Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-09-24
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OOiunOuAf on tht tNtniNh Ol ptHN Aitnf 1
1868, Hon $ S. Cox, after deprecating the
intense and contemplate personalities indulg
ed in by Abolition placemen and spoilsmen
takes oil the glove and thus goes back at
"Johnuy Brougb,' in lrenchant style;
1 did not intend this evening to discuss
Gov Tod He is our Government, you
know (laughter) Besides he is under the
sod, politically. AS the lrishman said when
he took the mi lestone for a tombstone Tread
lightly over the ashes Of the departed. =
Naughter.) Brough carrie his effgy about
Ohio so rs TO have the benefit Of this lifelong
Democracy. They each dress in the livery
of heaven 10 serve the devil in Uaughter)
At Newtown, they we're together, and the
Cincinnati C0mmercidl thus reports Brough
on Tod
al hail with Joy this vast assemblage to-day,
separate and apart from self As 1 have be-
fore said, would much rather that some one
else, that that gallant old man who has for
two years stood by You, that noble, good man
-Tod-were your standard bearer now
1t must have been an enormous assemblage,
which was vast, separate and apart from
Broughs big body Laughter How loving
! ly he speaks of "old Tod y he seems fond of
his Toddy. Laughter After he had used
/ the nocturnal leagues to dirk Tod under the
] lllu Iins ut blhllhS0 lid blu ihous iAAuHh
| ter This Compliant candidate plays the
hypocrite with consummate tact He smoth-
ers him with honey to draw the wasps on bis
poor old body
When ough spoke here, he paid his re-
spects to me at length--or rather with all his
| breadth. He charged that Pugh and myself
we're old Wings and little Tories; that we had
been for, and were now against, the war; that
| had obtained my post in Congress last year
by false pretense, pretending to be for the
war, when was not, etc Now, the idea Of
Jack Brough calling Geo. Pugh or myself
little laughter He must have forgotten
himself What was he about? As some one
said to Falstaff. He was about two yards
in the waist, and surely, such person ought
not to have inter-lqrded such personalities in
his speech 1t is greet temptation to an
ardent Young speaker like myself, to retcrt !
When | heard Of his speech / resolved on
the first opportunity to bore for oil Laugh
ter
IL \
III am obnoxious to criticism for my un-
dergrown size, let Jack Brough look to his
oyergrown oeaginous tissues and be careful
! of his tissues of falsehoods and of his per-
sonal gbes. Why should he call glorious,
true AMI noble George Pugh little p? In in.
tallow candle to the sun Laughter Mon
sters like Brough have ever been the butt OF
ridcule. The Republican party, desrous oi
making ever memorable this campaign Of
1868, have set up this inordinate incarnation
of swelling vanity, to withdraw the attention
OF the people from the real issues of the cam
paign to the curious sport of nature, which
3 has thrown such n behemoth into our politics
Laughter But Shakespeare has anticipated
the sport In glancing over the world o
e mind and matter, he rested the fame of his
, comic genius on the creation of Sir Jack Fal
staff Rolling into one lumpish, oleaginou,
mass his whole soul of fun--Falstaf, the ia
+ knight, was the result There is great sim
|, Ilarity between Jack Falstalf and Jack Brough
Fnlstaff is remarkable for six points. Hi
@ thieving his leachery his lying his cowar
. dice, his carcass, and his wit Laughter
do not know whether John Brough cal
. boast of all these fine attributes He has,
n am snre, the lying, cowardiee, and carcass
Y without a spark of his wit or a crinkle of hi
,, drollery. Laughter / cannot speak as L
II his lust and roguery; indeed, if any on
n should charge the former upon him, | woul
defend him, by the same irrefragibe logi
,. which Sir Jack used TO Prince Hal "In
d state of innOcency Adam fell and what shoul
II poor Jack Brough do in the DAYS of vilany
Thou seest | have more flesh than anotle
l. man. and, therefore, more fraity." TLaugh
o ter IT, therefore so carnal nature a
- Brough s should sin there is much TO be sal
" in extenuation, and an overpowering argl
E. ment against his final punishment Sir Jac
found it when he said, "That the devil wi
, never have me damned lest the oil that's i
H. me should set hell on fire" Laughter.