The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-12-06
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The November Eisctions-dr. Nasty
breaches, q 8 OF n oi,.-..s No man Putteth
New Wine into O4d BoflIes,s so. h !
[From the Toledo Blade.1
CoSFEDRIr X ROADS, !
(wich is in the Stait Of Kentucky +
November 16, 1866.
When the news Nv the result NV tho
Illinoy election reached the Corners,
there was a feelin NV oAeasiness wich
was trooly affectin, but when the
crushin intelligence arove that Hoff-
man wuz beeten in Moo York there
wuz prostration wich wuz only
ekelled when the intelligence Nv Lees
surrender reached US We expected
defeat in Illinoy, and some Nv the 9TH
er States, put We he'd hopes that Moo
York wood go Dimocratic, that his
Eggslency mite hev some show Nv
backin by the people, and consekently
some excoose for continyooin TO en-
force his policy. But that hope wuz
taken from us, and Nv the entire popula-
shen l wuz the only one who had suf-
ticient stamina to preserve the sem
blance nv cheertulness, and that wuz
only on akkount NV my hevin the
Post Offs. Elections .coodent take
that from mott is a rock wich the
waves Nv poplcr indignashen cant
wash away, thank the Lord, for Of
they Good, how many Nv US wood
to-day be holdin our places? Still L
felt overwhelmed, and sorrowfully
/ entered Bascomb's. There, with
their heads bowed with sorrer and tears
flo Sin from their venerable eyes, sot
Decking Pogram, Elder Slathers and a
few others NV the Saints, who ez l en-
tered Mechanically rose and stood
afore the bar, Mechanically, Bascom,
who wuz likewise bowed down with
greet, sot out the invigorator, mekani
kally we dosed ourselves, and, still in
doze, Mechanically moved out with
out payih, Bascom bcin TOO full Nv sor-
rer to nolisit.
1t was deemed proper, in view rv
the great calamity that services shood
be held in the church, at 2 P. NJ,
(Which with us might be sed 10 mean
post mortem) we slowly and sadly
filed in the only smilin countenance
in site bein that NV nigger AZ the
door, who wuz to wunst beltid over
the head for lookin happy.
| gave out the hymn;
BROAD is the road wch leeds to DEATH"
and it wuz sung with tetchin pathos. AT
ter the weepin he'd dsubsided and | got my
teelins composed, i commenst explain
in to the causes Nv the result. 1t was, l
EN- sed, chastenin sent onto US for our
sins; stripin becos we he'd exalted
our horn in our pride; that, gloryin
in the possession Nv the postoffces, the
collectorships, the assessorships, and
sich, we had become vainglorious and
pulled up, and careless in performance
Nv dooties. Their wuz niggers in Ken
lucky goin about free, and impious-
ly settin at naught the DEGREES Nv
Providence wich condemned EN- to be
servants NV their brethren; and heer l
digressed to elucidite a pint. | he'd
seen tiicters in a Boston paper onto
the common practis NY amalgamashen
in the South, wich paper held up the
Dractis to the cOndemr alton NV pious
men. "My brethren" sed |, "them
Boston Ablishnists hev no cleer under
standn Nv the scripter When Ham
was Gust by Noar wat was that cuss
He shall be a servant unto his breth-
rem Not unto strangers-not unto
the Philistine or the Gergeshite, or the
Millerite, but unto his brethren How
Good he be servant unto his brethren
except thro amalgamashen2 Onless
we amalgamated with EN-, how wood
the male niggers be our brethren2 Oh
my brethren, we was obliged to do
these things that the scripters mite be
fulfilled, and to the credit Nv The South
ern people be it sed that'they never
shrunk from the performance NV doo-
ty. The per cent. NV yaller niggers in
this state attests how faithful Ken
tucky hez bin.
But to resoom. We hev sinned in
permittin skools to come in and unfit
EN- for their normal and scriptura
condlshen, but these is not all. My
brethren 60 to Esq McGravitt's and
get the township Bible and search till
you find this yer text: E2y
And no man putteth new wine into
old bottles, else the, new wine doth
bust the bottles, and the wine is spill
ed. H.Ir
i Ny brethren, wich is the bottles
The Dimocrisy, Nv coarse, and tho
most of EN- may be considered OLD
ones. We hev actid as bottles carry,
ing about foods, not percisely wine
but the modern substitute therefor
from our earliest infancy. ,Wlch il
moo wine? The Ablishnlsts wich fol
Tered johnson, NV course, Moo wine
is irothy-so was they. Moo wine tz'
zes-so did they. Moo wine he2
strength for minit-so he'd they
4 Moo wine is eliable1-so was they
\ AT Philadelphia, the putin nv this
moo wine into old bottles was accom-
! plished-at that accursed place, an
/ shent Dimocrisy wich believes in
\ Ham and Hager, met and fell onto the
mex NV Seward and Doolittle, wich IN,
vented Ablishnism, and We mingled