American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-12-07

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lean pig to hot jam-rock., [Nries of"Go
on !" 'You'll do!"l want to say to
these carboniferous gentlemen, these ig-
neous individuals, these detonatiug de-
monstrators, these peregnous volcanoes,
come on with your combustibles If |
don't Well, I'll suck the Gulf OF
Mexico through a goose-quill Laugh
ter and applause.1 Perhaps you think l
am diminitive tubers aud sparse in the
mundane elevation. You may discover,
gentlemen, you are laboring under as
great misapprehension as though you
had incinerated your inner vestment In
the language of the noble bard
~ was not born in a thioket
To be scared By cricket
Sir, we have lost our proper position. Our
proper position is to the zenith and nadir
our heads to the one. our heels to the
other at right-angle with the horizon
spanded by that azure arc Of the lustrOus
armament, bright with the coruscations
of innumerable consultations, and proud
as a sreckled horse on county court day,
TCheers. "But how have the mighty
fallen ~ in the language of the poet Sill
versmith. We have assumed a slosh-
indicular or a diaganological position
And what is the cause? ? Echo answers,
"Buncombc." Sir, "buncombe." The peo-
pic have been fed on buncombe, while a
lot Of spawned, ring-boned, ham-strung,
wind-galled, swynoyed, split-hoofed, dis
tempered, poll-oyiled politicians have had
their noses in the public crib until there
amt enough fodder left to make cruel
for a sick grasshopper. [Cheers and
laughter. = Mr. Speaker, you
must excuse me for my latitudinosty and
circumlocutoriness. Nv old thunderbluss
scatters amazingly; but if any body gets
peppered, it amt my fault if they are in
the way. Sir these dandadical super
8quirtcal, mahogany -faced gcntry-what
do they know about the blessings of free
dom? About as much, Sir, as a toad frog
does of high glory Do they think they
can escape me ? I'll follnw them through
pandcmonium and high water [Cheers
and laughter] These are the ones that
have got our liberty-pole off its perpen-
dicularity 'Tis they who would rend
the stars and. d.strires-that noble flag, the
blood of our revolutionary fathers en-
blemed in its red The purity Of the
cause for which they died-denoted by
the white. the blue-the freedom they
attained, Ike the azure air that wraps
their native hills and fingers en- their
lovely plains. [Cheers.l The high bird
OF liberty sits pcrchel on the topmost
branch, but there is secession salt on his
glorions tail fear he will no more
spread his noble pinions to soar beyond
the azure regions Of the boreal pole But
le; not Missouri pull the last feather from
hi sheliering wing to plume a shaft to
pierce his noble breast, or what is the
same make zen to sign a secession or
diuancc. [Applausc.] Alas poor bird,
if they drive you from the branches of the
hemlock of the North, and the palmetto
of the South, come over to the gum-tree
of the West, aud we will protect your
noble birdship while water grows and
grass runs. Immense applause.l Mr.
Speaker, | subside for the present.
BEECHER ON THE APPLE.-Henry
Ward Beecher made an address the other
day in a New York fruit convention, on