Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-08-26

mystery. They wood obieck did they know
| he'd clothed myself with their money in
stead Nv wastin it on taller candles and sich
wich burn out and leave nothing behind
wuz economikle in my expenditoors, O
ruther but little expense wuz nessary. De
sirin to wake the enthoosasm of the Demo
crisy, procoored a passel of Confedrit battl
flags, wich the returned heroes he'd bro
home with EN-, and he'd the talismanic words
"Seymore and Blare," painted across EN-
The very effeck wuz gorgus Ez mite ap
proacht he'd the transparencies saved ovel
from a ceebrashen wich he'd bin held aftel
the battle Nv Chickamauga lighted up. The
enrhoosiasm, ez the pOpulace saw these, anC
listened to Captain McPelter ez he red en-
to EN-, wuz overpowerin. How they cheered
ez the words f1asht out into the mite {" South
ern Rites, Southern Men and a Southern
Government - - Death to Northern Hire
lins ~ '' Down with the gorilla Linkin -
jeff Davis and the Confedracy forever -
ssNo quarters to Federal invaders - And
when Boregard's black flag, onto witch
g Seymore and Blare'' wuz painted in red
letters, wuz unfurled, ther arose sich cheers
for the nominees Nv the Moo York Conven-
shun ez | he'd never heerd before, nor expect
to agin.
At this time, jist ez everythin wuz git
tin red hot, the trouble commenced. Pen
nybacker, wich runs our biggest and best
distillery, .jumpt onto the platform, at my
suggestion, and proposed three cheers for
Seymore and Greenbax and three groans for
the bloated bondholders The crowd, with
| troo Democratic docility, wuz agoin to cheer,
when Bascom, who hez some 5-20's, riz and
swore that he'd be id eff that shood be.
- Governor SeymOre is in favor of paying
the Nashnel indebtedness, principle and in
terest, IN gold. Read his speech at the
Cooper Instoot.''
"Is he? is he ?" shouted Pennybacker
springng onto the platform, '' is he? Read
the platform wich he accepts ~
| Don't Belmont and the eastern bankers
support him p yelled Bascom.
:" Don't Vallandygum, Pendleton, Brick
Pomroy and dirty shirt Dean support him ?''
yelled Pennybacker.
% Yoor doctrin," sed Bascom, excitedly,
80 is swindle-a peece Nv theevin wich
Arab wood be ashamed Nv, and Seymore sed
So"
- Yoor proposition is outrage onto op-
prest people, grindin into the
bloated aristocrats and pampered sons Nv
luxury. and the platform Seymore STANDS on
to says So, shouted Pennibacker
" YoOr a swindler,' exctedly yelled Bas-
orf the platform titely huggin, and making
extraordinary physikle efforts at injoorin
To direct the nttenshun Nv the populs
from this untoward circumstance, rekested
Issaker to sing out three cheers for Blare
" Three cheers for Blare - sung out Is
saker, - the Missouri statesman who will
ri dus Nv Freedmen Burrows and the military
rool -
Three groans for Blarel'' yelld Punt,
:. a Abolshnist and Linkin hireln, wich
Il.
grandmother's house in Eixburg,'
- He aint Ablishnist' exclaimed Is
saker, - red his letters -
- Its difficult to say wat he is to-day but
I'll sware to it he wuz three years ago, but
it makes no difference. | swore four years
ago to lick any man who hurrahed for any
member NV the Blare family
And this infooriated wretch pOunced onto
Issaker, and they rolled OFF the stand to
Join Bascom and Pennybacker, who hedn't
settled their onpleasantnis yet
III Ms il ended, Deckin Pogram and Ker-
,,rjot,, ~, roco55, So - arguin ez to the pro-
the party, me Deekin takin one side and
McPelter the other. The passions NV these
estimable gentlemen wuz arouzd somewat,
and before | Good interfere they he'd each
other by the throte and rolled orf onto the
ground beneath the platform. | sprang down
to separate EN-, when McPelter turned upon
me, and wood hev sacrificed me on the spot,
but the Corners rusht ez man to save me.
Ez | owe the most Nv EN- | am entirely safe
here, and ez | shell be ontil pay my debts |
shell never die NV violence.
At this pint the fte became general
Some Nv the people sided with Bascom, some
Nv EN- with Pennibacker, (akkordin ez they
bought whisky by the bari, or by the drink
and the balance Nv EN- assisted Bigler and
Issaker Gavitt their inclinashen promptid
EN-. In the melee the platform, flag and
transparencies wuz tore down, nearly breakin
my leg, for wich | wuz insuffshently remun-
eratid by the hankerchers | borrered from
the PROSTATE cOmbatants under cover of as
sistin EN- to rise.
After the scrmmage wuZ over Pollock and
Bigler came, with three niggers, into Bas-
CONS, where we wuz repairin damages,
wich remarkt that they he'd held meetin,
and he'd passed resolooshens thankin the
Lord devoutly for hevin relieved the Re
publikin party Nv the Blare family, and
sympathisin with the Dimocrisy wich he'd
reserved EN- and also acknowledge the OBJ
ligashen the colored men NV the nashen
were under to the Dimocrisy for the hand
some manner in wich they he'd treeted Joe
Williams, the Afrikin delegate to the Moo
York Convenshen, ez the selectin NV a Mig
ger ez a delegate and assoshatin with him on
terms Wv ekdiity WuZ Il step IN the ulrecsnen
NV yooniversal brotherhood, wich cheer
in. This insultin message, delivered to men
wich wuz a pachin up their faces and washin
orf the blood politikle conhick, wuz the
reverse NV soothin.
The ratiicashun wuzn't altogether sue
cess, but we shel try it agin after time hez
softened the asperities engendered by the re-
cent conhck, and the candidates hev he'd
time to fit themselves and ther records to the
platform. The Corners kin be counted on
PETROLEUM V. Massey, z. NJ
(Wich is Postm aster.)