Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-11-14
Nasty.

Nasty.
The October ELections-Mr. .ta,6y's Opin-
ion on The cause of The defeat of The Prss-
fGent.
CoNFEpRTr y ROADS,
(which is in the s ait Nv Kentucky, :
October IA, 1866.
| wux called in haste 10 Washington to be
present = Cabinet msetin called consider
the causes he unparalleled loosenln Nv the
Nashnel Union Johnson Dimekr1tic party in
the various states which held elections on the
9th NV October last. There wuz Seward,
Wells, McCulloch and Randall present, but
we missed Raymond and Beecher. they hevin,
] understand, playei of onto US.
The President wuz gloomy He hedn't an
tcipated the defeat. He spected that hsvin
showed hisself through all the Northern States
ther ought to hev ben enthoosiasm enough en-
volved to hev carried EN- without trouble The
fault he remarked, coodent be with his policy.
Their wuz suthing SO grand, so subhmey siu-
pie in il, that it WIZ incompre hsnsible 10 him
why the people hedn't al adopted it.
-" Why look at it. sed he 4" offer the peo-
pie Nv the North peace, on the simple sondish-
Nv ssyin nothln more about the war, or the
mutual trouble wich they found thsirsslve into.
and rushin into the arms OF their Southern
brethren, and takin Nv en- back Jst they
I
! blind to refoose these olive branches
Randall replied that he coodent understand
/ it, but be had summoned postmaster to at
/ tend, wich he he'd appinted on his solemn as
shnnran". 'ha' n. GOOD carry enough RNPnhii
cans over TO our new party 10 defeat The Union
member in that District, hch be notist by the
papers wuz elected by larger majority then
! be had ever receved and in waitin.
Bring in the wretch" shouted the Presl-
dent, and the guard brung him in. A mizabie
lookln objick he wux. Ex soon he saw the
stern eye Nv the President fixed on him, be
sunk TO bis knees and lifted up his hands i'm
plornly, without sayin word.
Speak, said the President, /" why the
result in yoor Deestr:ct ?"
My liege lord - replied the wretcbed man,
50 know not. Faithfully have labored, but
the people wood come into the house holdn
their noses and set holding " m SO long ez
wuz speakin, wich wuzn't conducive to dis
plays oratory. The papers wood publish
my own utterances six months before which
confused me somewhat, and the sblishnis,s
would read at me yoor spec ches wich | coodn't
akkonnt for. sekoored something like q
dozen votes but they wuz them ez stipulated
for places under and | he'd hard work TO
git em, from the Union party, and they were
sich sz did US more harm than good. And be-
sides -
Enutf p sed johnson, remove him. I"
And the poor fellow wuz bundled out.
Secretary Wells knovd what wuz the mat
ter. 1t come of taking Grant and Fsrrygut
along on the excursion. 1t distracted the at
tention the people. He'd there bin nobody
, but the President and the Cabinet along, there
woodent hev bin nobody to hurrah for, and the
sublime trooths wich the President kin only
! Jerk wood hev impressed the people more than
. they did.
!: Seward wuz confident that the election wood
4 n u =. H. -. ol
D ninety days, while McCuoeh attributed it &c
o the limited knowledge the masses he'd Nv IT,
d jeany bankin.
. l wuz rekested to give my views, wlch did
My IL rds," sed !, " none Nv you hev got the
J, ice. We wuz beet because We left tie land
It marks,-tha.s wat allied us,-wuz The ansh.n
s landmarks. Wat he'd to 60 into this can
vass with ? Democrisy Not any, for tina
wuz saulched at Philadelphia. Wat then
IT Why, the offises? Ofises in the abstract il
Il good. That little which hold in Ken
@ lucky l coodent be ndoost to part with on M
akkount, but you can't run party on em, De
Q | cause ,nere amt enough NV EN-.
u My liege, on my return from the fhiladei
:, phia Convention, | arried awhile in Berk
9 County, which is in Pennsy vania, and is dis
4 tinguished for the uDanimity with wich the.
vote Democracy. My liege, they learned dow
10 there morn six weeks ago that the war WI
over and therefore yoo coodent stir EN- up o
drafts. Taxes they had got used to, and tina
dioent move EN-, and so the speaker WI
'e empty ing schoolhouses by talking Nv the re
Ie suits NV glorious war, wich they all opposed
:. and praisin our mutual friend Seward, whic
. they had aluz hated as Atlishnist and he dn
I heern yet that he he'd iined the Demockrac
C Wuz it any wonder that went under
~ Their amt but one thing left to us, and that "
a. stran gely neglected. My liege, why wux tn
nigger not made the central fgger this year q
d. beforep They is the capital Of the Democrls
is its refuge its tower If strength. spok
cd in Berks County myself, following one OF ,her
,.+ pewfapgled Democrats who had set EN- ai
asleep talkin stuff to EN- that they ddens VI
AZ derstand. Mountin the rostrom, tlscula
lat ed
, a MEN AND BRETHREN. DO YOU WANT I
m MARRY A Niger p No no ! they ans We
.. cd, Strengthening up to wunst.
sne Do you want laws to prevent you fro
marying nggers ? yes
DO you want to be marched up to the pol
y by those who tell you how to vote beside
y. nigger No !! no!'
Is. Then vote the Demekratic ticket aud tht
ch all replied-'we will, We will!' and they did
,;. You see, your Exslency, the Demokra'
A-" mind isent betty enough to comprehend the
nR' fine arguments ex to constitootoually, ct setI
nd; and when q speaker deals in en- they suspe
ue his Diuocrisy and hght shy Nv him. But nj
.1. ger they kin all understand. Il's soothin
P the Dimekratic mind to be continooally to
no that there il somebody lower down in the SCI
ties they desire . inferior race, and, therefore
q b been pullin the niggeE down toward em
bv years. Did 700 not notis whenever We VI
it. on the niger, ws succeeded In awakening