The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-04-13

TuScatiOnS OF lnnuncraDlc CONSIDERATIONS,
and proud as specklcd stud horse on a
country court day. [Checrs.l
But how have the mighty fallcn,"
in the language Of the poet Silversmith.
We have lost our proper position. We
have assumed u sloshindicular or a dag
geological position. And what is the
cause! Echo answers " buncombe,"
sir " buncombe." The people have been
fed on buncombc, while lot of spawned,
ringboned, hamstrung, wind-galled,
swyneycd, split-hoofed, distempered,
poll-evllcd, pot-bellied politicians have
had their noses in the public crib until
there amt fodder enough left to make a
cruel for sick grasshopper. [Cheers
and aughter.]
Sir, these hungry brats keep Juggling
at the public pap. They say, /" let
down your milk, Sucky, or you will have
a split bag" DO they think they can
stuff such buncombe down our crawl
No, sir; you might as we'll try to stuff
butter i'll wild cat with hot awl.-
Continued laughter.] The thing can't
be did.
The public grindstone is great in
stitution, sir-yes, sir, great institu-
ton. One of the greatest perhaps that
ever rose, rigned or fell. But, sir, there
is too much private cutlery ground
The thing won't pay. Occasionally a
big axe is brought in to be fixed up, os-
tensibly for the purpose Of hcwing down
the gnarled trunks of error and clearing
out the brushwood of ignorance and folly
that obstruct the public highway of pro-
gress. The machine whirls the axe is
applied. The lockers on are enchanted
with the brilliant sparks elected. The
tool is polished; keenly edged and,
while the public stare in gaping expec-
fancy of seeing the road cleared, the i'm
plement is slyly taken off to improve the
private acres of some " faithful friend of
the people" What is the result. The
distractions remain unmovcd. The
people curse because the car lags-
or, if i: does move, tits at the expense
of broken wheel and jadcd and sore
backed team. l tell you, the thing
won't pay. The time will come when
the nasal promonotores of these disin-
tercsted grinders will be put to the
stone, instead of their hardware. Jap
plause.] l am mi ghty afraid the machine
is going to stop. The grease is giving
out laundering fast. 1t is beginning to
creak on its axis. Gentlemen, it is my
private opinion, confdcntially expressed :,
that all the "grit" is pretty near worn
off. [Applausc.]
Mr. Speaker, you must excuse me for
my latitudinosity and Observation-Disclosures
My old blunderbuss scatters amazingly,
but if anybody gets pcppered, it ain t
my fault if they are in tue way.
Sir, if these dandadical, supersquirti-
cal, mahogany-faced gentry-what do
they know about the blessings of free
dom? About as much, sir, as toad
frog does of high glory. Do they think
they can escape me! I'll follow them
through pandemonium and high water
lCheers and laughtcr.l
These arc the ones that have got our
liberty pole off its perpendicularity. -
IT'S they who would rend the stars and
stripes noble flag, the blood of GU,
revolutionary fathers embalmed in its
red. The purity of the cause for which
they dicd-denoted by the white the
freedom they attained, like the azure all
that wraps their native hills and fingers
on their lovely plains. [Chcers.] The
high bird of liberty sits perched on the
topmost branch, but there is no secession
salt on his glorious tail. / fear he vii
no more spread his noble pinions to soa,
beyond the azure regions of the borea
pole. But let not Missouri pull the last
feather from his sheltering wing, te
plume a shaft to pierce his noble breast
or, what is the same, made pen to sigr
secession ordinance. Applause. l.
Alas poor bird, if they drive you from
the branches of the hemlock of the NORTH
and the palmetto of the South, come ovel
to the gum tree of the West, and we will
protect your noble bird, while wate1
grows and grass runs. Immense ap
plause.l Mr.. Speaker, l subside for thu
present. The bill was defeated.I