Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Opinions of Peter Independence Kurtz.
HIS SPEECH AT THE MEETING.
The Backbone of Rotten Radicahsm Broken.
From our special Reporter.]


From our special Reporter.
Friends and Fellow-citizens of this confictu
GUS community :-Pse riz to give you warnin',
and make a political speech, and tell you what
am going to talk about and allude to-"now,
I'd like to have you pay particular attention =
las the preacher says when the boys are pitch
ing beans at his nose) say crisis has arrived
the wheels of government is stopped-the rud
der's unshipped-the bier busted-and we're
ahoat and the river risin-our glorious ship of
State, that, like bob-tailed gander, has so
peacefully glided adown the current of time,
has had its harmony disturbed and is now
drifting with fearful rapidity towards the shoals
and quicksands Of Convention, threatening to
bust everything into flinders, and pick itself up
in the end "a gone gosin" Hearken no long
er, ye worthy denizens of Goose Hollow, Ter
rapin Neck, Postum Swamp, and adjacent re-
gions, to the siren voice that whispers in your
ear the too delusivc sound of peace, peace-for
peace has sloped, and flowed to other lands
or div to the depths of the mighty deep-or in
the emphatic language Of Tecumphsorun
'Gone Pickering through the fogs of other chimes,
To aid the mser watcher in his dimes"
or like the great Alexander, who at the battle
of Hunter Bill, in the agony of despair fran
tically shrieked out: 20, gravy peace has
gone like my skule boy days, and don't care
a dog on" He was whole boss and team,
sure
Fellow citizens The great bird of Ameri-
can liberty has flown aloft, and soaring on the
wings of the aurore- borealls, is now lowering
high DER the cloud capped peaks of Fort Flick,
and when he shall have penetrated into the I'M
known regions of unlimited space, and then
shall have stopped down, and lit on daddy's
wood pile; shall be led to exclaim in the Ian
guage of Paul the hosler, root pork, or die. y
Fellow citizens, and gals too-In our halls of
legislation confusion runs riot and anarchy
reigns supremest; rise up, then, like pokers in
later PATCH and fall into ranks sound the
tocsin, blow the drum, and beat the tin-horn-
till the startled echoes, reverberating from hill
top to hilltop, and from gopherhi to gopher
HILL shall reach the adamantine hills of New
England, and the terruginous disproportions of
Missouri, aud the auriferouS particles of Cali
fornia to pick up their ears, inquire of her
valors: what out
My dear hearers, and the rest of the boys -
Time critical-and every man that S got soul
as big as .'culled pusson's" eye, should fight,
bleed, and die for his country. These times you
want men in the council of the State you can
depend on-thats NEGLECT me to the Conven-
ton, if you will have one, and Iii stick to you
through thick and thin, like lean tick to mig
gers shin. You all know me, for have been
fetched up among ye already on the wings of
top-lifted Imagination, fancy 1 can see you
marching up to the polls in solid phalanx, and
with shouts that make the earth ring, hurrah
for Peter Independence Kurtz-come down on
my opponent like thousand of brick on rot
ten pumpkin.
But, my devoted constituency, am not 60
ing to make an electioneering speech. scorn
the act from the lowest depth of my coat-tail-
pocket Words are inadequate to fully portray
my feelings towards you, and my love for Office.
All I ask is your votes, concluding in the touch
ing words of that glorious old martyr in the
wax-fgger bizness-'Be virtoous, and you'll be
happy"