The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-08-29


elbow shall we git in ?" sighed Bel
mont.
"Ah, indeed, how ?" answered Hen
ny Clay Dean.
"That's the great moral question
Ihow?" choked Ben Wood.
"dy friends % sed Thurlow Weed,
''its easy enuff. When 700 can't sore
like the eagle, crawl like the snake
Sorin is preferable, but craWlin will
do at a pinch. Is ther not the Lion
NV the Republic? Can't 700 git him
out and mount him? The Ablish-
nists hev a regard for that same Lion,
and will never discharge their arrers
lat yOO when yoOr on his back, for fear
NV KILN him. Besides yOor ridin
him will in some degree do away
with the prejodiss they have agin yOO."
"But how kin we mount him ?" said
they.
"Trust us fer that ?" said Wood, and
him and Raymond trOtted off to git
him.
They got the Lion out, but ez soon
ez he cast his eyes onto the crowd he
uttered a roar wich struck terror into
their soles, and Iashed the ground
with his tail, and cast up dust with
his claws in a manner fearful to be-
hold.
"He'lI never stand it'' sed Weed,
confess he's blind folded" and Thur
low wrapped Raymond like wet
dish-rag over his eyes, and that done,
him and Randall pared his nails and
blunted his teeth, so that eff the ban
dage shOOd wiggle off and he shOod
see wher he wuz he cOOdent hurt any
body, and shaved his name, till he
looked like very innocent Lion in
deed, so that his appearance wOOdent
startle them not used to his tiercenis,
and in that cOndishn they led him
very quietly down to the crowd and
gave the word to mount.
Lord wat a scramble ther wuz.-
They piled on from the tip Nv his ears
to the end of his tail, and them wich
coodent git on for lack NV room, hung
to the feet Nv them wich he'd got on,
until it wuz nothin less than pyra-
mid Nv Democrats.
Finally, when all wuz loaded, the
word wuz givin and the lion moved
/ of. fThey wuz delited. He had
strength enuff to carry EN-, and he wuz
a caryin NV EN- straight on to the
White House, and at a good pace, too.
Ez they approached the portals, the
Ablish defenders Nv the place opened
onto EN-.
"Hold!" sed Weed, "wood 700 de-
stroy the Lion Nv the Republic ?''
"Stay yoor handsw shreeked Ray
mond, "Tbe savior Nv the country is
under u.s."
But they lafft them to sBorn.
ats Brite and Vallandigum, the
Woods, ct settry, we're firin at"
shreekt they, singing ez they fought,
"The Battle Cry Nv Freedom" "John
Browns body lies a mouldrin in the
gravel" and sich otehr sacriligiOus
Odes. ats them we see, and them
We'll kilIv'
And they belted away till the whole
mass wuz stretched dead and dying
on the plain.
Then they came up and began to /
turn over the corpses, one by one, un-
til at last they came to the body Nv
the Lion, wich, peerced thrO and thrO,
wuz ez dead ez any Nv em.
''My God" sed they, ''It Is the Lion
after aU"'
"And we've Stayed himH' sed an
other.
"WelI, !" remarked a third, awe
-eOodent help it. He wuz so kivered
up with this carrion that I coodent
make out wat it wuz they wuz a ridin.
Let us give him a descent burial, for the
good he hez done, and forget, eff we
kin, the company he died in"
And at this critkle juncter aWOke.
hev an idea that 1 kin see a sort
Nv a warnin in this dream. 1t occurs
to me:
1st. That eff we do ride Grant,
We'll hev to divest him NV his name,
teeth and claws, wieh is the identikle
qualities wich makes him valOoable to
US.
I'd. That with us on his back, we
will probably succeed in KILN him,
without savin us. Grant mite deod-
Orize a dozen or two Nv US, but the
whole party! Faugh! 1t wood be
a pint Nv cologne to square mile Nv
carrion.
3d. That eff we wuz Wrapt all around
him, the people wOOdent be able to see
him anyhow, and wat good wood he
do us?
Interpretin the dream thus, I shel
oppose his nomination. Besides, I
doubt whether all the Weeds and
RaymOnds in the country kin so
manipulate him ez to bring him quiet
ly into our ranks. We mite possibly
go over to him, and thus git the priv
.iIege NV votin for him, but wherefore?
How about the offisis, then? Eff the
Ablishnists vote for him, and we
vote for him, the obligation is ekal,
and between us is ther any doubt
wiCh he'd choose? I don't want to
take sich chances. I'm opposed to
the movement. I care not wat others
may do, but ez for me, give me
straightout DimOcrisy or nothing
Mcclellan WUz a venCher Wich salts
fed me ez to the prOpriety Nv under
takin to set a roarin lion a cOnvOyin
a flock Nv peecefuI lambs into green
pastors.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ,
(Which is Postmaster.)
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