The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-08-30
Miscellaneous.
Written for the Toledo Blade.
MIR. Nasby at last gets his Post
Office.

Office.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, (wich J
is in the Stait NV Kentueky.)
August u, 1866.
At last l hev it! Finally it come
After five weary trips to Washington,
after much weary waitin and travail L
hev got it. / am now Post Master at
Confederit Y Roads, and am dooly in
stalled in my new position. If l ever
he'd any doubts ez to A. Johnson bein
a better man than Paul the Apostle, a
look at my commission removes it.
Eff ketch myself feelin that he de-
serted us unnecessarily five years ago,
another look and my resentment sof-
tens into pity. Ef / doubt his De
mocrisy, look at that blessed COM
mission and am reassured, for a Presi-
dent who Good turn out a wounded
Federal soldier and appoint such man
ez me, must be above suspicion.
felt it wuz comm two weeks ago.
L received a cirkler from Randall, now
my sooperior in offs, propoundin these
questions:
/. Do yoo hev tie most implicit
faith in Androo Johnson, in all that
he hez done ,all that he is doin, and all he
may hereafter do?
2. DO you believe that the Phila-
delphia Convenshun will be convo-
cashen NV saints, all actuated by pure
motives, and devoted to the salvation
NV our wunst happy but now distracted
country?
3. Do 700 believe that next to a.
Johnson, Seward, Doolittle, Cowan
and Randall are the four greatest, and
purest, and bestest, and self-sacreficin-
est, and honestest, and righteOusest
men this country ever prodoost
4. Do 700 heleeve that there is q
partickelerly hot place reserved in the
next world for Trumbull, q hotter for
Wade, and the hottest for Sumner and
Thad Stevens?
Do 700 approve of the canin NV
Grinnell by Rosso?
6. Do 700 consider the keepin out
NV Congris eleven sovrin states, a un-
constooshnel and unwarrpted assump-
tion of power by a secshnal cOngris ?
Z. Do 700 believe the present con-
girls rump, and that eleven states
,, bein unrepresented) all their acts are
unConstooshne and illegal ceptin them
which provides for payin salaries ?
s. DO 700 believe that the Mem
, phis and Moo Orleans unpleasantness
: wuz brot about by the unholy machin-
ashens NV them Radical agitators, act
in in conjunction with ignorant and
besotted niggers, TO wreak their spite
: on the now loyal citizens NV these
: properly reconstructed cities?
: 8. Are 700 not satisfied that the
African citizens NV Amerikin descent
I. kin be safely trusted to the operations
= NV the universal law which governs
!. labor and capital?
= 10. Are 700 willin to contribute a
reasonable per cent. NV yoor salary tC
: fund to be used for the defeat NV OBJ
= iectionable congrismen in the disioyal
y states north ? 5a
= To all of these inquiries not only
answered yes, but went afore JustiS
y NV the Peace and took an affidavit tC
y EN-, forwarded it back and my com
y mission wuz forthwith sent to me.
le There wuz joobilee the mite 1t ar
y riv. The news spread rapidly through
:, the four groceries NV the town, anC
- such anuther spontaneous outhust uN
joy l never witnessed.
. The bells rung, and for a hour O.
l. Icorolsded on Fourth Po0el