The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1864-07-27
MATTERS AND THINGS.

the readers of Table-Talk in regard to
his opinion of
MATTERS AND THINGS.
NEW YORK, June 20.
The stoodert and connyseer must have
noticed an1 admired in varis parts of the
United States of America, large yeller
hanbills, which not onl ly air gems of art
in themselves, but they troothfully sit
forth the attractions of my show--a show,
Ilivin' wild animils, every one of which has
got Beautiful Moral.
Them hanbills is sculpt in New York.
& annoolly repair here to git some
more on 'umi
&, bein here, I tho't I'd issoo a Ad-
dress to the public on matters and things.
Since last | meyandered these streets,
| have bin all over the Pacific Slopes and
Utah. cum back now, with my virtoo
unimpared, but I've got to git some new
clothes
Macy changes has taken place, even
durin my short absence, g. sum on um is
Sollum to contemplate. The house in
Varick street, where | used to Board, is
bein' torn down. That house, which was
rendered memorable by my ivin' into it,
lis "parsin' away parsin' eaway p But
some Of the timbers will be made into
canes, which will be sold to my admirers
at the low price of one dollar each. Thus
is changes goin' ON eontinely. In the
New World it is WARN the Old World
Empires is totterin' & Dysentaries is crum-
blin. These canes is cheap at a. dollar
Sammy Booth Duane street, seulps nay
handbills, & he's a artist. He studid in
Rome-State of New York.
I'm here to read the ,proofsheets of my
hanbills as fast as they're, sculpt. You
have to watch these ere printers pretty
close, for they re jest as apt to spell d wurd
rong as anyhow.
But have time to look round sum, &
how do | find things1 ] return to the
Atlantic States after a absence of ten
months, & what State do find the coun-
try in? Why, [ don't know what State
find it in. Suffice it to say, that do not
find it in the State of New Jersey.
find sum things that is cheerin, par
tic ly the resolve on the part of the wimin
of America to stop weafin furrin goods.
I never NEEDLE with my wife's things.
She may wear muslin from Greenlands
icy mountins, and bonlbazeen from Tnjy's
coral strands, if she wants to; but l m
glad to state that superior woman has
peeled off all her furEin clothes and jumpt
into fabrics of domestic manufactur
But, says sum folks, IF you stop i'm
portin things you stop the Revenoo.
That's all right. We can stand it if the
Revenoo can. On the same principle
Young men should continer to get drunk
on French brandy and to smoke their
livers as dry as a corncob with Cuby
cigars because 4.seoth if they don't, it
will hurt the Revenoo This talk bout
the Revenoo is of the bosh, boshy. One
thing is tolbly certiB-if We don't send
gold out of the country we shall have the
consolation of knowing that it is in the
country. So | say great credit is doc the
wimin for this patriotic move-and to tell
the trooth, the wimin generally know what
they're bout Of all the blessins they re
the soothiuist IF there'd never bin any
winin, where would my children be to-
day?
But l hope this move will lead to other
moves that air just as much needed, one
of which is a genral and therrer curtain
ment of expenses all round. The fact is
we air gettia' terr bly, eEtravagant, & on
less we paws in our mad career in less
than two years the goddess of liberty will
be seen .dodgin' into a Pawn Brokers
shop with the other gown done up in
bundle, even if she don't have to Spout
the gold stars in her head band. Let as
all take hold jiDtly, and live and dress
eentsibly, like our forefathers, who know'd
mogen we dc, it they want quiteso honest ;
(Suttle goak.) 80
There air other ehesrin' signs. We
don't, for instuns, lack great Gen'rals,
and we certainly don't lack brave so6er's
but there's Que thing l wish we did lack,
and that is our present Congress.
ventur to say that if you sarch God
dlemitys footstool all over with ten
boss power mikriscope, youwon't be able
to fnd such another pack of poppycock
gabblers as the present Congress of the
United States Of America.
Gentlemen of the SENT Il of the House
you've sottthere and draw'd your pay and
made summer-com plaies speeches long
enutf. The country as iaEEe, Incloodcn
the undersined, is disgrsted with you.
Why don't iyon, show us states
man - snmbody who can make a
speech that will hit the poplar hart right
right under. the Great Public weskit2
Why don't you show, as statesman who
can rise up to- the EmsrgehcJ, and cave
ip the Emergeney's hsad2
| Congress, you won't do. Go home,
you mizzerble devils-go home a4t.
Alta special Congressional election in
my district the other dag, Z delib'fitly
voted for Henry Clay. Iadmlt that Hen
ry is dead, butinasmuch as we don't seem
to have a live statesman IN our National
Congress, let us by all means have first
class corpse. ..,s,sza a,s,.gsi3z...
Them who think that cane made from
the timbers Of the house | once beard ed
in is essential to their happiness, should
not delay about sendin the money right
on for one.
And now, witha genuine hurfar for the
wimin who air goin' to ahand1n' furrin
goods and another for the patriotic every