The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-18

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The Corners wuz prostrated with joy
last mite at the receet nv news NV the
Novem bsr elecshuns. Their wuz nothln
demonstrative about our joy ez there
he'd bin on occasions Nv less interest.
No! the result wuz too great Our ma
chers wuz filled with Joy and IL bubbled
up TO the eyes and slopt over in floods
nv teers. Deekin PogrAm's dawter Mi
randy borrered tam borine, wich wood
answer for a timbrel, and attempted to
dance down the street, after the fashion
NV Miriam. singin, "Shout the glad I'll
dens" ct settry, but we rebookt her.
Slch eXultashen seemed to us made
kate. The Deekin met me and fallin
onto my neck, wept profoosely down
my back, wich / stood ez long eZ Good
bear the moistyr. Gently disengagin
him, led him to Bascom's, fearin that
so great waste NV floods wood cut short
the old saints life, unless that waste
Good be repaired. We supplied the def
cheney to-wunst. Never saw 1 sich a
picter. The blessed old man sittin on
to u bench, a glass nv hot whiskey in
his hand: his white hair talltn scanti-
ly about his temples, and teers run
min in rapid succession adown his frost
bitten nose, and glitteriu a moment on
the tip, droppin like strings Nv pearls
into he space belowl II wu8 tetchin
The citizens met that evenin, not to re-
joice, but TO adopt sich measures for
turning the victry to account ez the oc-
cashun seemed TO demand, The Deekin
wuz there, and bleeye every white
male citizen NV the Corners wuz In his
sect Bfore the glad peels Nv the bell he'd
ceased pealin. lassoOmed the chair,
and in few joodishus remarks stated
the objek NV the meetin. Moo York, L
remarkt, he'd spoken, and Moo Gersey,
the blessed State, nv wtch he'd the
honor to be a native, he'd returned to
her fust love. 1 Wuz not now ashamed
to own that wuz native or MOO Ger.
sey. am proud Nv II, aud we're II not
for the fact that owe nearly half nv
her citizens, in sums ranging from half
a dollar up TO eighteen, l wood return
there to-wunst. But won't. 1t wood
awaken expectations in their buzZums
wich wood never be fulfilled, and I'm
too tender hearted, too considrit Nv the
feelins NV others to lasserate them feel
ins. 1 can't properly express my emo
shuns. Thank heaven, the nigger is
ourn, The Northern States hey spo-
ken, and in thunder tones. The
Ethiopian wunst wuZ on the top
wave, but wher is he now2 Two
yeers ago he wuZ needed-but now
wher is her The Ablishnists don't need
him no more to fill up their quotas,
they don't need him no more to take
their places in the next draft, and
thank The Lord he's the same id
nigger he alluz wuz. The stink Nv the
nigger hez overcome ther Rratitood to
him-ther good feelin he1 bin swamPed
by ther prejoodis. The Dimocrasy NV
the two sections nv the YOonion heZ
rnsht into each others arms. the mig
ger Wuz between EN-, and consekently
is under our feet. What happinis for
for KentuckyI The uigger cant go
North with the elecShun returns starln
him in the face, and ef he stays here he
must stay on our terms. Thank the
Lord.
Deekin .Pogram sed that he hedn't
ieIt so good sence his first wife died.
He felt too good to speek, and the
brethren wood excuse him ef his re-
marks shood be breeE. 1--WE will! We
Wilt with great yoonanimity0 Four
weeks ago, when heered from Ohio
and Pennsylvany, he he'd to-wunst
drawd up skedule NV the loss that he'd
bin inflicted onto him by the tyranical
edict Nv the Illinoy Goriller, copy NV
wich he wood reed: