The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-04-26

THE BLAIRs FoREvER!'
"Will the Ablishn SENT ratify
the treaty ?" askt johnson eagerly.
81 converst with many on the
suhjick, and they sed ef we Good
promise that the Blairs wood accept
posishens ther, they wood do it
cheerlly. For sich a purpose, sed
one Nv en- to me, S7,000,000 is q
mere bagatelle."
"Tll do it," sed johnson. l agree
with the Senators for once. Rather
than hev it fail Id pay it out NV Mrs. |
Cobb's share in our lint spccula.
shens. Freedom from the Blair
family! Good Hevings! kin one
man be So blcst2 Is ther sich in
store for mep S7,000,00O Pish 7"
My opinyun bein askt give it,
Ez hefty ez the vencher is from o
commershl stan. pint, in n politikle
pint Nv view, the advantages will be
still heiftier. The Rooshn Territory
will finally be the chosen home NV
the Dimocrisy. Their is already a.
populashen there adaptid to us, who
kin be manipulated without trouble,
and the climit is favorable to strick-
ly Dimocratic populashen. The
treble with us here is that the
amount NV Iikker necessary to the
manufakter NV a Democrat kills him
sfore he hez opportunity NV votin
many times, which keeps us in per-
petooal minority. Our strength is,
tor climatic reasons, our week.-Mrs.
Far different is it in Roosha. Their
the happy native may drink his quart
per day-the bracin atmosphere max
IN it abslootly nessary for him
Their is the troo Democratic para.
disc. How often hev / sighed for
sich country. Then, agin, ther are
posishens Nv profit. The delegates
to Congriss will, ef hev Gggered it
ritely; draw about S45 900 per seshn,
mileage, wich is $4,000 per year,
100000 per term. lie Good afford
to serve without the paltry $4,000,
wood be cheep legislntin, indeed.
And so 1t wuz agreed upon, and
the treaty wuz made by telegraph at
a expense uv--I forgit eggsactly-
but l think IT wuz summers in the
neighborhood NV 100000. Before
it wuz finely conblooded, some 9th.
er little incidentals wuz inclooded
by tina Ear, wich run the price up to
$40, 200, 900, but that wuz nothin for
us. Seward ws6a at his work with
great energy. The purchis wuz di.
vided up into six territories-(f for
the number NV delegates to our con.
venshuns wuz large and they all he'd
to be provided for,) wuz named, re
spectively, johnson, Seward, Cowan,
Doolittle, Randall ald Welles. For
the one in the extreme North, the
furthest off, Frank Blair wuz appint.
ed Governor for the next, Mont.
gomery, and the next, the old man,
and other three wuz held in reserve
for the pure but unfortunate patriots
wich mite be hereafter rejected for
the Austrian mishun. A list wuz
prokoored NV the delegates to our
various convenshuns and them ez
he'd bin martyred by the SENT, their
names wuz put into wheel ez at
Gift Enterprises, and the Judge.
ships, Marshalships, Clerkships, ct
settry, wuz drawd by lot. This ice
XIII fssGstsdu due9Xn BIZ HtSst@tst HtSss ~sy 81
doin it. He statid that the appint
ments from his department he'd alluz
bid made in this manner, ez it saved
time eggsaminin petitions, certifikets
NV htnis, and sich. In this way,
about ez near ez kin estimate, two
per cent NV those claimin posishens
at our hands hev bin provided for.
The idea is capable NV unlimited
extensions. The Administration
feeling the rcleef it hez gin EN-, are
al negotiatin for the British Provinc.
es. This territory kin, by maxim NV
EN- little smaller, be divided up in
to, say, forty, wich, by maxim a few
more ofiises for each, and bein libral
with explorin cxpedishuns and sich,
Will be sufficient TO give places to all
who really have claims upon us and
who are pushin us.
The President breathes easier, and
the Secretary is placid cz a Summer
mornin. lie hcz cut tie Gordian
knot; he hez relieved hisself NV the
boa ccnstrickter wich WIZ cruslIin
him in its folds. IIappinis pervades
the White House.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ.
(Which is Postmaster), and likewise
Professor NV Bibhkle POliticks in
the Southern Classikle d Military
lnstitoot.