The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-08-11
KU.KLUx SPEECH.
OATS WHAT A MAN SAID.


Feloso-citizens and the L0dies In
particular:-I pears before you dis
evening fresh from de presence of my
family, to elucidate de subject of all
de funicalities, comicalities and origi-
nalities.
Wbar's de good time comin'?-am
it here? am it dar?
My sweet geraniums, when de
Prince of Whales married Lucretia
Borgia, and de radicals run off wild all
de Sunday school stamps, what did
Oliver Cromwell say? Why, as he
stood drinking glass Of bay rum wild
Barnum's bearded woman, he said to
himself
OATS WHAT A NAN SAID.
Secondly, in de third place, in de
time of he wet weather, when
it rained thirty-seyen days and
twenty-four nights in de long dry
month Of Angus, when Noah took in
TO de Ark, out ov de wet, de elephant,
de little pigs, de cock-roaches and all
de other birds-now do you spose
dat if he had given de contract to
build the Ark to Governor R-dat
it would have been finished? Of
course it wouldn't, it would take every
cent de old man had to pay de com
missions and de taxes, because
OATS WHAT A MAN SAID.
Fourteenth chapter eighty-section,
mahogany drawers-my knight blush
ing seriousness:
Let us take front seat in de lobby
and look down amid de. halls of Con-
gress, and dar we will find ebery ting
failure, from de rising of de moon
even to de goin' down of de cotton
market. De stars dat didn't fell was
failure; de buro is a failure. because
whar is de niger dat ever got one?
One eyed chapter, clause twenty
fourth, special act of de Rump Con
gress: My beloved holly hawks, what
does de poic say on de subject of a.
of-of so-forth, and all dat sort of
tings? !? why he says
There was an old woman and what do you think
She lived upon nothing but vitt.e and drink.
In de seventeenth place. section de
forty thieves: My Peruvian sunfow-
ers-give your divided years my at
tention--when a man enters de holly
bonds Of paddock, when he leads his
gal to de halter, does he ever think
how sad'll be his fate before he is
bridle-wiss? Now when his queen
of spades consumes de reigns of gov
ernment, suppose she should be lit
tie sulky, or de bride couch q little
buggy, den whar's he gwine to get his
cup of coffee in de morning? why den
he will have to wag on de best way he
can, because when the woman gets to
wearing de feminine gender of de
masculine goose, dey are soon to put
on de blind briddle on de man and
and have dar own way.
Sparagrass de forty-third, SEXTON
sick, lobster clause: My infatuated
cinnamon drops, when Abraham Col
umbus brought his world ober here,
de new world dat he has just got up
and patented, when he came sailing
up de beautiful river, what was the
fust question he asked? Why, my in
cipient dahlias, as he stood taking a
drink of lager beer with President
Grant, de poet and horse-tamer,
he asked Mullins what he got for de
last niggers he sold.
My disgusted hearers, let us look at
de tax bill; dar's gwine to be a tax
put upon everything, and more too.
Free dollars an inch on de gals hoops;
ten cents on R-d's melish, and
dat's about as much as they are worth.
My brudder ignoramuse, in de course
Of human events. it becomes useless I'd
protract dis subject any fnrder, and
now | lay me down to sleep on d
ladder.
The above Grafton will be "spouted"'
In Lake Jackson on the WITH of July,
by one of the KS. All friendly to the
institution must attend.
Passage free by the underground
grape FOrididn.