The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-17
Writ en- for the Toledo Blade.
Nasty.

for it wuz ut Bascom's, and Captain McPhel
fer and Issaker Gayitt, and Joe Blgler, VINO
WIZ. materially, mischievously intoxicated
We he'd met to reioise over the result NV the
Kentucky elecksun and the removal NV stan
ton and Sheridan, and we reioist. We heo
reioist for several hours, when the Deekln
biessins on his frosty brow, proposed thai
we take one more drink, to which we ack
seeded with alacrity Ez Bascom handed
back the Deekin his change, the old man OBJ
served among it most villanous counter
felt ten cent postal currency. " Bascom," sec
he in an inioored tone, Greatly can't take
that-it's counterfeit" "Certin tits, Deck
i'm sed George W., certain, but what's the
odds Ez matter Nv course, Deekln, LII
git it again afore to-morror. Its evenchoo
ally my loss, amt it, ez git all the money
that floats here2 Garry it till it comes
around to me, Deekin, in the material course
NV evence Let US bear each others bur
dens, Deekin ?" And Rascom smiled sweet
lY onto him.
don't know when felt so happy. Ken
lucky he'd spoken. We he'd elected Helm
by majority of forty odd thousand, and
he'd with him elected strate State ticket,
incloodin all the congressman, The Alb
lishnists he'd no show watever. The candl-
dates were strate Demokrats every one Nv
'em. Sum NV 'em he'd bin accoosed Nv lean
ing toward the Fedril side, but they he'd by
afidavits proved themselves troo to the De-
mocracy. One candidate he'd bin charged,
by a envious cuss, Nv hevin furnisht the Fed
ril forces with horses, but he Indignantly re-
PEELED the charge His enemies brought
forrard the documents shown that he he'd
furnisht the Fedril forces with bosses, and
trembled for him, but he smiingly cum to
the scratch. He he'd contracted to furnish
'em with horses-he he'd taken their accurs-
ed greenbacks, but wherefore? Wuz it to
benefit 'em? Wuz it to add to the resources
of the gorilla Lipkin, OF the reverse ? Let
the facts answer. When wuz the bosses de-
livered9 Ha hal Did the Fedril offiser
Git 'em? Alars! That mite John Morgan,
who seced his devoshen to the Confederacy
with his blood, scooped 'em, and them hos
ses which the Fcdrals paid for did servis in
the Confedrit army. He wood ask his ma
ligners whether it was sinful for troo Con-
fedrit to take money Nv the Fedrals for furn
ishin supplies to the Confederacy? He'd
these bosses remained in the hands Nv the
farmers Nv Kentucky, John Morgan wood
hev felt q delicacy in takin em; ez the farm
he'd he'd valyoo received, he wuz free and he
took 'em. Sich reasonin Good not fail to
convince, and the candidate wuz, Nv course,
elected The shafts Nv his enemies fell pint
less.
Therefore I felt happy. The waves Nv
Ablishnism rolled over all the other States
but against Kentucky they struck harmless
Kentucky is brite oasis in the desert
Built onto Ham and Hager, believin in the
sooperiority Nv the white race, and that
same race holdin in their hand the privilege
NV sayin who shood not vote, they wuz safe.
And we sot in silence, contemplatin our hap
piness.
At last Deekin Pogram spok He sighed
ez he spoke. He he'd heard Nv Tennessee Hc
he'd seen the lection returns. and he wuz ez
much afflicted ez we wuz rejoist. where
FORE" said he, "shood we feel good, while
our brethren in Tennessee are wallin over
their woes. The niger with US is in his
normal speer. Sence this cleckshen they
bow their heads in silense, and dodge by ez
eff they were afraid Nv us, witch is good
sign. They hev lost the air they asoomed
afore, and are more like slaves and less like
men. l hev twelve Nv EN- a sweatin on my
farm, and four eXpatiation the cuss Nv Noer
in my kitchen. The men yield to the pow
er NV the stronger race, and the females bow
meekly to their destiny. Tom, my oldest
son, is happy and stays at home, and my
other sons is ez contendid ez they kin be-
But it is not so in Tennessee. There they
are not normal. There white men bow be
meath power they can not resist. There the
niger holds up his he'd and the Confedrit
white men sneaks. There the abnormed
niger hez a vote, and the white man, who
follered his state, is disfranchised NV God
how kin man be happy under SIGH circum-
stances? How kin Dimokrat rejoice when
jist across the line he sees liberty weepin,
PROSTATE, and the white man, who struck
or his rites, pinin becoz NV his deprivashen
Nv the rite NV suffrage?" He Good feel
good over Kentucky, but he wept over Ten
nessee.
Bascom remarkt that he too, felt for Ten
nessee, but he wuz consoled. Kentucky
he'd proved troo, and johnson, one worthy
son NV Tennessee, had removed Stanton
Wat more Good we want. Kentucky he'd
gone Dimocratic and johnson he'd removed
Stanton
And Tennessee hez elected Brownlow,
and johnson hez appinted Grant," whispered
Joe Bigler.
and" spoke up McRelter, and Sheridan
is removed"
Troo! troo p retorted Bigler, "and put
Thomas in his place. The man who whaled
us in the Shenandoah Valley is deposed to
make room for the man wat whaled us IN
Tennessee
This bit us. This griped u.s. This is wuss
nor charlie to us. Eff Kentucky is oil
Tennessee is aquafortis. Eff Stanton is
soothin, Grant is plzen. Wherein are we
better with the one than with the other q
is a question which we askt ourselves over
and over agin.
But we felt good arter all. Tennessee is
to the Dlmocrisy dark cloud, but Ken
lucky is the silver linin to it. Eff no Con- |
federits wuz allowed to vote in Tennessee.
thank the Lord no other kind wuz permit
ted to hist in ballots in Kentucky. The |
troo, sterlin Dimocrisy NV Tennessee NAV
suffer, and it is probable that they will suf-
fer. There the Ethiopian votes by State
law, but Kentucky is herself alone. Ken
lucky will never be so afflicted. Kentucky |
hez yet the maxim Nv her own laws. She |
Will let them vote ez she sees fit and none
Others. Relyin on Ham and Hagar, she will |
deny the niggers that rite, and will keep the
power in her own hands. Congris dassent
interfere. Thad. Stevens may howl, but he's
lost his holt. Congris dassent make a law
prescrlbin the right of suffrage, and sayin
who shel and who shell not vote, for Congris
s Conservative. Thad. Stevens NAV shrek.
out Congris amt dedicated up the pint NV
zeepin within hallin distance Nv ther own
principles. Congris he'd ruther see them
yich adhered to the forchunes NV the FEEDER