The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-08-29
sHow sheI we get in?" sighed Bel.

~" saw w tSo Aua Ci6 uCA OSA
mont.
'sAh, indeed, how2' answered Hen
ry Clay Dean.
/ "That's the great moral question
l-how?" ekoed Ben Wood.
"My fricnds!" sed Thurlow Weed
'sits easy enuff. When you cam
sore like tho eagle, crawl like tn.
snake. .Sorin is preferable, but crawl
! in will do at a pinch. Is ther nor
the lion Of the Republic? Cant yot
get him out and mount him? Tht
Ablishnists hev regard for thatsamt
lion ard will never discharge thel
arrers at yoo when yoor on his back
for fear Nv KILN him. Besides yool
ridin him will in some degree DO way
with the prejoodis they hev agir
lyoo."
"But how kin We mount him?'
said they.
"Trust US for that ?" said Wood
and him and Raymond trotted off te
lgit him.
They got the lion out, but ez soon
ez he cast hiz eyes onto the crowo
he uttered q roar wich struck terror
into theirsouls, and Iashed the ground
with his tail, and cast up dust with
his claws in o manner fearful to be-
hold.
"He'll never stand it'll" sed Weed
"onless he's blind-folded," and Thur
low wrapped Raymond like a wet
dish-rag over his eyes, and that dun
him, and Randall pared his nails and
blunted his teeth, so that eff they
bandage should wriggle off and be
sbOod Gee wher he wuz he coodent
hurt anybody, and shaved his name
till he looked like very innocent
Lion indeed, so that his appearance
woodent startle them not used to his
iercnis, and in that condishun the
led him very quietly down to the
crowd and give the word to mount
| Lord what scramble ther wuz.-
They piled on from the tip Nv hit
ears to the end NV his tail, and them
wich coodent git on for lack NV room
hung to the feet Nv them wich het
Igot on, until it was nothin less thar
fTpyramfd or D1mOcrats.
Finally, when all wuz loaded, the
word wuz given and the lion moved
off. They wuz delited. He hef
strength enuff to carry EN-, and b,
wuz carryin Nv EN- straighton to tn,
White house, and at a good pace too
Ez they approached the portals, tn,
Abiishn defenders Nv the place open
ed onto EN-.
aHolI" said Weed, s.wood yot
destroy the Lion of the Republic?
"Stay yoor hands!" shreeket
Raymond. "The savior NV th.
country is under u.s.
But they laft them to ekorn.
"Its Brite and Vallandigum, th,
Woods, ct setery, we're frin at,
shreekt they, singing ez they fought
"The Battle Cry Of Freedom" "Johr
Browns body lies mouldrin in the
gravel" and sich like sacriligiou.
odes. "Its them we see, and them
we'll kill"
And they belted away till the
whole mass wuz stretched dead and
dyin on the plain.
Then they came up and began te
turn over the .corpses, one by one
until at last they came to the body
of the Lion, wich, peerced thro ans
thro, wuz ez dead ez any Nv EN-.
"My God! sed they, :. 1t is tn.
Lion after ALI"
And we've Stayed him /" sed an
other.
"Well!" remarked a third, 1--WE
coodent help it. He wuz so kivered
up with this carrion that / coodent
max out wat it waz they wuz q ridin
Let US give him decent burial, fol
the good he hez done, and forget ei
we kin, the company he died in"
And at this critikle juncture ]
awoke.
/ hev an idea that kin see sort
nv a warnin in this drama. It oc.
eurs to me:
1st. That ef we do ride Grant
we'll hev to divcst him Nv his name
teeth and claws, wich is the identikle
qualities wich make him valooable
to us.
Cd. That with us on his back, we
will probably succeed in KILN him,
without savin US. Grant mite deo-
dorize a dozen or two of US, bnt the
whole partyl Faughl 1t wood be
q pint Nv cologne to . square mile Of
carton.
Sd. That Of we wux wrapt all
around him, the people woodent be
able to see him anyhow, and wat good
wood he do us2
Interpretin the dream thus, / shel
oppose his nomination. Besides, l
doubt whether all the Weeds and
Raymonds in the country kin SO
manipulate him ez to bring him qui-
city into our ranks. We mite posi-.
bly, 60 over to him, but wherefore 2
How about the Otis, then 2 Eff the
Ablishnists vote for him, and we vote
for him, the obligation is ekal, aud
between US is ther any doubt wich
he'd choose? l don't waCt to take
sich chances. I'm opposed to the
movement. / care not what others
may do, but ez for me, give me
straight out Dimocrisy or nothing.
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