Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-16
Speech of jonathan q. Smith

Speech of jonathan q. Smith.
Our friend JONATHAN Q. SMITH delivered the
following speech from the town pump at Berlin on
Saturday last Mr. SMITH said:
Feller Citizens and Winmen:-Captain ADso
LON BAKER, of the Millersburgh "Home Guard,"
who is perpendickerly patriotic and most exkru-
catenly anxious to kill murder and blow up the
buddy secessionists, and is confident that JEFF
DAVIS and his rebels will bea at Millersburg purity
soon for fight, pinned back mi ears and sent me
out hear to stur up your righteous soes by way of
remembrance. And now, bruther FILL WERuM
will hold mi hat, and bruther JOHN Corr will
bring Inc u bottle of old rye, and bruther EDWARD
HALL will lend me his rag to bio mi noze on, and
then I'll 60 in.
Fellers, the trends hav obaid mi call and now I
want you to prick your up and listen to what
hav to say. Mi speech at the lie regions has set
all the lie wells fire, and hav cum hear to fire
my Republican bruthers with luv and devoshun
for thare country. Fellers, the people, the whole
people has bin called upon to te the battles of the
country The Republicans is called upon to do
the bloen, protect thare homes by orgenizen home
CARDS, and hold the Offices; and the locofocos is
catcd upon to march to the protection of the guv-
ernment, and aid in suppressen disloyalty wher-
ever found under the glorious stars and stripes
There is some Republicans gon to itc, but they
amt the kind what wood do for till ii tu They is
of the ole Wing class what was feminist our six
teen star flags, aud who always beleaved that our
cutler brothers and sisters was not equal to the
white poperlashun, AM glad they air gon, for
they amt much better ner locoiocos. Now fel-
lers want you to get excited go it strong, pile in
like hog into pertater hill, get desperate rare
and pitch, mob sumbuddy, hang five orsix, shute
two or three duzen, swear considerable, holler Sc
cessicnist and trater at every buddy what don't
jine in, 60 in strong and hav hell of a time. |
say git excited, darn the expense, curse every
buddy whatd go in, make your preachers preach
aberlishunism holler that all parties is bursed up
and that you are for the Unoin, free niggers and
tite, organize home gard, and
Beat the sheepskin, bio the fife
And march around the village,
And swear a million thieves is rife
And cumin North for pil'agc.
Dixie is Sou hem hymn, kill everybuddy what
sings it; Cotton is Southern king, hang all the
folks what wears it.; Rice is Southern grain, gut
every trater what puts it into his rotten carcass;
call all the locoiocos secessoniss and traters and
make the people beeaye the war is all thare
fault; if onybnddy sez peace, tell EN- thar is no
peace and punch EN- on the head with Tense
rale.
Git all the people rayin wild,
SO they don't know what thare doin,
And phenix like will come child
From out the gineral ruin.
Fellers but this is ON the sly, that child will be
new party, to be called the Union party. You no
how we busted the Wings and Locofccoes with
our No Nothen hurrah and got up the Republican
party--well, now, the Republican party has had
its day and we must git up new thing, and if we
can git the people as crazy as drove of March
Hairs, We can play this Union game on EN- most
butfully; but we must play it on the dead The
Locofoeoes sez they has always bin Union men
but we made the people beeave that forty millions
of buddy Catholics was goin for till spred fire and
sord all over the land, and we can shurely make
EN- beleave that the Locofocos is all secession.
lists and haters and that they goin for till kill
the peepel and burn every barn, house, stone-pile
sawmil and milldam in the free and prosperous
North.
Rare and pitch, play sly,
Old Rye will make you witty;
Place wool upon the public eye,
Do all by a Committee.
/ woodent SAID what hav here if FILL WE.
RUN, JOHN Corr and EDWARD HALL, our private
Committee hadent bin cock shure that there is no
locofocos about, for this kind of talk wont du in
publick. If ennybuddy reports this speech to the
editor Of the Farmer, what KEEP skule on Yaller
crick, ho must be hung as tratvr and then get
the slack of his trowsers kicked all over the
country. And if the Former publishes it we must
mob the Office
Berlin Vide avakes, now is your time to be of
service to your country. Last fall you fred the
peepel with enthusiasm for honest Old Abe, and
secured his election, the Democrats has gon to fte
the country out Of the scrape that Old Abe's elec
shun brot about, and you hav nothin to du but to
raise pertickeler he'll at home and help our trends
to carry the State next fall If you don't du it we
are gon up shure, for the leeofooos sez their has
been great deal ofplayen of the fool and squan-
derin ofmunny, and increasen of taxes and sich
like, and they mite operate against us. So du
your duty. gentlemen, and you will be entitled to
enter the public crib, and while in the enjoyment
of its most delishus sweets we hope you will re.
member US with the hveliest gratitude. In con
clusiOn. fellers. walk IN and huy n few hotties of