American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-11-22
Petroleum v. Nasby's last Letter.
He is Sick and Disguised with
the Election Returns.

bnO 1tOObiOh 1eOpV8hps
SAINTS REST, (Which is in the Stait l
NV Moo Jersey, Oct. IL, 1865,
Ohio, Ablishn
Pennsylvania, Ablishn,
Iowa, Ablishn and niger suffrage too
boot
Injiany, Ablishner than ever!
Moo Gersey,no eggsactly Ablishn, but
approachin thereunto.
Sch is the encouraging noos l red in
the noospapers this morning! Sich is
the result NV labers Hercoolian, in the
above named Stats. What do the people
mean J?
Tae pure Dimokrasy probably will
carry Moo York but of what consolation
is that to me? The two parties, the old,
ancient Dimokrasy and she Ablishn, run
race into the roalm Nv Radikalism, and
the Dimokrasy beat them over length.
With platform standin by Johnson,
endorsin his ant slavery noshins, his
Southern oppression noshens, his hangin
| NV Mrs. Surratt, ct setery, and on that
platform sojcr who never voted Dim
okratic ticket in his life, who went into
the war Radikle Ablishnist, and who
kun out Radikler Alishnist, | don't
know that / hey much to choose atween
eu.
Last week | was invited in to country
in Moo York, to address DimokratiG
| meetn, | accepted, (ez my expensis were
paid wich is cheeper aud better boardin
than l can git at the groceries to hum,)
and akkordinly l went, | commerss de-
liverin the speech he'd yoosed all over
| Moo Gersey. commenst aboosin the
Niger, when the cheerman interrupted
me.
"Well," sez l, swat is tY' rather an
grily, for l git warmed up and swetin
and don't like to be interrupted.
"Why," sed he, " our Constitooshun
allows a nigger who has $3.50 to vote, and
most NV em hev that sum, and we make
it point to sekoor EN-"
They're id site better off tha44
most Nv us white Dimokrats in Moo Ger
sey," rctorted |, droppin the Niger and
goin on agin President johnson.
"Stop," whispered the Checrman, "oui
platform endorses President johnson"
"Thander," remarked ], droppir Pres
ident johnson and gliden easily into a
| yiegerus dcnunciation Nv the war.
"Good God p soz the Cheerman, "stop
| Our platform endorses the war"
| sed nuthin this time, but commenst
| donounsiH tne det.
'Hold,' sed the Cheermafrj~ easy
easy--our platform backs up the det."
"Well, them" sed |, in a rage, "why
in blazis didn 700 send me copy NV
your platform when yoo wantid me to
address yoo? Go to thunder and make
yoor own speechis;" and | stawked of
the platform.
Time wuz even wun speech wood do a
man all over the North, now you hev to
hev different wun for evry Stait, wich
maiks it impossible fer me to travil, for
for one effort per season is cnuff for me.
But, ez I wuz sayiu, We are beat agin,
aud beat badly--boat on issues NV our
own MAXIM beat with daGis, heads, wal
debt, and uigger equality, all in our IA
vor Don't say to me that We redoost
their majoritics. What difference does
| it make to a defeatid candidate, whether
the minority agin him is wun thousand
or wun hundred? Z? A needle will kill a
man ez cffectuafiy as broad-sword, ef
it's stuck in the right place. So a major
ity of wun is euutf | hev known men
to hold orfscs four years, and hev good
appetites, on majority of wun. Its the
orfses we wuz a goin fur-its them our
patriots wantid; and it, 40 consolation to
them to say they mist by small majority.
Its holler rmockery- the same ez tho you'd
show starvin man doaf Nv bread jest
inside NV iron bars-his fingers are not
an inch from it, but so far ez his cravin
stomick is:conccrned, it mits ez well be
across boundles ocean.
We may recover from this baek-set,
but hev my fears. The people is ez
ever, and our leaders is ez akoot ez ever ;
but, alas the fact that VIC hev failed in
everything we hev undertook, for four
years, is gettin throo the hair NV thous-
ands, and they look askant at US.
BE it ez it may, it anakes but little
difference to mo. A few years, at furthest
aud shell go heotz Eff the the Bible
is troo, shell go where | will find heavy
Dimokratik majority, shoor; eff it i not,
and there is hereafter, why then, at last,
| shell be on level with the best.
$50 let the wids world wag ez il wili,r