The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-02-02

squat on jury, and want to prohibit
us Rebels from doin the same thing for
thirty years to cum! Jerusalem! where
is the cussin man? They say its all right
for niger not to vote in Connecticut,
bekaus there amt but few of EN- thar;
and its all wrong for EN- not to vote in
Georgy, bekaus there's a heap of em
here, and they talk logik and ret0rik
amazin to prove how it is. Well |
haint got whole passel Of sense like
sum, but as shure as Pm two foot high
a nigger is niger, don't keer Whar
you smell him, and a vote is a vote |
don't keer whar you drap it. gOlly!
they cant git over that.
The truth is, my feller-sitizens, sum-
times feel like we didn't have no Gov
ernment. | felt that way sorter when
Mr.. Gibson appointed me a committee
on the State of the RepubIik. When
the Secretary read out my name all
mixed up with the RepubIik, | felt that
was obleeged to renig. Risin IMAGES
tikully to my feet, says l, ''Mr. Presi-
dent, l beg to be respectively eXkused,
sur, if you please. If there is Repub-
lill on this side Of Jordin, cant pur-
seVe it at this time with these speks.-
Thar was a place in old Virginny called
Port Republik, but Mr.. Rebel General
StonewaIl Jackson wiped out its con-
tents generally in 1868, and | haven't
since heard of it in Northern literature
| have heard of a scrub cOnsarn over
about Washington, they call a Repub-
lik, but sur, it are likely to prove the
grandest impOsture that ever existed
on continent Of freedom. | suppose,
sur, it are to be moved to Boston, or
the Internal regions in few days, and
| want nuthin to do with it. EXkuSe
me, sur, but must insist on bein re-
spektably discharged" | took my seat
amid the most profOundest and tumuI-
tuOus silence ever seed, and Mr.. q. re-
marked that he w0uIdent impose the
Republik on no respectabuI man agin
his wishes. He then transferred me to
the Finants Committee, and sed he no.
ped we would take immediate action.
for the State had no money, a well as
himself, and board was high and eat
seteras frequent. This may not have
been his eXaktual langwidge, but is an
glin toward it. | bowed my head and
said, Ditto, eXcep that l don't eat set
eras." Forthwith / telegrafed VARIOUS
gentlemen for a temporary loan, but
they wouldent lend a dollar until Mr..
Jenkins Wer nOrgarated, for they want
ed his name to the note. Thinks, says
/, there's a tap lost about the wagin. If
we are State, we can bOrry money in
Augusty. If we aint a State, its none
of our bisness TO borry it at all. If An
dy wants to run the masheen his own
way, let him pay his own expenses
What in the dickens is a Provisional
Government for, if it aint TO git up pro-
vishun and provide for a feller gener-
ally. Imade up my mind that perhaps
we had been yumOrin Andy about long
enuf. We had as much right toa Gov
ernOr as Alabama OrSouth Carlina. He
wants Us back about as bad as we want
to git back, and little bladder, preh0DS;
and he needent put on so many unnes-
sessary airs about this Senator bisness.
If he fools much with Us we wont elect
nobody-I gOlly! we'll take the studs
/ and go backwards. | forthwith return
ed to the Capitol, and stretchin forth
one of my arms, ses /, "NIr. Gibson,
sur-I'm your friend-I'm the friend OF
your wife and children-butif if Mr.. Jen-
kins aint norgarated soon the State will
collaps; bright and glorious star will
be Obliterated from off the striped rag.
and the President will lose about nine
supporters in the Federal Congress. !
move, sur, that if we cant git our Gov
ernor at once like a sine Quo nan, we
break up in a row and depart for Mex,
icO." 1t took like smallpox, and We're
carryed toOmultOOusly.