The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-08-28
MIR. Massey VOTES,

The Rev. Petroleum V. Nasty
thus describes the recent election in
Kentucky: "The elecsiun went off
magnifcently. Never did l see in all
my experience, wich bez bin very
great, sich extensive preparations
made. Bascom's bar WIZ made free.
Deekin Pogram, Kernel Hep Pelter and
myself, one Nv wich hods a govern
ment oils, and the othertwo expects
to, he'd a bari Nv new elGkshun whis-
ky purchist, wich Elder oennibacker,
notwithstandin his disafhckshun, fur
nisht at cost, witch wuz22 cents per
gallon, ez no tax hez evG bin pade in
his districk.
/ opened the polls, isin for the
purpus hat, and the voin commenst
lively. l put in two, Bscom slipt in
three under different names, and the
other faithful ones voted ez many
times ez they thot nesary. About
10 o'clock Pollock CAM up to vote,
at wlch 1 wuz surprised Imean it.
The very presence Nv the man at
sich time and place wuz startlin, and
it had a terrible effeck OF the populis.
"Wat." said Issaker Cavitt, indig-
nantly, "shel Illinoy Ablishnist-a
man not born in Kentpky--a man
who holds views SO tot.lly different
from onrn, persoom to vote at these
ere poles Neverr
And Issaker, bilin owe with rage,
went for him, in wich he was assisted
by the entire balance uvthe Corners.
The wretched man paid . heavy PEN
atty for his insolence. He wuz car
RED Off by some sympattitin niggers,
q mere wreck Nv his former self.
A little latter the "0onyun men,
ez they call themselves, upon Pike
Run, come down to voc. But Issa-
ker and McPelter reas,ned with em.
Kernel McPelter's remarks wuz per-
tikelerly impressive. They asserted
that ez American citizens they he'd a
rite to vote, and shOd do so at all
hazards. The Kernel, in reply, stat
id to em that the Corn.rs wuz fitin
for their liberties-th.t no matter
wat their abstrack rite mite be, the
Corners Good not permit herself to be
contaminated with Aolishn votes.
"Shood 700 attempt j." sed he i'm
pressively, "the bloot nv the Cor
ners will be up, and ] won't be an
swerable for the conskences. Be-
warer
They pressed forerl, when from
among our people single shot wuz
heard, and the head ole Nv EN-,
preacher, fell writhin n the dust.
/ pitied the poor wrach, but wat
kin we do? Why will they come
about US, irritatin our people with in
cenjary votes That man he'd o
family. Wat reason will he give
them, when he's carried home dead,
for his ontimely decesse? Its ever
thus. The Ablishnists will never let
us alone. And yet 1 spose that q
hirelin and subsidized press in the
North, in the face Nv the provocashen
we received, will accuse US Nv murd-
rim this man
Our ambishen wuz to hev the vote
clean Dimekratic. But it wuz not
so. At about l p. m. Joe Bigler,
who he'd heerd Nv the doins come to
the polls. Issaker and McPelter
wuz a goin to prevent him from
votin, but the villain drawed a re.
volver the mint they looked at him,
and they partid, maxim lane fol-
him to the hat.
''Does any one challenge my vote9'
sed he, eockln his weepOn. GEL So
let 'em speak"
But no one interfered, and took
it. When we countid out there wal
barely one Ablishn ballot in the hat
1t wuz Bigler's. But we were neel
enuff yoonanimus, and we perpose tC
keep so. The process is simple. Il
consists merely in shootin all who
differ with us. Thus we hev peect
at home.
Ourpolitikle prospects, are mixed
The reduckshen Nv the tax on whis
key inclined many nv our voters to
ward .Republikinism, but l headed j
orf by swearin that the Demockrisy
wuz pledged to take 1t 0rf all togeth
er. The Northern papers aSsertir
that Blare's letter don't mean revo
looshen is hurtin US some, but that il
moro than balanced by the ease will
wich we kin organize. Yesterday al
entire regiment in the Confedrit serv
is reorganized as a Seymore ant
Blare Club-retainin their officers e,
doorin the war, and yoosin the iden
tikle rolls, flags, and sich. 1t aid
US wonderAy.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ.
(Wich is Postmaster.