Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-28
Letter from Harlem.
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HARLEM, VI ADG1s I'D 1900
Eds Gazette;--The deed is done. They've
got a pole, and on the pole they've got a
string of ten cent muslin, and on the string
they've got the prohles and names OF Sey-
mOur and Blair. Glorious victory wonder
fuI achievement I But to explain: The
Republicans raised pole here, as you are
aware, and hOisted the names of Grant and
C0lfax, and General Jones and B. G Waters
made speeches on the OCCASION The Cop
perheads couldn't stand that, and so they
went to work at once to beat 1t.
Ours was not gotten up under any strife,
aud they strained every nerve to beat. They
got their pole some seven or eight feet
higher by placing it on higher ground, and
that is all there is of it In other respects
they failed to equal ours.
turned out, about one-third of the crowd,
however, were Republicans. The 8 Hon."
were the speakers of the day, or rather the
preachers, as they termed it, and were 1ol-
lowed by e1hortatlons rom Dr. Pn11Ilps, OF
somewhere, and the 8 Hon" A. j. smith,
from The S2ltti1erlt st01e et eelsoG not ZeI re-
Fhe HON.. Mr.. T. Il say P. for the sake
OF brevity, you know opened his sermon
with full periods and ferv1d glowing elo-
quence peculiar to him. saying 'sthe only
question in issue before the country was the
question of finance; said the PUBLIC debt
was rapidly increasing, that It had Increased
ffteen millions in thirty days, that Con-
gFeSs spent i've hundred million Cd trying
to i'm peach the President, that they spent
hundreds of thousands for stationary and
pocket knives that that was the way the
Knives labeled Congress knife came TO be
=
ted something with the parable tInind you
this is a seTmOn) of remarkable hen that
IN IN fact IL was 6eas;tttsa Illustration, and
was highly appreciated by the ladies pres
ent. Glorious p, gifted F., happy P, i'm
il F'yVhere ignorance is bliss,
- - 'Its folly to be w1seP -
Doctor Hyatt went over and repeated the
western Dem ocratie plan of paying of the
national debt, viz by covering it over with
greenbacksi said he didn't know any body
that was afraid of getting too much money.
An, but DR.. is it money ? Some of . the hap
py family y of the Democratic party say that
NOTHING is money but " hat Will iingIe, How
Il fhis9 THE DR. was Daci1liarlv haTnV' in
selecting couple of gentlemen who sat in
front of him to illustrate the injustice of ex-
empting the Government bonds from taxa
The gentlemen were both Democrats, but
one of them happened to hare some fire thou
sand in those same bonds. While the Dr..
was pouring the Vials of his wrath upon the
Is bloated bond-holder," he was heaping
Goals of IRE upon the head OF a brother DEM
ocrat. Finally, Democracy had reached q
point where "endurance had almost ceased
to be q virtue" He did not believe in Sc
cession and always opposed it, but men must
have their rights. The only salvation for
otherwise the country would go to the
DR.. Phillips followed. in a brief exhorta-
ton. He understood " brevity was the soul
of witt Therein perhaps he was facetfous.
Then followed the Immortal, the fearless,
the fI6fOclOuS preventative OF b16 STATE OF
Genoa. He was blood and thunder; that's
the way he was during the war, you know,
when he met with the Knights of the
Golden Circle" and raised q company of
men to resist the draft, and armed them
with home made butcher-kniYess One OF
the poor fellows, however, fell down on his
knife and killed himself Said we were
taxed to pay Gen. Grant a salary of twenty
two Thousand. and to support an army of
sixty thousand men, therefore it was not at
all probable that Grant would give up his
position If elected, but would proclaim him
self dictator. AirGbiJe dictu! Wonderful
reaSoneFl IS Yes, the odious taxes. You Wo'd
see an Internal Revenue Collector or As
SCISSOR in every town; you have one of them
here in this town 1 see him sitting there on
the fence, now, grinning. These fellows
VIII tax you dollar for your gold watch /;
there's where 1t hurt hfnIl they would tax
you for grinding hand-Organ, and almost
everything you had or did. The drums
wound him up there.
Through all the speeches might have been
heard the fiddle with one string playing
Niger, niggers niger, niger. They broke
aP to the tune Of Dixie, played by the Ma
riott family. Peculiarly appropriate.
- A. B. c.