Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-19
TRAIN.
second Night at Masonic HAN.

Ihe lrrepreSSI0le future PreSldent" de-
liyered his second lecture before large and
respectable audience last evening.
He commenced by reciting several heroic
stanzas describing the greatness of our
country, and then pausing for moment,
continued:
But this was all buncombe. Laughter
and applause 1t was the braggadOciO of a
played-out country and a dishOnored fac.
1t was the poetry of the past against the
stupid prose Of the present; the spread-ea-
gleism of the Fourth of July when we had
a national Constitution. Now it was anoth-
er matter. Since that good time We had
had bloody civil war organized by England
to break up our Government Applause Ia
war which had caused a million of deaths,
in which the rich did no fighting and paid
no taxes on their bonds; filed our hospitals
with armless men-limbs shot off with Eng
liSh bullets left US with a commerce wiped
from the ocean, our citizens dying in Eng
fish bastiles. All, those good old times of
the past against the hard prose of the pres
emit
On this theme he continued speaking at
some length, and then gave most amusing
description of his experience in England
British bastiles.
At the conclusion of his lecture he held
his usual massmeeting and announced him
self ready to answer questions and speak
on any subject that the audience pleased to
name.
There was at once call of "Fenianism,'
'Egotism'' and "Grant." In response to
the latter question he read the following
thanksgiving proclamation by ulysses, the
bribe-taking President"
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. %, IS71.-By
the Head-Centre of the Dent Dynasty:
A PROCLAMATION!
The summer of greenbacks is made win
ter by specie payments, hence the 'HllS-
bdndmen burn corn for fuel, and curse God
for hard times. [Sensation.l "IndltstTT'
is paralyzed, and stagnation reigns supreme
over bankrupt people. Having nnassacred
the Piegans; Ku-Kluxed South Carolina
with Federal bayonets; failed to get up a
war with Hayti; shot Col. GrOsvenor in
Chicago under military orders, Esensation;l
butchered inoffensiye Coreans; sided with
Hessian Germany against Lafayette France;
sacrificed Cuba; captured the Fenians,
misses thereby earning Lord Granville's
praise; and ignobly sold our national honor
for basket Of champagne; and fifty thou
sand dollars to my brother-in-law Dent, in
throwing up all we fought for in the Ala
bar1a Treaty. Shame.l We are at peace
19ith all Nations Laughter and
'sgoOd. Ia you'll "TrGnql6lIitg" (in a ~
ined eelnniAICe destroyed trade, dishonored
flag, debased fran =. disappointed peOpie)
aprspqils gt ho.fn ~, shin the past years
We have IN ~ main, been irse from The
ills which elswhsre have afflicted uaif FISH,
(barring the Iass 81 two hunaped milhous
of property, and 10 th0osaud millions Of
credit in Chicago; the s9s5eiss5slsseF =
HdbeGs Corpus in time of pe8ee ans ~
infamous steal of three electoral votes ip
Utah) Kisses. ] "lf some
of us have had eslalities'
(Houses, lands, Seneca stO bonds,
cashmere shawls, COrbin cheths, open
handed greenbacks) "there should be
occasion for sympathy with the sufferers"
q gave one thousand out of the million l
have made.) daughter and applause. 'Re-
signatiOn on their part to the will Of the
most High (Methodist pew, Washington
Round Robin Chutchipresents,) sand re-
ioicing to the many who have been more
favored" Bonner horses Fisk banquetsl
Washington stables Dent grants y Hence,
Let as pray [laughterl November 30th for
the poor cusses who have not been as for
tunate as ourselves. Laughter. Let us
have peace in the North, war in the South.
Misses Let us remember the immortal
words of my dear friend King William;
Another victory, my dear Augusta.
The German army is on buster,
Ten thousand Frenchman have gone below,
Praise God from i0hOm all blessings f0te.
loud applause.l
Having reduced our old horse to an Oat
day, through the bunghole out, and spigot
in, policy Of my grocer partner having de-
prived the poor man of roast turkey and
plum pudding on Thanksgiving Day, we
| can enjoy our woOdcOck champagne lunches
while the people starye, [''Shame"-sensa-
toni So let us thank God for all his boun-
| ties to the rich and curses for the poor.
With our hand in the Treasury, and seal
/ on the Whisky Ring. USELESS GRANT,
II. COP FISH.
God save the Commonwealth Of Massa-
chusetts. Loud laughter.l
/ Some one in the autiienee next mentioned
'.Brigham Young" and the lecturer at once
/ replied 81 am for Brigham" daughter
He spoke of his visit to Utah, and SAID
Brigham Young was the greatest living