The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-03
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Petroleum V. Nasty has got a post Office fol
supporting "my policy" There was process.
sion at Confedrit x Roads, with other proceed
| ings, which are thus described by Nasty: ~
A percession wuz organized as follows: ~,
| Two grocery keepers with bottles ....'.;S
Deekin Pogram
| Me, with my commission pinned onto ban.
ner and under it written, In this sign we con.
ker
Wagon with taboo onto it. A niger on the
bottom boards, Bascom, the grocery keeper
with one foot onto him, holdin a banner in
scribed, eThe Niger where he ought to be-"
Citizen with bottle.
Deekin Pogram's dorter M hInneg w.t. 81;
regained our rites"
Two citizens with bottles tryin to keep in
perceshun. -tsss -
Two more citizens witch he'd emptyed theil
bottle, fallin out by the wayside.
Citizens two and two with bottles
Wagon loaded with the books and furnitur OF
o niger skool, in q staff Nv wreck, with ded
Niger layin on top NV it, witch he'd been cap
toored within the hour. Banner: "My Pol
lissy" ESQ ~ aiA s9
The perceshun moved to the meetin hous
and Deel1in Pogram takin the chair meetin
was to wunst organized. -
The Deekin remarked that this wuz the
proudest moment Nv his liphe. He wuz graft
fled at the appointment NV his esteemed friend
bekoz he appreciated the noble qualities witch
waz SO conspicuous onto him, and becoz his ar
duous services in the coz of Dimol1rasy emit
tied him to the position. All these waz aside
Nv and entirely disconnected from the fact that
thare would now be q probability NV his gittin
back little matter of nine dollars and sixty
two cents ["hear! hearp'1 witch he had loaned
about eighteen months ago, afore he he'd knowd
him well or learned to love him. But thare
waz anuther reeson why he met to rejois to-
mite. a
1t showed that A. johnson meant bizness-
a. johnson was troo to the Dimokrasy, and
and tibet he he'd fully made up his mind to hirl
the bolts of ofiishul thunder which he held in
his Presidenshal hands, at his enemies and
make fight in earnest, that he wuz gon to re-
ward his friends, them az he Good trust. Our
venerable friends ben put in condishun to paw
the confidin residents NV the Corners the little
sums he owes them is good thing. ["Hear!
hear! troo! troo!" with singular unanimity
from every man in the bildin], but what was
SIGH considerashuns when compared to the
CRATE moral effect of the desicisve movement.
"a id site" shouted one grocery keeper to
another, and "we don't want no moral effect, "
cried another.] My friends when the knuze of
this bold step Nv the President goes forth to
the South, the prise of my Confedrit skrip will
go up and the shootin of niggers will cease,
for the redemption of the phurst konsider as
shured, and the redoosin of the latter to thare
normal condishun count ez good ez DONE
Deekin Pogram offered the following resoloo-
tions: m f.sria1 i ~ so.a.if i1if7 iia,7
Whereas, The President hez, in a strikly con-
stooshnel manner relieved this community NV
an offensive Ablishinist appinted by that alb
horred tryant Linkin, and appinted in his
place sound constitutional Democrat, one
whom to know is to lend; therefore, be it
ResOlUed, That We greet the President, and as
shoor him of our continyood support and con-
fldence. .si .8a.,ll 4f9i} ia NJ lul u3
Resolved That we now consider the work of
fms fl1ic uifxr -.
cerned, completed, and we feel that we are
wunst more restored to our proper relations
with the Federal Government afHh
ResolUed That the glorious defence made by
the loyal Democracy NV Moo Orleans agin the
kombined conventions and niggers, shows that
freemen kin not be konkered and that white
men shall rule America.
ResoIued That on this happy occasion we
forgive the Government for what we did, and
cherish nary resentment agin anybody.
The resolutions wuz adopted and the meetin
adjourned with three cheers for johnson and
his policy .l
Then came scene. Every one of them had
cum there with o note made out for the
amount owed him at three months. Kind
Miss of heart wOs weakniss ov mine, and I
signed them all, feelin tibet ifthe mere fact ov
my writin my name wood do EN- emmy good. it
wood be crooel in me 2 object 2 the little labor
required. Bless their innocent soles, they went
away happy. .t-- n,
fis.
Gam 1 awake or am dreamin," thaught L
No! no! it is no dream. Here is the stamps, here
is the blanks and here is the commishuni 1t is
2 troo!
heerd child across the way singing:
sfGlI re- . ''Ii like to tc an angel, y4 sfr
And with the angels stand.' .f
l wouldn't thought 1. I woodn't trade
places with an angel, even up. A offs with
but little to do, with four grocerys within
stones throw, is ez mnch happiness ez my bill
ers viii stand without Dustin. A angel 4sootb
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