The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-07-03
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to kiver the Afrikin race. 1 wave
my objection to the word, however.
Ez regards extendin the suffrage to
our Afrikin citizens NV Amerikin
descent, l wood say that it's ques
tion wich requires the heftiest states,
lmanship to deal with. 1t mite be
denied them altogether on the skore
NV onfitnis, or it mite be given to al
ON the skore Nv the ekality onto wicf
our government is built, or it mite
be given to some and withheld from
others, or it mite be left to the states
Ez an originel states-rites man, ano
consekently in perfeck harmony will
the Democrisy all my life, ceptin il
some trifiin questions wich are for
{ ,itly settled, 1 can't say that | hey
cleefly made up my mind on thi'
| a uestion. incline, however, to th'
bIeef, that it aint worth while to dis
cuss it. 1t seems to me thas thu
question, tho it wuz wunst vital, II
now cleerly dead ishoo.
"What is yoor views on the ques
ton NV general amnesty %
"Cleerly that the war settled al
questions, this inclooded. Wat wui
the coz NV dispoot between the two
seckshens A difference of opinyun
Is the war over and done? 1t is
1t Good not hev bin ended until th'
differences Nv opinyun wuz settled
lCertainly not? Then why eontinyot
| the acerbity engendered by a differ
ence NV opinyun when that difference
is reconciled? Let the conker
er and the conkered, or ruther the
stronger and the weaker party, NEE
on a common level, and 60 to churcl
arm in arm. ez 1 did with Henry A
Wise, NV Virginy, only the last Sun
day but one. The Amnesty question
is, 1 consider, after givin the subjicl
matoor considerasbun, a dead ishoo
"May / ask yoor views on the t.
us) all important question NV payil
the bonds with greenbacks p
Certainly. I regret, however
that am enable to give yOo ez full
and explicit and anser to this quer!
ez to the others. The fact is, m,
deer Sir, hev never paid any atten
shun watever to the subjick III
finance, and am not competent t.
jgiye q opinion there upon. / pledg
myself, RoYever, to study the intriki
question diligently, SO that in case
am nominated and elected, l kin rec
commend q policy that will be eptirel.!
satisfactory to the people. ! abe
hev to assertane the different kind
NV bonds now held agin the govern
ment. the dates NV their ishoOs, AM
the stipulashsas ez to payin NV EN-
From my present stan point, and wit
nv limited knowledge NV the subjech
| am inclined to hold the opinion tia
this question. tho Onct Nv importance
is nov actelly dead ishOO"
We converst some time upon othe
topics and l must ssy that l WI
charmed with the strate- -fOrGsd hon
Issty NV his replies. He asshOOrsI
me thst he wuz q Democrat and allu
lhed bin. He had been estrange
from the party OF some minor ques
ltions wich he'd bin happily settled
and upon lOokin the sujeck all Oyel
lhe coOdent find one single diffrenc
tstwees EN-. All the questions vic
divided em ynz dead ishOOs and h
Good now shake hspds corjelly wi:
EN-. lie wuz not partisan, in proc
NV wich he cited me to his roolips pI
the impeachment trial.
While he he'd alluZ ben Democra
and cherished the principles u
the party IS the especial apple u
his eve, he hs had not, it is troO, al
luz actid with it. His first vote wa
agin jackson; his second aud thir,
for Harrison. lie organized tia
Liberty party movement, and vOtet
in lS4S agin Cass. He also wu'
elected to tbs SENT by the Free
Soilers. and opposed popglass' Kan
sas Nebraska skeem, and in 1852 WI,
elected Governor of Ohio by the party
wich hez alluz bsn opposed to th'
DemOcrisy. He confessed that h'
originated Greenbax, wuz a Nashe
bank and tariff man, and he'd Oppos
ed the fugitive slave law and seces
sion, but what Nv these2 They were
mere pints Of policy in their day, AM
are now, to say the least. dead ishoOs
Wat we want is livin ishoos, with tht
Presidency in rite hands that thu
Postofiices may also be properly fill
ed. This, lie thot, wuz now the gratt
question afore the Amerikin people.
He inquired very affecksnately af
ter the health NV my wife and chill
dren, and also ez to the crop pros
peck in Kentucky, snd intimated thai
eff eclectid he shood hold 1t to be his
bounden dooty to seleck for thu
various subordenit posishens in thu
government men tried and troo. Ht
bleeved pertikelerly that the salaries
NV the postmasters in the smaller
places wuz ridiculously small. and he
shood to-wunst recommend them tc
be increased.
Ipartld with him entirely satisfied
with his Democrisy. On my return,
/ narrated the conversashen to the
Democrisy NV the Corners, who
agreed with me that it wuz entirely
satisfactory. 10 Bigler, tho remarkt
that eff Democrisy shhood merry Alb
lishnism on the Fourth NV Jooly and
give birth to sich a monstroslty ez
Chase, that it wood be trooly found
to be Dead ishoo. but We never pay
any attenshen to him. So pieesed
were the citizens NV the corners at
the thot that all the questions wich
he'd bin troublin Nv em 80 long were
dead, that they to wunst hung three
niggers to the trees, run off two
NOrthernsers, and met and resolved
that they never wood pay a cent Nv q
debt injured in Q attempt to subju-
gate en-. L
We are solid for Chase at the Cor
ners
PETRoLEUM V. Massey, p. M,
(wich is Postmaster.
Sale of Patent Rights--Recent Leg
islation.
As q severe penalty attaches to q
violation of the provisions OF the