Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-24

At this junctoor Secretary Welles cum
"Ha ~ sed he, ''why this unwonted
hilarity? why this JOY where greet gener-
ally holds her court ?''
The Connecticut elecshun,' said Sew
ard
90, to be sure,'' sed the venerable old
man. vacantly 8 [ remember Hawley, |
wuz it, or some other man who wuz elected
over-over-wat wuz his name? our can
didate ?''
That wuz last yeer.' sed Seward, an
grily.
"Well, perhaps it wuz When did that
State vote again. asked he, innocently,
to wich no answer wuz given. But very
little attention is paid to Sekretary Welles
by any one ceptn Seward; and the fact
that he occasionally undertakes to keep
him posted in current events is generally
taken ez evidence that he's breakin up.
Poor William, its evident that he's paSSin
into his dotage.
Their wuz Il pleasant gatherin. Cowan
wuz ther, and Salisbury and Garret Davis
and Doolittle and Seymour and Brooks,
and more congratulary letters wuz read
than wood fill page uv the Moo York
Herald John c. breckenridge hoped
this auspicious event wuz the beginnin uv
/ goood feelin. presagin ez he trusted it did,
the evenchooel triumph NV them wich he
he'd alluS been proud to call his friends.
/ Mayor Mmroe ny Moo Orleans, hoped
! that after this evidence uv returnin rea-
son, President johnson wood not hesitate
to remove that second Butler, Gen. Sheri
den who wuZ ojIous to every friend the
+ President he'd in the city sv which he WIZ
recently Mayor. gen Wise sent his con-
eratulations, but a. they okkepied thirty
eight pages of legal cap paper, closely
written. they wu>nt read Mosby sent an
allegoricle pipe made uy a corn cob, onto
which wuz carved Il symbolicle nigger
with the American eagle with his claws
into his wool, with his congratulations. and
I Fernando Wood and Jesse ID. Brite. and
/ Dan Voorhees, sent theirn. and Nallandig-
ham wanted to know now whether or not
+ the President wuz :, going TO accept the
situation and take the Dmocratic party to
/ hi> buzzum? Et' 80, he he'd list of apint
ments for Southern Ohio which he wished
made At this pint the question arose
whether or not | he'd not better move my
I Classicle and Military Institoot to Con-
neeticut? | am practicle man, and to
wun,t asked cz pertinent to the question,
whether OF not there wuz distillery in
/ Connecticut. and >ckond whether or not
there wuz a vacant post offs within four
mile, uv i.
Secretary Randall replied He wood
not hold out Endorsements that he coodent
fulfill He wuz honest Honesty wuz his
best holt-,imple, child-lke Stratetorward
Mss in his declins in poliitix wuz his chief
taiiim and he'd well-nigh been his rooen.
The first query WIZ easy to anser-the
ciccshun returns would Indicate to any
man NV ordinary intellek that there wuz
distillcries either in Connecticut or very
handy to the State but ther wW no post
offs to spare To carry the State every
wuu Nv en- had bin solemnly promised
The President remarkt that he really
,hoodent think that trifin circumstance
wood interfere with given em to other
men.
At this point broke IN told EN-
firmly that unless | could hev Il better
post offs than the wun | he'd, [ woodent
20 | Good 70 and Good move wat there
is ny the College bildinS, 1t woodent cost
much to pay freight on the corner stun.
spose better wun Good be got i'll Con-
nccticut at less than the cost NV transport
in IT, but wherever that Dmocratic col
lege Is built. that must be the corner stun
NV it. That stun Is hallowed There are
tender as>ociashunS hanein round it. 1t
wuz the corner stun uy a nigger skool-
house wich We burnt to the ground the
mite We heerd ny the veto ny the Civil
Rites Bill. Bat | wont go to Connecticut
onlesS my subsistence i ashOOred. Their
Is more money ther than in Kentucky, but
doubt whether they wood support me ez
well. | Speek frankly. | kin understand
why Il man kin be a Dimocrat in Ken
tucky-he's interested in niggers | kin
appreciate the Dmocrisy uv Southern In
icany, Illinois and Ohio, coz they cum from
that region, and the sekond generation
haint got to be voters. can understand
the Dimocri>y in Hcenan's and Fernando
Woods deestriks, but pardon me-l want
to keep very clear uv Connecticut Dino
, Gratis \ people amy wher in Moo England
= who can deliberately sell themselves to us
is Just the kind NV people | don't want to
be among-i instinctively mistrust Yam
kee who hez dickered away her interest ii
Z Bunker Hill htt notist that NoC
2 Enelander wich Gums South and married
) an old maid or widder with u plantation
: wuz never to be trusted, and its my expe
E rience that demoralized Yankee-one
4 who hez shed his early trainn, and took
: up ANYBODY clse's moral close, Is about the
e meanest specimen NV white man on the
green earth They hev the acootness wict
e is born NY a barren soil, without the Pu
. ritanism to keep it in bounds-they pos
+ seSS the ability to make a livin on then
a native rox. but his laziness impels him tC
a easier subsistence in milder climes, anC
: instead NV fshin for mackrel he goes soutl
and fishes for men. \ Moo Highlander un
i restrained by grace is pizen, and believe
h Connecticut is full NV EN-. | hev heert
5 Massachusetts religion aboozed, but it
II suthin we may well be thankful for.
V hev allus been thankful that the Mayfowe
e brot over religion ez well ez brains anc
t will
/ Among the Connecticut Dimocrisy
d shood stand no show, and besides [ hev to-
u much self-respeck to soshiate with EN- o
Y terms NY equality. Instead NV foragin OF
r them, they'd manage to live me. [ he
: lambs to sheer in Kentucky, and | don
" care about chan ring EN-. | don't want t
throw any cold water onto this festive oc
n occasion, it bein element we all despise
% but hcv we any asshoorence NV her contir
e vooing troo? E.f | understand it, we wo
Ie by means NV patronage, and runnin wa
Democrat, a bein /, in common with a
T. the true Dimocrisy, despise. We cant