The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-11-18
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Local and Miscellaneous.
Mr.. Nasty take. Retrospective view.

stait NV Moo Gersy,) Nov IA.
Retrospex is profitable. BY castin
a prophetic eye baclards, a massive
intellek kin discern errors wich hev
bin maid, and kin dodge en- in the.
dim and misty fucher.
The Old Dimocrasy was wopt in
the larst campane solely and entirely
becoz NV its own stoopidity and cow
ards. | say it boldly. We didn't
bleeve in war-we wuz opposed to it
in the beginnin--we wantid the Guv-
ment revolooshnizd to keep Moo In.
gland, which is n spredin herself all
over the west, frum submergin the
entire Dimocratic party. Our bark
wuz on the sea--slavery wuz its an
ker, its jib boom, its rite forrcrd mast,
its bow sperit, its keel, its all Slave
ny wuz our best and only holt. The
Suthners wantid controle NV the nash
cn that they mite yoose the sed nash
en fer the excloosive benefit NV slaiv-
ry. Very good. They held all the
big ordsis fer them purpus, but thank
hevin the ave-holders coodent hold
all the orflisis Their wasn't enuh NV
EN-, halleloogy! They coodent cum
up north and hold the post olllsis,
glory! o them good ole times =
They WIZ libral and eezy to pleeze.
They allowed MS 2 hev President
occasionally, ef we presentid man
who Good give bonds to EN- . per
form ez they desired. Pecrse wuz
wun NV this kind, and Bookannon
wuz another and the larst. Their la
Dor wuz complkatid and severe
Peers he'd to establish the immaculate
consepshun NV Popler Suvrinty.
aginst all Dimekratik president, and
poor ole Bookanon WIZ forst . stran-
gle the moo born baby, and give birth
2 the LccomptCn bill, wich wuz
severe opcrashen fer wun so old and
frale.
Moo Ingland rebeld, and clel<tid
Linlin--thc South appcled arms -
Then wuz our golden opportoority.
We shood hcv took up arms, druv
the yooserper frum his sect, and in
stalled in his place n sound, conscr-
vativ, constooshnel dimocrat, wv
coorse the abIishnists wood hev re-
sistid. All | shood want en- to-
Doth the magcstill ccgle appez his
royal appetight on bare bone'? He
dothcnt The tat and joosy karkis
is wat his hart dcsirers. O how l
wood hev liked to hev led a regiment
NV sich braves ez them trends nv the
lait Gov. Secmer; who killed the Mig
gers in Moo York, last yeer thro the
rich towns NV MASSACHUSETTS, Wher
the kerkis is thcr the buz2erds will
be also.
We didn't do this. What wus the
next best thing? Cleerly . elect ez
President Dimokrat who he'd Dim
Ocrisy enur to turn the Guvmcnt over
to its legitimit owner es soon ez he
got it. A uncondishnel Pease man
wuz wat we wanted, and on uncon.
dishncl Peese platform. We he'd he'd
3 yecrs nv war, NV taXis, NV drafts,
and whaln draft wuz hangin over
lis at the time. We wuz shoor nv
6 Chassis, to-wit, viz:
The Dimocrat proper, who got his
pollytix by inheritance.
The casheerd army orfsers, dis
mist becoz they disapproved NV the
manner in wich the war wuz bein con.
dukted.
The gentlemanly contractors who
he'd furuisht hoss beef and shoddy
cloth , the soljers and he'd bin caught
Mt it.
The cowardly cusses who wuz
afeerd NV drafts.
The capitalists who he'd investid
in Confedrt bonds.
The miserly cusses who groaned at
taxes.
Heer wuz a array, phalanks that
coodent be broken, fer wen man is
mean from interest, argument won't
fetch him. It's shootin paper wads
aginst iron n-clad Yoo mite ez wei
whisper Gray's elegy in2 the ear NV
q ded Guvment mule, which is sed
2 be the dedest thing on earth.
But Mcclellan wuz nominatid.-
o wat stoopidity. 1t wuz dun
fetch the war dimocrats, they sed.--
The war dimocrats liftid up the Gen.
erals kote- tale and found Pendleton
there and they skatterd. The anti
draft and anti-taX Ablishists thought
thaVd ruthpr he toxt and draftid aud