The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-04-18
For the Ashland Union.
Revival Among the Democrat y
Of Green Township.

Of Green Township.
Down here in Green Township, W.
never knew what Known othingism
meant, except what we read in the pa
pers, until Deacon - with a womanly
curiosity, couldn't stand it any longer
and went off to Esqr. BIS to get a little
information concerning them. When h'
asked about their principles, the Squire
looked very significantly at him, and
said he would with pleasure give him
ali the information in his power. He
then drew a blank book from his pocket
and giving it to the Deacon, told him to
slip into his Office and he could examine
it unobserved. Deacon slept in, might
lily tickled, and the Squire turned the
key and left him alone in his glory, with
his blank book, for two or three hours.
Since that era in the Deacon's life, tho
Know-Nothings have increased aston
ishingly, whether the result of his re-
searches or not, we have never learned,
but we infer it was,
As the time drew nearer for the cleo
ton, the oftener and louder come COM
plants frem the school masters, about
their kindlings, and good bits of dry
wood strangely disappearing in the
night, and of shutter being found mi
nus one hinge, or a window half raised,
or lots of ferocious big tobacco guilds
unaccountably showing themselves IN,
der and behind the seats in the school
houses. This did seem funny, and not
so very funny either, but rayther sus-
picious; SO the Democracy, that had
been comfortably snoozing, dog-like,
with one eye open, until these complaints
were rumorcd around, now like q huge
mastiff, opened the other eye, pricked
up it's ears, wagged its ponderous tail,
shock it's shaggy sides, and rearing up,
was now ready te do battle against the
mute enemy. 1t was wonderful to see
how fast the KNOWN othing clan did in
crease,-whigs, boys, infected locos, and
the unwary and curious ones, were
caught in the eddy and had put on tho
new name before their heads had got
over the dizziness occasioned by the
whirl.
On the morning of the election, the
Know. n Nothing tickets were hustling a
bout under coat shirts, and in sleeves
and vest pockets, like bats in a dark
room all new names with the exception
of one, that was smugglcd in among
them to serve as a kind of stool pigeon
to entrap the unthinking. This re-
reused the Democrats, and as with the
h~erculean strength of n man they
went to work. Where two or three
democrats were out for the same Office,
they yielded to one, and united on him.
Old men and boys whose hard, stiff
hands had rarely held a pen, now wrote
the right stripe Of tickets, with fingers
moving as nimbly as a clerks or school
rnarmi- whAeLotherLslipped about
through the crowd finding hands to
place them in the ballot box. 1t was
not long before the poor Know-Nothings
began to give the sign of distress, which
was to roll up their eyes, and draw down
their mouths at the corners. Daddy
such an honest, tender headed phi
lauthropic old man, and he told mo that
when he was hitching his horse near the
tavern house, he saw Peleg W. give
the sign of distress to John d. and he
said he went right up to him and told
him, the best thing he ever tried for the
collie was a few drops of Hills %lineament,
or Davis's Paine Killer taken in cold
water, and he said Peleg blushed and
straisened his pace in double quick time,
and told him to go to the devil with
his Liniment and Pain Killer. Just
then Daddy S-took the hint that he
had been rather fast, but he said he. did
it ignorantly and meant no harm.
The result of the great Know othing
in Green township is that of a
revival among the Democracy who have
now been purged from their dross and
filth and are left standing, and truly
of the name of Democrat while
the Know lettings have gone to parts
unknown, or back to their " FIRST loves"
but before they left not n could be
found who would acknowledge that he
had been out for office at all.
A. VOTER.