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After a trial of skill in rnarkmanship, in which Barney shewed off conspicuously with his gaunt yet Herculean figure, hawte eye and polished rille, the men collected tinder a thick fojinged walnut, “ with their hearts soft with wliskcy and their heads soft with blows,” and Ixjgati a slang-whanging about politics—The spring of Barney’s genius was touched—lie opened his mammoth jaws, and the silence of death re«gned around, except the occasional hiccup of ft few “jolly topers’’ who wallowed in the sand “ as drunk as a cootcr.” Barney began with a few rolls of his little grey eyes, after pouring dawn a goodly draught, hitching up the waistband of his inexpressibles, and mounting a stump that was just at his elbow “Afore I begin the, pre-ambulation of what 1 ain going for to say, I II just mention, by way of introjeclion, that I hate the present ministration as I do a polecat.” — (Mere a deep groan was heard among the auditors, and* Barney made n pause—“an awful pause”—lowering his shaggy eyebrows and glaring around with a nust ominous expression of countenance ; but nobody knew from whence it came, so Barney proceeded)—•“ I have done my damndest to castigate nil them which supports it ; for the very root of it is rotten ; so, sap, tree and fruit must he rottentoo. I Im’nt read newspapers for nothing — Gin’ral Government and the iniiiistratiofi are .'oin in cahoot to undermine pnd overrule thepmundertakings of the free People of Georgia.—
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Augusta Chronicle and Georgia Advertiser
Augusta, Georgia, US
Wed, Jun 20, 1827
Page 7
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Ben Z.
NY, USA 06 Jan 2020
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