are some 3" Why, the man-he was a
high sherif-really seemed to think, as he
said, that he could whip :our northern men
as common past-time, before breakfast
and swallow a live Yankee but of this
we were incredulous. Although private
buster, it was as true a specimen of such
public ones as have since rendered the
Southrons SO world-famed, as drop of wa
ter is like barn-yard-puddle,
The South has read the fable Of the frog
which attempted to swell to the size of the
offending OK; although without profting
By the sequel and the moral for the pre-
sumptuous quadrupcd busrt herself by the
questionable exercise. just as the South is
in fair way to do, unless it speedily
amends. 1t is true, it don't mean any
thing by it, only for effect and, as chill
dren say, to ''make believe;" but the hab-
it is fraught with danger, as tending to the
result which it threatens without meaning
IT. No rash being ever threatened to take
his own life, it the fair one rejected him,
with less intent to carry out the throat.
than the South has to carry out its threats
1t there are any exceptions to this truth,
they are so rare that they are cutie unm-
portant, and will be totally swallowed up
and lost amidst the more sensible and con-
sentative masses around them It is not
unusual for children to attempt to cocrce
theft parcts to crafty them, by render
dngE themselves disagreeabIe, and the
Sou h are certainly not bad imitators, or,
At may be, continue practices which should
have ceased with their youth.
1t is to be expected that northern demo-
Gratis will, to certain degree, sympathise
with the South in its buster against Lin
coins election, although few arc so sense
less as to advocate disunion 1t is to be
expected that men who opposed the Repub-
lean party will attempt to magnify hat
they are pleased to call the evils Of its sue
cess; but the great mass Of Northern dem
ocrats decidedly repudate and heartily de-
spise sout ern buster. Should the game be
kept uP until next March, especially at the
meeting of Congress, in the vain hope that
1t may influence the incoming administra
tlon' no one need be surprised We shall
see what we shall see.