The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-12-20
BIDDEFORD, Me- FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1867.

ed to die, and took remarkable good care Il
preserve hisself intact, and returned 10 pla
que US A live politikel martyr Is a mos
inconvenient pieca Nv fhrni,oor. Mancn
Is very much like gruntin swine, Nv yoos'
only aher death, and then they arc only Il
for present yoosc. However swee. the!
may bc while fresh, they won't do to sal
down. The story Nv his wrongs did al
very we'll for two or three campains, but tn
people hev he'd cnuff NV Il. It sours OF
their stumicks. Its got to be to the Dem
ocrucy, wat hash Is to boanlcrs. 1t obtride
itself. When there Is Senator to elect
up comes this martyr und busts IN anon;
the wires. like bull In china shop, de
mandin II ez the price Nv his suffering TO
the coz. Its all very we'll when tho marty
hcz sonthin to recommend him beside hi
marsyrdom. otherwise he becoms noos'
ence NV the first magnitude, wich calls fol
speedy and efFectooal abatement.
wich then, slial we hev fot our Presi
dent? There is one man, upon whom The
minds Nv the Dimocmcy Nv the country al
ceutre. I allood, need I, who write "P. NJ
after my name, soy to A Johnson. He Il
our rock and our chiefest trust, and in him
only hev we refuge. II seem clear to me
that he l,ez all the qualities for success
fil candidacy. He wuz born Nv poor pa
rense, in poor year, and in very poor
State. Ills father died when he wuz sc
young That he didn't remember him foI
sinthin like iiiy years after, and he wuz
lef poor orphin to make his way alone In
the world. He referred to this interestir
fact In his inaugural speech on the 4'h Nv
March, 1865. He made Nv himself tailor
and actooally worked on the bord for liv'
In, and read histry while workin indus.
triously at his trade. For the benefit Nv
the people I wood state fact that may moi
be generally known. that he. from this yer!
umble beginning hez swung around the en-
tire cirkle Nv otfishl honor. holdin at differ
ent times, every offs In the gin Nv the peo
ple, from Alderman Nv his native village
up to the Presidency. Ef remember, h'
incidentally referred TO these facts in
speech he mnde wunst.
There arc other reasons for givin him th'
nomination Nv which these ure the mos
prominent:
/. Ef he isn't nominated and elected
Seward, Weed. Raymond, Randall, AM
Secretary Wells will to wunst go back Il
the Republican party.
9. lie hez the afiechns Nv nearly ever.
offs holder in the Yoonited Statcs, and wa
fite they wood make to retain their 70
sishens.
8 His Dcmocrisy is en,irele satisfactor!
to me. tie temporarily abl'ern,ed, but whcI
he returned, he WIZ fercer than ever. HI
clainbered long way up the mountain ~
Ablishen, It Is troo, hut when he fell. h'
only sunk deeper in the mire of Democrisy
We need never fear to trust sich man.
4. Hs hex incurable hatred NV the Alb
lishnists. When they woodent receive hin
corjelly on his various toors, he swore eter
nal hostility to EN-. Hence we kin depend
upon hez bein troo to ,s.
s. Ez fiirthur guaranty Nv faithfulnis
may sny that I hev it from the best All
,hority that he takes only whisky strate
hevin given over all them delnoralizin fan
cy beverages wich sedoost him when h'
WIZ In the bonds Nv iniki,y and the gall u,
bitterness.
Their are other reasons, but these nrt
sufficient Let us put onto the ticket will
him Henry Clay Dean, and the arrange
ment is complete. We hev the North ant
South represented, and the intellectual AM
non.intellectooal wings Nv the Dimocrisy
love Dean. Ez he stands uforc nm urIjcnct
in all his grcasiness, feel that there b
su,hin in him wich we must admire.
close this urtikel with suggcstin the follcrir
ticket:
For President,
ANDROO JOHNSON.
(rhe pride Nv the PostInasters
For Vicc.Presldent,
HENRY CLAY DEAN.
Respectfully,
a Kentucky Postmaster,
shel sign !, thus so that in case an!
other man succeeds. the authorship kin b'
denied.
PETROLEUM v. NAsBr, p. NJ,
fWich il Postmaster