Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-09-07
Mr.. Nasbyat Last gets his Post Office.
Posi- OFFrs, CoNFgDRfr X ROADS, !
Clgich is in The Stat uU Kentrcty) :
August ~, 1866.


| am now Post Master at Confedrt Y Roads
and am dooly installed in my new position.
Ell ever ned any doubts ez to A. johnson
bein a better man than Paul the Apostle,
look at my commission removes it. Ell ketch
myself ioelin that be deserted US onneces-
sarly five years ago another look and my
resentment soltens into pity. Et doubt his
Democrisy look at the blessed commission
and am treasured, for a President who Good
turn out wounded Federal soldier and APP
oint SIGH a man ez ME, must be above suapi-
cion.
felt it wuz comm two weeks ago. / re-
ceiyed cirkIer from Randall, now my scope
rior in ofliis, propoundin these questions -
l. Do 700 hev the most implicit faith in
Androo Johnson, in all that he bez done, ell
that he is doin, and all that he may hereinafter
do
2. DO you blecve that the Philadelphia
Convention will be a convooasben NV saints
all actuaiod by pure motives, and devoted to
the salvation NV cur wunst happy but now
distracted country
3 Do you bleeye that next 10 A. johnson,
Seward, Doolittle, Cowau, and Randall are
the four greatest, and purest, and bestest, and
self-sacr6cinest, ana hOnestest, and right
consist men this country bez ever prodoost.
4. Doc 700 bleeye that there is pnftikel-
efly hot place reserved in the next world for
Trumbull, hotter for Wade, and the hottest
for Sumner and Thad Stevens
5. Do 700 approve NV the canin Nv Grim
nell by Rosso?
e. Do 700 consider the keepin out Nv con-
gtis eleven soyrin states, unconstooshenel
and unwarTantid assumption uv power by a
secshnal oongus;
T. DO 700 bleeve the present congris q
rump. and that eleven states bein unie pre-
sented) all their acts unoonstooshnel and il
legal ceptin them wich provides for payin
salaries
8. Do 700 bleeye that the Memphis and
Moo Orleans unpleasantnessess wuz brot
about by the unholy machnsshens NV them
Radical agitators, actin in conjunction with
ignorant and besotted niggers to wreak their
spite on the now loyal citizens NV these prop.
erly reconstructed cities
9. Are 700 not satisfied that the African
citizens Nv Amerkin descent kin be safely
trusted Co The operations Nv the universal Law
which governs labor aud capital
10. Are 700 willin to contribute a reason
able per cent NV yoor salary to o fund to b,
used for the defeat NV Objectionable congris
men in the disloyal States north?
To all uv these inquiries l not only an
swered yes, but went aiore a Justis NV tn,
Peace and took an affidavit to EN-, forwarded
it back and my commission wuz fourthwitl
sent 60 me.
There wuz joobilee the mite it arriv.-
The news spread rapidly through the fou
groceries NV the town, and sich auuther spon
taneus outburst NV joy never Witnessed.
The bells runE, and for a hour or two tn,
Corners WIZ the widest strait NV egg-te
ment. The citizens congratulated each 9th
er on the certainty NV the acceshun NV tn,
President 10 the Dimocracy, and in their en-
thoosiasm Eve niger families we're cleaned
out, two NV EN-, one male and the tother
female, wuz killed. Then perceshun WI.
organized es foliers -
Two grocery keepers with bottles.
Dsekin Pogram
Nh, with my oommishun pinned onto
banner and under 1t written -" In this sigi
we oonker.n
Wagon Yyith taboo onto it. niger OF
the bonoGe boards, Bssoom, the grocer,
keeper, with one foot onto him, holdin
banner inscribed -" The Niger where h
oughter be.
Citizen with bottle.
Deekin Pogram's daughter Mirandy in al
atttood uy wallopln wencn. Banner =
We've Regained our Rites"
Two citizens with bottles tryin to keep il
perceshun.
Two more citizens which he'd emptyed tbei
bottles, .talln out by the way side.
Citizens two and two with bottles.
Wagon loaded with the books and furnitu
Nv a niger skool, in a staff NV wreck, with
ded niger layin on top NV it, wich he'd bl
captoored within the hour. Banner -" NJ
Policy"
( The perceshnn moved to the meetin hou
( and Deekin Pogram takin the Chair meeti
WIZ to wunst organized.
The Deekin remarked that this wuz IN
proudesJ moment NV his life. He wuz graft
fed at the sppoin tment NV his esteeme
friend, becoz he appreciated the noble quail
ties witch wuz 80 conspicuous into him, an
becoz his arduous services in the coz NV Dim
, okrisy entitled him to the posishun. A.
these wuz aside NV and entirely disconnecte
from the fact that thare wood now be proba
bility NV his gittin back little matter u
t nine dollars and sixy-two cents " Hear
Hear !! wich he he'd loaned him about eight
cen months ago, afore he had knowed hiT
well or larned to luv him But there wa
, anu her reason why he met to reioyce to mite
l 1t showed that A. Johnson meant bizness--
that A Johnson wuz troo to the DimOkraey
and that ne he'd fully made up his mind t
hurl the bolts NV ofiishl thunder witch he he'll
in his Presidenshal hands, at his enemie
and to make fight in earnest, that he wuz &c
in to reward bis friends, then ez he COO
trust. Our venerable friends, then ez
Good trust. Our venerable friends bein pJ
= in condishun to pay the confdin residents u
the Corners the little sums he owes them
a good thing {" Hear p " Hear p " troo
! "troo! unanimity from every man in tn
bildin,) but wat wuz SIGH considerashns whe
compared to the CRATE moral effect NV the dc
: oisive movement. {" A id site,' shoute
one grocery keeper, and 9 we don't want n
moral effect" cried another.) My friend
when the news NV this bold step NV the Pres
dent goes torth to the South, the price u
. Confedrit skip will 90 up and the shoot
NV niggers will cease, for the redempshun u
the first consider ashoored, and the redoC
> sin NV the latter to their normal condishul
e count ez good ez done.
Squire Gayitt remarked that he wuz to
q much overpowered with emoshun to speal
For four years, nearly five, the only newspi
per witch come to that offs he'd passed thr
bn ,pllutaI a. hlfahrtst 10 l.