Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-09


onD but little more than hint the con- /
~ Sfthe msn. Especially whore con. /
= Sestfain the play OF extraordinary |
- narrative must fail to effect fair /
n1mont Every incident OF the generals
- fnil Of him but the historical detail /
Involve that Of the times, his contem-
- cad surroundlBgs besides his re
1C1ls n oFsl tradition mainly. He died
the daguerreotype and daily papern
40ok the ole-and-corner gossip OF the
~, and NO phonographer ever caught
uvIng likeness OF his thoughts His con-
Dosaries are nearly all gone, and very |
- them fully sppsefiend him. He pub
~ uothIp4. His life got utterance only
I'D action. IL was extemporized
Instant and the data which remain 10
~ 1ns0nicier are ~ meagre, confused ana
10GQuate ~ the incidents OF battle,
~ or q dance I would gladly compro-
- for fair report of one Of his Fourth OF
q Hnly orations, 1t would relieve the awk.
f1ness that there is In playing Snowman
- lIcp, end 70 far to supply the defects
4 - ~ performance, II such an auto-exhibi- |
<1~ 3u9id be secured. ] must even attempt |
= r. Soconstruct one of these fossil curiosities
- the fragmentary remains which lie
teosed In my memory
|S Tho date IL about twenty. FIVE years ago /;
&1>o scene is laid at the "Coffee SPRING"
8 - 1rom our village the conTany made
: W - the population of the town and neigh.
X &&ShoOd, mustered en- mdsse. The dinner,
s&6<ood upon the table, cast into a horseshoe
1kapa In an arbor made from forks ard
u0l6et covered with bushes, fresh cut, and
- piled to exclude the sun, was discussed
Lsoko military, the citizens and the boys re-
NlEoohed by the repast, and enlivened little
& (mere or less) with rye whisky, whisky and
Il Water, whisky sweetened with sap sugar,
y md small beer, graduated to the tastes aud
eGes Of the company, are all bronght up
q o1anding by an order for " attention " from
oor.fo In <.f hn a nd RtngS
end the general mounts the table.
n = Percizely, my fellow citizens (wavipg a
RID silk handkerchief at arms lengthy, per-
4 oixoly-as Brutus, fresh from the execution
0f the tyrant Caesar, cried to his couutrymep,
hear me for my cause and be silent that ye
y may hear 30 come before you to speak the
( truth In the love OF it stand here as Abra-
ham, when he was returning from the
elaughter of the king, stood at the feast
which Me'chizedek, prepared for the grand
old hero to bless the name of the Most High,
Who hath delivered all mine enemies into
ny hand.
: Chedorlsomer. and Julius Caesar, and
~ that apOstate democrat Napoleon, all died in
e their sins, tor their evil works went before
Is them TO Judgment Pontius PLATE cut his
5 own throat, because be had condemned that
ust One; Judas Iscariot hanged himself in
n remorse for betrayiDg him and George the
81 Third wilted away in his wickedness like
that old pine tree there; struck by the
"a lightning OF heaven-dead at the top while
the miserable old trunk still sticks In the
y 9arth by its roots. Honor to the race Of regi.
& cides destruction to the oppressors of the
people everywhere and stout arm to match
the bold heart of sound democracy all over
Z the universe!
0My dear fellows, you don't understand
II, but 1t Is as clear as light to the children o
Az light, that the Lord reigneth, and the devils
" = fool / know Ii in threescore years and
ten ] never saw the righteous forsaken, nor
& his seed begging bread Stretch yourselves
3' <ss, Inf tbeI tobt lts int
IA upper air II you go nosing about in the dirt
for . living, and doing in the mud for enjoy
+ ment the shadow Of a leaf will hide the
whole heaven from your sight Pigs have
no prospects They grunt when they are
cOinfortable and squeal when they are hurt
but they don't understand the course o
things. And, II any fine fellow here feels his
bristles rising, he knows who mean by the
my hairs are white, like the fields OF
Judea, ready for the harvest OF the great
Z reaper and these shambing shanks are be.
ginning to shrink from their duty but my
4 soul lNr s.p pfhe lengthening shadow Of my
Let this crazy frame decay 1 shall
(9ak out Of 1t one OF these days like a sun.
burst upon mountain top, when he comes
out of his chamber in the East to run his
glorious race around the arch of heaven.
am not old, and, when you bury my bones
remember that ! am not dead. Peter was
bewildered when he proposed to build taber
nacles for Moses and Elias on the Mount o
duty here we go up higher When thi,
frame has lost all its strength and beauty, the
kindly mother earth will sweeten and
freshen IL into youth again and the limit.
Of Its life will widen into glorious liberty
Hallelujah The light Of these eyes is grow
ing dim in the light of Paradise
"Idots and drivellers, from seventeen tc
seventy, think tho world is coming to an end
when worn-out frames and worn-out thing:
are blown up, but such dotards are but firs
COOeins to the beast that perishes-ali bu
the beauty. Such cattle have about the
same right to scratch their heads, for any
thing there is in them, as many ring
tailed monkeys and, very likely, will make
- much by the operation. (Here, Bill, turn
up q clean tumbler and give me a drink OF
water
" was among these grand old hills, my
Il sweet fellow-citzens, before the Oldest of you
Was born, and, snipes and night-owls did
q you over detect any humbug in me? Ii you
did, out with 1t. I'm so tired OF barking
that would like bite Try your teeth in
this tough old hide, ye whipper snappers
There's blood in me that would make you as
drunk as blazes for the rest OF your lives
and give you the first peep of glory that ever
opened upon your benighted souls.
The follies OF the dead are buried with
them. They were not worth minding, then,
nor remembering now but didn't tell
~ respectable daddies that they were
making fools OF themselves ia the whisky y
|s 1neurrection Blackguardism isn't democ.
racy! When Washington came to Bedford
& with the army, the Allegheny mountain
rocked under his footsteps and the diminu.
n tive little manikins that danced like drunk
monkeys around their pig.nut liberty pole
in the diamond over there, trembled in their
shoes till you could hear their toe-nails jim.
Gla was a Democrat, a Jettersouiau Demo
.ernt, then, as 1 am now but 1 wasn't
d6magogue, a coward, or a broad -mouthed
brawler against my country, its laws and
constitution.
Your grandmothers can tell you what a
rumpus the same ninnies raised around me
for the first wagon-road made over the
mountains to Pittsburg 1t would break up
Keepers and horse breeders would be ruined
when one wagon could carry as much salt
bar iron and brandy from Baltimore, as a
whole caravan OF half starved mountain
ponies But i told them then that OF all
y people In the world fools have the least
sense and that they would live to learn
that the best way is as good as any for,
& when was but a boy, discovered that
nothing less than too much is plenty, in the
& American meaning OF the word. That's the
q 0ideTence between a man OF faith and the
eu0bs that do all their travelling in a tread
Z mill.
s4But with such snipes, nothing can be
dome Cure them OF witchcrait, and they
Aide into tofortune-telling, or some other stupid
kind ofwonder-working for they under
stand nothing, either by insight or expert
s enca After awhile, when the prosperity,
which they at first resisted, poured down
upon them from spout, they went crazy |;
K end was mobbed again tor standing by