Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-07-30
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NJ -T1.-T I'70'T VIII Julv IL 1858 ,

tWicG is in Tie stait Nv Kentucky
| ~ TT-III'7 July 18, 1858.
Ididn't stay in Moo York till the
Convenshun adjourned, for a most
excellent reason, to-wit, viz: my
money run out. When i left !
spozed there wuz no doubt Nv the
nominashen NV Pendleton. The
''young eagle of the West had re-
ceived 1855 votes, and wuz a galnin,
and Seymour he'd declined SO often
and so persistently that goin back
on my yooseful disbelief in these
fellers, hevin declineda great many
offices myself that wanted, ! RELY
believed the cuss wuz in earnist
and saw nothin that Good stand be-
tween Pendleton and success. Ia
/ left the Ohio river, got out NV
the reech NV rairodos and tele-
graphs, and / told the people all
along that Pendleton he'd bin nom
mated on the 10th ballot, and that
the country wuz all ablaze with en-.
thoosiasm for him and greenbax, SO
certain was / NY his success.
On arrivin at the Corners found
that intense anxiety wuz manifested
by the citizens thereof. a'
The next mite it wuz desided to
hev a rati6cashen, that the Corners
mite contribbit her mite towards
swellin the enthoosiasn on the buz-
zum NV wich Pendleton wuz to
sweep to glory. We met in the
open air, in front NV Bascom's, and
the impashent crowd called upon
me to give an account of my stew
ardship. i" 'ot 5.'
opened by Stain that went to
Moo York under pekoolyehy EN-
barassin circumstances. The whole
money power NV the east wuz ar
rayed agin u.s.. The aristocratic
Belmont, which is the agent NV the
Rothschilds, the money-kings Of
the world, wuz determined to foist
onto tie Dimocrisy either Chase the
accursed Abolitionist, or Seymour
the pekoolyer pet Nv Wall street,
wich street is, | may sling in for
the benefit NV my hearers, where
tile money bizniss is mostly done,
4 and where they sleep on Government
bonds, and spend the heft of their
time a clippin off the coopons.
What is coopons ?" asked Dee
kin Pogram. l explained to the
blessid old saint wat coopons wuz,
and went on:
"This Wall street indooence wo'd,
my brethren, hev corrupted the
lDimoerisy Wall street came into
Tammany Hall and wanted to con-
trole our ackshen. But we wuzent
to be purchased, The more Wall
street offered to enslave the Dimoc-
I, risy, the more yoor representatives,
gloryin in their manhood, spurned
their proffered brihes We went
there determined to emancipate the
yeomanry uvthe country from the
bondige NV the bloted bonddOlder-
we went there pledged to Pendleton,
the young eagle Nv the West
pledged to tender the bloted bond
holders, if we pade tLem anything,
greenbacks for his bloted bonds, or
nothin. We went there determined
to annihilate this yer Seymour and
his bloted supporters
"Rah for Pendleton" sung out
the crowd, " '"'.. nv
"Three groans for Seymour, the
bloted bondholders' agent"
Both the cheers and groans were
given with a will, and | proceeded :
"My trends you'll never know
wat we, the peoples defenders, he'd
to contend with. The bloted bond
holders he'd money-we he'd none.
They weie determined to fasten the
yoke on yoor necks---we were de-
termined to hist it off. They wuz
determined to hev Seymour, with
all Wall street at his back, fastened
onto you to grind you into dust,
but feelin that eff he shood be nom
enated We Good never support him,
we riz in our mite and manfully
compelled EN- to withdraw this
man and give lis the peoples choice,
'. Geo. II. Pendleton, the eagle of the
-"
At this pint Deekin Pogram's
son Gamaliel wuz seen putin down
the hill ez fast ez his mule Good git
Joe Bigler notist him fust and rusht
out NV the crowd to intercept him
The boyhed a'noospaper in his hand
wich Josef took from him and rusht
to where l wuz standin, on the he'd
| NV barl.
"Hears the last Louisville paper
| sed Josef, unfoldin it. "Shel | reet
. it,"
Creed Reedr' yelled the crowd
. "Give us the nooze Nv the downfall
NV the bloted bondholders p
Before l reed," sed Josef, who
he'd glanced at the headings NV thC
, telegraf collum, "give three more
cheers for Pendleton and greenbax
! ! Hip, hip
= "RahT cheered the crowd.
"Now three groans, and let then
be good ones, for Seymour aud hi
/ cussid doctrine which will grinC
4 us into dust under the heels o
+ Belmont. and aid the furrin capi
d talists by paying the bonds il
gold"
And they groaned ez heartily ei
n they cheered,
e 1--WE, ez Dimocrats," continued
g Josef, "hev sworn by our alters anC
: our fires, never to support for am
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