Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-11-20
Posr OFFts, CoNFEDRtr X RoAns,
(Wich is In the State nv Kentueky,lu !

from enuf Of the States to know that the
butcher Grant--he wich wunst afore stood
In the way of the Confedracy- been
elected President, and that Seymour and
Blare, our gallorious standard bearers, hev
been defeated ANONYMOUSLY,
This ends II I This finishes Il There Is
no more hope for Democrisy. Our star Is
sot in gloom, Never shall l forgit the
CHASTITY appearance NV Deacon Pogram's
face, as the fatal nooze was told him. A
single tear rolled from his left eye, down
his furrowed cheek--it glittered for brief
moment on the tip Nv his brilliant nose,
and plunged off into spacel How like
our hopes Never word sed he, but
sadly beckoned me TO foller. Sadly he
walked to the square, mournfully he pulled
down the Confedrit flag which hez waved
nom the pole in front Of Bascom's, ten
derly he folded IT, and placed II under the
barl NV whisky In the bar. "ThAr let II
rest" gasped he in husky tone, ut will
never kiss the breezes no more And
overcome with emoshun, the good old man
busted into a food NV tears ,wich saved
his life. The drain NV moisture from his
system made it necessary for him to take
suthin to ill its place, anGthat suthin wuz
strengthnin. To save him took suthin
strengthnin too.
And Ben, Butler Is elected. That ex-
cellent conservative Richard III. Dana,
who has forgotten that ruflled shirts went
out NV date 90 yeers ago, and who still
reads the NdShRd lntelligeRcer sposin it to
be a Wing paper, is defeated, and Butler,
who wunst hung Demokrat in Moo Or.
leans and who wood do that same every
mornin to give him an appetite, is fastened
onto this here wl1nst happy but now dis
tractid country for two yeers more. Ora
shus Hevins send the yaller fever to the
Corners now, and finish us up to wunst.
| won't say word ez TO the causes NV
this most terrible defeat. Seymore wood
make speeches, witch he7 alluz bin, istle to
Presidenshul aspirants, and Blare wood
write terrible letters, wich is just ez bad
Besides, Blare fairly represents US, wich
druv off all tlIe decent people, and Sey-
more ,ruthlessly prides hisself on hein a
gentleman, wich chilled the ardor of our
own party. The nomlnashens were un-
forchnit, but | don't reproach 'em. It's
fate. ''
l sigh, Deekin Pogram sighs, and the
rest NV our cirkle wood sigh, only they
heyn,t Returned from Injeany, wher they
hev gone to vote in the interest Nv the
Constitooshen, and TO aid in the Inainten-
ance of the laws i
Sigh I hev reason to siph. For Pol.
lock viii 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, andIis
consek entity degraded by earnin his own
livin-his hands will pass out to Deekin
Pogram the paper wich the Corners takes.l
The Deekin, ez he thought NV this, bust
into teers agin. 81 shell stop that paper"
said he, "and the Corners shsl never agin
go for a letter--nor will ever hev one
written for me to any body. When a
Abllshn face is at the general delivery
shall stop paternizin the Post Offs u
VIII the-new Administrator deprive a
whole community Nv paper merely to
give one NV its supporters posishung We
shall see. ra rn .n s4,i, 81.
But, Good endoor the loss Nv my posi-
shen-for prinsiple kin look marterdon
squarely in the face-but l see other anC
more terrible results followin this catas
irophe. '""-'i r
Wat uv the niggersg Wat NV usP We
shel hav niggers votin at the Corners
We shell hev, at our poles, All Nv the
black cusses who live between here and
Garrettstown, votin ez regler ez though
they wuz white men. We shell hev
em defilin, the sakred ballot,box ez
tho they wuz not Nv a cussid race. 1 see
dark lines. Rfore our poor State. They
win hereafter hold the land witch they hev
bought, and wich they live on, by shure
tenure, and they will increase and multi
ply. Pollock will buy ther prodoose and
they will work and get money. This
money, they will lend to us-for we must
hev IL to sustain life--and they will take
mortgages onto our land. (When / say
our, / mean Deekin Pogram and sich.)
Ez we never work ourselves, and will not
hev, undor the present arrangement, the
means of compellin 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 Iv
the hands NV the stronger and better race
into the control NV weaker and less pow
erful people. e
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. sn41
"Why, they can't work any more than
l kim" sed the Deekin.
:" i don't mean your white sons p sed
this horrible Bigler. Z" They amt Nv no
akkOunt But in the Niger settlement at
Garrettstown yoo heV more than twenty
who wood" iisi
/ The poor Deekin rushed out NV, the
room, while Bigler laft his most feendish
laff. rf a4
The people will be deprived NV ther
innocent amoosements. This Grant will
send on armed hnelins, clothed in ojus
bloc, with muskets and sich, who will pre-
vent our shootin niggers, and who will
perfect on ther farms and in ther shops
the ojus Northeners who have settled in
our midst. We shall see the glorious
Southern system decline stidily and shoor-
ly. The whippin poste' will rot and the
stox will decay-the yelp Nv dorgs win no
more be heerd, and the cheerful crack NV
the pistol and the shreeck Nv the man wat
has got his cruel will nomore be heerd in
all the land. Bascom, after he hez the few
farms still unmortgaged In the visinitty,
will close, and go 10 Louisville and em.
bark into a wholesale grosery trade and
jine the church, and give literally to Sun
dyskools !. his grosery will fall into dekay
and the sine will hang by one hinge. We
shell see churches and skool-housss, fac
trys and villages everywhere. The Pog-
ram place NV 1000 akers will be divided
up into twenty farms, and onto them
farms will be the bustlin Moo
Yorker, the cool, calculatin Yankee, tie
stiddy, hard-workjn German-who will
display his grovelln nacher by workin
himself instid Nv iorcin niggers to do It
for him. We shell be run over with skool-
marms, deluged with academies, pIastered
over with noosepapers, stunned with ma
chinery, drove crazy by the whirr, crash
and clash Nv mowin machines and reap
ers. And ther will be cheese made at the
Corners. Pennibacker's distillery will be
turned into a cheese-factry, and weak
whey will run swheT now the genrous
flash along the troughs. Their
win be no rectifyin at the Corners-the
hog pens will be abolished and in ther
sted will be skool,houses. And methinks
/ see in my minds'-eye, HorashO, the
sperlt, the ghost NV the departid Pograni,
(for he won't survive it .long), a hoverin
over the scene, ez Hamlick's father did.
The blessed shade win look in vain for his
house--on the spot wher ii stood VIII be
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