Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-02-22
Written fol the Toledo Blade.
Mr. Nasty Suggests a Plan for
the Ep-EuildIng Of the DeHIOc-
roecy.
CoSFEDMr Y ROADS (Which is in the
Stait Nv Kentucky, Jan. o., 1866,

r-ecy.
CoSFEDMr Y ROADS (Which is in the
Stait Kentucky, Jan. o, 1866,
HaIeloogy! Haleloogy! HaEeloogy! l see
lite. IL beams onto me. II penetrates nc. Ii
fills mel Coy to the world.
! hev diskivsred the caase Nv the decline NV
the DemOcriscy. seed it Yesterday. wus a
wanderin on the neighborin hills, mu,n onto the
depravity Nv humanity ez exempfed in the per-
son of the grocery keeper at the Corners, who
rnanimusly reioozed to give me further cred, for
corn whisky. wich Is the article they yOose in this
country TO pzen themselves with. He assoored
me that he he'd the utmost regard for nv many
virtues, but he diskiyered that the one he priced
the most hedn't 50 manr NV, to wit; that NV pay
in for my likker. Therefore the account mite be
considered closej. Then, for the ilst tine In INV
life, bleevcd in total depravitr.
While musin in melankoly mood On this dark
cloud wich fell across my pathway, and the fall Nv
the DimocratiC party. came onto party OF men
borin for lie. Then the trooth flushed over me-
their operations showed me the way to success
the shoor path to triumph.
"When," said | to myself, "when men seek
gain they bore for it! They go down--nsver up.
Even so with the Democrisy. We dug downward.
downward downward. through all the STRAIT. nv
society. We went through the groceries-lhe
next stratum was the most ignorant Wv the fIrln
ers-thcn we struck the poor whites Nv the South,
then below them the heit Of the people NV Moo
Gersy--then Southern Illinois and Indilna--' hen
Pike county, Missouri, and so on, We never
weat upward for converts cause 'twant no use
when man wanted to jine Hs he had to come
down. We got lots W converts.
There was regular slidin scale which the heft
Nv Democrats who wuznt bonn in this party hcy
slid down, t0.wit
Quarter dollar smiles.
ID cent nps.
10 cent drinks.
cent sucks.
A fiat l,k conceded.
A bottle openly.
Dmocrisy.
We lost our hold for two reasons. First, the
poor likker we hev now kills Off voters too
fast, and the tax on whiskey forced two thirds Nv
our people to quit suckn and ez soon ez they be-
gun TO git on their feet they ined the Ablishnists
Secondly, our leaders spezed there wuz NJ lower
stratum TO dig into, and give Up in disgust.
But hey diskiYeFed that lowe stratum--l hev
found it, and when tn idea flushed ever nv w eb-
sterian intelleck shouted HAlsloogy. The mig
ger is the lower stratum, and eff we bore down to
it, and work it thoroughly, we hev at least a
twenty years lease Nv power
We must cultivate the niger. HE HUsT HEv
TIE SUFFRAGE. 1t is burnin shame that in this
Nineteenth Sentry, in the full blaze nv intelli-
gence, livin under Deklarlshun which declares
all men "free and ekal," that large body Nv men
shood be denied the glorious privilege NV being
taken up to the poles and voted. Is not the Afri-
kin man! Is he not taxed ez are, and more
than most Nv the Democrisy. for many Nv EN- own
PROPERTY l. he not amsnable to all laws even ez
We il? Then why, I trumphan,ly ask, il he not
entitled to vOtel All. WHY? indeed.
"But this is Ab,ishnsmi" methinks hear a
, cutoose DimOcrisy observe in hoTor--"snd why
give than votes. who viii Use EN- aga usl'
My gentle friend tcia they use their ballot agin
usl Ef know myself tink aet Kin they
readl Kin they write! Amt tie bulk Nv EN-
rather degraded and low than o:herwiss2 Ne
thinks. Amt tina. the kind stock We want. and
The kind w;ch hez alluz set Us up? Readin hez al
luz been a2n us--everv skooi master is a engine
NV Ab.ishinism--every noosepsper is = cuss.-
| General Wise u. Virgin when he thanked God
there wusn't a noosepapcr in his dcsstrick, he'd
reason TO, for DO 700 sPozc readn constituency
wood hev ever kent sick blstherskite ez him liz
Congress, year after Tcarl
Then agin, the Constoo.hnal Amendment will
| pass, giyin representation 10 voters alone. The
/ Democratic States will hev more members Nv
Congress and more electoral than afore the
war. and them States we kin depend on.
But my skecm is still more comprehensive.
! Them nj Sgers Amt needed in the South. Wen
send 'em North. A few thousand will overbal
ance the A6lishun majority in Moo Gersey: fifty
thousand will bring Ohio back to the fold, the
same number will do for New York and Pennsyl-
yana, ana the country is saved--we will be able
70 elect the President. Thus the pit the Ablish-
mist dug for Us he'll fail into hisselt-the club he
cut for us will break his own head.
Honey hez kun ont of the carcass, good hez
perceded from Nazareth. The nigsor smells
sweeter to me now than Mite blooming Serious-
| he is more precious to me than gold silver or
preshus stones. He is the way and shell walk in
it. He shell lift me into Post orfs. We must
give our Afrikn brother--for is he not a man and
brOther?-not only the suffrage. bs, be must hev
land, and the Democrisy must give il to him.
want Garrit Davis to instantly in;erdoose a bill
into tile SENT givin each family a quarter section
Nv land. pair Nv mules and y cook stove. and
each female Afrikn brother two harin calico
dresses and red bonnet, | want him TO advocate
the bill in a speech Nv not more than two hours SO
that it will stand some chance passin. On sec
ond thought guess some other man he'd better
interdoose the bill. the SENT bez got into sieh
habit wv yotin down everything he proposes that
they slather this without considerin it, on nsra
! principles.
Then we've got EN-. Work ez hard ez they
may at it itll take twenty years afsre the Ablish
mist. kin ediukate up to the standard votn
their tikkt, aHd even that time won't do it, if
kin git the tax taken OF uy whskey SO that we
kin afford use il ez in the happy days uy yore.
Goyusly went home to lay the foundashun NV
the new temple Nv Dimocrisy. I slept that mite
atween two niggcrs. and hev bin shakn hands
and enquirin after the health the families Nv
all have met. lis rather hard for an orthodox
Democrat-sech sudden shifts is rather wrenchin
! on the conscience. but what nv that7 The Dim
ocrat who hez follorcd the party closely for thirty
years ought no. to balk at sich trihin change ez
this, pertiklerly when it promises sich gloIeus re-
suits.
"Thsre'S lite about to gleem,
There's fount about to stream,
Wait little longer.'
| PryeoIrru Y N.sEy