Nebraska advertiser., 1859-09-22
For the Advertiser.
Chronicles OF Jonathan.
P III.

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Of Jonathan living on the South Of the
/ River Platte, counselled among them
selves, saying:
2 There is no difference in the poll
tics of all the tribes of Jonathan, that
will much affect US who live in Nebraska;
8 Let US with one accord, in choosing
a man to send to the Great Sanhedrim
cast lots for the candidate who lives on
this side of the River Platte;
4 For all the men that have hereto
fore been sent TO the Sanhedrim have
been chosen from beyond the Platte;
5 And they have gotten for them
selves and for their City much gold and
silver, while our interests they have ne
elected.
6 And certain persons carried tidings
to Samuel, the Chief Ruler of the Prov
ince, saying:
z Lo! in the county called Nemaha,
many Democrats are turned away from
the support Of the Candidate who lives
in Omaha.
8 Then in Rama was there a voice
heard, %lamentation, and weeping, and
great mourning, Officials weeping for
their Offices and would not be comforted,
because they must loose them.
9 And Samuel was exceedingly sor-
rowful; and he rent his garments, and
clothed himself in sackcloth, and cast
ashes upon his head, and sat in the dust.
10 And he wept, and as he wept thus
he communed with himself.
II Must the Candidate of the Officials
be defeated? Tell it not in P%ittsburg /;
publish it not in the streets of Washing
ton; lest the Republicans rejoice lest
the Douglasites triumph!
y Ye hills of Nebraska, let there be
no dew nor rain upon you, nor fields of
offering, for here Old Bucks official will
be rejected-even Experience is vilely
cast aside, as though he had been sent
to Nebraska by Old Buck!
Is. How are the mighty-oficials-
fallen! They are all dispised by the peo-
pie!
IA l am distressed for thee, my friend
6 Buchanan. It was to thee we owed our
appointments; we were not responsible
to the people, and 1 have often boasted Of
it to them.
Is Great hast been our love of office
surprising the love Of women
is Behold, 1 will grid up my loins, and
go down to BrOwnviLle, and speak to the
people; even though they should say I
I'm STOPPING from my official dignity.
IL But 1 will not touch the points at
issue. l viii not explain why Expert
ence will serve their interests better than
Samuel. That would be hard to dot
would be useless.
l8rBut I will pervert the Republican
platform from what it was intended to
mean.
10 1 viii extol Popular Sovereignty to
the skies; but I will not carry out that
doctrine for that would not be following
in the footsteps of my master.
90 will tell the people that Il thew
will choose Experience for the Sanhe-
drim, then they may regulate their own
affairs in their own way, they may form
a State government before winter.
81 For then can be appointed to the
Upper Room in the Sanhedrim in Wash
ington, and shall be arrayed in fine linen,
and rich apparel, and get much honor to
myself.
p But if the people are perverse, and
stif-necked, and cast their lots for Sam
uel, whose surname is Daily, and do not
send a majority of my friends to the leg
i%slature, my chances for the Senate will
be slim, and the people shall not form a
State Constitution as long as l can pre-
vent it.
% 1 will make the same old speech
that was spoken SO often in the canvass
Of '56, in the province Of Pennsylvania.
"a 1 will extoIe the glorious Demo
cratic party of Jefferson's time to the
skies; peradventure the foolish and the
simple will believe that James Buchan-
an and his diciples are men of the same
principles!
% And as the blood of all the proph-
cts from the foundation of the world
= from the blood Of righteous Abel to the
blood Of Zacharias who persisted between.
the alter and the temple, was required of
one generationof the Jews;
+, 90 So l will lay upon the shoulders of
the Republican party, which has been in
existence but five years, all the bad acts
that have been committed in this country
from the assembling of the Hartford Con-
vention in 1912, down to the proposition
to reopen the slave,trade in 1859.
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