Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-03-17
MIR. Nasby and the President.
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/ bev had hopes Nv Androo johnson
My wsilin sole bez hin centred onto hin
for a year back. He wuz the Moses wbcl
/ spccted wood lead the Democr ICY ou
Nv lbe desoate Egypt into which we he
bin making bricks without straw, for CIV
long weary aud dreary years o how
hev yearned Johnson? Oh how be
waited day after day and week after wecI
and mont b after month, for some mauifes
taion Nv ID mocrisy, which is Ea'isfactor,
--sulhin tangible that / coot
lake hold on. o. -.''...' ir "H
Faith is the substance nv thing bopeC
for aud the evidence Of things not seen
which is ell right so fur cz religion cz cou
cetDed, bu' Nv no account in politix A
friend Nv mine who VIZ a monomaniacb
on the sulj jck Nv faith, undertook to live
on it, under The insane belief that eff a
man had faith pork wuz unnect ssa y.-
Wuz the experiment a success? Not any
When he commenst the trial be weighed
200, 10 week be wuz down to 1875, and
ID fourteen days he slept in the va Hey?
l bev bin livin on fifth for year or
moie, aud too sm thiu Ny bones show,
! light shiues through mel am fuiut aud
SICK? Oh for sulbiu that can see mud
fe, ]? suthin solid. tr.r .-.,r...
Our ID mocratic Doosepapers are sup
portiu AUdroo Johnson. They claim ha t
bis policy is our policy, that be is ourn aud
"a a orr hlzen 'Hbnv Gil in bn-
to him--at his every act they exclaim
halleloogy in korus What is it all ou, ?
In what par'ikeler ,h'z Audroo johnson
showed himself to be d mokrar? In the
name Nv DimocrisyI let me ask "WHERE
IS THE oFFtcE>?" Who's got emf What
is the ponikIe convit kshuns'uv the wretch
who is post master at the Corners, and
who ouly last mite refused in the most
heartless manner 10 trust me for postage
stamp? Who is The Collectors, the
Assessors, ct seitry? Are they constitoo-
shnel d mokrat'S Is Stanton and Seward
aud WeIeS his,ed out Nv the cabiuet aud
VulIandigum and Brile and Wood apintcd
| in their place? Not oDct. Every post mas
| ter, every collector every assessor, r is a
sblIshInis', dyed deeply ard in fast colors.
Faith without worksis weak 10 titution
Its like whisky punch with the whisky
emitted, wich; is disgnstin mixter Nv
warm water and sugar What it's 10 me-
(wbo bev bin.resdY to accept any position
ny which the salary WIZ sufficient TO main.
tain "a iDdivdooal Nv simple habits, who
is bebeaded. so ez don't get a place?-
Aud 90 johnson may cut off ofishal heads
rez d,xlerously aud profoossly ~ be chooses,
but my sole refuses to thrill, when know
that Ablishuis,s, though uv a different
stripe. will be apinted. So long ez Dino
Gratis a'e kept out, what care who btz
The places? Z Paul may plant and Apolus
water, but NV what account Is the plan,in
and wateriu to ne if 1 don't get the in
crease? i take no delight in sich spectacles.
Ef Androo johnson purposes 10 be a
Dimockrat eff be desir. $ The honest, hearty
support of the parry, let him seel his faith
with works. Nllc" SO. tti4H@Njt4
visited Washington for the express
purpose Nv seein the second jackson. l
am frank man and la d the matter afore
him without hesilation. told him that
the Postmaster at the Corners wuz opposin
his policy and abooin him continually /;
hat il VIZ a Outrage that men holdn
rus aiu the Administration. Iu The oane
Nv Right demanded change.
l sposed that to wunst the position
would he offered TO me, and afyer protes
a suflicie1t time, that 1 did no wish IT,
and would prefer ihe apntment of some
more worthy man. should accept il aud
90 home pi DIVIDED foI thee years. Imagiue
10y deep, my snu,terubie disgust, when be
told me thut be wood make change,
D, ,osld,d d he could fud IN the vic nifty some
origlnal Union mau who would accept the
pacei ,. .r7.io. oi ......-
Then the irou entered my soul Then
felt that 10 him. We bad no 1T nor pa /.
Our principles are Nv a very compreheu
slve patuvs[ We are wilhn to- endorse
Aud 90 johnson or any other man. We
Viii endorse his theories uvReconstfucIioD,
or any man's theories We ace elastic like
lily 'Rubber. The boy who set bep on
hundred eggs acknowledged 10 his mater
nal parent tDat shc could noi kiver EN-, but
he remark he wanted to see tho old
thing spre herself. We have that
spreadi.. capacity. We kin accommodate
the prtjudies Nv he people Nv all the Va
rious localities. IN Connecticut we are
slngln John Browns body lies mouldrin
in the gave. in modrliy loud tone, aud
snppor'ln "a Ablishuist who oyvo ed fer
doln away with slavery in the District Of
Columby and for the Consto5shnel Amend
menl, in Kentucky we are bangIu men
Nv The John Brown style, aud mobhiD oil
Nv the percussion Nv The fCounectic ticut
nominee. Sch variety NV priuclple-
party Nv sicb adapubjIiiy kin hev but one
great central idee on which there is no
diversity Nv opinion. aud to which all
other ideas 10 subordinate, That Idea, is
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