Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-28
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- AS-eJ CoNFEDRrT x ROADS,
(Which il In che Stait nv Kentucky
vssiI Has March II 1864

"sTiiI hpe March IL, 1866.
The politikle sky 10 orecast with frite-
tul clouds. Darkness ia on the face nv
the waters. The waves il rollin
mountin, high, the litanin flashes omin-
Gus shro the gloom, and the deep mouth-
ed thunder mutters angrily in the dis.
tants.s Ez q sentinel on the watch tower
1 look ont, and what do see z i see the
old ship nv Stait loded down with O.
valuable cargo of Post ofises, Collector.
ships and sich, laborin in the trough
nv the sea, her bowsPFit stove in, her
top-gallant langaFds bnstid, her jib-boom
ahntterin in the gale, Der capstaH
splleed, and her sheet anchor torn to
ribbons. (Not havin bin sailor, only
eZ dryer On the wabash kanal it is
possible my nautiEle terms may not be
altogether correct. Bat 1t makes no diff
feEeneeT in gthe interior nv Kentucky.
She is strivin to make bsr harbor, and
is working manfnliy. Kiose behind her
10 the long, low, rakish skooner Democ-
risy, with all sale set, q tryin her best to
oyeEtaik her and board her. For q timall
itseemed as Tho she wood Be successful,
but alas she is faftin astern, and every
mint the distance between EN- 10
widenin, wIdenin, widepin, and at pres
ent writin there amt the remotest pros,
pect nv their gettin within hafIin dis
lance nv each other A
To drop mettafor, (Which By the way
kin jerkswhen feel SO disposed,) the
prospect ish't az encouiaein ez IL wuz,
and | ear. in fact / feel certain, that |
the short cut to offs which the Dimocri-
az thought it had found through Androo
johnson veto, is RELY the longest way
eround. i cannot understand what in
doost the Dimecratic laedera, our chosin |
standard bearers, TO make SIGH egrejnsl
asses nv theifselves ito place emmy de-
pendence on johnson at all. What Good |
they hev bin thinkin uv2 Wuz not our |
experience in 1864 sufficient to deter EN-
from maxim any experiment which in
volved abandonment nv any nv our
principles Didn't we in the hope nv
ketchin Abolition war votes nominate |
Mick Lellap, and didn't the war men
jeer at M, and font ms, and say, 'sBe- |
hold, we e heya better war men nv
our own--whya should we leave home
TO ind that; nv which we ;hsva plen-
ty f7"~4 When Androo johnson in |
ft nv temporary. indiguashun split
on Sumner, Why did our people iike
idiots pick hfm up, and indorse him
without giVin7 the matter matoor |
consideraahun, without waitin for the /
fax sDidn'k they know that Sumner /
wuz sort nv a dose of calumet, Wich |
worked on the Presidents liver, and me- !
cessitated the discharge nv all the Of |
fensive matter witch he'd accumulated 4
during his long term of Dimocrisy2 Uu
course 1t wuz, and to- day, Androo John. |
son, hevin in that speech got rid NV the
laat Festige NV Dimocrisy wich infected |
him, comes up stronger man agin us
than ever. We made two errors. On |
the 4th nv March, 1865, at his inoggera-
shun, when he made spectikle of his
sell, I'VE murmured gently to ourselves,
sits all right-he's wun uvus" And
we sed the same after the splunge nv
che I'D nv February last On, my
friends, they wuz both fatal error. Them /
spasms wuz the effort nv q noble nacher
a troin to gil rid nv Locofocoism, and /
from the fact that he immejitely after
commenst a missellaneously apintin Alb. /
ilishiaists and Republicans 10 Offices and /
hezen't showed sine nv a disposition |
to extend his hand to single iconHdin
Democrat, it's my opinion he's sue
ceeded.
We bet too heavy on the fight atween
the President and Sumner. Sumner ID
ordained to alluz hev gong nv sum
kind, witch be Ia ordained to keep per.
petually poundin. Hes biz for several
years amusin hisself poundin the Dim.
ocrisy, and when there wasn't enuff nv
that to make it interestin he turned on
johnson, and he'll pound at him till
suthin else egcites his wrath. Hes
Spanish bull, p0ssessin sharp horns, and
a immense amount NV staength and
agility, which he il continually wastin
by iuTpin at sich red flags ez are mis-
cheevnalY waved afofe him. He's Jest
as apt to gore his friends ez his enemies,
and bis loungin at johnson wuz no sign
that johnson had gone back on Ablishn-
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