The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-12-10
WAsHTNaToN, Nov. 18, 1858.

en- AZ WuA lOd&6 Nv sorrow. Inefl
Wuz faint glimrins Nv hope onto the
.counteHarces NV a few Nv those pres
.ent, but nUthin ~ eerlinty-nuthinl
Nv ashOOTance. Sekretary Randall
.remarkt that so far ez he Wuz con-
=cerned he he'd made up his mind. Hel
'shoOd not take offs under the incOm- 1
in administrator. He mite yeeld in !
other matters (for he wuz iva yeeIdinl
nacheF,) but ia this he Wuz inhexible. !
DdCCuIloeh and Browning were also
determined, but Seward had other
ideas. He chirped in that the Oldest
man eOodent tell wat sixty days wood
bring forth.
"Wat shall we do9o askt a Post
master from Ohio.
81 sejest for President Johnson
sed Randall, uthat he apply for the
Spanish throne. He wood be accept
able to the Spanish people, for he hez
all his life been putin the Bourbon
down!D
Randall hcz no Longer. any fear Nv
the President
"Gentlemen, remarkt ] 81 hev an
idea wieh ifaeted onto viii pull us out
NV our sea NV trOubles.'
'sSpeakf' exclaimed they all with
lone breath, sspeakl'' >v,a
"My idea IS Cuba. Cuba, the gem
Nv the AntiIles-the britest jewel in
the crown nv SPAIN. Let Secretary
Seward, who hez a talent for reel es-
tate, buy itnoW before the new Gov
lernmeht hez its internal revenue sys-
tenn establish, and while it is hard
lup for money. Let Cuba be the. pO-
llitikle Botany Bay NV this country,
Let it be bought by Seward and then
let the President 60 to work to Wunst
fIin ofisis for its government,
while he still hez the power Of appint-
ment. He must not wait to hey 'em
hold eleckshins, for we alluz- succeed
better in gittin offs by aPpintment
/ than by eleckshuns. ..-4-..
itWat a Heaven I see open before
lust I hev bin readin Cuba up, and /
/ find that that Island pays the Home
/ Government. s35, ,000,0 600 per snnum.
4 If the Spanish Government kin git
$25, 100000 out Nv EN-, we kin double
it with our experience. There's
enuff for all NV US. Give Randall a
place correspondent with that he now
holds; N Ike Ben Wood SOoperintend-
ent Nv the Havana Lotteries; make
Frank B. suthin else-wat it don't
matter, ez he'll take anything; make
tgOOd places for Ross, Fullerton, Biuk-
ley, Mrs. Cobb, ValIandigham, Britei
Mrs. Perry, John Quincy Adams, Jr.,
Frank Peerce, Ginral Forrest, jim
fSteedman. Rosso, DoolittIe, COwan;
/ Dixon, Secretary Wells aud all Ofthat
tunnumbered thrOug Nv hungry soles,
who hev lived on. pap so long that
any other diet sOurs on theirstumieksi
land then" I'll
GBut sposin Con ress, when it meets.
IrpfUoses to ratify the purehis by maxi
in an appropriashen?n askt dOubter'
,RefOOze to make the appr0priashunl
Refooze! Ha! Put before Gineral
/ Grant the prospeck Nv never again
Eseein the Blair family-put before
I Congress and the Amerikin people the
/ hope Nv never seein agin the faces NV
any uv the men L hev menshun'd,
with the thousands uv others Nv SINH
lar tastes, habits, and necessities, and
wat wood twenty or thirty millions
4 more or less, be TO EN-? NOthin! Con
gress wood vote il instantaneously and
; the people wood all say "Amenls
Lord, how quick the bill wood &C
through, and how quick Grant wood
sign it.
GBut sposn Congress shOod refooze
wat then? Jest ez well. The Blairs
wood hev their posishuns, and tht
Cuban officials, ef they are versed II
: Amerikin polidKle history, know e
they know anything, thut when tho
/ Blairs get into a place nCthia but detf
I lloosens EN-.
awe shood hist the banner Nv In
de pendence-we shood paint onto tia
banner the inscription: "OFFIsEs Fol
, ALL, IN A COUNTRY WHERE LICKEF
{ IS NOT TAxEDp' and in a weeks timl
an army of Dimokats big 'enuff t
capcher Spain herself wood be OF
them shores! And who could stand
afore EN-? Whisper Post Offs in
their ears, and they'd wade knee deer
, in blood. Lord, how the Spanisi
tsoliery wood 60 down afore EN-! How
Frank Blair wood 60 for Lersundi
, How all the trained cohorts Nv Dim
ocrisy wich hev been abstainin frOm
Eofls so many years wood risk their al
for a taste Nv the sweets Nv pO5ishen
e.Ohl the deliciousnis Of the pro 'pek
, Think Nv an Island with enuG mig
gers onto it to do our labor, and enut
/. white Cubans who caa't read to vOt
. for US! Why, it wood recall reeollec
tions Nv them happy days before the
!, war, when the Dimocrisy wuz thu
! constitooted. I hunger and thirst 70
! sich. z
: hRoll swiftly round. ye wheels Of tme,
o And bring the happy day!
o tThen Ginaral Grant Good he
: peace! Then he wood only hev tn
+ EAblishnists on his hands! Then tn
d niegers nv the United States mite he
: suffrage, for it wood make 10 difeI
l. enee to u.s. We wood hev 0ihses
live onto, and pure niggeTs TO loo
down upon, and-wat more Good W
D. waht? The only difference wood b'
It we wood hev 20 aecustom eur stun
Wick to Santa CFBz rum In place
It whisky, bat that we Good do. Th
p effect upon the bowels is the same