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Vm II. Old*.The MaynHlt Ehgla aska the question who isEdaouB. Olds ?'• Whereupon our neighbors of the Tribune Clipper answer at length, tkre is a portion, of the answer :•‘Who is Bdson U. Olds f Why, he is a man who, within the past twelve years has been on all sides of almost every question. About the year M9 he was a Whig, and at that time he protested considerable sympathy ter the colored race.*'Again they say:««Wo remember well when he denounced the hard money doctrine, and issued sMnplis* lers in abundance, and then turned about and advocated the same measure be had so strongly denounced.Here’s another portion:. * Thin gentleman is now in Kentucky, laboring to promote the election of R. II. Stanton, in the Maysville District. His Democratic brethren there will have an opportunity of receiving instruction in the ait of “ high and lofty tumbling,” ° carrying water on both shoulders,” and many other entertaining tricks known only to such seven sided politicians.*As our neighbors seem to be posted up in the history of hard-inoncy” Democrats, the people of this vicinity would like to have the following explained. Wc judge there has been some high nnd lofty tumbling” other than that of Mr. Olds, or that of hoisting up, pulling down nnd hoisting up again of a name for the Presidency. Will our neighbors condescend to answer ?We don't know' that there any very brave men in Portsmouth belonging Ufthe Whig ranks; but we do know that there is a whig there, who, in 1840, belonged to the hard money party (?) and he is now softer than a squash! Who do you suppose it is f—CirclcvilU Watchman.Of course it is not Drake, for he has always been identified with the feathered tribe.
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The Portsmouth Inquirer
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Jun 16, 1851
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Clipped by
Deborah W.
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