The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-10-25

dcnt-TeaSs 1e1o UoeAly.GA
i'''" 'A' Cuusoa11 \ ROADS, (wichl
sIs IN - 80 ~ KessuckyO I
Os1sbsr II. lsoo
Iwux called In heua eswaahington to
be present at Cabeat nestin called TO
consider the oasseas " The onparalleled
loosenin W no lGa51naI uuian johnson !
Dimekr atic party n DE various Stats
which held elections on the 9th Nv octo-
Der last. There was Seward, Welis'|c
Colloci,7 and Randall present but we
missed Raymond and Becher, they hev'n' |
understand, played of onto US. 80
The president wus gloomy he neon Z
anticipated the defeat. He sPected d'a
bevin si,owd hisself though al the North-
ern states lher ought to hev ben entsioo- !
siasln enough evolved to hev carryai
EN- without trouble. The fault he re-
marked coodent be with his policy fHer
wuz suthing 80 grand, a. snbiineiy sun
pIe in it, that it wuz incomprehepsible'eo
him. why the people hed'nt at once ad.'
.iofteiit. why look at it,, sed he, =
offer the people Nv the North peace, on
the simple condishn Nv saying nothln
more abut the war, Or the mutual trouble
y,ich thew found themselves into, and
r,.h,nt iato &he aSpSs nv sthex southern
brothern and takin Wv em back jist ez
they went out. How, oh! how Good they
bo 80 blind es to refoose these olive
81. nuSo L
Randall replied that he couldn't under
stand it, but he he'd summoned fost-
= master to attend, wich he he'd appointed
ON HIS solemn asshoorance that he coca
carry enough Republicans over 70 our .
new party to defeat the Union member
in that District, which he notist by the
napers wuz elected by a larger majority
then he he'd ever reserved, and he was
in waitin. -
"Bring in the wrech." shouted the
President, and the guard brung him in
A mizable lookin object he wuz. sE'z soon
cz he saw the stern eye Nv the President
fixed onto him, he sunk 10 his knees and
lifted up his hands imploringly, without
sayin a word
..Speak," sed the President, ''why the
result in yoor Decstrick2"
.sMy liege," replied the wrecked man.
81 now not Faithfully Iabored, but
the people wood cum into the house
holdin their noses and set holdin NV
EN- so long ez wuz speaking, wich wuz mt
conducive to displays Of oratory The
papers wood publish my own utterances
s;x months before, which confused me
snoowat, and the ablishnists would read
at me yoor speeches wich couldn't
akkount for. / seekoored for 700 suth'n
like dozen votes, but they wuz them ez
stipulated for places under me and he'd
hard work to getem, from the Union
party and they were SIGH ez did US more
harm than good. And besides %
And the poor fe,lew wuz bundled out
Secretary welles knowd wat wuz the
matter. 1t come NV takin Grant and
Farrygut along on the excursion. II
distracted the attention nv the people
He'd there bin nobody but the President
and the Cabnit along there woodent hey
bin nobody to hurrah for, the sublime
trooths wich the President kin only Jerk
wood hev impressed the people more
than they did. tftss
Seward wux confident that the election
wood hev bin all right Good II hev p'r
postponed ninty days. while McCullocl
attibuted it to the limited knowledge The
masses he'd NV Injeany bankin. -aq7
Iwuz rekested to give my views, which
] did
NV lords" sed I, 'nonc Nv you he'
got the ice. We wuz beet because we
left the landmarks that's wat allied u:
-wuz the anshent landmarks. Wat het
we to 90 into this canvass with9 Dem
ocrisv? Not any. for that WIZ squelchec
1T Philadelphia Wat thens Why thu
oeises. Offices in the abstract is good
That little one which I hold in Kentuek,
I coodent be indeost to part with on ne
account, but 700 can't run party EN-
because there amt enough Nv EN-
my Hege, on my return from the Phiiia
,lelphia Convention. tarried awhile il
8erks county, which is in Pennsylvania
and is distinguished for the unaninitl
with which they vote Democracy They
learned down there morn six weeks agt
that the war wux over, and therefore yot
coodnt stir 'em up on drafts. Taxes the,
had got used to, and that didn't mov'
en-, and the speaker wuz emptying schoo
houses by talkin NV the results NV glo
rious war, which they all opposed, ant
praisin our mutual friend Seward, wicl
they had allus hated As . Ablishnist ant
hadent heeredye that he had jind thu
Democracy. Wuz it any wonder that w
went under? Their amt but one thing lef
to us, and that we strongly neglected NJ,
lord why Wux the NIGGER not made th.