The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-07-16
"They are inscribed ez follows:
No. 1.-The higEestl, "COnserya.

No. 2 -"Constooshnel Doubts"
No. 3.-"Southern Rites"
No. 4-"Greenbax."
No. 5.-"'Repoodiashen"
No. 6-"Ameriky. for white men" ="
No. 7.-"Afrikin Slavery"
Trooly, ther wuz suthin goin on.
Cheef Justis Chase appeared at the
head Nv the stairs on the very brink Nv
the precipice. Follerin him and en-
treaiin Nv him to stay, wuz Theodore
Tilton, Horris Greedy, and more'n a
million nv others, white and black, who
wuz holdin up their hands in horror
at the way his face wuz turned. The
Cheef Justice wuz assurin em it wuz all
rite, that he shood probably 20 down
to the first round, wich wuz "Conserv-
atism,'' as he considered it safer ground.
Theodore, grabbed him by the shoulder,
to restrane him, but Salmon showed
him off roodly, and put his foot on the
first round
| looked clOster and saw it all at a
glance. August Belmont he'd climbed
up SO ez to be in site of any one standin
on that round, and WIZ wavin flag
at him onto wich wuz inscribed ''nomi-
nashen." S. p. he'd his venerable eyes
fized onto that, and didn'r see nothin
else, a kind NV parshel blindness wich
hez rooined quite many public men.
"Don't 90 to EN-" cried Theodore and
Horris. 81 WON'T returned the
cheerful old innocent 'I'lI bring em
up to me-" Infooriated at the site nv
that flag wich Belmont kept artfully
movin afore him, he quickly dropt onto
the second step, and the next, each
step bein longer than the one precedin
it. BY this time the attenshen Nv the
Democrisy below wuz attracted toward
the spectacle, and they cheered Justify,
not so much at the prospeck Nv gettin
the eminent Judge, ez at the sorrer and
chagrin depicted onto the faces NV
Greely, Tilton, ct al., at the top.
Down he went amid the plaudits nv
the Dimocrisy, who, by this time, was
all hurrahin for him, step by step, till
he come to the last one. "Come!" sed
Boregard, Forrest, Fernandy Wood
and ValIandygum, ''come! One step
more-one little tinny step aud it's
over. Come, love, GOMEZ"
"No!" sed he, trembfn like man
with the ager. 81 can't 60 that step.
can't indeed l can't. Come up to
me-you must!"
"Well," sed Belmont, otis better
for us, to stand on that last step. Get
hold Marble, and the strongest NV you,
and lift the concern out nv the mire,
aud up to the Cheef Justis Take hold
close. Now. all together! with, a
will !"
They tugged and tugged, but to no
purpose. Pendletou, Hendricks, and
a score NV others, who didn't like this
Chase biznis, he'd slipped down to the
bottom, aud wuz a pullin back. Once
or twict they got EN- out so ez voc
Good see the heads NV the multitude
above the liquid they wuz under, and a
few late recroOts climbed up onto the
step, but the weight wuz too heavy,
and they sagged back.
Onct more! |" shreekt the Cheef JUS
tis. "One more trial. Oh git EN- up
on this step. Oh git EN- up for / can't
90 no lower, indeed | can't, and we
must come together. | have gone
down six steps and long ones, and you
can, and you must come up to this one
Git EN- up"
At this pint awoke. The sereechin
NV the wretched man aroused me. Its
a p,t ty the dreem did not continyoo.
Ez it is | don't know whether he's q
eoin to take the last step or not. !
don't know whether he's a goin to
plunge into the mire with us, or whether
he's agoin to climb back agin and wash
hisself clean NV the filth that's stuck to
him, in the clear waters nv repentance,
or whether another effort is to be made
to lift us mp to him. ! left em when
returned from the land NV dreems, a
settling back into the mire, and Chase
standing onto the next but last round,
with expression NV despair onto his
countenance, jist in the way NV the
missels both parties wuz a throwin'
Consistently, G I'm no better off beco1
nv this dreem than | wuz before.
am still tost on the waters NV Oncer-
tainty. / shall still be forced to talk
nv tariffs and sich, not KNOWN wat is
or is not ssfe ground. The dreem wu1
about mint too short for my purpose
But its often thus.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, Pm.
(Which is Postmaster
WORKING NATIONS RULE.-The Hon