Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-27
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From the Charleston Courier.
THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.

TIL PRESIDENTIAL hACE.
BY SAM BILLINGS
Well, boys, duz you bleeve in dreems!
Teduz. You all member that dream / had
bout Jim, being elected?
Jim who, SamT
Jim Buchanan, of course. Who else
WHY I dremt I saw him al Fillmore and
Fremont all playin seveu.u up and when Jim
an Fillmore was both six-an.six what duz
Jim do but turn up Jack, and git out. The
very mex thing we heerd alter that wuz that
Jim wuz lected. I rote to Jim bout it, but
he forgot to snser my letter. l tell you,
boys, its no use tawking. knows what's
what, an eff you only kuowed what dremt
last mite, you'd know more than you knows
now.
Take a drink, Sam, and tell US all about
it,
sDon,tskeer eff do. Well, you see alter
I left you boys, last mite, I WIZ jest as So
Der as I ever wuz. You all knows that,
cause i never drinks, cept on speshul &C.
cashuns l did stumble a leetle-jest a
leetle-but that WIZ cause I wuz think
ing 80 hard on what Bill thar had sed bout
US gittin Cuber eff old Breck wuz lected, an
how nice,i it would be to put such fellers as
us down thar to take keer of the Dons an
Senoriters. It wuz too much trubble to
shuck my coat or pull off my butes, SO laid
down Jest as I wuz. Lets take a drink.
Well, as soon as Morfus had rapt me in
sleep, I begun to dreem. I thort a CRATE
big Teller, with a cooked hat an a sword
by his side, teched NE on the shoulder an
axed me eff l wouldn't 90 to the race. |
tole him I wood go euywhar fur fun, an
axed him to pitch ahed. As soon as we
got to the dore, thar stood wun uf the finest
CARRIES you ever set your ize on. The
Squirrels don't hold a lite to it. My myster-
US conductor axed me to get in an then fol-
Tered hisself. Alter we wuz in l didn't
say nuthin, an he didn't neither, and so
we both wuz silent. The CARRIE went nifty
fast, an in about an hour and a hat we
stopt. I forgot to meushun that thar wuz
sblack bottle tween the cushuns, an that
both uf US tuck several drinks, eff not more.
Boys, lets take wun now
We got out uf the carrige on to the
grown, an looked round us. In fruut, but
alittle to the rite, WIZ a CRATE big white
house, an the rode frum the gate wuz so
Ext that you Good cum to the dore frum
airy side you plesed. All the way round
wuzsabout a quarter uf a mile. then
turned round to look at the people who
wnz thar. They wuz about twenty in all.
Rite in frunt WIZ Jim.
mister Buchanan ses the man who
brought me, ALLOW me to
gsPshawn ses |; Il knows him we'll enuf,
I'm the mau what done so much for him
an Breck to Puukintown. How do you do,
ole feler? How hev you been?' 'How's
all ? and what's the news
I'm fust rate thank you,' ses he, smi'
lin and bowin' nifty perlite 'How's all tc
PunkintownT
ooh, we're all spry,' ses I; 'but what
to pay here"
why, we're goin' to hev the race SCI
jim, speekin' low to me, an lookin' NIFTY
solem, ian I sent fur you, to stan an jujs
who beats. Cum along now, and let Inc
introduce YOU to the folks
sAir those FIVE fellers in the rode the
candidates. ses I.
YES ses he, san them other men GU
thar is their trends and hackers. But here
we air. Gentilmen, allow me to interduc'
my particular trend, Mister Billings-Mis
ter Houston, Mister Billings; Mister Bell
Mister Billings; Mr.. Lincoln, Mister Bill
lings; Mister Douglas, Mister Billings
Mr.. Breckenridge, Mister Billings. Mis-
ter Billings, gentilmeu, will take his stat
here, an juje who beets the race. Excus'
me fur a mint, as | mus see eff the track i
cleer.'
1T seems to me, I've met you sumwha
before, Mister Billings ses Mister Bell
IAN yourn is a face what can't be easy for
got
Il dom re~collec,' ses I, 'for I seed wha
he was ater.'
1T mus be so,' ses he, 'forI've bin every
whar through this glorious Union. Thi
glorious Union, Mister Billings, mus b
preserved, an the eagle mus bare aloft OIL
magnanimous pinyuns the banner of tn
stars, an skreem defiance at the violaters o
the resplendent Constitution
sJes So ses L.
I'll tell you, what, Mister Billings Sc
Douglas, wavin his arm, this here seen
with all these people lookin on, an yo'
to pass your free augment bout this race
reminds me powerfully of Poplar Suvrinity
That air the doctrine, sir. All of US is fire.
and indipindint. Eff wants to do any
thing-efI wants to cut my throte-who'
to prevent me?