Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1859 — Apt Illustration. [ARTICLE]

Apt Illustration.

Sam. Galloway, at a Republican meeting at Cincinnati, was showing that Pugh had once raised the banner of I'ree Kansas, that Caas had been in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, that Groesbeck had opposed Slavery extension, but that they now all went in for the Lecompton Constitution and Slavery, : but they were the same Democrats. Galloway said: They reminded him of that fellow’s Revolutionary gun. A chap was in the habit of attending militia trainings with what he called his Revolutionary gun. He was always boasting jabout it, although the Revolution had fought, bled and died fifty years ago. One day a friend said to him that the stock of his guri “ was new; he certainly did not call that Revolutionary!” “No, he could not say the stock was Revolutionary, but the barrel was.” “But,” said another, “the barrel is hew, too; it can’t be Revolution-’ 4ry.” “Well,” said the chap, “I won’t say the barrel is Revolutionary, nuther; but I’ll tell you what it is—the touch-hole’s Revolutionary anyhow." That was precisely the Condition of the Democratic party. They’d all swear they advocate the “Revolu’ionary doctrine,’- but not one of them dare say their principles were those Jefferson promulgated. ‘•For my part,” said Mr. G., “I’m not prepared to swear that even the Democratic touch-hole is Democratic.” (Great laughter.)