The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-09-13
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Gen Rney's speech.
A correspondent from Missouri
sends a newspaper slip containing
a report Of the speech of General
Riley, in the House Of Represen-
tatives, February g, 1861. Alter
a long and heated debate on the
reference of a bill amending the
charter of the city of Carondelet to
a standing Committee of the House
Mr.. Riley obtained tho floor, and
addressed the House;
Mr.. SPEAKER-Every body is a
pitching into this matter like toad
frogs into a willow swamp on a
lovely evening in the balmy month
of June, when the mellow light Of
the full moon fills with delicious
flood the thin, ethereal atmospher-
ic air. [Applause. Sir, / want
to put in a word, or perhaps a word
or perhaps a word and half
There seems to be a disposition to
fight. / say, ifthere is any fight
ing to be done, come on with your
corn cobs and lightning -bugs!-
II Applause. In the language Ofthe
ancient Roman,
"Come one, come all, this rock shall fly
From its firm base in a pigs eye"
Now there has been a great deal
Iofbombast here to-day. l call it
bombast from "Alpba" to "Ome-
| ga" Il don't understand the mean
ing Of the words, though.) Sir,
the question to refer is a great and
magnificent question--like a
sponge, Sra large, unmeasura-
bic sponge, Of globe shape, in a
small tumbler OF water; it sucks
up everything. Sir, l stand hero
with the weapons have designat-
ed to defend the rights of St. Lou
is County, the rights of any other
lcounty-even the county Of Cedar
itself. laughter and a; p!ause |
Sir, the debate has assumed a lati-
tudiosity. We have had a little
black; jack buncombe, little two
bit buncombe, bombast buncombe,
bung-hole bunccmbe, and the dev.
Ill and his grandmother knows
what other kind Of buncombe.-
If Laughter / Why, Sir. lust give
some Of 'em a little Southern soap,
and little Northern water, and,
quicker than a hound-pup can lick
a skillet, they will make enough
buncombe lather to wash the gold
en- flock tnat roama abroad the
azure meads of heaven. TCheers
and laughter lallude to the star
ry armament.
The Speaker. The gentleman
is out OF order. lie must confne
himself to the question.
MIR. Riley. just retain your Ii.
men. if you please. I'll stick to
the text as close as a pitch plaster
to alpine plank, or a lean pig to a
hot jam rock. Cries of SEQ on!"
You'll do!"] | want to say to
these carboneriferous gentlemen,
those pereginous volcanoes, come
on with your combustiblesl If 1
don't-Well, I'll suck the Gulf of
Mexico through a goose-quill.-
II Laughter and applause. Perhaps
YOU think am diminutive tubers
and sparse in the mundane eleva-
tion. You may discover, gentle
men, you arc laboring under as
great a misapprehension as though
you had incinerated your inner
vestment. In the language Of the
noble bard,
was not born in a thicket
To be scared bya cricket.
Sir, we have lost our proper posi-
ton. Our proper position is to
d the zenith and nadir-our heads
to the one, our he els to the other,
: at right-angle with tho horison,
4. spanded by that azure arc of the
lustrous firmament, bright with
the coruscations of innumeTable
consultations, and proud as a
spcckled horse on county court
day. Cheers "But how have
the mighty fallen!" in the Ian
2 guage of the poet Silversmith.-
y We have lost our proper position.
. We have assumed a sloshindicular
or a diaganological position. And
what is the cause9 Echo answers
a "Buncombe," Sir, buncombe. -
- The people have been fed on bun
combe, while a lot of spawned,
g-boned, ham strung, wind-gal-
led, swyneyed ,split-hoofed, ,distem,
. pered, pollevilcd politicians have
Z had their noses in the public crit
- until there amt enough fodder LEFT
to make a Cruel for a sick grass
hopper. [Cheers and laughter, +
= Sir, these dandel
ical supersquirtical, mahogany
"a faced gentry-what do they know
about the blessings Of freedoml-
About as much, Sir, as a toad-frol
does of high glory. Do they thinl
they can escape met I'll follow
them through pandemonium anC
}. high waterl [Oheers andlaughter
These are the ones that have go
our liberty pole off its perpendiou
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