Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-11-12
4 Humorous letter,


Tho following lsttor received yesterday
by one % our townsmcn, from a notable
wag Of New LONDON, Conn whose po!iu'
cal tendencies are slightly Democratic, is
\ in such true Nasty vein, that we have So
Ilici,el it Tor publication;
Three cheers and tigar-r'rfo for Connect
ieut,
Got your fishing tackle with ye George
NEW LONDON, Conn, Nov 1, lsGS.
M Dan CR,- | learned late last
night that the Radicals held an election in
this town yesterday. This is how | came
To know anything about il ! spent the
evening al home, reading, among other
things, my political gospel, The New
York World, wherein found, TO comfort
me, the assurance that Seymour would
carry Pennsylvania, Indiana, Connecticut,
New York, etc, etc, This was all figured
out TO demonstration. and as remem-
bered hearing my father say once thai fig
urcs wont lie" l jus, settled down with my
fragrant PWtagds, and gave myself no
further unoasincss about the matter.
About eleven o'clock, just as | was
going to take my usual nights rest,
tho da---st racket saluted my ears that
civilized individual ever heard, Pardon
that little cSpletiye, nothing else would
do justice TO the subject i went to the
door, and there in the sheen Of the
bright silver moon," discovered, il not
An army with banRers, one with torches,
transparancies, drums, flies, toot-horns,
and other disgusting paraphernalia for
making night hideous, and they were
making directly for my house. 1t oc-
CURED TO me in twinkling that this was
the result Of the great "tiddl irdrc" spoken
of in my gospel by our Marble prophet,
and that these were the faithful coming to
pay their respects and congratulations to
me. OF course, must thank them, and
give them withal trihe of spread eagle.
| tried to recall some Of those elegantly
rounded periods had just been reading,
as sort Of send off, you know, until l
could collect my thoughts, but they
wouldn't came at my bidding. Ii you've
ever been hdr, you can "phancy my
phelinks~ Meanwhile the head of the
procession had reached my door, and the
| flourish Of toot-horns, as they gathered
around my 'umble cot, ceased. | drew in
my breath and put myself in an attitude
oratoricle, and had Just delivered myself
of Eel" when big burly euss, whose
voice at once recognized as that of one
of the most pcstiferous radicals-stepped
out in front, and called out Three
cheers for Grant and Colfax !" and as the
report follows the flash, the cheers came
| to the order. Three more" l-houted the
! fool "for New London" and out they
came. Three more for Connecticut" bel
lowed the old blower, and as the aforesaid
were given, he added "a tigar-r-r-r
now" and we had that dlldmtle. just at
this moment one of the triangular trans
Parahcles moved up III range Oh my snort
sieh'ed Vis'oh' ana re'eaieu Co"i'''''' =.
Redeemtd," "Ndr I0HdoH Redeemed
I'm afraid that at the moment | wa
sorry to know that the. RedeemerS HGed.
The burly cusS aforesaid AT TINS moiheh
remarked in ms bIandest tones lhouSh
we would come up and let you know
about 1t aS ] promised didnt' II j
proper to say, pronounce those TWO ianii
lar words,-"fellow Citizens, nor dix
the fools have the pleasure OF hearing
any OF those heabtJUtM f0H"6ed ptFiodS
I"What t2Ss was there, my country
, men !"
They retired, ann at",--" "t"""'f, /
not wiser man Was it DIR. Watts VII
wrote;
I u yam "a. arr al i nun, , !sIS below
wonder Il tho doctor over gave muc,
attoption "a noIitics torch.li,,bt nroce.
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