New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-16
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\ Futile Atsempe On WaSIfv the NomIn :
tIOR At the Corners.

the Corners, witch startid out gloriously,
but didn't end so happily ez it mite. he'd
gone to good deal nv trouble about 1t,
and he'd made all arrangements for feast
Nv reason and duw of sole exalted by
few Publications and surpassed by none.
The biessid DeekiR McPeiter and Issa-
ker Gavitt, who expect respectively to hold
the posishuns OF Assessor, Collector, and
Whisky Inspector for this deestrIck, cum
down handsomely With the funds, enuff to
enable me to decorate the postofis with
flags and transpareucies, and myself with a
pare nv readymade pants, witch muddied
considerable to make EN- look old, so that
they shood not suspect Their funds he'd bin
applied in that way. Human nachur is a
inscrutable mystery. They wood obj OK
did they know had clothed myself with
ther money instead NV wastin it on taller
candles and SIGH, Wich burn out and leave
nothin behind
/ wuz economikle 10 my expenditoors, or
rnther but little expense WIZ nessary. De-
sirin TO wake the enthoosiasm nv the be-
mocrisy. l DrocOored passed. Of Confedrit
battle flags, witch the returned heroes had
brot home with EN-, and he'd the talismanic
words, Seymour and Blair" painted
across EN-. The efftck was gorgus Ez
mite approach he'd the transparenoies
saved over from celebrashen wich he'd
been held after t1e battle NV Chiekamauga
lighted up. The euthoosiasu, ez the pOpu-
lace saw these, aud listened to Captain Nc
Prlter. ez he red EN- to EN-. wuz oyerpow-
erin. How they cheered eZ the words hasht
out into the mite. Southern rites, Southern
men, and a Southern government
death to Northern Hirellrsli "D0wn
with the Gorilla Linkini" JEFF Davis and
the Confederacy Forever mo Quarter
to Federal Invaders" And when Bore
CARDS black flag, onto witch seymour and
Blair wuz painted IN red letters, wuz un
flrled, Their arose SIGH cheers for the nomi-
nees NV the Moo York Convenshun ez
| he'd never heerd before nor expect to
agin
At this time-iist ez everything wuz q
gittin red-rot-the trouble commenced
Pennibacker, witch runs our biggest and best
distiliery, iumpt onto the platform, at my
suggestion, and perposed three cheers fol
Seymore and Greeubax, and three grOans
tor the bloated boadholders. The crowd
with troo Demekratic docility, wuz agoln
to cheer, when Bascom, who hez some
5-ZO's, riz and sw0re he'd be id ef thai
suOOu uSs NuhtAuVA OoJMutS 10 Al AahOi
NV payin the Nashnel Indebtedness, prin
cipal and interest, in gold. Reed hi;
SPEECH at the Cooper instont"
is he is he?' SHOUTED Pennibacker
spriugng onto the platform, "is he? Reed
the platform wich he accepts"
Don't Belmont and the Eastern bank err
support him." yelled BascOm.
Don't ValLandygum, Pendleton, Bricl
Pomeroy. and dirty shirt Dean supper
him ~ yelled Pennibscker.
'Yoor doctrin,n sed Bascom eggcitedly
lis a id swindle--a peece nv theevi
witch a Arab wood be ashamed Nv, ant
Seymore sed Sc"
" Yoor proposishen is a outrage onto
| opprest people, a griRdin Nv EN- into tn
| earth under the iron heels Nv bloated arts
tocTats and pampered sons Nv luxury, an
the platform Seymour staads onto SEE so E,
| shouted Pennibacker.
Yoor a swindler,p eTcitediy yeile
Bascom, whertupon they clinched and rGl
ed OFF the platform, titely huggin, aud maxi
extraordinary physkle efforts at injoori
| each other.
To direct the atteEshun Nv the populi
| from this untoward circumstance rekeste
Issaker to sing out three cheers for BIare.
| "Tbree cheers for Blare' sung out lssa
ker " the Missouri statesman, who will ri
US Nv Freedmen's Burrows and militar
rool ~
Three groaus for BIaEe !" yelled Punt
Ablisnnist and Linkin hirelin, wich sh(
my unkle 10 MissooTy, and burnt my CRANE
mothers house near Vixburg
He amt no Ablishnist y exclaime
Issaker. Reed his letters"
Its difficult to say wat he is to-day, bt
I'll sware to it he wuz three years ago; bl
il makes no difference. swOre four year
ago to lick any man who hurrahed for
member ofthe Blair family"
And this inlooriated wretch pounced ont
Issaker, and they rolled off the stand |
JOIN Bascom and Pennibacker, who hadn
set led their onpleasantness yet.
Before il ended Deekin Pogram and Ke
mel McPelter got to arguin ez to the pro
priety NV the party, the Deekin takin OF
side and McPelter the other. The passion
OF these estimable gentlemen were arouse
somewhat, and before could interfere the
he'd each other by the throte and rolled 0
onto the ground beneath the platform
sprang down to separate EN-, when McPe
ter turned upon me,and wood hev sacrifice
me on the spot, but the Corners rusht ez
man to save me. Ez I owe the most /
EN- am entirely safe here, aud ez | sh
be ontil pay my debts. shel never d
J Nv violence.
At this PITT the Ste became geners
Some NV the people sided with Bascol
some Nv EN- With Pennibaoker (akkord
| ez they bought whisky by the bari or
the drink }, and the balance Nv EN- assist
Bigler and Issaker G4Yitt eZ their inclin
ton prompted EN-. In the melee the pi,
| form flag, and transparency WIZ tore dow
nearly breakin my leg. for which l was
} sufficiently rrmurerated by the handk'
{ chiefs boTrered from the PROSTATE col
| battants under cover of assisten w EN-
rise.
) After the scrimmsge wuz over, Polio
a | aud bigler came, with three niggers, IL
i Bascom's where we wuz repairiu damag
: wieh remarkt that they held meetIn a
he'd passed resOloOshens thankin the Lo
: devoutiy for hevin relieved the Republic
party nv the Blare family, and sympai his
b With the Dimocrisy wioh he'd received I
10, aud also sckdO wledgin the ObHgash
Y the ealored men NV the nashen were un(
to the DlmocrlsY for the handsome maaI
in which they he'd treated joe WIlliar
n the Airikin delegate TO tine NOo York O.
2 Venshun, ez the selection Nv Niger e
Is delegate and assoshatin with him on ter
v Nv ekaltty, wuz step in the direction
u yooniVersal Brotherhood wich wuz cheer
q This insultin message, delivered to n
h witch vuz patcbin up their faces q
z wa-hin orr the blood uv politikIe C
K flick, wuz the reverse Nv soOlhin.
Is The ratifcashun wusn't altogether q 5
cess, but we sbel try 1t agin after time
|; sofened the asperities eOgendered by
a recent couflick and the caud dates hey
Is line to ft themselves and their recO