The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-12-20

Tae A.e:srsy f rroposSs ce1. M.de the We
tins Of a Cruel and Heartless Hoax.
From the Toledo Blade.
Posr ORYrs, CosYEDRIr ROADS, (wichl
Is in the Stat Kentucky
December 9, 1866.
y 4 never wuz so elevated nor~never SO
cast down in nv life ez last mite, and
the entire Corners wuz ditto. The cir
cumstances wuz ez follows: Me and q
party NV friends wuz playin draw pc.
ker with . Moo York oommershel trayler.
I believe they call 'em, Teller with a
mustash and side whiskers, witch comes
South a talkin secesh and q sellin goods.
He made some inquiries about the stand
In NV the deelers at the Corners, and
wux, after gseds enquiries, eggstremely
anxiousto cell en- goods for cash. They
wanted 'em on ninety days time, and on
this they split. He agreed with 'em in
principle--he drank to Jeh. Davis and
damned Linkin dooently-but on the
cash question he wuz infexible and i'm
movable. To while away the tine, the
choice sperits, him included. gathered in
the Post OTins to enjy game NV draw
poker. There wux me and Square Cav
lit and Deekin Program and Elder Slath-
ers and Moo York Drummer. We played
till past the witchin hour Of IL NJ, when
graveyards yawn and costs troop forth
when the Moo Yorker suckumd. His
innocent unseasoned bowels hedn't bin
dedicated up to the standard ne Kentucky
whisky, wich, new e9 we drink it, is pizen
to foreigners. The Deekin and Elder
grabbed the stakes witch was onto the
table, and rifled his pockets on the sus-
pichin that he wux q A blishnist, androl-
IL. - n T.
Pollock, the fllincy store keeper, cum
rushin in, askin us eff we'd neerd the
news.
We answered yoonanimously that we
hadn't.
I'm jist in fom Louisville, sedihe..
Il list rode over from the stashen. Loo
isville is in n blaze NV glory
Wat SEE l, 'hez sumner killed Thad.
Stevens and immejitiy committed sooi-
cide?'
Mary SEE he, but johnson and Con
gress hev come together on the bases of
yooniversal amnesty, which wuz pro-
claimed yesterday, to be followed by
yoonivcrsal suffrage ez soon ez the South
kin conveniently do it. They hev met
and embraced on Harace Greeley's plan
Deekin Program bust into a hysterical
laff, and in his joy handed me the pro-
ceeds nv his explorashen NV the pockets
nv Moo orker, and like q blessed old
lunatic broke for the meetin- house. In
q moment or two the bells r,ealed forth
their Joyous notes, and in a mint more
the half dressed villagers wuz seen emer-
gin from their respective domiciles in all
s.vles NV attire. A Eew minitss sslficed
ssyyo1nake them understand wat wuz the
occasion Nv the uproar, and more en-
thoosiastic population never woke the
ekkos. After 1--WE minits he'd rolled off
into eternity, tlicr wuz . bonfire blazin
on the north side Nv the square, the sed
bonfire bein niger school house witch
the Freedmen's Commisshn he'd erected,
and wich our ENTHUSIASTIC citizens he'd in
their delerim NV JOY set fire to. 1t wuz
embesnatic. The smoke or it rolled to
the South methawt assoomed the shape
nv Olive branch-tLe cry nv the mig
ger children witch cOodent escape, sym
bolized their deserted condishn, and the
smell NV them ex they roasted wuz like
unto incense, grateful to Our nostriis.
A informal meetin WIZ st wuust or
ganized by the lite of the burnin skool
house, to wich Deekin Program address
sed hisself. He remarked that this wuz
q solemn OCCASION, SO solemn, indeed,
that he felt inadekate to express the feel
ms wich filed him. His mouth wuzen't
big enough to give vent to his sole,
though eff he didn't he'd bust Wat are
we met for to mite, my friends, said he
wat calls rs togethers Wherefore these
sounds Nv ioy-whercfore this FIRE, and
wherefore is Bascon sellin likker at half
price? Becoz we are rehabilitated-
that's what We are. Becoz the North
has gone into the olive branch bizress
agin, and we hev wunst more our rites.
We are amnestied. We kin vote--we
kin 60 to Congress-we are agin citizens
NV the great Republic
Pollock, the Hlinoy store keeper riz
and begged permission to say word.
He protested agin these doins He I'M
derstood, akkordia 70 Horris Greeley
plan, that yooniversal suffrage wuz to
follow yoeniversal amnesty. Why then
this maxim John Rodgerses NV the mig
gers? Wuz the South agoin to act in
good faith?
Deekin Program replied The South
never yit broke plighted faith save when
she Good make suthia by SO doin. At
this present junkter Nv affairs he pre-
soomed the South wood extend, not pre-
cisely universal suffrage to the negroes,
but the way wood be opened to em. Sich
- HISS NV ikuCrNuCc CUM dC$SA NC
trusted with the ballot without prepare
shen, and to prepare en- wood be over
turnin the Kentucky theory, that the mig
ger is beast, and the Northern Demo-
kratic idea that the niger wax Gust by
Noer and doomed forever to be I slave.
The gentleman from 1lGnoy will to-
wunst perceive the fix We are en-. They
amt fit for the ballot now, and eff we
make EN- so, it overturns our theory,
witch We cant do. Still we propose to be
just to en-. We shell give SIGH NV EN-
the ballot cz are sufiishently intelli jent.
and We shell not put the standard too
high nuther. We shel give every one of
EN- the ballot who - able to reed the
Greek testament duetntly and pass 8 cred
ible examinaahen in Latin, embroidery.
French, German, English Grammar, and
double entry book keepiag. The path
TO. tke Splls- 700 eee j. epen to EN-. Wv
course We cant be expected to tolerate
school houses for EN-, COZ that wood i,
raise en- ahnvo their normal condiShn