The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-17
Petroleum v. Nasby writes Letter
I ConcerninE the Present Political
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February Is, 1856.
/ hev had hopes of Androo johnson.
NV wnitin sole hez bin centered onto
him for a year back. He wuZ the
Moses wich spected wood lead the
Democrisy out NV the desolate Egypt
into which we hev bin making bricks
dreary years. o how L hev yearned
for Johnsoni oh how / hev waited,
iay after day, and week after week,
and month amer month, for some mani
festation of Dimocrisy, wich is satisfa-
tory-suthin tangible-suthin that 1
Good take hold on.
Faith is the substance of things hop
ed for and the evidence of things not
seen, wich is all right so fur ez religion
ez concerned, but NV no account in
politix. A friend NV mine who wuz
a monomaniack on the subjeck NV
filth, undertook to live on it, under the
insane belief that eff man he'd faith
pork wuZ unnecessary. Wuz the eS-
pertinent a success2 Not any. When
he commenst the trial he weighed two
hundred, in week he wuz down TO
one hundred and twenty-five, and in
fourteen days he slept in the valley!
hev been ivin on faith for year or
more, and / too am. thin My bones
show, light shines through mel am
faint and sick! oh for suthin that
can see and feel! suthtn solid.
Our Dimocratic noosepapers are sup
portin Androo johnson. They claim
that his polisy is our polisy, that he is
ourn and we are hisn. They are singin
hosanners TO him-at his every act they
exclaim halleloogy in korus. What is
it all about? In what pertikeler heZ
A,,5roC Tohnson shOWed hiSSalf to be a
Dimokrat? In the name NV Dimoerisy
let me ask 'FWHERE IS THE OFFICES?"
Who's got EN-? What is the polittkle
convickshuns of the wretch who is
postmaster at the Corners, and who on
fy last mite refused in the most heart
less manner to trust me for postage
stamps2 Who is the Collectors, the
Assessors, ct settry2 Are they consti.
tooShnel DimokratS? Is Stanton and
Seward and Welles histed out NV the
cabinet and Vallandigum and Brtte and
Wood apinted in their places? Not
onct. Every post master, every collec
tor, every assessor, every officer, IS a
ablishnist, dyed deeply and in fast
colors.
Faith without works is weak insti-
tution-its like a whisky punch with
the whisky omitted, wich is dlsgustln
mixter NV warm water ana sugar.
What is it to me, (who hev bin ready
utGGpG Any pOSlIlOl Nv VIII SAN
nry wuZ suticient'to maintain an1ndl-
vidooaI NV simple habits,) who is be-
headed, so ez don't get place? An
droo johnson may cut of Oftisbl heads
as dexterously and profoosely ez he
choozes, but my soul refuses 10 thrill,
when know that Ablishnists, though
NV IL different stripe, will be apinted.-
So long ez Dimocrats are kept out,
what care who hez the places2 Paul
may plant and Apollus may water, but
but NV what account is the planttn and
waterin to me ii don't gitthe increase?
1 take no delight in sich spectacles. III
Androo johnson proposes to De Dlnl-
olSrnt, eff he desires the honest, hearty
support of the party, let him seel his
faith in his works. .,,r
Twisted Washington for the express
purpose NV seein the second johnson.
/ am frank man, and laid the mat-
ter afore him without hesitation. 1toId
him that the Postmaster at the Corners
wuz opposin his policy and aboosin him
continually; that it wuz outrage that
men holdin place under the Admins
tration should not sustain the admins
ton. In the name NV Right de-
manded a change. ..I......=
1 sposed that to wunst the position
would be offered to me, and after pro-
testin sufficient time that did not
wish it-and would prefer the apint-
ment of some more worthy man,
should accept it, and go home provided
for three wears. Imagine my deep, my
unutterable disgust, when he told me
that he wood Investigate the matter,
and probably wood make a change,
prOUided he could tiitd IN ue Uicfllity some
original Union man I1ho mould accept
Then the iron entered my soul. Then
1 felt that in him we had no lot nor
part. -
Our principles are nv avery compre-
hensive nature. We are lwillin to en-
dorse Andrew Johnson or any other
man. We will endose his theories NV
ories. We are elastic like Injy Rub
ber. The boy who set hen on a hun
dred eggs acknowledged to his mater
nal parent that she could not kiver EN-,
but he remarked he wanted to see the
old thing spred herself We have that
date the prjudices nv the people NV all
the various localities. In Connecticut
we are singing John Browns body lies
a 1mouldern in the grave, in a modritly
loud tone, and supportin a Ablishnist
who voted for doin away with slavery
in the District of Columby and for the
Constooshnel Amendment. In Ken
tucky we are hangfn men NV the John
Brown style, and mobbin all, NV the
persuasion of the connecticut nomi-
nee. Sich a variety. NV principle
party NV sich adaptabIlity kin have but
one great central fdee on wich there is
no diversity of opinion, and TO which
all other Idees is subordinate. That
idee is PosT oFFIcEi and eff Androo
johnson could be got rite on that ques-
ton, we'd care not wat else he required
of us. I'm fit
We hev our arms around Androo-
we are huggin him to our buzzums,
but he has left his baggage tn hum
That baggage is what we want and we
shall fling hun OF shortly, onless he
changes his policy in this respeck. He
kin hev us on easy termS-but he must
furnish the ammunishun with which
to, fight his battles. Willie do it2 That's
the question hundred thousand hum
CRY soIes, who banker evan ez ! do, are
daily askin.
IIaft Paster in the Church nv the Moo
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