Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-10
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C0Z ON BAR IT U m.
A Rich Expose and An Eloquent Appeal.

A Rich Expose and An Eloquent Appeal.
at the great Democratic meeting at
Bridgeport, Conn, March goth, Hon.
Is. s. Cox, late of Ohio, made a very ell
oquent and effective speech from which
we make the following extracts:
If Barnum has told the truth about
himself in his autobiography book
that ought to be entitled "The Re
collections of a Successful Scamp
he has been from the first an arrant
trickstar. You may remember his ac-
count of his "bottle trick" when he
cheated his Uncle Aaron and Aunt
Laura his old tin cups, which he pass
ed off for good his boast of selling
cotton for wool, and wool and cotton for
silk and linen his beans and peas for
ground coffee, and his corn meal for
ginger; clocks with half the wheels out
of the case, exchanged for regular time
keepers; his swindle of the Irish ped
Ter his confession of being a convict
ed libeler; and as the climax his coun-
terfeited woody horse and the original
bill of sale from Augustine Washington
of joyce Heth, the venerable nurse of
''dear little George Washingtonw All
these schemes have name and penalty
in law, and a worse character in ethics;
but the unconscionable Snowman makes
a boast of his audacities. He is a fit
exponent of the party which Senator
Wilson boasted stood on the rock Of
ages, with all the measureless moral in
fuences of the world to sustain 1.-THE
Snowman having all the measureless in
fuences There is a fitness of his be-
ing companion of Butlerin Congress.
TCheers. They are twins in impudence
and brothers for lucre. Whatever pays
is right. Some one has endeavored to /
anticipate the tombstone in Buffers |
case, by inditing his epitaph thus:
uerc lies great hero who shirlled bloody strife;
lie passed in a bottle some years of his life;
But ere he asibOttled mnch plunder he gained /
Which, in spite Of rcmOnstrance, he always re- |
tanned,
Till it grew to a maxim beyond all debate, 3
That no Butler e'er took such good care Of the |
plate.
And when vessels ofsiIvcrwerc missing sAIacIln |
Sighed the owners they're hidden in Benjamin's !
sack"
TCheers.
IF I might essay to write the show
mans antemortem ndpolitical cpitaph,
1 trust you will make it good in April
The show is over, Barnum's gone!
His earthly journey now is done;
Ambition did his soul environ,
He fell beneath 4 man Of iron.
The Yankee people would not choose him,
But sent him stuffed into his Museum,
Preserved in wax, his eyes all glass
His other figures do surpass;
Ths woody horse has shed his wool,
With grief his heart Is over full;
The "happy family" mourn his care;
The Mermaid drops her salt tears there;
Poor Joyce Hcth mumbles her great grief,
And hymns and psalms give no relief
Her little George Washington
Has gone where Barnum hasn't gOnel
The learned seal with mourning wet,
Refuses meet to cure regret;
The Aztec children tear their hair,
Those kinks proclaim i'm deep despair:
The Snowman fcrricd over the Styx,
And hell rewards his Yankee tricks
Long and loud laughter and cheers:7
But suppose that this political Mrs.
rarbey-proprietor of wax figures, &c. d
should get into Congress, what then q
Ie could not keep company, he says, !
ike the iron Barnum, with such men as !
-ames Brooks, Fernando Wood and {
ohm Morrissey! Ho no Not he :
Why, there is mere courage, physical i
nd moral, in Morrissey's little finger
0 say nothing of his fst-than in all &
he Congress, bully Ben Wade included d
| Barnum would surround himself with ',
he piOus Stevens and the honest But b
er - laughter and then he would l,
ote against letting the unrepentant II
outh come in. What exclaims the I,
bowman, allow the lions to be in the u
lme cage with the lambs What an II
lea the Snowman must have of Con- u
ress He regards it as a musuem of 0'
beasts" in which he is to be one of the P
lambs" He viii not remember that IL
lie ''moral forces of the universe" point "
the day when the lion and lamb shall W
e down together. If he be elected to oI
ongress, methinks itwouId berare sport D,
look down upon that assembly to see ol
our Representative stirring up the p
limals How he would show off in u
is tinsell Did you ever see the "lTock N
uke" performed in the absence of the al
al Duke? What airs of temporary a
onsequence! what moral graces How Ii
: swe!ls like a shirt bleaching in the
gh wind Laughter Yet this un-
pentaut, swelling sinner presumes to tn
TX about the unrepentant South; this e4
'ince Ofshams topratc about the ''sham tn
;" this whipper of slaves, to co
past of his humanity and love of Iibor- pc
4! He declares he left the Democracy 81.
cause the military oyerpOwered the
vii authority in bleeding Kansas, and ell
It he favors the monstrous bill to rule Wa
C whole South in time of peace by op
ilitary force and martial law. He tn
ould not answer questions of states nj
lnship, for there is no emphasis to be
corded to his opinions, economically, CT,
orally, nor religiously. The questions br
craftsmanship require more insight fe
an the showman's trick, and more pu- ity
Y than a trickster's life. What is the i'm
nditiou and temper of the South to- Pu
y? Not as vegatherit from partisans,
t from the authentic reports. I will
{ refer to General Grants statements, 90