The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-09-12
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.

The Kentucky and Tennessee
/ ElectiOns-Fhe Hopes of the
Democracy of the Former
State-HOW They Expect TO
Hold 1t.
! PosT OFFS, CONFEDRTT X ROADS, ! .
(Wich is in the Stait of Kentucky0 :
August l6, 1867.
! It wuz a conjenyal party. Their wuz me
and Deekin POgram, and BascOm, Nv
course, for it wuz at BascOm's, and Capt.
McPelter, and Issaker Gavitt, and Joe Big
Ter, who wuz materially, mischeeYusly in
toxicated. We he'd met to rejOise over the
result of the Kentucky elecshun and the
removal Nv Stanton, and we wuz a reiOisin
for several hours, when the Deekin, bless
ins on his frosty brow, proposed that we
take another drink, to which we akseeded
with alacrity. Ez BasCOm handed back
the Deekin his change, the old man OBJ
served among il a most villainOus counter
felt ten cent postal currency. "BascOm,"
said he in an injoored tone, Greatly can't
take that-its counterfeit" "Certainly
tits, Deezin," said George W., "but what's
the odds? Ez a matter Nv course, Deekin,
I'll get it again afOre tO-mOrrOr. It's
evenehOoally my loss, amt it, ez get all
the money that floats here2 Carry it till
it comes around to me, Deekin, in the
material course of evence. Let us bear each
others burdens, Deekin !" And BascOm
smiled onto him.
1 don't know when I felt so happy.
kentucky had spoken. We had elected
Helm by a majority of forty odd thousand,
and he'd with him elected a strate State
ticket, inclOodin all the Congressman. The
AbOlitiOnists had no show whatever. The
candidates were strate DemOkrats, every
one of em. Some Nv EN- had been ac-
coOsed NV Ieanin towards the Fedrnl side,
but they he'd by affidaVits proved them
selves troo to the DemocrisY. One candi-
date had bin charged by a enYious cuss,
NV hevin furnisht the Federal forces with
hosses, bat he Indignantly repelled the
charge. His enemies brought forerd the
documents shown that he he'd furnisht the
Federal forces with hosses, and 1 trembled
fer him. But he smilinly cum to the
scratch. He he'll contracted to furnish 'em
with hOsses-he he'd taken their accursed
green backs, but wherefore? Wuz it to
benefit 'em? Wuz it to add to the re-
sources of the gorilla Linkin, or the re-
verse? Let the facts answer. When wuZ
the hosses delivered? Ha! ha! Did the
Federal officer git 'em? He did. Did he
keep 'em? Alars That mite John Nor
gan who seeled his devotion to the Con-
federacy with his life's blood, scOoped 'enl,
and them hosses which the Fedrals paid
for did servis III the COnfedrit army. He
would ask his maligners whether it WIZ
sinful for a true COnfedrit to take moneys
of the Fedrals for furnishin supplies to the
COnfederacy? Had these horses remained
i'll the hands of the farmers NV Kentucky,
John Morgan would have felt a delicacy in
takin 'em. Sich TesOnin Good not fail to
convince, and the candidate wuz NV course
electid. The shafts of his enemies fell
pintless.
Therefore, felt happy. The waves Nv
Ablishism rolled over all the other States,
but against Kentucky they struck harm
less. Kentucky is a brite oasis in the
desert. Built onto Ham and Hager,
bleevin in the sOOPeriOrity Nv the white
race, and that same race holdin in their
hands the privilege NV Sayin who shOOd
and who shOod not vote, they wuz safe
And we sOt in silence, contemplatin our
happiness.
At last Deekin Pogram spoke. He sigh !
ed ez he spoke. He he'd heard Nv Tennes-
see. He he'd seen the lection returns, and
he was as much affected ez we was rejOist.
Wherefore" T." sed he, "shoOd we feel good |
while our brethren in Tennessee are wailin |
over ther woes? The nigger with us is in |
on my farm, and four expiatin the cuss Nv /
Noer in my kitchen. The men yield to |
the power Nv the stronger race, and the
females bow meellly to ther destiny. Tom,
my eldest son, is happy and stays at home,
and my other sons is eZ cOntented ez they |
kin be. But it is not so in Tennessee
There they are not normal. There white
men bow beneath power they can't re-
sist. There the nigger hez a vote, and the
white man, who fOIlered his State, is dis
franchised. He Good feel good over Ken
lucky, but he wept over Tennessee.
Bascom remarkt that he too felt for
Tennessee, but he was cOnsoIed. Ken
lucky had proved troO, and johnson, one
worthy son Nv Tennessee, had removed
Stanton. Wat more Good we want2 Ken
lucky had gone Democratic, and johnson
had removed Stanton
"And Tennessee had elected BrOwnlow.
and johnson hez appointed Grant," whis-
pered Joe Bigler.
This bit US. This griped US. This was
wHss nor a cathartic to us. If Kentucky
is oil, Tennessee is aquafOrtis. Eff Stanton
is sOOthin, Grant is pizen. Wherein are
we better with the one than with the otheT2
is question we ask ourselves over and
over again.
But we felt good after all. The DemOc-
racy Nv Tennessee may suffer. There the
Ethiopian votes by State law, but Ken
tucky is herself alone. Kentucky hez vet
the maxim Of her own laws. She will let
them vote ez she sees fit, and none others.
Relyin on Ham and Hager, she will deny (
the niggers that rite, and will keep the !
power in her own hands. COngris dasn't
make a law prescribin the rite of suffrage,
and sayin who shell and who shell not vote, i
- L ] .
ems may shreek, but COngris amt edicated ,
up to the pint uv keepin within hailin dis
.auce Nv ther own principles. COngris
had ruther see them wich adhered to the
of the Federal Government sunk {
han to exercise its power, for so far the .
matter has been left to the States. Like
wise wood it ruther see every nigger in :
no matter if they wuz all Y
Nv Fort Piller, redOost agin to {
her normal cOndishen, ruther than give q
EN- the means Ofpertectin themselves. The =
ligger may be a man in Tennessee, but :
he shell be a nigger in Kentucky forever,
Oecoz it alluz hez bin so. Bless the Lord II
The idea of hOldin to form and clingin to !
precedent is our salvashUn. 1 begged 'em
Ill to dismiss ther fears. Ohio is hagglin I
and bOgglin ez to whether it will give her
liggers the ballot, and eff she refOOses how
XIII SQ6 lulGTlOI6 WlLn hG0IuCkYG Con /
5ris dasn't mix in the matter, for half the 7
men that's sent to Washington hev a
greater fear NV shadders than they do Of
and they sleep with that old hag s
Precedent, when they might as well repose
n the arms Nv the virgin, Progress I
They've got holt Nv the tail of an idea 7
hats too big for 'em-they can't manage :
t from that end and they're afraid to ketch
t at the other.
We shel do well for long time. We
ant afford to shed tears over Tennessee
ct US thank the Lord that kentucky is
afe. Here we kin fog our niggers-here
We shell hev the Institution in sperit, if not
n name-here Dimocrisy kin flourish if no
where else. Let US praise the Lord for 4
Jongris that acts ez a drag on the sperit of
he times, and hedn't pluck enuff to do all y
he people wantid. Let US praise the Lord j
or the conservatism wich wOOdn't let 'em \
make votin nashnel matter, instid of
evin it to US who know so well who to \
i've it to, and who not. So long ez we're \
eft to ourselves, so long will Kentucky be
rue to DimOcrisy.
They felt encouraged, and the convoca-
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