Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-27

/ oAtNIs RESI- (which Is IN the state Nv
Moo Gersey, October IL. 1865.
Ohio, Ablishnl
Pennsylvania Ablishn!
Iowa :Ablishn and nigger suffrage too
boot
Injiany, Ablishner than everl
Moo GerseB not eggsactly Ablishn, but
approaehin thereunto.
| Sich is the encouragin news 1 red in
the noOspapers this mOrninl Sich is the
result NV labers Hercoolian, in the above
named States. What do the people mean?
The pure Dimokrasy probably will
carry Moo York; but of what consolation
is that to me? The two parties, the old
nshent Dimokrasy and the Ablishn, run
a race into the realm of Nv Radikalism,
and the Dimolrrasy beat them over a
length. With a platform standin bv
johnson, endorsing his .anti-slavery no
shens, his Southern oppression noshens,
his hangin Nv Mrs. Surratt, et settery, and
on that platform sOger who never voted
DimOkratic ticket in his life, who went
into the war a Radikle Ablishnist and
who KUN out a Radikler Ablishnist 1
don't know that 1 hev much to choose
atween 'em.
Last week was invited in to county
in Moo York, to address a Dimokratik |
meetin. ! accepted, (ez my expensis were
paid, which is the cheeper and better
boardin than 1 get at the groceries to hun,) |
and akkordingly went. I commenst |
deliverin the speech he'd yoosed all over |
Moo Gersey. 1 commenst aboosin the |
nigger, when the Cheerman interrupted |
me.
"Well," sez ], "wat is it ?' rather an
grily, for git warmed up and sweatin,
and don't like to be interrupted.
"Why" said he, "our Constitooshun
allows a nigger who has $3.50 to vote, and
most Nv emshev that sum, and we make it
a point to sekOor en-"
They're id site better off than most
NV us white Dimokrats in Moo Gersey,"
retortcd |, droppin the nigger and goin
on agin President johnson.
STOP" whispered the Cheerman, tour
platform endorses President Johnson
Thunder !" remarked l, droppin Pres
dent johnson and sliding easily into a
denunsiation NV the war.
"GoOd GOdP' sez the Cheerman, "stopI
Our platform endorses the war.
sed nuthin this time, but commenst
lenounsin the debt
"Hold," said the Cheerman, "easy-easy
our platform backs up the debt"
"Well, then" sed 1, in rage, "why in
,lazis didn't yoo send me a copy NV yoor
platform when you wantid me to address
100? Go to thunder and make yoor own
'wn speechis;" and 1 stawked off the
platform.
Time wuz even wun speech wood do a
nan all over the North, now you hev to
lev a different wun for every Stait, wich
makes it impossible for me to travil, for
vun effort per season is enuff for me.
But, ez l wuz sayin, we are beat agin
nd beat bsdly-beat on issues of our own
with taxes, bonds, war debt,
nd nigger equality, all in our favor
Don't say to me that we redoost their ma
orities. What difference dOer it maik to
defeatid candidate, whether the majority
IFGa hi9 niseHfeP fl thIPFfRifrAh haiI 1gZ nehegf=
lally as q broad-sword, if its stuck in the
light place. So a majority NV wun is
.nuf. I hev known men to hold orhses,
our years, and hev good appetites on
wun. Its the Orfses we wuz
lgain fur-its them our patriots wantid,
md its no consolation TO them to say that
hey mist by a small majority. Its hOller
same ez tho you'd show a
tarvin man loaf NV bread jest inside NV
ron bars-his fngerr are not an inch from
t, but so fur ez hiz kravin stumick is con-
,erned, it mite ez well be across the
ocean.
We may recover from the back-set, but
hev my fears. The people is ez stoopid
Is ever, and our leaders is ez akootas ever;
)ut, alas the fact that we hev failed in
we hev undertook, for four
rears, is gettin throo the hair Nv thous-
lnds, and they look askant at us.
Be it ez it may, it makes but little diff
erence to me. A few years, at furthrest,
md l shel 90 hentz. Eff the Bible is trOO,
shel 60 where will find a heavy Dino
.ratik majority, shoor; eff it is not, and
here is no hereafter, why, then, at last l
hel be on level with the best.
So let the wide world wag ez it WILL
I'll keep on the even tener NV my way,
akin my nips ez often ez 1 kin find con-
idin sole who hez more more money than
liskreshun.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Lait Faster NV the Church nv the Moo ]
Dispensashun.