Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — Mrs. Partington Patriotic. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Partington Patriotic.

•Hurra!’ said Ike, as he read the fact in the papers,‘here’s O’Rag.tn admitted to the Union!’ ‘A furiner. I should judge,’ remarked Mrs. Partington, looking very wisely at the steam that rose from the tea-cups and formed in one cloud near the ceiling, ‘but I’m glad they let him come in to enjoy our political rights and lefts, and other prerogatives. There’s room enough, and the rear of our in-, stitutions should be-extended. I don’t believe a man should be cut off because he wasn’t born in this country for twenty-one years, which of course wasn’t any fault of his, for everybody would be born here if they could have their own auction insulted.’ ‘lt means,’-said Ike, surprisingly, ‘a new ’ State!’ •Well, child,’ replied she, ‘the odds is only the difference—States or men, ’tis all the astro. Let ’em come in to our grand consternation, where the eagle shall spread its broad opinions over ’em, and make ’em happy in an unlimited bondage of brotherly affliction, like the Siamese twins.’