The Placer herald., 1861-12-21
From the Chicago Post]
Chickens coming home to Roost.

Daniel 5. Dickinson is great on telling
anecdotes, and tel ing hard truths under the
Guse of facetious illustrations. lie has
been engaged in the business for years and
even a7 late as 1860, and down to the com
mencement Of the present year. was the
most foul mou;hed denouncer of the Rel
publicans that ever took the stump in New
York. lie is now The Republican candidate
for the office Of attorney General. and his
opponents are bringing to light some choice
extracts from his Old speeches. We have
already given his speech ns flying and ap
paillinL the secession of South Carolina
and his declaration that no administration
could, by using the army and navy, pat
down rebellion. The following extracts
from o'her speeches derive their point main
ly from the fact that Dickinson is now The
Republican, candidate for office:
-. will tell YOU a story which | have
heard told about Barney WhippIe, at Albany,
who has passed to his account, (and peace
to his ashes) but his history is worth telling.
Barney was politician of the Peter Brush
school; he wanted something to have, but
nothing to do, and he was willing to take it
ike a true patriot, from either side. Laugh
ter But the Republicans were in power,
and We're ungratstul, and Barney Was wan
dering around Albany when he saw a
church lighted up and walked in. 1t was
methodist church. He went up the isle and
took the only >a,an. seat 1t proved to be
the ANXIOUS seat but the methods;s good
people, seeing Barney come in invoked man
fold blessings uion his head aud the good
L. Il, 4
came to him and said, Brother do you feel
any changer Barney thrust his hand deep
into his empty pockets a little further and
further by degrees, and finally exclaimed,
emphatically, Not id red cent? Now
the pockets Of the State are equally empty,
they have no change in them and will al
ways remain so, if you let the Republicans
bear rule.
"The Republican party has always borne
testimony in favor Of the Denocrrtc party
In looking for candidates it strives to find
those who have been Democrats, and then
will parade them in the forward ranks and
exclaim. That man has been Democrat
put him IN the ,tore,Uound' Don't you see
what fine man he as? He was once a Dem
ocrat.'
Our opponents remind me of pedler in
the western country who had sold his wares
and WAS going east. Having resolved to
set off, he went to banker and requested
him to let him have New York money for
his western wildcat notes. The banker how
ever, replied that he had no New York funds
to exchange for it. We'll, stranger said
the peder, have you some good counterfeit
money on New York which yon can let me
have? Now, the Republicans if ever they
can get a democrat into their party who is
even counterfeit they think he is an OBJ
iect of great pride, and parade him and all
others, as such, who have left the Demo.
cratic party, for The larty's good.
''Do you know, my Democratic friends
how the Republicans serve Democrats who
90 over to them? | will tell you how.
They serve them as the New York butcher
serves his OK. He puts gaily colored rib.
bons on his horns, and marches him through
the streets, as spectacle to be stared at;
and thcn-ast scene of all he drives
them to the slaughter pen. This is the way
these Republicans serve Democrats who are
ilattered and cajoed by them into an aban!
donment of their principles.
The pensions now paid by the French
Treasury amount to 72,37O,35O francs
NOthinU heOets confi1enre sooner than