Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-03-23

men seek gain they bore for it! They
go down-never up. Even 50 with
the Dimocrasy. We dug downward !!
downward downward! through all
the strata NV society. w e went
through the groceries-the next stra-
tum was the most ignorant Of the
fmlnars-then we struck the poor
whites Nv the South, then below them
the heit Nv the people Nv Moo Gersv-
then Southern lIlinoy and Indianna-I
then Pike county, Missouri, and so on 4
We never went upward for converts,
cause twant no use-whan a man
wanted to j.ne US he alluz he'd to come
down. We got lots Nv converts.
There was a regular slidin scale
which the heft Nv Dimoctats who
Wuznt born in the party slid down to
Wit:
Quarter dollar smiles.
Is cent nips.
10 cent drinks.
) cent sucks.
\ flat flask concealed.
A bottle openly.
DlmOcraSy.
We lost our hold for two reasons.
FIRST, the poor Iikkcr we hay ROW kills
Oh Qhr voters to fast, and the tax on
WHISKY forced two-thirds uy our PEG
pc to quit Sucilin, aud ez soon cz they
oc5uAto get on their feet they jined
the Abliohnlsts. Secondly, our lead
els spozcd there wuz no lower stratum
to dig into, and give up III disgust.
Bat | hey dI>kicrcd that lower
stlatum-i hey found it. and when
the idea flashed over my Wcosterian
lnteiIccl l shouted Hal.eIoory. The
Nlr4cr Is the lowest stratum. and cf
we bore down to it, and work il
thoroughly, we hey at least a twenty
years lease ny power.
We must cultivate the nirgcr. He
MUST HEY TIE SUFFRAGE It is a
uurJ shame that in the Nineteenth
~culuIN. H. the luii blaze ny Mtelil-
@cncc, INln under the Deklarashun
which declares all men free and ekal"
that large body NV men should he
denied the glorious privilege ay being
taken up to the poles and voted. Is
not the Atrikln a man? Is he not
taxed as we are, and most NV the
pimocraSy, for many of en- own prop
crty; Is he not amenablc to ali the
laws even ez We i52 Then why. |
trlumphantly ask, is he not entitled
to vote? All. why? indeed!
But this is abliShnism = methiDks
hear obtoose Dimocrasy observe in
horror--"and why give them votes,
who will use them against us ?"
My gentle friend will they use their
ballot against us ? Eff | know N.Y.
self think not. Kin they write ??
Amt the bulk Nv EN- rather degraded
and low than otherwise? Methinks.
Amt that the kind Nv stock we want
and the kind witch hez alluz set us up :?
Readm hez alluz bin agin us-everv
skool master is a engine Nv Ablish-
nlSm-every noosepaper is cuss.-I
General Wise NY Virginia. when he
thanked God there wuzn't a noosepa-
per IN his deestrick he'd reason to, for
DO you spoze a reeding constituency
wood hev ever kept such blathers-
Kite ez him in congress, year after
year.
Then gain t he Constooshnal
Amendment viii pass, givin represen-
taShen to voters alone. The Dino
cratic Stats will hev more members NV
Congress and more electoral votes
th'n afore the war; and them Stats
we kin depend on.
Butmy skeemis still more comprehen
oive. Them niggers amt needed in
the South. Wen send en- NORTH
A few thousand will overbaIance the
AbliShun majority in Moo Gersy; fifty
thousand wiilfech Ohio back to the fold. |
the same number will do for New
York and Pennsylvapy, and the coun-
try Is saved-we will be able to elect
the President. Thus the pit t h G
Abllshnist dug for US he'll fall into
hlmselt-the club he cut out for us
will break his owa head.
Honey hez kun out NV the carcass,
good hez perceded from Nazareth
The Niger smells sweeter to me now
than Mite Blooming Serious-he is
more precious to me now than gold
or silver or preshus stuns. He is the
way, and | shell walk in it. He shell
lift me into Post orfs. We must
give our Aflikin brother-for is he
not brother mot only the suffrage
but he must have land, and the Dim
ocrlsy must give it to him. | want
Garrit Davis to instantly interdoose
bill into the Senite giyin each family
quartersection Nv land, a pair of mules
and a cook stove, and each family
Atrlkln mother two farm calico
dresses and AIRED bonnet. Iwanthim
to advocate the bill in a speech NV not
more than two hours, so that it will I
stand some chance Nv passin. On
second thought | guess some other
man had better interdoose the bill. as
The SENT hez got into sech habit NV
,otln down everything he proposes
,hey'd slather this without considerin
IT, on jneral principles. /