Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-02-12


work it was too; for, it is easier TO forage
iron anytime than q speech, ESPECIALLY if you
amt up to the business. l had to go over
| it and over it ever so often. for every now
and then I'd stick fast, get bothered and
| forget where 1 was, and have to begin
| agin but when day was cen ABOUT to break
l was Just drawin' to close, aud had near
| " scored and rough hewed it out, when all
of a suddin l run agin the bed post in tn e
dark and nearly knocked my brains out
| Well, next night worked at it agin, only
| left the candle burning, so as not to be
! stumbin' up agin'' thinks that way, end
| the third night got it all finished of cons
| plete but l got shockin' cold in my head,
! a-walkin' about naked so, and felt weak
as a child for want of sleep. I was awful
| puzzled to fix on what to do on account of
| that plaguy cold, 1 didn't know whether
| to wait ':ill it got better, or strike while the
| iron was hot and hissin'. for l warn't sure
some of :he speech wouldn't leak out, or the
whole git fat, if kept it in too long; so
| as soon ass the house was opened, l makes
a plunge right into it for what must be,
must be without considerin'.
IS up aud says, Mr.. Speaker, says I,
: OordThow thick my tongue felt: it seemed
to grow too thick for my mouth, like the
clapper of and old horse.) let me PROFOUND
this resolution. sir, said l, all men are free
and equal. No one doubts it Mr.. Slick,
- L. - d
truism. didn't expect this interruption );
it kinder put me out. and | never got a.
goin' altogether right agin afterwards, for 1
lost my temper ard when a man amt cool
lie might as well hang up his fiddle, that's a
fact Have I freedom Of speech, sir, said l
OF have not Or Is t44s:at ll7zt Ta7; Of liberty
torn from the mast Of the constitution too
I stan stock still waitin' for your answer,
sir Oh. sarti0. said he. sartin; YOU may
talk TOR ever; if you like; SO on, sir; only
no man doubts your proposition It's lie,
sir, said l. lis a lie writ Order order =
chair chair! said some. Knock him down
turn him ont where did you learn
manners said others. Hear me ont will
you? said l. and don't be so everlastin' fast;
what's the use in iumpin' afOre you come tc
the fence. rs lie written on the face o
the constitution. Oh. Oh, says they j:
that it ?-Yes, says I, it is; and contradict
if you darst, We are not free We are slaves
one half Of us is tyrants, on
ieeiiu'. overbearin tyrants, an .s.c ,lsurp-
ers: and the other half slaves, abiect, miser
able, degraded slaves. The first argument
l advance, sir, is this-and the cold in my
nose began to tickle. tickle, tickle, till
couldn't hold it in no longer, and l let z,
A sneeze that almost broke the winders in
Oh. Lord, what haw, haw, haw they so
up. TIE first argument is this, and OF
" went both barrels of my nose again Tx
thunder it fairly raised the dust from tn
= floor in a cloud, Ike young whirlwind il
the street afore rain. 1t made all spin agin
Why he is a very ripGtail roarer, said the.
a regular sneezer; and they shouted an
:. roared like anything. / thought should
- died from shame one mint aud the next
felt so coonish had half a mind to fly a
:, the Speaker and knock him down, didn'
- went on Did the best blood of the Ian
>, flow for forty shillings? Was Bunker HI
fought out to loosen British chains, merel
> to rivet American enes? ? Was it for thi
'0 the people died covered with gore and glor
on the bed of honor? Was it the fort
,c shillings alone that fought the revolution
- the Polls? l am for the Polls Taxatic
and representation should so hand in han
and freedom and equality likewise also
- How dare you tax the Polls without the
-, consent Suppose they was to tax "
without your consent, why who would
right or who wrong then Can two wror
make right 1t is much of muchnes
sir-siX of one and half dozen of anotht
Il What's thai feller talking about sa
he member. A vote to help the Poles agi
es. Russia, says the other: what fool he
. 1t put me quite out, that, and joggled i
il so, couldn't make another straight line.
ed couldn't see the Speaker no longer. for T
ye; eyes were watered as If had been string
co onions for a week, and had to keep my bl,
the ing my nose the whole blessed time, for [
it cold corked it up as tight as bottle.-W
q calls them fools says I who dares ius
sst free citizens because they are not forty 81
Tngersi You couldn't treat them wui