The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-02-25
POsr OrrIs, CoNfEDRIr y ROADS,
(Wirh is in the State uv
Kentucky, November 25, loU7.

Last week received from Postmaster
Randall the iotlerin brecf note:
Washington, November 1G.
Sir: The tencr Nv offs act does not
sheei yoo from removal. Wood it not
be well for 700 to declare your preference
ior the Presidency! 1t is my opinion
lha: i'res,dcnt johnson Good be indoo.t
to accept the Gominaton.
l.. w. RANDALL, L. NJ. G.
This note, kivern threat, put me into
n pcrsplrashun. Why, tless the prcsi-
dents cheerful sole, Nv cOutse | kin cxs
press my preference for the Pre>i lency
Ccr,inly kin. blccve IN A. johnson.
He is M fust and only choice. an will
he for fifteen months TO come, without
fail. ! cannot say very much fur him,
but | kin abu.r his competitors, and that,
possibly, amounts To the same thing. The
iuilrrin is - note | shcl send t. the prc.i-
dent for inscr,hHn in his organ:
E,t Nu>Ind HteiGyeacc' Tile CUES,
tion wch just now agtates the mind Nv
Kentucky more, perhaps, than anything
else, is: who shel he the nominee Of the
next Nashnel Dimocratic Convenshun !
There tire many gentlemen spoken nv in
connecshun with the case, and their claim.
Pcrpuse, brceRy,to consider from Il Ken
lucky stand-pini.
The first is General George Is McClel-
Ian, whose body hez lin recently raised
for the purpose General Mcclellan is
not, don't think, objectionable to the
SoutrSn people. They hev Il material
and normal objection to any one who
drawd the sword aGin EN- in tho lrie on-
pleasantnis, but they do not belecve tina!
General 6 B did this At least eff he
did it, it wuz only Operative. His SER
vices to the Confederacy in burYin the
tens NV tEcusan "a NV Federal solers
afore Richmond the brilliant strategy Nv
his lootenants in tying the hands Nv Pope
and burnside, and keepin them from hurt
in IL, and finally, his runnin with Penile-
ton agin Linkin, all bind him 10 the South
ePn heart. Any ono who coud hev run
! agin Iinkin in 1864, they consider mus
! hsv bin troo to the South lie is the
soothnest man to the Southern people
I wich ever wore bloc But he wont anser
In the first place there isn't time between
this and the next election for him t. make
up his mind whether I've will accept the
nomination or not and secondly, eff he
did decide in time he lacks prestige. lie
hez bin detected wunst, hez George, and
it wont do to take up a whipt roQster.-.
Evidently he is out of the ring.
Next on the carpet is Pendleton Geo.
II. Pendeton, say unhesitalinly, won't
do. IIe won't anser. Their is too CRATE
n distance etwcen him and the masses Nv
his party. lie uses good English, and
wears clean shirt collars, and no sich mar
kin hcv the confidence and esteem NV the
Democracy Nv the trooly DimocratiC
States These things, VOC may aver, arc
small and inconsequonshel, but | deny it.
They are Nv vital importance. Their i,
"A material affinity between Democracy ans
dirty collars. Didst never observe wher
Pendlcton addrest the freemen of Iniiany
how cold and stpr like wuz tho auiiene,
ez his finished periods fell upon their ears
Didst never hear IIeary Clay Dean
whose shirts are worn three consecuiy,
months, and whose stockins are ncye
changed' : Didst never notis how he lift
ed 'em I 1t amt that there's eny differ
ence in wat they say--its in the shirt col
lar. Besides Pendleton hez none NV tn,
qualities necessary to successful candida
cy. lie WIZ born tollable well off an,
hadn't nary a struggle in his youth. ii
didn't drive on canal and study Algebr
on'the back NV kickin mule, and &c
knockt off by profane Captain for neg
leciin his duty he wusn't born in 10
cabin in the sckwoojs, neither d:d l.