Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-02-13
4 Night with the Known othings.
Or UNCLE JAKE'S EXPERIENCE.
by us NEPHEW.

by HIS NEPHEW.
Thar never was a better dimic4t than I'm
Gle Jake Rodgers % the yearth. alters at
tendin barbecues aud speecifyins every chance,
and like the Parson, could give reason for
the faith that was in lim-he has alters been
looked up to as sort Of oracle in perltical
matters, and noes the history of the United
States Bank and It's orful iniquties, the tariff
and its oppressors, tue distribution of the
publck lands aud all them measures the old
Wings used to try 10 fix on the people so hard
| fact, Uncle Jake was dimicrat from the
top of his he'd to the sole of his feet, and
from one side all thro' to the other. and Aunt
Nancy, his wife, was just as rambunctious on
the subject himself, only little more so.
Now, MIR. Eastman, | don't like to expose
Uncle jake, but the thing is so good, I'll
have to tell you all about it.
Last Summer thar cum into our settlement
nice young man, sent out. as | larnt from
your place, to make No-Nothins, but he didn
let us all no what he cum for at fust How
somever, he linked in quite lot on'em,
principally Wings, and | Iarnt that sum
OMEN intended tryin thar hands on Uncle
Jake. Thinks [, old fellers, you'll be bark;u'
up the rong tree, sertin, but Che fust thing
Hoed they got hold of the old man, treated
jinin' on em-that it warn't no Wing trick.
nor nuthin' of that sort-~that the Pope of
- roam was a cummin' here use 10 up our
Government, to make preests of the boys an
nuns of all the gals-that all the otLer de-
nominations would have to cave in, an wear
crosses and kiss the Pope's big toe-that the
No-Nuthins ware going to stop all these evil
to regenerate the land, and
briug things back to the days of Gineral
JacL son-that the Gov. Jackson's folks war
all fur en-, tooth and toe nail and what with
one thing and another, the fust thing Uncle
j axe noed be was a reglar ringtailed NoNoth
in. They dun the ole man at mite, and a-te7
it was all over he started home, an as he
went along his mind was full of mIsgivins,
how could he face the ole oman? What
would Ginral Jackson say if he was a alive
How could he meet his old Dimicratic friends
agin? and he suddenly recollected that Tie
Union, (the old watcbman on the tower of
our Pelitica! Zion, as he used TO call your
paper, was opposed to it, All these things
begin to work ia Uncle Jale'S mind, ill by
the time he got Lo,nc he was in a powerful
swivet
He found Aunt Nancy a sitting up fur
him, an Unkle Jake he never was ashamed
to meet afore.
Wen Jake, says she, = what on yearth
has kept you our 50 late to-uighJ;' for Unkle /
Jake was very regular in his habits.
Wy Nancy, / been round -attcndin a
meetin to-nite, says ne, quite hcsitain Ike. /
w hat kind Nv d meetin, says she.
Wy-a sort Nv parlilicai meetin," ses he, /,
shiverin all over, fur he was powerful Uneasy /
by this time.
Well" ses she, IF you've been tryin to
he'd these no-nuthius, [ aint got no more to
say, fur you couldn't be in better bisiness. fur
| learn that sum as call themselves dimicrats,
have jined 'em. [ don't ike EN- no how,
Jake, fur they don't come out open an above
board, but ar pokin round at mite in alleys and
dark places; but [ thank the Lord you aint
,yua OF EN-, fur | no [ couldn't live with one
en- EN- to save my life. But what makes you
ook so. Jacob, are you sick? Bless my life |
if you aint got chill on you, and your hands
IS cold as ice. What's the matter, Jake?'
Nuthin much, . ses Uncle j axe .. don't
feel very well to-nite ole oman, an I'll go to
bed, . SO sayin he slipt into bed, and the old
oman arter him.
Blmeby Uncle Jake, arter tossin and rolln
about, gifts to sleep, and dremt that all his
Dimicrat friends he used to be with SO much
wouldn't have nuthin to do with him, and |
that he couldn't no longer vote his old ticket |
for his old friends and his old principles, and
be groaned in spirit
Aunt Nancy walked him up, skeered to
death, an Unkle Jake had to out with the hole
thing. Aunt Nancy jumped out NV bed and
declared she shouldn't stay thar, that no.
nuthin couldn't cum nigh her. Unkle Jake |