North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-05-27


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E& We have waited, long and patiently for
some manifestations of the transcendent tai
ents as political writer and :tatesman
which the friends of Billy of the Republican
claimed for him and which Billy has mare
than once limited he possessed. His debut
in our midst was more like the coming of q
grand circus or menagerie, than like that of
broken down pedag gue, who, having eve
~ thing to gain, and nothing to risk BY the
change, resolved to try the uncertain fortunes
of editor Of a county newspaper. His com.
ing was announced by one grand flourish of
trumpets. The tin horn Of the boat upon
which this wonderful prodigy came, not on
ly made the shores of the raging canawP
echo with their melliffluous toots but the
braAs concern called an" organ" in the hands
of his predecessor, filled the hills and val.
leys with praises of this "high larnt scholar"
The tin boat horn had harlIy rested from i,s
vibrations, before the wonderful Billy, with
pen in hand, through The columns of the
aforesaid brass organ, declares to his
expectant readers that he" can write" He
also tells them in the same article This sall-
satory) that he has blck bpne." Being
modest man, he did not cume right out and
claim that he could read and write too, but
he doubtless concluded, that from the fact
that be " could WRITE" it would be inferred
that he could read also These may be We
~ rare qualifications among the honest dutcf,
farmers, where Billy was reared or he may
have imagined, that these wandering tribes
Of Connecticut settlers, on the upper W ters
Of the Susquehanna, were strangers to these
elegant accomplishments. Certain it is he
expected to set them all agape with his dis
distinguished powers as p" writer and think
er"-it will be recollected he boasts, that
he can L" do his own thinking" too. What q
wonderful man
In speaking of his powerful " back kbone,"
we hardly know whether it was physical,
moral, literary, or pecaniarv backbone,
WHICH ne Cia ailNeu 30 possess III SUCH dUuH-
dance but conclude from what we have
seen of him, that ii. was the real old spinal
column, that he wished to establish possess
session of-in the. absence of spine, people
might attribute that dropping of the shoul-
ders to his lamprey eel structure, and not deem
its" literary stoop'" Hence the import
snce 10 him, Of settling this question by a
claim, to rerte6rae. . His moral and patriot
&c "back bone had been so lately shattered
Oy the draft; and his miserably, sneaking,
lying, dishonest evasion of it, that of course
he could lay no claim TO that kind. He ad-
Ets, having suffered great pecuniary loss, in
coming among us he is not SO very stiff,
in this. As for his intellectual backbone"
we must admit, we can't see il II he had
laid claim to conceit aid p d,ntry, enough for
half dozen back woods pedagngues, we
should have cheerfuly admitted his right
90 the assumption.
Indeed after waiting and watching six
long months for an out-cropping of some
thing wonderful in this man, We have failed
90 discover anything, that excites our Won
der, except the size length and color of his
nose.-That beets every thing! NJ wonder,
bis back bone ia bent, with such proboscis,
oil hanging on one side Of it