Excerpt from Speech of Richard Yeadon Esq. Of Charleston, S. C. Chairman of the Delegation, From the Clay Club of Charleston, Before the Ladies, at the Court-House, in Madison, Georgia: By Appointment of the Madison Convention, on the Evening of July 31st, 1844
Here, too, may be properly brought in the testimony, not of one of Gov. Polk’s new con verts, but of a genuine Tennessee Whig, the high-mettled Peyton, who broke out on the Tennessean candidate in a perfect storm of scathing ridicule, representing his nomination as the birth of a ridiculous mouse from the la boring mountain, and holding him up to deris ion as a little beaten, broken-winded, foun dered, spring-halt, shuffling, spavined, bob-tail nag of Tennessee, brought out, by the great democratic party, for the four mile eat, at the fall races, to be run against the great eclipse. (see Appendix Q.)
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