Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-11-03
CHOICE MISCELLANY.
Petroleum v. Appeals to the People.
PosToRF1s, Confedrit X Rodes
OctObar !. 1866.

President Johnson. who has been lik-
ened to Androo Jaxon, and wich since
my appointment conseed him to be in
many particlers his sooperior, requested
me and William Ii. Seward, his secretary
and chaplin, to draw up md publish to
the dimocrisy Nv the varius stats holdin
elecshuns this fall, an address, or an APP
pele, firmly belevin that eff he he'd extend
ed his tower to Main, and ishood an ad-
dres to EN-, that stait wood not hev gone
ez it did. William refoosed to take part
in the appele, sayin that it warnt NV no
nse, and so the dooty dissolved on me-
Dimecrats and CONSERVATIVES NV the
north. p.
Appresheating the gravity NV the
ishoo | addres 700. The signs NV the
times is ominus. A radikle congress ell
ected durin the time when the southern
stats witch comprise RELY all NV the intel
lex NV this nashun, didn't take part in the
elekshun, bein too bissy gettin out NV
Sherman's weigh to open poles Kon-
gres, repet, in wich ther aint no southin
men, and wich konsekently kant by eny
stretch NV the hooman imaginashon be
konsidered konstitooshunal, hez dared to
thwart the president NV the united stats
and set up ther will agin his / needn't
scarsly recount'its talEhanded acts Nv
userpashun. 1t passed bill given rites
to niggers, which accordin to skripter-
see Onesimus, Ham and Hager, the only
8 texts in scripter of eny pertilar account,
and the usages NV the dimokrisy, aint
got eny rites, and the Presidint exorsisin
the high derogatives put into his hands
by the konstitooshun, weetoed it. Here
the matter ort to hev ended. He had
expressed in stile strikinly konstitoo-
shunel his objecshuns to the meashur,
and doc regard for his feelins and just
defrence for his notions ort to hev indi-
Gated the rite corse. Here wuz pease of
cred to Kongris. Here wuz the tender
uvan olive twig. The President didn't
want to quarrel with kongris, he didn't
desire kontinuance NV agitashun which
he'd shuk the country like an Illinoise
ager, but he desired peace. Kongris
Good hev had it had they only withdrew
their krude noshuns nv what wuz rite
and what wuz rong-ratifed, as they
shud hev dun, sich laws as the president
saw fit tn make; in short he'd they folerd
the korect rool when we hev dimocrat-
ic president and put the government into
his hands, with abiding trust in his rec
titood ana wisdom, we mite hev avoided
the struggle, and thus wood hev bin
peaceful. But this reckless kongris, bent
upon consentratin power in its own
hands, instid Nv devidin it between him
and Seward, passes the bill over his he'd,
regardless NV his feelins No wonder he
was ruffled, to hev sich a budget thrown
over his he'd! The responsibility for the
dissenshun rests therefore with kongres.
But these questions are all together to
hefty for the dimocratic intellek, so fling
them out for the considerashun NV the
few postmasters we git from the Union
ranks. To the dimokrisy i address my
self more perticlarly.
Doc yoo want to marry nigger P
This ishoo is agin afore yoo. Are 700
in favor NV elivatin the African to po-
sishun where he ken be yoor ekal, or
prehaps yoor sooperier ? That ishoo is
agin afore yoo for yoor decision, only the
danger to yoo is increased. The matter
hez become threatening, for disgise it as
we may, thousands nv EN- can read, and
they are acumilatin property and wearin
good close to an extent trooly alarmin
to the dmocratic mind.
We hev aluz consoled ourselves with
the suthin reflection that there wuz
race lower down in the scale NV humanity
than us-shail we coutinoo to enjoy that
komfort? That's the question for every
dimocrat to consider when he votes this
fall. Remove the weight of legal disa-
billity, and ten to one eff they don't out
strip us even, n,and then wher are we goin
to look for race to look down upon? Its
close thing atwen us now, and as we