Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-11-30
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasty on the Elections,
CONFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Wich is in the Stait of Kentucky,)
November 1G- 1886

CONEEDRIT Il ROADS,
(wich is in the Stait of Kentucky :
November Is, 1866.
When the nOos Nv the result Nv the
Illinoy election reached the Korners,
there wuz a feelin NV oneasiness Wich
wuz trooly affectin, but when the crush
In intelligence aroze that Hoffman
wuz betin in Moo York, there wuz a
prostTation wich wuz only ekelled when
the intelligence of Lees surrender
reached US. We expected defeat in
Ininoy, and some Nv the other Stats,
but we he'd hopes that Moo York wood
go Dimocratic. that his Eggslency
mite hev som shoe Nv backin by the
people, and Consistently sum ezkuse
for continy0oin to enforce his policy.
But that hope wuz takin from US, and
Nv the entire populashen I wus the
only one who had sufishent stamina
to preserve the semblauce Nv cheerful
ness, and that wuz only on akkOunt
Nv my havin the Post Offs. Elec-
shions cOOdnet take that from met
is rock wieh the waves of poplar in
dignashen cant wash away, thank the
Lord, for eff they Good how many Nv
us wood to-day be hOldin our places p?
Still I felt overwhelmed. and, soF-
rowfully I entered Bascom s. There,
with their heads bowed in sorrer and
tears Aowin from their venerable eyes,
sOt Deekin Pogram, Elder Slathers
and few others nv the Saints, who ez
[ entered, Mechanically. rose and stood
afore the bar Mechanically, BascOm,
who wuz likewise bowed down with
greet, sot out the invigorator, mekani-
kally we dozed ourselves, and, still In
a doze, mechanically I moved out with
out payin, Bascom bein too full of sor-
rer to nOtls 1t.
It was deemed proper in view Nv the
great calamity that services shood be
held in the church, aud at p NJ,
wich with US mite be sed to meen post
mortem, we slowly and sadly filed in,
the only smilin cOuutenance IN sight
bein that Nv a niger at the door, who
wuz to wunst belted over the head for
lookin happy.
I gave out the hymn
.,Broad is the roaI that lea Is to death,
And it wuz sung with tetchin pathos.
After the weepin he'd subsided, and l
got my feelins coined down so ez to
permit me tu speek, | commenst ex-
plainin tu'em the causes Nv the result.
It Wuz I sed, chastenin sent onto US
for cor sins a stripiu because we he'd
exalted our norm in our pride that
glory in the possession Nv the post Of
fees, the colleetorships, the assessor
ships and sich, we he'd become vain
glorious and puffed up, and careless in
performance Nv dooties. Their wuz
niggers In Kentucky agoin about free,
aud impiOusly settin at naught the de-
crees Nv Providence wich condemed
EN- to be servants NV their brethren !;
and heer [ digressed to eloocydate a
pint l he'd seen stricters in a Boston
paper onto the common practice Nv
amalgamashen in the South, wich pa
per held up the practis to the condem-
nashen Nv piOus men, my brethern, F"
sed I, them Boston Ablishnists hev
no cleer understandin NV the skrip-
ter.
When Ham wuZ curst by Noar, wat
wuz that cusse lie shall be serUaHt
7snt0 his brethren" Not unto strangers
not unto the Philistine, or the Cir
geshite, or the Millerite, but unto his
brethren ! How Good he be servant
onto his brethren except thro Anal
gamation Onless we amalgamated
with 'em, how wood the male niggers
be our brethren Oh, my brethren,
we wuz obliged to do these things that
the skrip ters might be fulfilled, and
to the credit nv the Southern people,
they heV never shrunk from the per-