Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-03-14

don't see how cxaktly. You run for
Governor in sixty three and you writ o
letter agin Reconstruction and COM
pared the old union to a proclaim vase
that ,cds broke, and couIdent never be
mended agin-no never
And don't you know if you'd been
clekted you would have had to take
the oath of Office, and be swore to
support the Constitution of the Con-
federate States SO called now deceased.
But you are smart Joshua, and 'ifw was :
funny what you said TO the General
that night, when he axd you if you
would have taken that oath. You pausd
Joshua for nearly n mint Ii was
nifty tite question, considerin tho
procelain vase that was broke. ! don't
blame you for pausin my fl lend. Final
ly says you, "Well-GencraI-I-l-
dident-much-expect-to-be--elek-
ted" Bully for you, Joshua. But
now about that see-saw b,sness you
spoke Of; you saidi in speech that
you was plapin see-saw in politix, and
if your end of the plank went down
in Gcorgy it would go upin Washing
ton, by which ! suppose you meant
that you was ready to swap ends Jest
TO suit your pekuliar seckumstanee
and that's what's the matter agin,
Joshua. You have been seesawin too
long and changin ends too often.
Twasent no time to be swappin hosses,
my friend.
But see here, Joshua, Mr. Marshall
may be a clcverreporter, but he treat
ed you badly. He's left out q heap of
your speech He amt had printed
that see-saw flyer at all, and it was
assure you a most beautiful metafor
of speech. And hes left ont them little
sparks Of southern patriotism which
you emitted Ilowsomeyer, may be
these thingn would lave been in the
way Of the JVdshingtOn and ofthc see
saw. I'll tell you, my friend, where
you wastod time in your remarks.
You said that it we didcnt clelkt you
noJo we might want you hercafter,and
then we couldent git you. Don't worry
yourself on our akkount. Don't cross
The bridge before you git to il 1t will
be time enuf, Joshua. for you 10 refuse
when we ax you. We haven't been
runmn you down TO give you offs, land
we aint Il goin 10. Do YOU see-saw
away on your plank, and take good
care that you don't fall Off Your
speech was sorter spitefuI, j oshua, and
if reduced'to its gum would read about
thus : "Boys, I'M whale lam, and
I'm prophet, and if you don't elekt
me to to the Senate III go TO Wash
inton and give you the devil"
Well, 1--we didcnt elelSt him, Mr. Tam
many, and the devil may come In
the landgwage Of Patrick Henry, "lct
him come'-l repeat it, sur, "let him
come" There was another candidate,
Mr.. Hall, whose name was Jeemes
Johnsin. Well, ] like Jeems purity
well. He dident run nobody down,
nor put on airs. | mout have voted
for him if he had lived in the State,
and hadent liked Horshel better.
The truth is, was partial TO Jeems
for his cold lang sine" He was a pow
erful war-horse in sixty one How
glorious he figured at the Columbus
war meetns. lie encouraged the boys
amazin, aud he beat anybody a gittin
volunteers. How proud was we Of
him that night, when he and Colonel
Sims made friends on the stand, and
the Colonel pin'd a secession cockade
upon Jcems' coat-collar. lie then got
inspired, and spoke for two hours in
words that brcathed Of ditches and
death, and was full ofthc spirit of "76.
His watch-word were "BcaHiag and
Secession and he voted for them both.
Oh, he's n whale in getting up war.
Alas J he were SIX semper then, but he
are six transit now. So mote il be, Mr..
Tammauy; eouldent holp it. How
snmdevcr, 1t don't matter mnch.
reckon for we've got another Johnsin,
and they are a high-roostin family,
shurc.
\ Now you understand the trouble,
Mr.. Iammany, about the elektlon.
We was buntin two full biooded Union
men who could find their way TO
Washington and back without way
bill, and couldcnt find en-. They aint
in the State, tell you. SO we fell
back upon the old laud marks, We are
riden the old wagin bosses, and our
opinion is, that Andy wont raise any
row in partikler about il. II he does
zee don't care darn.
Yours truly But Arr.
p. Sim gittin TO be highly loyal,
Mr.. Hall, | know | am; for q feller
tried to sell me little nigger to-day,
and 1 'coaldelit bug him. l heard of a
bill that's comm up to bind out the
niggers for % years; and I'm agin 1t.
Barnd il Ill vote for more than so.
You can tell Thad. Stevens of these
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