ABE LINCOLN - SATIRIST
Posted By: Thrasybulus      2/16/2013 10:39:10 PM
The Frary Home Companion, by Professor John Frary
Original Article

“Judge Douglas has sung paeans to his “Popular Sovereignty” doctrine until his Supreme Court cooperating with him squatted his Squatter Sovereignty out. [Uproarious laughter and applause). But he will keep up this species of humbuggery about this Squatter Sovereignty. He has at last invented this sort of do nothing Sovereignty—[renewed laughter)—that the people may exclude slavery by a sort of Sovereignty that is exercised by doing nothing at all. [Continued laughter). Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death. [Roars of laughter