The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-03


a few witch comes to some demoralized
niggers who hey learned to read, and
the Office NV the Freedmen Burow
here) read to the crowd the news Nv
the canin witch Rosso, witch is NV Ken
lucky, give Grianell. 1t sent thrill
NV joy through the Staff witch amt
done thrillin yet. Dustin out into
nine harty cheers, we to-wunst
meetin for the purpose nv
expressin our feelins on the moment
Gus occasion. The bell Wuz rung, the
people gathered together and ! wuz
elected chairman (they alluz elect me
to preside becoz I'm ald-hedded--
they think bald-heads and dignity is
inseparable,) and Deekin Pogram sec
rotary. with Sc Vice Presidents, one
for each Staff. | made short speech
on takin the chair, congratulatin EN-
on the suspicious event witch called us
together. Whereupop committee on
Resolutions wuz appinted, wlch after
short absence reported ez follows:
WHEREAS, Hevin got the worst Nv
the argument, he dextrously turned it
into blackguardin; and
WHEREAS, Heven got the worst wv
the blackguardin, he remembered the
ancient usages NV the chivalrous sons
NV the South and caned him, therefore
be it
ReSolred, That we, the Dimocrisy NV
Confedrit X Roads, which is in the
Stait Nv Kentucky, hereby thank Gin
eral Rosso for his manly vindicatiOn
Nv the character NV Kentucky.
ReSOlUed, That we know not which
to admire the most, the dashin Gin
erals courage in bravin the public
sentiment Nv the North, or his pru-
dence in selectin the smallest and,
physically, weakest man in the House
to demonstrate onto. GlfHa
l5i RESOLVED, That ez Thad Stevens is
20 years uvlage. and lame, and hardly
recovered from his fit NV sickness, we
suggest that our beloved hero com
mence a argument with him, feelin
that so far ez the argumentand black
guardin goes the result will be the
same, only so much more so ez to give
him good excuse for KILN him, wich
wood be dom the South servis in
deed. Ie fa 1855 nsdf 51om 5
3U Resolred, That the Dimoerisy Nv
Kentucky .heYent felt so good since
the Memphis Riont. o.
Resolred. That this manly act Nv
Gineral Rosso's makes up and COM
pensates the South for the outrage he
inflicted onto her when he jined the
vandal host witch devastated her soil,
and that hereafter he shell be received
with just the same cordiality ez tho he
he'd gone into the Confedrit instid NV
the Fedral servis. if4 t
Res0lUed, That the thanks Nv the
Dimocrisy are due the bold, brave
men who accompanied and stood by
Gineral Rosso in this yindication NV
the Southern spirit. c8saf
7 / put the affirmative ez is the Gus
tom here, it bein the rOol, when the
leaders want thing to pass, never to
call for the nays, and it went through
all right Then [ arose and stated /
he'd another. resolution, WITCH | wished
to offer, and [ read it:
ResoiUed, That retainin in the Post
Offs at the Corners, Ablishnist,
President johnson is h1s.fl !
AT this point Deekin Pogram inter
rupted me. He spozed this meetin
wuz called to congratulate Ginral
Rosso, and wat wuz the sense NV mix
in up mltry Post Offs with a matter
NV so much importance ez the canin NV
a Ablishnist? 1t wuz clearly out NV
order. +tla 1914
I replied: Wood you be glad or
wood this congregashun be glad to hev
me in the Post Offs, in place Nv that
Ablishnist?'
. The Deekin replied that personally
he wood. He had the highest respect
for my massive talents and my excel
lent qualities Nv head and heart, and
besides he thought probably eff | got
the Post Offs, he wood stand chance
NV gettin the nine dollars and sixty
two cents borrowed money | owed
him, and
| called him to orde at once.
Bascom, who keeps the grocery, and
who furnishes me with likker (Which I
hex to take for my hair on the
strength Nv remmittances / am to re-
ceeve, insisted on hearin the resolution
eff it wood further my gettin the Post
Offs, and so did the benevolent gen
tleman with whom board, and l re-
soomed Il kin see a good reason for
incorporatin resolushun demandin a
change in the Post Offs into the pro-
ceedins NV this meetin. |" There
wood be my friends sed /, mo yoose
NV sendin him naked resolution de-
mandin this change, becoz he receives
hundreds and tens Nv hundreds Nv
apnlications for offices every dav-in
fact they pile in at SIGH rate that he
never opens the half NV them, The
Dimocrisy, my brethen, are alive on
this subject, Eff they are to support
the President they want, and will hev,
the post ofises. for Nv what use is. it to
support man and pay yoor own ex-
penses? 1t is plain that the proceed
ins of Post Offs meetin wood never
reach him, but this, my brethren, goes
nm to him from the pEnpIE endnrsin