Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-07-27
The Country to be Saved |!

o.. d.
1t had been our intention to attend the
Democratic convention holden here on
Saturday last, bnt it was nearly through
whea we reached it. When we first en-
tered the door, we thought it must be a
lodge Of Good Tenplars ia session, with
Brigham FOR Worthy Chief, Waterman
for Secretary, and Hannah making the
Vice Templar's response, SO soft and fem
mime was the voice Of the speaker then in
blast which fell upon our ear, But a mo-
ment dispelled the illusion.
The orator was not Edmund Burke, but
G. c. Burke, Esq, who said his latitude
and longitude was the great town of Bar
net, where "rast political changes" had
recently taken place. So far as he defn-
aely informed his admiring hearers, the
only rast change which had taken place in
that vast region, was the change which
had recently been convulsng the vast ex-
panse of his own vast sea of Intellect
He voted for the 'late lamented." Some
might call him turn-coat, but as for him
give him liberty or death. But seeing
the ship of state driving headlong first
upon the rock Of corruption and then
upon the shoals of weakness, he had
fled to the good old democratic ship for
safety, just as every vast rat should. The
democratic ship was staunch and strong,
Anybody might know it was strong-it
smelled strong! lie could not believe
that the vast sea Of benches which he was
addressing, contained all the democrats of
the vast region of ''Spunky Lamoille. =
The Democracy must awakc-Arouse, or
the country be forever fallen!
After relieving the minds of his awe
struck hearers by telling them that he was
not really prophet, he proceeded to fore
fell f gPS 81 fnd9 np tse and Si"d 2ast a ags
of twelve years.
The Democracy would proceed at once
to the Pleasant business of saving the
county. Within the next four years they
would do it. Salvation had already CON-
menced in vast latitude of historic Barnet.
The spirits of Wallace and Bruce had ta-
ken possession of their worthy descend
ants in Barnet, and Barnet was to be the
nucleus around which salvation was to re-
volve in constantly and rapidly increasing
radius, until pure democratic salvation
embraced the whole vast country; includ-
ing the present company. AT this point
of the GRAFTON, the Hon. 'tBen PhiniaminY
who in his rounds of rot-gut peddlnp,
always makes it in his way to reach the
Lamoille County democratic convention
brought his prodigious hummels upon the
floor with such emphatic stress, that we
feared he was about to repeat tho lubberly
trick of Samson with the temple of Dagon,
but as no one in particular Joined, he soon
subsidized, and the orator soon collapsed
eaving US, however, the comforting proph-
'sy that the democrats were going to save
he country-right off. We concluded
We might safely go about our business,
land so the convention concluded, as
hey could not squeeze out any more
'peeches. Our good natured friend Scott
II Ellen, said he would like to hear from
he Hyde Park lawyers, to see il they
'new anything about ''this business
salvation business, We suppose, - and |
'alled on G.. Il. Waterman. Mr.. Wafer
nan said he thought they had better adj
ourn, as he wanted to go up to Wolcott
springs to see his wife, or call upon some.
'ody more oeerfowing icitA democracv
han himself; whoreupon, upon signal
rom the president, Phinjamin moved the
convention adjourn, and it did.
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