The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-11-26
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
The Presidential EIectIOn--The
News Reaches K kentucky
The Z ROads in Mourning.


/ (Which is in the State Nv KentuckyO
November 5, 1865.
Bad news travels fast. We hev heerd
from enuff'o the States to know that the
butcher Grant-he wich wunst Rfore stood
in the way of the Confedrscy-hez been
elected President, and that Seymour and
Blare, our gsllOrioUs standard bearers, hev
been defeated ignominiously.
This ends iti This finishes It'll There is
no more hope for Democrisy. Our star is
sOt in gloom. Never shall I forgit the
CHASTITY appearance Nv Deacon POgram's IS
face, as the fatal nOOze was told him. A
single tear rolled from his left eye, down
his furrOwed cheek-it glittered for q brief
moment on the tip Nv his brilliant nose,
and plunged off into spacel How like our
hOpesl Never a word sed he, but sadly
beconed me to foller. Sadly he walked to
the square, mournfully he pulled down
the COnfedrit flag which hez waved from
the pole in front of Bascom's, tenderly he
folded it and placed it under the bari of
whisky in the bar. "Thar let It rest"
gasped he in husky tone. "It will new
er kiss the breeZes no more" And over
come with emOshun, the good old man
| busted into flood Nv tears wich saved
his life. The drain Nv moisture from his
1 =
suthin to fill its place, and that suthin wuz
strengthnin. To save him took suthin
strengthnin too.
And Ben Butler is elected. That excel
lent conservative Richard H. Dana, who
has forgotten that ruf1ed shirts went out
Of date 20 years ago, and who still reads
the Nashnal Intelligencer sposin it to be a
Whig paper, 10 defeated, and Butler, who
wunst hung a Demokrat in Moo Orleans
and who wood do that same every morn
in to give him an appitite, is fastened onto
this here wunst happy but now distracted
country for two years more. Grashus
HeviDsi send the yaller fever to the Cor
ners now, and finish US up to wunst.
! 1 won't say word ez to the causes Nv
this most terrible defeat. Seymole wood
make speeches, wich hez alIuz bin fatle to
Presidenshul aspirants, and Blare wood
write terrible letters, wioh is just ez bad.
Besides, Blare fairly represents US, wich
druv off all the decent people, and Sey-
more ruthlessly prides hisself on bein
gentleman, wich chilled the ardor of our
| party. The nOminashens were unforchnit,
| but don't reproach 'em. It's fate.
sigh, ,Deekin Pogram sighs,and the rest
NV our cirkle wood sigh, only they hevn't
returned from Inieany, wher they hev
/ gone to vote in the interest Nv the Con-
stitOoshen, and to aid in the maintenance
of the laws.
| Sigh hev reason to sigh. For Pol
lock will git the Post Offs after all. Tho
his hands are contaminated by bein taken
into the hands nv niggers-his hands Wich
handles kaliker and draws mOlasses, and
Is consekently degraded by earnin hisO
| liven-his hands Will pass out to Deekin
| POgram the paper wich the Corners taks!
The Deekin, ez he thought Nv this, bust
into tears again. 81 shall stop that paper"
said he, sand the Corners shell never aein
go for a letter-nor will I ever hev one
written for me to any body. When a
Ablishn face is at the general delivery
shall stop pateThizin the Post Offis!"
viii the new administrator deprive a
whole community Nv paper merely to
give one Nv its supporters pOsishun? We
shall see.
But, 1 Good endOor the loss Nv my posi-
shun-fCr principle kin look marterdOm
suuarely in the face-but see other and
more terrible results follOWin this catas-
trophe.
Wat Nv the niggers?. Wat nv Us? We
shell hev niggers votin at the COrnersi
We shell hev, at our poles, all Nv the black
eusses who live between here and Gar
rettstown, votin ez regler ez though
they wuz white men. We shel have 'eIn
defilin the sakred ballot box ez tho they
wuz not of a cussid race. see dark lines
afore our poor State. They will hereafter
hold the land wich they hev bought, and
wich they live on, by a shure tenure, and
they will increase and multiply. Pollock
will buy ther prodOOse and they will work
and git money. This money they will
e, errn rr1ret hnu IL tn anstafU
life-and they will take mortgages onto
our land. when 1 say our, mean Dee
kin Pogram and sich.) Ez we never work
ourselves, and will not hev, under the
present arrangement, the means of com
pellin the labor necessary to our support,
we kin never pay; and the result will be,
this beautiful land Nv Ourn wich we so
deerly love, will pass out Nv the hands Nv
thestrongef and better race into the control
Nv weaker and less powerful people.
The Deeken was remarkin suthin to
this effect, when Joe Bigler remarkt in
reply. that the Deekin he'd better throw
himself onto the sympathy Nv his sons.
al don't mean your white sons" sed
this horrible Bigler. "They amt Nv no
akkount. But in the nigger settlement at
GarrettstOwn 700 hev more than twenty
who wood"
The poor Deekin rushed out Nv the room
while Bigler lafed his most feendish
laff.
The people will be deprived Nv ther
innocent amOOsements. This Grant will
send on armed hirelins, clothed in ojus
bloc, with muskets and sich, who will pre-
vent our shOOtin niggers, and who will
perfect on tlier farms and in ther shops
the oius Northerners who have settled in |
tho uglo-
Southern system decline stidily and shoOr- !
lv. The whippin post will rot and the |
stox will decay-the yelp uv dOrgs will no |
more be heerd, and the cheerful crack Nv
the pistol and the shreeck Nv the man wat
has got his Cruel will no more be heerd in ]
All the land. Baseom, after he hez the |
few farms still unm0rtgaEed in the visin-
itty, will close, and go to Louisville and /
embark into a wholesale grOsery trade and |
line the church, and give literally to Sun
dyskOols; his grosery will fall into dekay
and the sine will hang by one hinge. We
shell 8. g churches and sl1OOl HOUSES, fac
trvs and villages everywhere. The Po-
gram place Nv z, 900 akers will be divided
up into twenty farms, and onto them
farms will be the bustlin Moo Yorker, the
the cool, kalculatin Yankee, the stiddy,
hard workin German-who will display
his grOV6lin naCher Dy WOrkln nlmSel1 IN
std NV forcin niggers to do it for him. We
shelbe run over with skOOl-marms, delug-
ed with academies, plastered over with
noosepapers, stunned with machinery,
drove crazy by the whirr, crash and clash
Nv mowin machines and reapers. And
ther will be cheese made at the Corners
Pennibacker's distillery will be turned in
to cheese-factry, and weak whey will
run wher now the genrOus high-wines
flash along the troughs. Ther will be no
rectifyin at the Corners-the hOg-penswill
be abolished and in ther sted will be
skool houses, And methinks 1 see in my
minds eye, HorashO, the sperit, the ghost
Nv the departid Pogram, (fur be won't sur
vive it longO a hoverin over the scene, ez
Hamlick's father did. The blessed shade
will look in vain for his house-on the
,Rpot wher it stood will be an academy.
He will turn to Bsscom's, but ther he will
find deestrict skOol. ITO Pennibacker's',
he will gasp in sperit, and with a sperit-
GOAL smack Nv his speritooal lips, he will
hover over it, bat the smell Nv cheese in
the place Nv the strengthnin Odors in wich
he delites, will send sperit GOAL shudder
thro him. A gost Of a tear will run down
his speritoOaI nose, and linger for min
nit at the tip like a de " drop on the rose,
and falI Then will the dissatisfied COST