The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-12-20
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Mr.. Nasty pronou,Iess IN fapor Of A. John.
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Mr.. Nasty pronouaess IN fapor Of A. job"
Posr OFFis, ConrEpRir x RoAps,
(Which Is in the StaIt NV Kentucky.)
November Is, 1867
Las week I reserved from Postmaste
Randall the follerin breef note:
WASHINGTON, Nov. l6
Sls:-The Tener NV Offs acts does no
sheeld yoo from removal. Wool Il not b'
well for yoo to declare yoor preference To-
the Presidency It Is my opinion tha
President Johnson Good be indoost 10 &C
cept the nominashun.
A. w. RANDALL. T. NJ. g.
To p. =. Nasty, M csnjsdrit Xroad'.
This note, kiverin threat, put me into
penpirashen. Why, bless the President'
cheerful sole, Nv course kin express NJ,
preference for the Presidency. seninly
kin. I bleeve In A. Johnson. He Is m,
fust and only choice, and will he for fifseer
months to como, without full. ] cannot
say very much for him, but I kin abuse hi'
competitors, and that, possibly, amounts tc
the same thing. The follerin Is note
shel send to the Presidunt for insertion ir
his organ:
Ed. Nashnel lniell,gener:
The question wich jus, now agita,es the
mind Nv Kentucky more, perhaps, than
anything else, Is /: who shel be the nominee
NV the next Nashnel Dimokraiic Conven'
shun? There are many gentlemen spoken
ov in connecshun will, the place, and their
clnilns I perpose, brceAy to consider.
The fus is Gen. George b. Mcclellan
hoosc body hez heen mised for tho pur.
pose. Gen. Mcclellan Is not, don't think
ohjecshunable 10 the Southern people
They hev material and normal objecshur
to emmy one who druwsd the sord agin en-
in the late onpleasantniss, but they do moi
bleeye that G. B. Mcclellan did this. Al
least ef he did do It, 1t wuz only fgerativ
His servises to the Confedrasy in buryin
the tens NV thousands Nv Fedral soGers
aforc Richmond, the brilliant strntegy Nv
his Iootenants in iyn the hands Nv Pope
and Burnside, and keepin them from hurt
in us, aud finally, his r,lnnin with Pendle
ton agiu Linkin, all bind him to the South
cru heart. Any one who Good hey run
agin Linkin in 1864, they konsidder mus
l,ev hin troo to the South. Tie Is the sooth'
inest man to the Southern people wich evel
wore bloc. But he won't nnser In the
flst place, iher isn't time between this ant
the next elecshun for him to make up hi
mind whether he'll accept the nominasllun
or not and secondly, Of he did deside il
time. he lacks prestige. lie hez bin defeat
ell wunce. and 1t wont do to take up q
whipt rooster. Evidently he is out Nv the
ring. .t.
Next on the carpet is Pendleton, Geo. u
Pendlelon, I say, unhesitatinly, won't do
lie won't anser. Their is 100 CRATE dis
,ance atween him and the masses Nv hi'
party. tie uses good English, anil wears
clean shirt collars. and no sich man kin he,
the confidence and esteem Nv the Delnoc
racy NV the trooly Dimokmtic States. These
things, 700 may aver, arc small aud incon
sequenshel. but ! deny il. They are u,
vital importance. Their Is natrnl affinity
between Dimoknsy and dirty collars. dds
never observe when Pen,lleton uddrest the
frcemen NV lnjiauy, how cold and stun'lkt
wuz the aujience ez his finished penod'
fell upon their ears3 Didst never heal
Henry Clay Dean, whose shirts are worr
three consecutive months, and whose stock
ins nre never changcd3 Didst never noti'
how he lifted um? II aint that there's any
difference In wat they say-its In the shir
collar. Beside, Pendleton lez none NV tht
qualities necessary to successful candidacy
He w,lz born tollable well of, and hadn
nary o struggle in his yooth. He didn'
drive on the canal and study Algebra on the
back Nv klckirf mule, and get knockt of
by profane Captain for neglectin his doo'
iy; he wuzn't born IN a log.cabin in the
backwoods, neither did he study grammar
by the lite Nv pine knot, which he held in
ono hand und the book in tothcr. He tlidn'i
learn shocmakin in his boyhoods 8 dazc
when the death Nv his father. wich wuz Ia
mentih by all who knew him, drove the
family into humble poverty neither did he
while upon the shoe bench, feel within him
the cravins Nv noble ambishen, and risin
rush with bis apron on, to law offs, ant
demand to he reserved ez student. None
Nv these. tie wuz born Nv rich hut respec,
uble parence, hoo put him throo college
and startid him in life ez comfortable e'
ever young man WIZ s,arid in the world
It's plane to me that Pendleton won't do.
The same obJeckshens hold agin Sey'
mour. hev no objecshens to him. he hez
done his party servis. Twaz him who
made speech to our Irish fellow.citizens
who wuz engaged in assertin their sooperi
ority over the Afrikin Orphan Asylums in
Moo York in 1868, by burnin Nv en- ant
bea,in out the brains Nv the orfins, and ne
man dooriR the war WIZ firmer friend u,
our Southern brethren than he, hut he,
another Pendleton. Sich man mite anse,
for Vice President, but never for the head
NV the ticket
Pierce sint to bc tl,ot NV, l'ookanan Good
nj stand the pressur Nv the offis.seekers q
week ut his age, aud sich NV Our Southern
Dimocratic Statesman eZ are fit for the
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