The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-22
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"That's the great moral question-hoW =
lekOed Ben Wood.
easy enuf When 700 can't sore like TIN
eagle, crawl like the snake. Sorein is prefer
able, but crawlin will do at pinch. Is the
not the Lion NV the Republic? Can't voc
get him out and mount him? The Ablishnisti
hey regard for that same Lion, and vii
never discharge ther arrers at 700 when yool
on his back, for fear Nv KILN him. Besides
Iyoor ridin him will in some degree do away
with the prejoodis they hev agin yoO."
| - But how kin we mount him 2" said they
"Trust us for that?'' said Wood, and him
and Raymond trotted off to git him.
| They got the Lion out, but ez soon ez he
| cast his eyes onto the crowd he uttered q
roar wich struck terrier into their soles, and
dashed the ground with his tail, and cast up
| dust with his claws in manner fearful to be-
hold.
"He1l never stand it - said Weed sunless
he's bIind-folded," and Thurlow wrapped
Kay mOnd like q wet dish-rag over his eyes,
and That done, him and Randall pared his
nails and blunted his teeth, so that eff the
bandage shood Wriggle off and he shood see
Wher he wuz he cOodent hurt anybody, and
shaved his main, till he looked like very in
nocenC Lion, indeed, so that his appearance
Woodent startle them not used to his tircenis,
and in that condition they led him very quiet
ly down to the crowd and give the word to
mount.
Lord wat a scramble Their wuz. They
piled on from the tip NV his ears to the end NV
his tail, and them witch coodent git on for lack
NV room, hung to the feet NV them wien ned
got on, until it was nothing less than pyra-
mid Nv Democrats.
Finally, when all wuz loaded, the word wuz
given and the lion moved Off They wuz de-
lifted. He he'd strength enutf to carry EN-,
and he wuz a carryin NV them straight on to
the White House, and at a good pace, too.
Ez they approached the portals, the Ablishn
defenders NV the place opened onto EN-.
Hold " said Weed, "wood 700 destroy
the Lion NV the Repubic?"
Stay yoor hands! !" shreeked Raymond
" the savior NV the country is under us"
But they lafft them to skOrn.
Its Brite, and Vallandigum, the Woods,
ct settry, we're 1irein at,' shreekt they sing
ing ez they fought, 1.-THE Battle Cry NV Free
DOM" John Browns body lies moulderin
in the grave +" and SIGH other sacrillgious
odes : It's them we see, and them Wen Kill. J"
And they pelted away till the whole mass
wuz stretched dead and dying on the plain.
Then they came up and began to turn over
the corpses, one by one, until they came to
the body NV the Lion, witch peerced thro and
thro, wuz ez dead ez any NV EN-.
my God!" sed they, at is the Lion, after
a1!'
'And we've Stayed hint" sed another.
Well - ramarkt q third, eve cOodent
help il. He wuz so kivered up with this car
ron that L coodent make out wat it wuz they
Wuz q ridin. Let us give him decent burial
for the good he hez done, and forget, eff we
kin, the company he died in
And at this critikle juncter l awoke.
hev an idea that | kin see q sort NV
warnin in this dream. 1t occurs to me-
lst. That eff we do ride Grant we'll hev to
divest him NV his main, teeth and claws, witch
is the identikle qualities wich makes him val
liable to us.
I'd. That with us on his back, we will prob
ably succeed in KILN him without saving us.
Grant mite deodorize dozen or two nv us,
but the whole party Faugh 1t wood be
pint of cologne to square mile NV carron.
Sd. That eff we wuz wrapt all around him,
the people wOodent be able see him anyhow,
and wat good wood he do us?
Interpretin the dream thus, shell oppose
his nomination. Besides, | doubt whether all
the Weeds and Raymonds in the country kin
so manipulate him ez to bring him quietly in
to our ranks. We mite possibly 60 over to
him, and thus Git the privilege NV voting for
him, but wherefore? How about the offises,
then IF the Ablishnists vote for him, and
we vote for him, the obligation is ekal, and
Between us is there any doubt witch he'd
choose? | don't want to take SIGH chances [
am opposed to the movement. l care not
wat others may do, but ez for me, give me
Democrisy or nothing. McGlel-
Ian Wuz 81 vencher wich satisfied me ez to the
NV undertaken to set a rOarn lion a
a flock NV peaceful lambs into
green pastures.
PETROLEUM V. MASSEY, P. NJ.
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