Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-03-18
A Night With the Know Nothing S
,mls OR UNCLE JAKE's ExPERlENCE.
nY n1s NEpnEM.

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9st 80 by his NEPHEw. ,,".
Thar never was better dimicrat than
Uncle Jake Rodgers on the yarth, alters at
tcndin barbecues and speechifying every
chance, and like the, parson, could give
reason for the faith that wasin him-he has
alters been looked up to as a sort Of oracle
in perlitical matters, and noes the history
| Of the United States Bank and its orful
iniquities, the tariff and its oppressors. the
distribution oi the public lands, and all them
measures the old Wings used to try to fix
on the people So hard, III f1et, Uncle Jake
was dimicrat from the TO- ol |lis head %
The sole Of his feet and from pie side II
through to the other, and Aunt Nancy bis
wife, was Just as rambupctious on the sub
lject as himself, only a littlempre 50.
l. Now, Mr.. Eastman, don Y Ike to expose
Uncle Jake, but the thing Is SO good, III
have to tell you all about IT, ,f ..,s
i Last summer thar cum into our settlement
a nice young man, sent out, as | larnt,
from your place to make No Nuthins, but
he didn't let us all no what he cum for at
fust. Howsomeyer, he linked in quite a lot
on 'em, principally Wings, and I lant that
sum on 'em intended trying thar hands on
Uncle Jake. Thinks l, old fellers, you'll be
barkin' up the wrong tree, sertin, but the
first thing | noed they got hold of the old
man, treated him, told him all che dimicrats
was all a jinin' on 'em-that, it wasn't no
whig trick, nor nuthin' of that sort-that
the Pope Of ''roam" was cummin' here to
use up our Government, to make priests of
the boys an nuns Of all the gals y that all
the other denominations wud have to cave
in, an wear crosses and kiss the Pope's big
toe that the No Nuthins were goin' to stop
all these evil things -goin' to regenerate
the land, and bring things back to the days
Of Gineral Jackson; that Governor Jack
sons folks war all fur 'em, tooth and toe
nail, and what with one thing and another,
the fust thing uncle Jake noed he was a
regular ringtailed No Muffin. They dun
the, old man at mite, and arter it was all
over he started home, an as he went along
his mind was full Of misgivings, how could
he face the ole 'oman? What would Gin
eral Jackson saysif he was alive? How
could he meet his ole dimicratic friends
agin? and he suddenly recollected that the
Union, [the old watchinan on the tower of
our Perlirical Zion, as he used to call your
paper) was opposed to it, AN these things
begin to work in Uncle Jahes mind, till by
the time he got home he was.in powerful
Iswivit. ~ -s it
He found Aunt Nancy a sittin up for him,
an Uncle Jake says he never was ashamed
to meet her fore. al
We'll, Jake,' ses she; 'what on yearth
has kept you out so late at night for IN
Gle Jake was very reglar in his habits.
Wy Nancy, I been round--attendin a
meetin to nite,' says he quite hesitatn like.
|. what kind Nv meetin,' says she.
'Wy--a sort of purlitical meetin,' shiv-
erin all over, for he was powerful Uneasy
by this time.
| WELL ses she, If you've been tryin to
he'd these No Nothins, l aint got any more
to say, for you could mt be in better bust
ness, fur leyrn that sum as call themselves
dimecrats, have jined 'em. / don't like
EN- no how, Jake, fur they don't cum out
open and above board, but are poken round
at mite in alleys and dark places; but / thank
the Lord you amt wun Of 'em fur l NO I
couldn't live with one of 'em to save my
life. But what makes you look SO Jacob?
are you sick? Bless my life if you aint got
a chill on you, and your hands as cold as
ice. What's the matter, Jake?' N."'-
'Nuthin much, ses Uncle Jake, 4 don't
feel very well to mite, ole 'oman, an I'll 60
to bed, so sayin he slipt into bed, and the
old woman arter him. .s' '"a
Bimeby Uncle Jake, arter tossin and rol-
lin about, gifts to sleep, and dremt that all
his dimicrat friends he used to be with so
much would not have nothin to do with him,
and that he couldn't no longer vote his old
ticket, for his old friends and his old prin!
ciples, and he groaned in spirit .s> r.,
Aunt Nancy walked up skeered to deth,
and Uncle Jake had to out with the hole
thing. Aunt Nancy jumped out Nv bed and
declared she couldn't stay thar, that a No
Nuthin couldn't cum nigh her. Uncle
Jake at last told her eff she would forgive
HIM, he'd 60 earlyin the mornin and git out
, Of the thing, but she told him no, she could
, not stand him till mornin, and directly Un-
Gle Jake hauls on his close, and went out
and got the President and sum more on
em together and swore he must get out
afor mornin or kill sum body one. They
let him out--and when he got loose, he
, sung, he shouted, he danced and capered
like boy--he run home and like to q
} squeezed Aunt Nancy to deth; she, good
old SOUL was mitily riled about an power.
fully distressed, but sealed his pardon with
kiss Of forgiveness, and let by-gones be
! lby.gones. 3 lal' ssegg 7e''sa5 or9c,s
t One man soon urtef limited to Uncle
( Jake that heered he was a No Nu.hin, wher
i he pitched into the feller and like to wal.
8 loped him to deth, since that time nobody
hasever accused JakelOf beng a No-Nuth-
Q un.--Erehange. 1ieF e4 0 Y
;. LOOKING FOR Losr Sheep IA preacher
4 was travelling in one of the back settlements
o and stopped at cabin where an old lady
/, received him very kindly. After setting
+ provision before him she began to question
!, him: ,ta .Sii'' y agtta.e ft8 nv r
Stranger where might you be fromp