The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-03-23
MIR. Nasty on the situation---A Look
from Ills standpoint. sti
Co.rEDERATE X ROADS, (wich Ia in the
Stait OF Kentucky,) Match IL 1850.

face NV the waters. The waves is a
rollin mountain high, the litenin flash
es omnious thro the gloon, and the
deep. .mouthed thunder muiters an
grily in the distants. Ez sentinel
on the watch. tower I look out, and
wat do l see ? see the old ship NV
Stait loaded down with q valuable
cargo NV Post. offices, Collectorships
and sich, laborin 10 the trough NV
the sea, her bowsprit cove in, her top
gallant lanyards her jib-boom a Hut
term in The gale, her capstan spliced,
and her sheet ankor torn TO ribbins
mot heven bin a sailor, only ez n
driver on the Wabash kanal, 1t is pos
sible my nautklo terms may not be
altogether correct. But it makes no
difference in the interior NV Ken.
tuclsy) She IS strivin to make her
harbor, and is workin manfully. Close
behind her is the long, low rakish
skooner Dimocrisy, with all sale set,
q tryin her best to over,ako her and
board her. For time il seemed ez
tko she would be successful, but alas :!
she is fallin astern, and every minnit
the distance between EN- is widen
in, widenin, widein, and ut .he pres
ent writin there amt the remotest
prospect uv their gettin within hailin
distance NV each other. glL
To drop mettafor (which by the
way | kin jerk when feel so dispos
ed) the prospect isn't ez encouragin
ez it wuz, and | fear, in fact feel
certain, that the saort cut to oils
wich the Dimocrisy thought it had
found through Androo Johnsw's We.
to, is reely the longist way around.
! cannot understand wat indoost the
Dimocratic feeders, our closin stand
ard bearers, to make such egreius
asses nv their selves cz to place ennyl
dependence on johnson at all. Wat
could they hev been thinlkin uv2-t
Wuz not our experience in 1865 suf
ficient to deter en- from maxim any
experiment wich involved abandon
ment Nv eny Nv our prinsiples ? Did
not we, in the hope NV ketchin Abo-
lition war votes, nominate MickLcl-
Ian, and didn't the war men jeer us,
and flout us, and say, "Behold we
hev better war men NV our own
why should we leave home to find
that NV wich we hev plentyr When
Androo johnson in q fit NV tempo
rary indignashun split on Sumner,
why did our people like idiots pick
him up and endorse him without Civ.
in the matter matoor confederation
without waitin for fax Z Didn't they
know that Sumner wuz sort nv dose
NV calomel, wich worked on the Pres
ident's liver and necessitated the dis.
charge NV all the offensive matter,
wich he'd accumulated doorin his
long term NV Dimocrisy2 Nv course
it wuz, and to-day, Androo johnson,
hevin got rid NV the last vestige NV
Dimocrisy which infected him, comes
up a stronger man agin us than ever.
We made two errors. On the 4th NV
March, 1865, At his inoggeration,
when he made q spectacle NV hisself
we murmured gently to ourselves,
"It's all right-he's yet wun NV u.s."
And We said the same after the
splurge NV the 22d NV February last.
Oh! my friends, they wuz both fatal
errors. Them spasms wuz the ef.
fects NV a noble nacher a tryin to get
rid NV Locofocoism, and from the |
fact that he immC mCjitely after com.
menced missellaneously apintin
Ablishnists and Republicans to offs.
es and hezen't showed sine NV dis.
position to extend his hand to q sin.
gle confidin Democrat, it's my opin-
ion he's succeeded.
We bet too heavy OH the fight be |
tween the President and Sumner
Sumner is ordained to alluz hev
gong NV sum kind, which he is also
ordained to keep perpetually pound
in. He's bin for several years anu
zin hisself poundit the Dimocrasy,
and when there wuzn't enuf NV that
to make it interestin, he turned on
Johnson, and he'll pound him till
suthin else eXcites his wras. He's a
Spanish bull, possessin sharp horns,
and an immense amount NV strength
and agility which he's continooally
a wastin by jumpin at sich red flags
ez are mischeevusly waved afore him.
He's jest cz apt to gore his friends
ez his enemies, and his lungin at
Johnson wuz no sign that Johnson
had gone back on ablishinism.
But enuG NV this. Sence it hez
become. fixed fact that the boorisb
Tailor, who now by accident okkepies
the place Nv the marter Linkin, made
vacant by his untimely death by the
land NV a vile assassin, (whosc only
,edeemin trait wuz that he wuz a
'tanch uncompromisin Dimocrat) - .
now ! say that it's plain that this
irunkin sot amt a agoin to distrib,
hte The patronage amongst us who
need 1t SO much, ask, in indipna-
shun wat is it we are asked to lndorseYl :
He proposes TO continue the Freed,
mems Buro bizness,
He refooses to withdraw the mill.
tary from the Dimocratic States.
lie refooses to restor TO our suffer.
In brethrin NV the Dimocratic States
the babis corpusses wich the tyrant
Linkin wrested from them.
He keeps Jefferson Davis pinin
In a loathsome dungeon, and only
refooses to bring him to trial becos.
tsooth, he haint yet got things in the
right shape to hang him.
l Good ennumorate other insults
DC hez piled upon Dimocrats, but /