Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-01

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as to havo the benefit of his life long
Democracy. They each steal the livery
OF Heaven to serve the devil in Laugh.
ter. AT Newtown. they were together,
and the Cincinnati CDmmercin thus re.
ports Brcugh on Tod:
"I hail with Joy this vast assemblage
to-day, separate and apart from self As
have before said | would much rather
some one else, that that gallant old man
who has for two years stood by you,
that noble, good man-Tod- your
standard bearer now"
1t must have been an enormous assem-.
blage, which was vast, sepsrati aud
apart from Brough'. big body. Laugh
ter. How lovingly he speaks of cold
Tod" he seems to be fond Of his Toddy
Laughter. After he had used the noe.
lurnal leagues to dirk Tod under the
fifth iib, he gloritieS the =" old man"
Laughter. This corpulent candidate
plays the hypoclite with consummate
tact. He smothers himself with honey
to draw the wasps on his poor old
body.
| w HtH D'ouSn poht HcIc, lle pau MS
respects to me at length--or rather with
all his breadth. He charged that Pugh
and myself were old Wings and little
Tories; that we had been fo,, and were
now agans; the war; that had obtained
my post III Congress last year by false
pretences pretending TO he for the war
when was not, etc. Now, the idea of
Jack Blough calling George Puyh and
myseli--littic. Laughter. He must
have forgotten himself. What ws he
about? AS some one sail to Falstalf:
He was about two yarls--in the waist:
and surely surh n 1,eysou ouoht not IN
have inter ioyded snch TER onaltics in
his speech. 1t isn 1reot trmrtation to
al aIfenl .uny speaker like myself to
,eiurl Whpn heard of his sneecb
rcsolyrl ON thc first oprortuuitv to "bo,e
for oil" [L,u,hter
do rot understand why Jack Brouph
shonld tokc such libertios wi h nv Nor.
son. done think he ever saw me 7
have not the honor of knowing him.
never saw him but once. and that ", I
distance and he can he seen wi or
withon, a glass, at great d; ance,
| Yet this mountain of mummy. ,weIled
to unu,nal import nee by an abolition
nomination., pIesnmes to question NV
size and my Democracy! [Laugh,ey.
He forgets that ! am the Representative
of large number of very large people
There is no constitutional limit to a
mans size in running for Congress or
Governor. A man may have much
blubhcr without hrains ana much meat
without manhood. Laughter and he
a Governor. SO a man may be elected
to Congress whose fcmur and tiba
are several inches short of the average
human leg; nor is it any qualification
for Office in this country, that nun
has an extraordinary protuberence OF
adipose tumors beneath the abdominal
muscles. am obnoxious TO criticism
for my undergrown size, let Mr. Brough
look to his overgr"wn oleaginons tissues.
and his tissues of ialsehoods and of his
personal gibes. Why should he call
| glorious. true and noble George Pngh
lt lie? In intellect, John Brough is to
George Pngh as tallow candle to the
sun. Laughter. Monsters like Jack
Brough have ever been the 6M of ridi
Guile. The Republican party, desirous
of making ever memorable this campaign
of '63, have set up this norlinate incar.
nation of swelling vanity to Withdraw
the attention of the nronle 6om tho
rcal ;s.ues of ,ba comraigr m ,ho c,r;.
ous smart of no.pr, which has throwp =
behmoth into our politics. [Langhter |
Bot Shakspearo bas anticina,ed the
snort In gIonc;nr ovor thn world oc
mind and matter. he rested the famc Of
his comic qenius on the creat;op of Sir
Lack FastaW Rollirg into o,o ;,,,;sh
oleayinous mass his whole sonI If I'm
Fal,,alr the fat knigbt. was tho ,csnlt
There is great similarity Of character
betwcen Jack Folstofr and lack Rrorch
Fal,talr is remarkable for siv noint. .
/ His tbeivinp his leecherv his cow,rI;co
/ ms lviny his carcass and Lie vii ! dn
NOT know wbe,hor .John Rrougb con
boast Of all these fine at,r;bntes Uo
has. nm surc. the living coward;ce ard
carcas, without n spark of his viii or n
cripkle # his drolle,v. ILouohtcr I
cannot sneak as to his Inst :. Il rogperv.
indeed. if anv one sbould cbor%o ,Ie
former uoon him. | wonlI defend HIM
bv the inclragible lovie which Sir lack
used To Prince HAL: ain n state of in