The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-11-30

IJne llllnOy election rencncu Jne COr
; ners, there wuz a feelin NV oneasi
; ness wich wuz trooly affectin, bui
when the crushin intelligence arove
that Hoffman wuz beeten in Noe
York there wuz prostration wich
wuz only ekelled when the intelli
gence NV Lees surrender reached
us. We expected defeat in Illinoy,
: and some NV the other States, but VIC
he'd hopes that Moo York wood &c
Dimocratic, that his Eggslency mite
hev some show NV backin by the pco
Iple, and consistently some eXcOose
for continyooin to enforce his policy.
But that hope wuz taken from us,
and NV the entire populashen l wuz
the only one who had sulllshent STAN
ina to preserve the semblance Nv
cheerfulness, and that wuz only on
akkount NV my heving the Post Ollis.
Elections coodent take that from me
lit is rock wich the waves NV pop.
Her indignashcn cant wash away,
thank the Lord, for el they Good,
how many nv us wool to-day be
holdin our places2 Still | felt over.
whelmed, and sorrowfully | entered
Bascom's. There, with their heads
bowed in sorrer and tears flown
from their venrable eyes, sot Deekin
Pogram, Elder Slathers and q few
others NV the Saints, who ez | enter.
ed, Mechanically rose and stood afore
the bar; Mechanically, Bascom, who
wuz likewise bowed down with greet,
sot out the invigorator, Mechanically
we dosed ourselves, and, still in a
daze, Mechanically moved out with
out payin, Bascom beln too full NV
sorrer to notis it.
1t wuz deemed proper, in view Nv
the great calamity, that services
shood be held in the church at 2 Z.
NJ. (wich with us mite be scd TO mean
post mortem) we slowly and sadly
filed in, the only smilin countenance
in site bein that NV a Niger at the
door, who wuz to wunst beltid over
the he'd for lookin happy.
l gave out the hymn:
|
and it wuz sung with tetchin pathos
After the weepin he'd subsided and |
got my feelins calmed down so ez to
permit me to speek, commenst ex-
Iplainin to EN- the causes Nv The re
suit. 1t wuz, l sed, a chastenin
sent onto us for our sins; stripin
becoz we he'd exalted our horn in
our pride; that, gloryin in the pos
session NV the postofiices, the colIec-
torships, the assessorships and sich,
we had become vainglorious and
puffed up, and careless in perfor
nance nv dooties. Ther wuz mig
gers in Kentucky goin about free,
and impiously settin at naught the
decrees NV Providence which con.
demned em to be servants NV their
brethren, and heer l digressed to
eloocydate a pint. I he'd seen stric-
ters in Boston paper onto the COM
mon practis NV amalgamashen in the
South, wich paper held up the prac-
tis to the condemnation nv pious
men. "My brethren" | sed, "thcm
Boston Ablishnists hev no cleer un-
derstandin nv the scriptcr. When
Ham wuz Gust by No1r, wat wuz
that cuss, HE shall he servant un
to his brethren" Not unto stran-
gers-not unto the Philistine or the
Girgeshite, or the Millerite, but un-
to his brethren! How Good he be
servant unto his brethren except
thro amalgamashen? Onless we
amalgamated with EN-, how wood the
male niggers be our brethren? Oh
my brethren, we wuz obliged to do
these things that the skripters mite
be fulfilled, and to the credit NV the
Southern people be it sed that they
never shrunk from the performance
Nv dooty. The per cent. NV yeller
niggers in this State attests how
faithful Kentucky hez bin. ...
But to resoOm. We hev sinned in
permittin skools to come in and un-
fit EN- for their normal and skriptu-
raj condishen, but these is not ALL
My brethren go TO Esq. McGavitt's
and get the township Bible and
search till you find this yer tex;
"And no man putteth new wine in
to old bottles, else the new wine
doth bust the bottles, and the wine
is spilled" ""
My brethren, wich is the bottles?
The Dimocrisey, Nv coarse, and the
most of EN- may be considered old
ones. We hev actid rs bottles, car
rying about floods, not percisely
wine. but the modern substitute there
tor, from our earliest infancy. Wich
is new wine? The Ablishnists wich
follered Johnson, NV course. New
wine is frothy--so wuz they. New
wine llzzes; so did they. New wine hez
strength for minit-so he'd they
New wine is unreliable--so wuz
they. At philadelphia, the putin Nv
this new wine into old bottles wuz
accomplished--at that accursed place
ancient Dimocrisy wich believes in
Ham and Hager, met and fell onto
the mex NV Seward and Doolittle,
wich invented Ablishnism, and we
mingled our teers together--the new
wine wuz put into the venerable old
bottle NV Dimocrisy, and notwith.
standin we hooped it with Federal
patronage it busted, and great wuz
the bust thereof; and tho fragments
NV the bottle wuz prone onto theI
earth, and the new wine is runnin
round permiscus. Sowuz the Skrip-
ter fulfilled.