Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-04-15
From the Indianapolis Journal.
LETTER FROM OBADIAH PRIN-
GLE TO THE PRESIDENT.
PRIxeLE VILLAGE. April 6.

PRIxeLE VILLAGE. April 6. -.
Ny DEAR JEEMs:-Poor feller.-
Don't grieve yerself about the loss of
kanzas. Let it be yer ample consola-
ton henceforth, by day and by mite,
that We done all in yer power to fasten
human slavery upon it, The sin be
upon the heads of the Northern men.
Oh how comiortin' to yen devoted pate
these thoughts are You prostrated
the patronage. the purse and the army
of the nation to the accomplishment
of this charitable object; but it
wouldn't go. Yer not to blame.
What more could We have done?-
Echo answers, what more?
There is another thing. dear Jeems.
that hurts me most as bad as to see
kanzas everlastingly cursed with hu
man freedom-it is yer own defeat.
You took holt of Lekompton, teeth
and toe nails. You swore by the Eter-
nal Il should go, But you slipped up.
1t makes me feel nifty bad. declair
| can't hardly bear to- look an honest
man III the face any more. But we
done all we could, and some poet says
angels couldn't done more. So lets
take courage. Never mind. I'll
have yer pictur put up with the rest of
the Presidents. Yer onpopularity will
be forgot 10y all but the readin' class
within a few years. Then yer pietur
will look most as well as the rest. SO
ye see that yell be great man after
while any how.
Me and Wilyard was up Salt River
the other day lookin' for future homes
for me and him and yer friends Bright
and Fitch and for yerself. We found
.Jessy ID. Bright away up most to the
head of the river lookin' round, with
tears in his ewes, and his legs was red
as turkeys occasioned by the rub
bin and irritation of the salt. He SAYS
the furder up the river the more salt,
and the worse it irritates his tender
flesh. When we fust seed him, he
was irwin to sing. but i'll very sub
ducd tone, the folowin' well known
hvm, conmencin'-
"Oh when think of what are,
AMI what used to was,
1t makes me think I've spoiled myself,
Without sufficient caus," etc.
As soon as Jessy saw me he said:
well, Obadiah, what does the folk
all over creation say about my late
speech in the Senit?'' .te
They say, sir" said I. ''icst what
I've alters rit We and told ye-that is,
the less ye'd say in the SENT, the
smarter ye'd appear"
"Astonishin'," said he; "why, ]
thought it was the greatest speech that
ever was made, and besides, I've al
ready spent some money gittin' it puff
ed"
"Jessy," said /, ave know ! love
We, and feel tender lords We; but it's
alers bin yer fault to have a better
opinion of yerself than any body else
had of ye" When | said this, he
looked serious a moment, then took
from his rocket paper and handed
me, sayin':
Here, Obadiah, is a lamentation
ritten by Bro. Fitch, givin' his politi-
cal history from his palmiest abolition
days, when he was co-laborer with
Julian ct al, down to the present
time"
I'll send We this dcckyment next
week, Jeems. ] think it's interestin'
Farewell. OBADIAH PEISGLE.
L. S.-Please send me, in a flint
glass vial, one spoonful of that patent
whisky that Bro. Wilyard admired so
) when he was down to see you. j
want to poison durrim Bull.
q. p.