The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-01-16

somehow or somehow else,T Or we'd stay
out foreverand ever, amen, and be hanged
to EN-, so called, 1golly.L : RI >
Up II, this time it have been an up hill
-bisness.- The team was a good one and
the gear all sound and the wagln greasdi
but the road are perhaps the rnffest, rot
tenest corduroy in the world: Its pull
up and skotch, and pull up and
sketch, and ever and anonymous
the skotch slips out and the tdnS cuts
round and away we 60 into the gully
Andy Jonsin is the driver, and he says
-"Go slow" and he hollers F" Wo we ="
and loses the road, and then we have to
90 back to thefork and wait TIL he blaz:
es the way. He seems to dom his best,
but then thar is Sumner and Satan and
Stevens and Davis and other like gentle.
men, who keep hollerin at him and crack
in his whip, and confusin his idees, SO
that sometimes we don't know whether
he's gee.in or haw-in. Ny friends, about
them fellers, I don't know what ! ort to
saw, IF YOU do, or if anybody does, L
wish they would say it, l don't encoufc
ace cussin ia nobody, not at all, but II
von know of a man that can't be broke
IF II dnrin his material life, it mout be
well to hire him by the year. ltther is
in all history a good exkuse and proper
subiek, it is upon them hairless, soulless,
bowelless, gizzardless, fratrisldel, suisl-
del, parasidel, sistersidei. aboninabul,
contemptibul, disgustibul individuals.
sometimes think of EN- till my brains
gifts sorter added and feel like becumin
a volunteer convikt of the Lunatic Asy'
lorum. Charity incl ines me to the opln-
yum that old Sumner are crazy. | think
he has been gittin worse ever since he
took Brooks on the brain, and it do seem
ike the disease have proved con-
taous. IF they are for Peace it must be
the Peace that passeth all iunderstrndin
for we can't fathom it in these regions.
They font us to free thepoor niger, but
didn't keer for the Union. The Western
bows fout us for the. Uuion but didn't
keer for the niger, By double teamin
on us they licked us and we give it up,
but now the one don't want our niggers
and the other don't want our Union,
and it's the hardest skedule to please
EN- both that a poor Yanquished pee
pul ever undertook. It's the most
hardest war to wind up that history
records. Sumner, Satan d Company
are still fussin and tumin about the
eyerlastin nigger-want him to vote and
mako laws, and squat on q Jewry, and
want to perhibit us rebels from dom the
same thing for thirty years to cum
,Jeerusalum where is the cussin man
They say it's all right for a niger not tc
vote in Connecticut, bekause there aini
but a few of EN- thar, and its all wrong
for EN- not to vote in Georgia bekause
there's a heap of EN- here, and they talk
Looik and Retorick amazin to prove
how it is Well i haint got whole pas
sci of sence like some, but as shore as
I'm two foot high a niger is niger
don't keer whar you smell him, and
vote iss vote l don't keer whar
you drap it. 1 golly They can't git
over that.
The truth is, my fellaT citizens, some
times feel like we dident hav no govern
ment. felt that way, sorter, when Mr.
Gibson appinted me committee Oh the
State of the Republik. When the Sex
rotary read my name all mixed up with
the Republik, felt that | was obleegeo
to renig. Risin majestikally to my feet
saysI, =" Mr.. President, l beg to be re
spekably exkused sir, if you please. Il
thar is any Republik on this side Of Jor
dan can't purseve it at this time with
these specks. Thar was place in Ole
Vireiny called Port Republik, but Mr.
rebel General Stonewall Jackson wiped
out its contents generally in 1868, and
haven't since heard of it in Northern lit
erature. have heard of 4 scrub con
sarn over about Washington they call q
Republik, but. sir, it are likely to prove
the biggest imposture that ever existed
on q continent of freedom. | suppose
sur, it are to be removed to Boston OIL
the Internal regions in few days and
want nuthin to do with it. Exkuse me
sur, but must insist on bein respectful.
IL discharged ] took my seat amid
the profoundest and tamultues silence
ever seed, and Mr.. Gibson remarked that
he wouldent impose the Republik on
no respektable man agin his wishes He
then transferred me to the Finants com
mittee, and sed he hoped we would take
immediate action, for the State
had no money, as well as himself,
and board was high and eat seteras fire.
quent, This may not have been his
exaktual langwidge. but is auglin to.
ward it. Ibowd my head and said dit.
to, exsep that ! don't eat seteras." Forth
with telegraph VARIOUS gentlemen for a
temporary loan. but they wouldn't lend
a dollar until Mr.. jenkins were norge.
rated, fol they wanted his name to the
note. Thinks, says /, there's tap lost
about the wagin. If we are State, I'VE
can borry money in Augusty If we
amt q State, it's none of our bisness to
borry it at all If Andy wants to run the
machine his own way, let him pay his
own expenses What in the dickens is a
Provisional Government for, if it amt to
get up provisions and provide for a fell
Ter generally. made up my mind that
perhaps we had been humoripg Andy
about long enui, We had as much right
to a Governor as Alabama or South Car
DINA. He wants us back about as bad
as we want to get back, and little
Bladder, perhaps, and he needn't put on
so many unnecessary airs about this Sem
ator bisness. Ifhe fools with us much,
we won't elect nobody-I golly we'll
take the studs and go backwards. /
forthwith returned to the Capitol and
stretching forth one of my arms, ses /,
Mr.. Gibson, sur-Im your friend-rm
tho friend of vonr wife and children: Int