The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-06-12


ther amt no other place 10 60. When
Johnson and Doolittle and that crowd
left the Ablishnists, I knew where
they would land better than they did.
Fdeilis aecend,s acerni, wieh bein
translated into the vulgar tongue,
means, the road to hell is macadamiz-
ed. Hancock won't do, becoz our
Southern brethren hev a prejoodis
again the flag he drawd his sword
under. Pendleton wood anser the
west but the east is opposed to him.
l therefore, after givin the matter
matoor consideration, hsv desided
to propose for the posishen. the name
NV Jethro L. Kippins, NV Alexander
IIlinoy.
] hev the follerin reasons for in
sistin on his nominashen
l. He's geographically level. By
lookin on the map, it will be seen
that that county in Illinoy, is the ex-
treme south-westerly part Nv the
State. lis Northern country with
Southern ideas. Across the river is
Kentucky, west is south eastern Mis-
soury and east is lower Injeany.
They grow tobacco there and yearn
after slave labor ez intensly ez We do
acrossthe river.
2. Nobody knows him. The name
Nv Jethro L. Kippins, hez never filled
the soundin trump nv fame. With
him on our tikkit several pints wood
be gained. On all the questions on
wich there is a doubt in the minds NV
the Democracy Jethro L. Kippens ls
uncommitted. He is unembarrassed
with views, and on troublesome ques-
tions hez nary an opinyun. The
trouble Pendleton hez with the green
bax wood not affect him, neither wood
any nv them other qnestionssYich are
ruther. embarrassen than otherwise
He hez but one political principle,
wich he holds is enuff for any one
man, and that is Democracy, ez il
hez bin, ez it is, aud ez may be. He
believes firmly in the cuss nv Cana.
an. he holds close to Onesimus and
Hagar, and hez sworn a solemn oath
that no nigger shel ever marry q
daughter of hizzen. This noble
sentiment wich alluz strikes a re.
sponslve cord in every buzzum wood
be emblazoned ON the Ripping ban.
ner.
8. Jethro L. Kippines posishen or
the war question is happy. He op-
posed all the steps wich led to it, and
when it finally broke out he propos.
ed the only troo Demokratic way Nv
stoppin it. 1t wuz his opinyun thai
we had no rite to coerce the South
that there wuz no warrant in the Con
stitooshen for any sich perceedln
"Ef Boregard fires onto Major An.
derson," sed he, "let Major Ander-
son go afore the nearest Justice
nv the Peece and hev him bound
over to keep the peece, and the Jus
lis can't enforce his warrant, why
that ends tive can't go beyond
the Constitooshn. After hostilities
actooaliy begun, his posishen wuz
satisfactory TO both sides.
He wuz in favor NV the war, but op,
posed to its prosceooshen. He re-
markt that the South he'd committed
q indiscreshen, but were he in Con
girls be shoodn't vote for nary man
nor dollar Ter carryin on var again
EN-. His two sons served In the war
one in the Confedrit servis and one in
the Fedral-both ez suffers. The
war bore heavy on hirn--he made
great sacrifices. Three other sons he
supported in Canada doorin the con-
tinyoOance NV the unnachrel strife.
Jethro L. Kippins hez all the ele-
ments NV popularity. He wuz born
in a log cabin-he studied Dabolrs
arithmetic by the lite NV q pine knot,
held for the purpose by his mother
he drove boss on the canal, wuz q
salt boiler in Southern Ohio, a wagon
boy on the Nashnel Road, wuz left
an orphan when six weeks old, swept
q store in his early yooth, went
down the Mississippi on fiat boat,
wuz in the Mexikin war, and hez a
conscomin pashen for horses. He
hez, in this, the advantage of Grant,
ez his pashen wuz so consoomin that
it got him into a temporary difficult
ty, witch required I2 men, q Judge
and two lawyers to settle. one Nv
the lawyers bein the States Attorney
NV the country. These facts in his
biography l got from his own lips
Ef there's any discrepancies, NV
course the committee on biography
will reconcile EN-. 1t may be that
he may hev done too much--wich is
to say, eff all he sez is troo, he wood
be two or three hundred years old.
IF 80, it will hev to be pared down,
He hez bin justis Nv the peece ten
years in his native township, witch
gives him splendid knowledge NV
law.
5. He's trooly nashnel in his views.
He knows no north, no south, no
east, no west, no nothin. That last
mite prejudis some
agin him, but to me its his chief holt.
For with sich man in the Presiden-
shell chair / wood be safe. We hev
an abundance NV sich men ez Wood,
Seymour, yallandygum, ct settry,
who kin manage President, but
who are too odorous to be electid
very much to that ,posishen them
selves. Therefore, its necessary
that precisely sich a man ez 1 hev de.
scribed be electid; and the fact that
Chase knows too much is the objec-
ton / hey to him. Polk wuz man.
ageable. Pierce emineptly so. and
poor old Bookannon was wonder
fully pliable.
Sich Is the candidate wich / pre-.
sent. There are many pints in his
favor. Our people wood to.wunst
Whom thander is Kip
pins?" and before they Good find out
the day nv election wood be on EN-,
and they'd vote him. His hevin no
record is also in his favor. Wat
wood Pendleton, Vallandygum, Sey-
mour and Wood give eff they he'd no
record2 A record is like tin kittle