Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-11-27

Fesr lFFIs, CONFEHRW y RoADs iWieh
Is 10 thCState] Nv Kentucky, Nov 5, 1868.
--Baa ews travels fast. We hev heerd
from enf Of the States to know that tie
butcher 3rsnt-he which wunst afore stood
IN the ay of the Coniederacy-hez been
elected President, and that seymore and
Biara &c glorious standard bearers, hey
defeaiedignominiously.
This nds i'll This finishes itl There is
no lopgr hope for Dimoeri>y. Our star is
sot IN gloom Never shell forgit the
ghastly appearance of Deekin Pogram
face, q be fatal uooze was told him. A
single tar rolled from his left eye, down his
furrowel cheek--it gIittered for brief mo-
ment O. the tip Nv his brllyant nose, and
plunge off into space How ike our
hope! Never word sed he, but sadly
beckonei no to foller.- Sadly he walked to
tbs eqare, mounIuIiy be pulled down tho
Conpderit flag which hez waved from the
polein troat Of Baseom s, tenderly he fold
ed II and placed It under the bari Nv whis-
ky II the bar, Thar let it rest, gasped
he in husky tone, 1t viii never kiss the
breezes no more. And overcome with
emoshm, the good old man bursted into a
Good " teerg, wich saved his life. TIE
drain u1 moisture from his system made it
necessary for him to take sathin to fill its
Place, and that suthin wuz strengthening
too
And Ben Butler is elected. That ex-
eellsut conservative Richard II. Dana.
who has forgotten that rufied shirts went
out Of date 20 yeers ago, and who still reads
the Na.iael hteH.geacer sposin It to be a
Wing paper Is defeated, and Butler, who
wun5t hung a Demokrat in Moo Orleens.
and who wood do that same every mornin
to give him an appetite, is fastened onto
this here wunst happy but now distracted
county for two yeers more.
Grasbus Hevins send the yalIar fever so
the Corners now, and finish Us up to wunst.
I won say a word e. to the cause NV this
terrible defeat SaYmore would make spec
ehes, widh hez.aliuz bin fatal to Presiden-
shul asphants, and Blare would write terri
Die letters, wich is just cz bad. Besides,
Biare fairly represents US, wich druv of ali
the deeant people, and Seymorc rather
prides lisselfon bein a gentleman, which
chilled the ardor Of cur own party. The
uominashens were unforchuit. but don t re-
preach en- It's fate.
[ sigh, Deekin Pogram sighs, and therest
Of our cirkie wood sigh, only they heyen {
returned from Injeaoy, where they hey gone
to vote 10 the inteie5t Of the Constitooshen,
and to aid in the maiutainauce ny the laws.
Sigh ! [ hey reason to sigh. For Pollock
viii git the Post Offs after all. Tho his
hands are contaminated By bein taken into
the hands NV njggers-b bis hands wich hand
les ka,iker and draws molasses, and Is con.
sequeutIy degraded by earnju his own livin
-hiz hands win pass out to Daekin Pogram
the paper wich the Corners takesl The
Deekin, e be thought uy this, bust into
tsers agin. Il shel stop that paper sez
he, and the Corners shel so back into the
darkuis Nv ignorance. [ shcl never agin go
for = Iettar-nor will I ever hev one written
for me to anybody When a Ablisbn face
is at the general delivery, I sheIstop pattern
iziu the Post 0fis!'
Win the new Administration deprive a
whole community Nv a paper merely to give
one Nv its supporters a posishun We shell
see.
But I Good endoor tho loss ofmy posishen
for priusiple kju look marterjom square
Iy in the face-but Z see other and more ter
rible results foilowin the catastrophe.
Wat NV the uiggers2 Wat NV us2 We
shel hev at cur poles, all NV the black cusses
who live between here and Garrettstown, a
votin q recIer ez though they wuz white
men. We shel he7 EN- doflin the sacred
ballet-box ez tho they wuz not Nv a eussid
race. I see dark lines afore cur poor State
They win beresfter hold the land wich they
hsy bought, and they viii increase and NAL
tipIy. Pollock viii 5uy their prodoose and
they viii work and get money. This money
they viii lend to us-for we must hev it to
sustain life-and they viii take mortgages
onto our land. when [ say our, I mean
Deekin Pogram aud SIGH Ez we never
work ourselves, and will not hev, under the
present arrangement, the means Nv compel
lia the labor necessary TO our support, We
kin never pay; and the result viii be, this
beautiful land uv ourn, wich weso deerly
love, will PASS out NV the hands Nv the
stronger and better race into the control Nv
a weaker and less powerful people.
The Dsekin was remaFkn suthiu to this
effect, when Joe Bigler remarkt in reply,
that the Deekin he'd better throw himself
onto the sympathy Of his sons.
Why, they can't work any more than l
kin, sed the Dgekin
Il don't mean yoor poor white sons -
sed this terrible Bigler- 'Ihsy ain { Nv no
But in the niger settlement at
on heg more than twenty
who wood
The poor Deekin rushed out nv the room
while Biglor laft his most feendish lafE
The people viii be deprived Nv their inno-
cent amoosements. This Grant viii send
on armed hirelins, clothed 10 Qius bloc, with
muskets and sich, who will prevent our
sbootiu niggers, aud who win perfect on
ther farms and in ther shops the ojus Nor
therners who have settled in our midst. We
shell see the gellorious Southern system de
cline stidily aud shoorly. The whippin
posts viii rot, and the stoz viii decay-the
yelp uv dorgs will no more be heerd, and
the cheerful crack W the pistol and the
>breek Nv the man what has got his Cruel,
viii no more be heerd in all the land Bas-
com, after he hez the few farms still un-
mortgaeed IN tho vicinity, viii close and go
to Louisville, and embark into a wholesale
grosery trade and iine the church. and give