American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-23

OChAI1C HEhlTAGE.
Posr OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(wich is In the Stait Nv Kentucky, I
September 20 1867
Last week l wuz Invited to go into
Ohio to assist my brethren NV that Btste
The Massedonia cry reached me, 'tCome
and help usp' and ez the cry wuz coup
led with the asshooranee that l shood be
pervided for, Needed it. Couple Mas
sedonian cries with whiskey, and | can t
resist em. / never try. 1 kuowd there
wuzn't much difference atween the Dim
ocrisy Nv Ohio and Kentucky, but wuz
Onprepared fer the s:rikin resemblance l
found. Twins is not more similar. MY
LIST appointment wuz in a pure Dime
kratic couaty. 1t wuz settlement after
my own heart. and the mint my
practist eye restid onto it, my sole leaped
for joy. 1t wuz town wich he'd bin
some day the seat nv bizzins, but rale.
rode runnin some nine miles to one side
Nv it he'd cut off its trade, and their inhab>
itants hevin nothin to do, the better part
nv EN- went with the trade. Nacher
abhors a vacuum, and there rushed in
sich as found it diffikult to live elsewhere
The whole population hevin much leis,
ure fell to pitchin coppers, wich, to make
the game exci,in, they pitched for drinks
Pitchin for drinks soon rendered EN- in,
capable NV more violent exercise and
n a year fir ON the time the trade left em
it wuz the strongest and most intense
Democratic town in the State Ez they
must eat suthin, and ez the groseres
coodent run perpetooally without money,
they he'd occasional spasms NV labor
Then wood they look over to the Ken,
lucky shore, and see thousands Nv jest
sich men ez .heirselves spendin theft
lives in one unendin round Nv copper
pitchin, hoss racin and poker playin,
the niggcr meanwhile a sweatin to fur>
nish the meaus and they would break out
into mnrmurin at the crooel fate wich
cast their lot where every man wuz forst
to sweat for hisselt. and the cuss Of labor
cnodent be filed by proxy. Their prox,
unity to Kentucky tantalized EN-. They
wood hev all gone their Good they hev
raised enuf to buy a niger apiece,
but they coodent. There wuz a most
deliteful look nv serene repose about the
place wich charmed me. Nethin stood
uprite. The sigu.post nv the tavern he'd
bin leaned again 50 much that it he'd
contracted the same habit, the HOSES,
from too rigid economy in the matter
NV oats, wuz leanin agin the side Nv the
barns, the shutters OF the grosseries
hung corperin across the winders in con,
sekence Nv the lower hinges bein broke,
the clap boards on the houses all hangin
by a single nail at one end, presented
any but a regular appearance, and the
men we're all either sittin on store boxes,
or leanin agin whatever possessed safi>
cient strength to keep em up. fs'fat
was enthusiastically reserved. The
town wuz excited on two questions. l..
Taxation. 2. Niger Equality. The
cheermen Nv the deputashun wuz the
most cheerin style Nv Demokrat he'd
seen for years. His indepen lent hair he'd
pushed It's way thro the top nv his hat
and bristled in all directions, biddin de.
iance to the world his toes pertrudin
from his shoes aud his tSowsers hangin
lopsided by one suspender indicated a
sovereign contempt for appearances, He
begged me, with tears streeming down
his eyes, to rouse the people agin the
dangers wich threatens en-. --'sThink sed
he, "uv the hundreds Nv thousands Nv
millions, wich we, the people are forced
to pay in taxes to the General Govern
ment, and rouse EN- to the necessity Nv
ackshen y
81 will" sed 1, III will. State to me
the amount NV taxes paid the tyranikIe
government by this Arsajen spot, that |
may hev the data from wich to speak. I"
Taxes p returned this patriot with an