Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-14

we published extracts Of Fourth Of July oration
by Elwin P. Tenny Of Tennessee, aud thereby gro.
tuitously advertised the pamphlet published by
request" we had no idea that anywhere in the
heavens above, the earth beneath or the waters
under the earth, would there be found one efusiOn
to be compared 10 it in its extraordinary verbOsi
ty. friend however has handed in for ins
speotion and comparison an "Oration delivered
on the fitieth anniversary Of our National Inde
pendenoe at Dayton, Ohio, by P. P. Lowe Esq"
who was chairman Of the Judiciary Committee Of
the Ohio Legislature In 1889. which it must be
confessed, rivals Tenny's, as . few extracts will
show. What a terror and pestienoe would these
two men become to newspaper men, if like Gov.
Wise, they should take TO writing let
ters 10 the public. What a piliabe state Of be-
wlderment the people would be In If they should
be pitted against each other on the stump Of po
litical canvass
But not to longer withhold the siren voice Ofour
orator. we give his opening bow to his audience,
as thus
Friends AND LowsCITIzENs:-Albeit
have been appointed by the honorable committee
OF arrangements TO perform the duties OF orator Of
the day being the tftieth anniversary Of our Ma
tional Independence, it meaneth not my adequacy
10 be satisfactory"
Lucid, certainly. but having thus cleared his pa
liOtc throat, he glOrfeth as follows, (capitaiza-
ton and al'.)
"Isit privilege then to celebrate this annual
peace coming day. it Isl aud may god grant it may
be perdurabe as the uyid stream Of time"
He explaineth the cause of the resOlutiO -
The Continental Inhabitants were plighted with
the patronage OF their old mother; aYarice stained
the parental connection and the offspring impeach.
ed the parents The promised rein Of faith was
violated by cOrinOus acts Of particuariZation."
He escheweth grammar in pitching into 'ths
pigmy'-whatever that may be-
"Yes, the protectress of the pgmy proved the
betrayer Of the same; for would it be a fair infer
ence 10 say, that because England was auxiliary
troops 70 the Americans, during the French war,
that the Americans sh0ald ever remain tributary
poWerl Yet the assumed n2ht
was enforced 1t was this that gaded the pigmy
and made il cry aloud, as the heated embers were
rolling in volcanic combustion from the edcts OF
the judas parent"
Lo! tie poor Indian! for be Is in horrible case
indeed, according to P P. Lowe NOwOnder they
refuse 10 become civilized when civilized men
write such stuff about them ss the following
"Fhe Indians who formerly inhabited this
and primitively the old states have receded by
cartel or otherwise to other almost impenetrablC
forest, where they may still exercise the immuni-
ty Of making barbecue OF each joint Oi the dis
trained animal leaving no vestage here OF their ten
antship save the tUmuG that are so prominently In
.arspersed over the former habitanons, they arr
gone going and are still to 60 (it is to be lament
ed as the migratory subjects OF power 10 the
peace stipulated in the compact, which sayeth moi
the vOliton was legal one, or that the liquidI'
J ted plice was q compensatory one, or that th'
eviction deiyeth continual claim. And It Is equal
ly to be feared that the inherent indOeEce OF the
nature forbid hope of tn cir ever being introdu
ced into the folio of civilizatoni however theI
seem happy in their lambent pathway of atlenua
ton They invoke their Areouski, Whih thI
halumet Of peace, and in de nOVO custer they min
, gle their dithyrambrick requiem with the blan'
breeze that sits tse through the Tu b and supl
Jack of the woods, and as an exelation ofa inher
itance abated, the ssnctity of the lawn has gon
: forth in its publication. to withdraw irom thel
ewes the humid curtain Of anguish, by purging u
sun Worshippers to humiliation under the vine an
fig tree of promise, as the future safeguard :
: become Joint heir Of inheritance under sure an
inVariable law dispenser.
Whew! there's an interesting compOun
which no call to 3 spiritual convention can sui
L pass, Heaven help the poor Indians under sue
: a cross fire. But we are further informed that
- these truths live in 4 land where th
memory Of nan runueth to its incult state land pr
dieament,a land, since only little while, was Vl
e with the poor doom sriekenred brothers, VINO gre
J., with the sprig. and sproused upon natures hrHt
:, titude and in their stead civilization runs hattie
y ing race
Probably ''sproused" should read .''broWsed"
,g all viii see the appropriateness Of the erratum
/. There, Edwin Il. Teuny, how do your horns f
r. nowi In startling metaphors and images thI
l. mortal never dared to dream before. We gTa
It you are one ahead. but in sublime nonsense a.
g grand admixture Of contradictory words and Sc
= tences, we think you can fraternaly grasp I
fe hand Of P P. Lowe Esq. and hope that his adEa
Is eed age and increased experience may ystlead =
ID On to still greater feats of mental gymnastics al
a intellectual FOSTERING.