Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-10-30

The October Elections-Mr. Nasby's
Opinion Relative to the defeat of the
President.
From the Toledo Blade
Poss 0RFIs, CoSFEDRIT RoAps,
(which is in the Staff of Kentucky9 )
October Ia 1866

TO De present at cabinet meeting
called to consider the causes NV the
unparalleled loosenin Nv the Nashnel
Union Johnson Dimecratic party in
the various Stats witch held elections
on the 9th NV October last. There
wuz Seward, Welies, McCulloch and
Randall present, but we missed Ray
mond and Beecher, they heven, |
understand played off onto us.
The President wuz gloomy. He
hedn't anticipated the defeat. He
spected that hcv'in showd hiself thro'
all the Northern Stats Their ought 2
bev ben enthusiasm nough evolved
hev carried EN- without trouble. The
fault be remarked coodent be with
his policy. Their wuz suthin so grand
so sublimely simple in it, that it wuz
incomprehersible to him why the peo-
pie hcden at once adopted it. "Why,
look al it," sed he, 81 offer the PEG
pie Nv the North peace, on the sim
pie condishun nv sayin nothin more
about the war, or the mutual trouble
which they found themselves into,
and rushin into the arms Nv their
Southern brethren and takip NV EN-
back jist ez they went out. How,
oh how Good they be so blind ez to
refoose these olive branches 2"
Randall replied that be coodent un-
derstahd it, but he he'd summoned q
Postmaster to attend, witch he he'd
appointed on his solemn asshoorance
that he GOOD carry enough Republi-
cans over to our new party to defeat
the Union member in that District,
witch lie notist by the papers wuz
elected. by larger majority than he
he'd ever reserved, and he wuz in
waitin.
Bring in the wretch, shouted
the President, and the guard brung
HIM 10. A mizable looking objick be
wuz. Ez soon ez he saw the stern
eye of the President fixed on to him
he sunk to his knees and lifted up
his hands imploringly without sayin
word.
"Speak," said the President, gwhy
the result in yoor Dccstrick 2"
Ny liege, replied the wretched
man, know not. Faithfully /
labored, but the people would come
into the house holding their noses
and SET holding Nv EN- SO long cz |
wuz speekin, which wusn't condu~
Give to displays Nv oratory. The pa
pcrs wood publish my own utterances
six months before, witch confused me,
somew bat, and the ablishnists wood
read to me yoor speeches wich | Good
not akkount for. | sekoorcd for you
suthin' like dozen votes, but they
wuz them ez stipulated for places I'M
der me, and | he'd hard work to get
them from the Union party, and they
were saoh en- did us more harm than
good. And besides"
g Enuff,' said johnson, " remove
him."
And the poor fellow was bundled
out.
Secretary Wellcs knowd what wu2
the matter. 1t come NV taking Grant
and Farragut along an the excursion
1t distracted the attention Nv the peO
pie. He'd there been nobody but the
I President and Cabinet along there
wooder't have been nobody to hur.
rah for, and the sublime trooths wioh
the President kin only jerk would
have impressed the people more than
they did.
Seward wuz confident that the
/ u ..,,-,.1,I III 1.ir.ht onnI
it have been postponed 60 days, while
/ McCulloch attribooted it to the limit
ed knowledge the masses he'd Nv
Injeany bankin.
| wuz rekested up to give my
views. witch | did.
Ny lords, sed l, "none Nv you
hey got The ice. We wuz beet be-
cause We left the land marks-that's
wat allied us-was the anshent land
marks. Wat he'd we to go into the
canvass with Democrisy ? Not
any for that wuz squelched at Phila
deiphia. Wat tken2 Why the offises
Ofises in the abstract is good. THAI
little one witch ! hold in Kentucky
coodent be indoost to part with OF
no account, but 700 can't run par
ty on 'cn', because there amt enough
ny 'em.
Ny lsege, on my return from the
Philadelphia convention, / tarried
awhile in Bcrks county, which is il
Pennsylvania, and is distinguished
for the unanimity with which they
vote Democracy. They Learned
down there morn six weeks ago tina
the war wuz over, and ther> ore VOC
ooodent stir EN- up on drafts. axes
they had got used to, and that dn
move en- and so the speaker WI.
emptyiu5 school houses by talking
uv the results OF a glorious war, Wicl
they had allus hated IS abHshnist
and hedu't heerd yet that he mad jim
ed the Democracy. Wuz it any
wonder that we went under? The
aint but one thing left to US, aad tina
we strangely neglected. Ny lor'
why wu1 the NlGGLR not made tn
/ central fgger this year e. heretofore
re Is TIE capital Of the Democrisy-
its rclage-its tower of strength.
spoke III Berks county my self. tel
lowing one OF them new-tangle'
Democrats who had set EN- all asice'
. talking stuff to en- that they d1dn
, understand. Mountin the rostrrm,
CALCULATED
'sMEN AND BRETHREN DO VOC WAN