The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-08-07
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Post Offs, Confedrit Y Roads,
| (Which is in the State NV Ky.,f
July %, 1868
We he'd a meetin at the at the Cor.
ners mite afore last for the purpus NV
organizin Seymore and Blare Club
Ther wuz ruther spectacle show NV
Ienthooslasm at the beginnin. Deck
in Pogram, who hez an ambishun NV
becomin the collector NV the Deestrikr
wuz RELY affected ez he spoke Nv
the many good qualities Nv our no
BILE standard bearer, Seymour and
Kernel McPel:er, who hez his beam
in eye onto the Assessorship, wuz
similarly bold and outspoken in his
admirashun Nv their CRATE qualities
The Kernel wuz espeshly elokent, ez
he spoke NV the gratenis NV Ginral
Frank Blare, witch he felt that he he'd
rite to admire. Ther wuz suthir
about him SO noble, so grand. SO pat
riOtic, and so trOO, that he felt thai
he must weave one little OratOriclt
chaplet for classikle brow. Ez sol
jer, he shOOd cheerfy support a sol
jer.
Nv coorse 1 made the regler speech
witch is alluz expected Nv me. Islune
slitely into the biography NV Oul
cheeftains. tribootid meekly to thel
good qualities NV head and heart
discussed the platform and commen
did it, and wound up with an impress
i've appeal to the Dimocrisy to rally
to ther support without division Ol
hesitancy.
Iwuz about gettin farely lanched
into my perorashen, when Elder Pen
nibacker arose. He remarkt he hed
word wich he must say.
"Certinly, Elder" sed l, "say yool
say. We want all the faithful tG
speak. Free yoor mind. Gush onta
u.s."
81 Shell" sed the Elder, "trust me-
for that To begin with | pernOunc'
this entire biznis most onmitigatet
swindle. / may possibly vote thu
Seymore ticket, but l don't like it
A man who ct q crow wunst remark
that while he Good eat crow, he Good
ent conshienshusly say that he hank
cred arter it. Even so with the nom
insshun. l wuz and am Pendle
tonian; l am a bleever in the doctril
Nv greenback payment NV the bonds
1 hant no bonds myself, but ! hat
the bloated bondholders. Ez l don
psy no taxes myself, l, in common
with the heft NV the Dimocrisy, hat
and loath the party wich is grindin II
into dust with taxashen for the pay
ment NV the unconstitOoshnel debt
81 wuZ Pendletonian, for it WI
the first step towards repOodiasheI
and repoodiashen is balm for a
Dimocratic wounds.
"Now what did the delegates vic
assembled at Moo York mean whe
they put sich a man ez Seymore o
, the track2 Wat did they mean whe
they throwd overheard the Y0un
Eagle of the West and put in charg
NV our banner the hooked beake
vulcher, Seymore, to prey onto OF
vitals? l don't fancy the style Il
] Dimocrisy we are havin now day.
Durin the war l opposed war vishu:
ly. | wuz fornenst bein dragged int
the servis NV a government witch
detested, and to fitin for coz wich
hated / he'd my rifle put into ordel
and l shot Fedral pickits at mite reg
lerly for months, and jined Joh
Morgan's excursion into Ohio. Gu
cOnvenshen at Shecago declared Tia
war a failyoor and the Dimocrisy OF
posed it, but wat follered. Why the,
nominated TO wunst a sOljer who's
sword was a drippin in gore, ant
who wuz as fierce for cOntinyOOn tn,
war on US ez the old goriller LinkiI
hisself. Is This Dimocrisyf l ask
myself. Ef so count me out.
"Wat diffrent is the sitOoashel
now2 We declared agin th
payment of the bonds in anything
but greenbax, wich is equivalent t,
not payin NV 'em at all, and forthwith
went to Moo York, where, 700
speeker, was enticed by a strange wO
man, and lost my watch and blacl
satin vest, my boots and eigh. dollars
and sixteen cents, all the money
he'd, wich 1t would hev bin the sam,
he'd it bin more similarly, and put il
nominashen q man wich sleeps ont
bonds and spends the heft NV hi
time a cuttin off coopons! Brethren
if | hev to pay the debt wat difference
does it make who levies the taxl
kin stand it ez long under Grant ez
kin under Seymore. 1t amt the per
sons wich levies the tax wich oh
jeck to, so much ez it is the levyil
NV the tax. II 1 have to pay gOl'
why not as we'll under Grant ez Sey
mOre2
"Likewise is my sole vexed at an
other thing, wich | can't or went gi
over. On the way to Moo Yorl
where wuz so vilely yoosed, wa
compelled for twenty miles either t
stand up or SIT down in the seat wit
a dirty nigger Joe Williams, dele
gate to the Convenshun, whose motl
er I wunst owned. That he is mu
latto don't help the matter. Tha
delegates on the train fancied the
saw in his face my teachers reflected
don't make it any better. He is
nigger, and my politikle faith is bas
ed upon the endOorin rock that mig
ger aint ez good ez a white man
That is DImocratic doctrine / tool
it in with my mothers milk and
cant get rid NV it. And yit l VIII
compelled to associate with this mig
ger on terms Nv ekality all the wa,
down to Moo York, where l lost m,
vest, ct settry, and his seat i'm tn
Convenshun wuz next to mine.
stood this, but at our boardin house
only two squares from where l lost m!
boots, &C., with the American fla.
floating over our heads | wuz com
PEELED, in conscience NV the hous
bein crowded to sleep with him! Ant
the infsmOus stinkin niger abso
lootly he'd the impOodence to objec
TO the arrangement becoz ez he sec
my feet smelt ! Then the iron enter
ed my soul! Then l felt that til,
Dimocrisy wuz trooly sucked eg!
Ia shell without any meat in it.
"When 1 saw that nigger in tha
Convention, | felt that the pillers u
the Republic wuz tOtterin, that tn