The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-10-26

PoST-oFFIS, CoNFEDRIT x RoADS,1
Which Is in the Staff NV Kentucky.)
October ID, 1868.
| am sometimes gloomy and de-
spOndent, and never more so than
now. To me the skies is dark; to me
the clouds is ~lowerin, and the pros
pex gloomy. First the crops is agin
us. Wat we wantid to make ashoor-
anee doubly shoor wuz a Jolly failyoor
NV crops. He'd the wheat failed in
Ohio. lnjianny, and Illinoy-hed Their
potatoes rotted in Their fields, and the
corn come to naught, we Good hev
carried them Stats easy; for it's the
nacher Nv men tn charge up every
theevln post master tn the failyoor NV
corn-the first the most mtriflin, and
the latter Tin view Nv its e4feck on the
price NV liekker,) the most stupenius
evils witch kin affeck, mankind-they
charge everything Nv this kind up to
the account nv the party in power, and
they vote agin 'em. When misfor-
choon waves her red flag in Their faces,
they charge agin it like the bull, new
er thinkin NV the drawd steel witch is
behind to receive EN-. My offishel
existence is a drawd steal.
But Providence is agin us now, ez
IN the past. Providence hez o most
aggravatin knack. ov comm in jest in
time for the Republican party. Here
was a PRESSURE in money matters, in
consequence of short crops for years
we slept in and offered a cure in the
shape of an unlimited ishoo ov green
bax, but alas, jest ez the dose wuz
being swallered the crops interfered,
givin everybody al the greenbax they
wanted, and making it to the intrest
ov everybody not q hev any more
afoat for fear tw00d depreshate them
which they he'd, and at one stroke
this plank wuz knockt out from under
us.
1t is my opinion that we'd better
drop our finanshel policy. At all
events, we had better let the Pendle-
ton ice die out in the West, and sub
stitute Seymore's for it in that Sec
shun. 1t don't make much differ
ence wat we do in the East, ez Their
amt none uv.us ther anyhow, witch is
forchnit, ez Is mite complicate mat
iers. Its my opinyun that Pendleton
isn't much NV a statesman anyhow.
Another thing that's workin agin
us is Blare. His rednis of face and
cheerful conviviality does much for
rs in Kentucky wher we don't want
help, but good Hevins how it tells
acin us in the close States wher we do
need help. His Brodhed letter scots
us NV Kentucky; but in Moo York
wher our people hev business and
want Deece it hez made them skeery.
liz is my opinion that we'd better
drop Blare.
Ez to reconstruckshen, that ISM
Jest ez good a keerd ez we thought il
wood De. Watts the yoose NV howlin.
that the Radikels don't want a resto-
rashen NV the States, when they've
admitted all NV EN- but two or three Z
Watts the yoose Nv whistlin Ia the
face Nv SIGH a north wind?
1t is my opinion that we'd better
drop rceonstruckshen.
The extravaganza NV the Radikels
wuz a keerd witch / he'd hopes Nv, but
it didn't amount to nothing. Some
how the people wood ask US witch Nv
our leaders we proposed to put In the
places NV the A~blishinists, and we an
sered Vallandigham, Fernandy Wood
and his brother, Dan. Voorhees, anC
Jesse ID. Brite, they'd laf deIisively
and say, Lord save Us eff these hun
CRY and thirsty thieves get their jaws
into the Nashnel carkis. We'd ruth
er keep them Wich we hev."
It's my opinion we'd better drol
extravaganza.
Taxes he'd a jocey look, but gooC
Lord, the people answered us, sayln
"Ef the debt IS to be paid, won't W.
hev to be taxed to pay it? It's paylr
the taxes that hurts-nOt the politics
Nv the party wich taxes us-and e.
our people don't pay taxes as a rool
they don't thrill much over taxes"
It's my opinion that we'd bette.
drop taxes.
Ekal taxashun" wuz rather hefJ
at the beginnin, till the poor men an,
farmers diskivered that they wer
payin scarcely nothin on their houses
gOn and cows, while the rich cusse
wuz carryin the load. Ez soon G
they made this diskivery thew con
elOodid they didn't want ekai tax
shun so much, and they turne
agin US.
1t is my opinion we had bette
drop ekal taxashun.
Repudiashun looked well enuff, br
that wasn't no go. We started OF
with it, but alars, we found most ev
erybody he'd bonds, and everyboC
he'd greenbax. The bondholde
wouldn't consent to repudiatin IL
boEds, and the greenbax holders sal
EFF we commence at bonds, wi
should we not come to greenbax!
And so that split.
Its my opinion we had better dro
=" But" SEE one Dimocrat, {" EFF
drop all these wal will we hev left
MY ingenious friend. we heY all IL
that We ever he'd. We hey the niggt