The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1866-03-21

From the Toledo Blade
l notis all over the North the DemOcrisy
is firm guns, and a marchin after hra
bands. and hiTin halls for endorsin AndrOo
johnson. Ez a sentinel on the watch-tOwer
protest
In the name nv suferin Kentucky, Nv
wich State | am a adopted sitizen, pro-
test
In the name w common sense ana ordiu-
arv pOitikle sagassity, | protest
AndrOO Johnson may possibly be on the
high road to DemOcrisy. but eZ yet what
ashOOrance heve We Am datin my let
ters from Post Orfs COnfederit Y Roads 9"
Hez there bin, as Wit any well authentica-
ted case NV a removal Nv a Ablshinist, and
the apintment NV a c0nstOOshnel Democrat
in his stead2 Not that hev heard OF. Per
cOntary, the Ablishnists-them ex wuZ ap-
pinted by Linkin-are still hOldin on eZ
calm eZ a summer mOrnin, without any ap-
parant tear Nv any charge afiectin them.
Who pays for the hall? Who pays the
music? Who pays the powders Democrats
who do these cent Post Offices in the dis
tance. Are they like the war boss in Jobs
wrltins, who smelled the battle afar off and
remarked Ha Ha to the trumpets2 Let
me entreet sich that they kin make better
investment Of their means.
The cost Of one meetin, put in kOrn whis-
hey, would not only solace themselves. but
start half a dozen Ablishnists on the road
To DimOcracy.
Men is deceptive. hev hopes Of andre
Johnson myself. and principally because
Vallandlgham aud Fernandy Wood hev
hopes. Them buzzards kin smell carrion
a long distance, and they are seldom al
fault. In this case they may be. They
base their hopes on JOhnsOn's speech at
Washington, on the 22d. There may be
suthin in it. but amt it possible that the
stencil which they took for DImOcricy, aud
wich they spOSed cum from Johnson. ariZ
from them eZ surrounded him.
Wat nOncents. AndrOO was mad. There
wuz mass Of bile on his political stumick,
wich must be got rid uv-he had some mas
ty things to say, and it wuz part NV the
eternal fitness Of things that he should hey
a nasty audience to say EN- to.
| don't propose TO 90 OrfintO spaSms over
the sitOOashum. Johnson proposes to con-
tinue the Freedmen's BurO and hezent nc
nOshun of repeehn the test OF OATH or w
drawin the military out Nv the DmOkratiC
States. So far as heard from. we Nv the
South is still IN a stait Nv abject cOSSituje
Gus habeas cOrpuses. wich Linkin tOOb
away from US, hevent bin returned. and ",
are obliged 10 git along eZ best We kir
without EN-, l knocked down a small mig
ger yesterday for the purpose w assertiI
the sOOperiOrity NV the Cauchashun rae,
over the Afrikin, and wuZ TO wunst hauleC
up atOre Freedmen's BurO and fined
/ Our high toned and chivalriOus members ar,
exclOOded from Congris, on the frivOlus
ples, that there wuZ kernels and briggydee
/ Ginerals in the COnfederit servis, and al
these Outragis agin Democracy, AndrOC
/ Johnson, by permittin, absolutely approx
/ eS.
l Good probably swaller all these things
/ I am a DimOkrat w thirty years staudin
and Nv course hev bin on both sides Nv ev
cry pOlitikle fence-the seats of my pOliti
/ kle pants IS full w slivers. But before
take down these things I WANT TO KNOW
WHAT AN AGOING To GET FOR IT. Ef An
drOO Johnson goes back on his party an
his pledges. he Nv course asks Us to 20 bac
on Ourn. In sich transactions, where bot
parties by bein engaged in it at all confe
themselves ruther a low grade Of scoundril
l think it Well enuff To hev the considers
tiOn paid down.
the terms. am his 70 command. for cor
sideratiOn ez much so eZ is the thousand
Nv Democrats who hev bin for the pas
week gittin up demonstrations. But | war
Suthn 10 90 on. When | hev his permi:
sion under the broad seel ~ the Post Ori
Department. TO write "P. NJ" after nv
, lustr.0us name, l shell be prepared TO wad
} in. hev bin hurtin up several reasons f.
supporting him-I hev EN- all ready-I OF
ly want this additional one, and then L
! ding my banner TO the breze. Faith is sai
to be the sun Nv all religious systems-Pot
Ofis is the central igger in all Democrat
creeds-the theme Nv conversation hv dar
and the staple nv dreems by night. Ho'
long oh, how long.
PETR0LECN Y NAsRY
: Lait Pastur Of the Church uvthe Moo Dl
penSashun.