Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1868-08-28

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Posr OFFICE, CoSrEDERIr x ROADS. J
(Wich is in the State NV Kentucky,)
July q, 1868. }
We he'd meetin at the Corners mite
afore last fur the purpose ov organizin q
Seymore aud Blafe Club. Their wuz ruth
er a spectacle show ov enthoosiasm at the
beginning. Decon Pogram who hes an
ambition ov bscomin the collector ov the
Dsestrict, was reeiy effected es he spoke
Of the menny good qualities ov our nobel
standard bearer; Ssymor9; and Kernel
,NfePsIssr, Who he's his kamin eye ONO
the Assessorship, wuz similarly bold and
ouispokeu in his admirashun nv their
grste qualities. The Kernel was espec-
tally elokent. ez he spoke nv the grstenis
NV Gineral Frank Blare, which he he'd a
rite to admire. Their wuz suthin about
him so noble, so grand, 80 patriotic, and
so troo, that he felt that he must weave
one little oratoricle chaplet for bis clssikle
brow. Ez a sojer, be shood cheerhy sup
port q sojer.
Wv coorse I made the reglsr speech
wich il alluz expected nv me. l slung
slightly into the biogrphy Nv our cheef-
tains. | tribooied meekIy to ther good
qualities Nv head aud heart, discussed the
platform, aud commended it, aud wound
up with an impressive appeal to the De-
mocricy TO rally to their support without
division or hesitancy.
wuz about gittin fairly lanched into
my peroration, when Elder Peunibacker
arose. He remarkt he had word wich
he must say.
Certainly. Elder" sed 1. "say yoor say
We want ell The faithful to speek. Free
yoor mind. Gush onto u.s."
"I she'll" sed the Elder, "trust me fer
that. To begin with | pernouuce this
entire biznis most onmitigsted swidle.
i may possibly vote the Seymour ticket,
but | don't like il. A man who ct crow
wunst remarkt that while he Good eat
crow, he coodeut conshienshusly cay that
nominashuu. wuz aud am Pendle-
tonian; am n bleever in the dociru Nv
greenback payments NV the boLds.
haint no bonds myself, |, in common with
the heit nv the Dimocrisy, hate aud loath
the party wich is grindin US into dust
with taxashun for the payment NV the un
constooshnel debt. | wux a Pendleton-
ian. for il wuz the Erst step toards re-
poodiashen, aud repoodiashea is a balm
for all Dimocratic wounds.
aNox wat did the delegates wich as
senibled at Moo York mean wen they put
sich nau ca Seymcre on the track2 Wat
did they mean when they throwd over
board the Young Eagle Nv the West and
put in charge Nv our banner the hooked
beaked vulcher Seymorc, to prey onto our
yitsls? | don't fancy the style Nv Dimoc-
risy we are hayin nov a.days. Durin the
war l opposed war vishusly. l wus for
nenst bein dragged into the servis Nv u
Government which detesied, aud to ftiu
for coz which | hated. he'd my rifel
put into order. aud | shot Federal pickits
at mite reglerly for noaths. aud jined
John Morgan's excursions iato Ohio.
Our copvenshen at Shecago declared the
war a fsilyoor and the Dimocrisy opposed
20 il. but wat folIered. Why they nomi
mated towunst n solger whose sword was y
drippin in gore, aud who wuz es for con
tinyooin the war on us ez the old goriller
Linkin hisself. Is this Dimocrisy? |
sskt myself. Ef 80 count me out.
"whst difference il the sitoosshea uowl
We declared agin the non payment Nv the
bonds ia emmy bat greenbax, wich il
equivalent to not payin Nv 'em at all, aud
forthwith went to Moo York, where I,
yoor speaker. was enticed by q stra ng
woman, and lost my watch aad 9 black
satin vest. my boots aud eight dollars
aud sixteen cents, all the moRey | he'd,
wich il would hev bin the same he'd il bin
more similarly, and put in nominashen q
man wich sleeps onto bonds and spends
the heft nv his time a cuttin of cooponsl
Brethren, If hev to pay the debt wat
difference does II make to who levics the
tax? ken stand IL es long under Grant
ez kin under Seymore. 1t amt the per.
son wich levies the tax wich I objeck to
so much ex il Is the levyin Nv the tax. II
have to pay gold why not es we'll under
Grant ez Seymore?
Likewise is my sole vexed at another
thing, wieh | cant or won't git over. On
my way 10 Moo York, where was so vile.
ly yoosed, was compelled for twenty
miles either to stand up or set down in
the seat with a dirty niger, Joe Williams,
A DELEGATE TO THE CoNvENsHUN, whose
mother / wunst owened. That he is a
mulatto don't help the matter. That del
sgates on the train fancies they saw In
his face my feechers reAeckted, don't make
il any better. He Is q nigger, and nv 20.
litikle faith 10 based upon the indoorin
rock that niger amt ez good CT a white
man. That is Dimocratic doctrine.
took IL in with my mothers milk, and
can't git rid Nv il. And yit wuz CON-
PEELED to associate with this nigger on
terms Nv ekality all the way down to Moo
York, where lost my vest, ct settry, and
his seat in the Convenshun wuz next to
mine. / stood this, but at our boardin
house, only two squares from whar lost
my boots, &C., with the American flag
foatin over our heads wuz compelled, 10
conscience Nv the house bein crowded. to
sleep with himl And the infamous stink.
in absolootly he'd the impoodence to OBJ
jeckt TO the arrangement becos en- he sed,
NY FEET sMELTl Then the iron entered
my SOUL Then I felt that the Dimocrisy
wuz trooly sucked egg-a shell without
eny meat in it.
"When | saw that nigger in that con-
venshun, l felt that the pillars Nv the Re-
public wuz totterin, that the chaos wuz
come sgin. felt that Amercky, bein
no longer for white men. wux NO place