The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-08-11
From the Toledo Blade.
NJ A S B =.

. hacker Goes Back on the Nomiha'ohs'
Posr OPTICS, CoNFEDERIT X RoADs
witch is in the State NV Kentucky.
July 81, 1867
We he'd a nleet;n at the Corners mite
afore last fur the purpose ov organizin
Seyn1ore and Blare Club Their wuz
ruther spectacle show ov enthooslams
Mt the beginning. Decon Pogram who
hez an ambition ov becomin the collect
or ov the oDeestrict, was RELY effected
ez he spoke Of the menny good quail
ties oy our nobel standard bearer, Sey-
more; and Kernel McPelter, who hez his
beamin eye onto the Assessorship, wuz
+ similarly bold and outspoken in his admi-
rashun nv their CRATE qualities The Her
mel was especially elokent, ez he spoke
nv the gratenis NV Gineral Frank Blare,
wich he he'd ar;te to admire. Their wuz
suthin about him so noble, so grand, so
patriotic, and so troo, that he felt that
he must weave one little .oratoricle chap
let for his clasikle brow. Ez sojer, he
shood chccrhy support sojer.
w coorse made the reglar speech
witch liz alluz expected NV me, ! slung
slightly into the biography NV our cheer.
tains. I tribooted meekly to Their good
qualities NV head and heart, discussed
the platform, and commended it, and
wound up with an impressive appeal to
the Democracy to rally to their support
without division or hesitancy.
wuz about gittin fairly launched into
: nv peroration, when Elder Pennibacker
arose. He remarkt he had word witch
he must say
"Certinly, Elder" sed /, "say yoor
saw. We want all the faithful to speek.
Free yoor mind. Gush onto us.
Il SHE'LL" sed the Elder, "trust me
fer that. To begin with l pernounce
this entire biznis q most onmitigated
swindle. may possibly vote the Sey-
more ticket, but don't like it. A man
who ct a crow wunst remarkt that while
he Good eat crow, he coodent conshien-
shusly say that he hankered arter It,
Even so with the nominashun. l wuz
and hr, @ Pendletonian; [ am bieever
in the doctrin nv greenback payments
NV the bonds. I haint no bonds myself,
I. in common with the heft NV the Dim
ocrisy, hate and loatll the party wich IS
prindin us into dust with taxashun for
the payment Nv the unconstooshnei DEBT
I wuz q PendIetonian, for it wuz the first
step toards repoodiashen, and repoodia-
shen is balm for all DEMOCRATIC wounds
Nov wat did the delegates witch as
sembled at Moo York mean wen they
pnt sicn man ez Seymore on the track!
Wat did they mean when they throwd
overheard the Young Eagle NV the
West and put in charge NV our banner
the hooked beaked yulcher, Seymore, to
prey onto our vitals ? / don't fancy the
style NV Dimocrisy we are havin now
a-days Durin the war opposed war
vishusly. wuz fornenst bein dragged
into the servis NV a Government wich
/ detested, and to fitin for a coz wich
hated. he'd my rifel put into order,
and 1 shot Fedral pickits at mite regler-
ly for months, and jined John Morgan 3
excursion into Ohio. Our convenshen at
Shccago declared the war failyoor and
the Dimocrisy opposed to it, but wat
follered Why they nominated towunst
soIger whose sword was drippin in
gore and who wuz ez for continyooin
the war on US ez the old goriller Linkin
hisself Is this DimocrisyS I askt my
self. Eff so count me out.
"Wat difference is the sitooashen now?
We declared agin the non payment Nv
the bonds in emmy but greenbax, witch is
equivalent to not payin NV 'em at all,
and forthwith went to Moo York, where
I, yoor speaker, was enticed by strange
woman, and lost my watch and black
satin vest, my boots and eight dollars
and sixteen cents, all the money he'd,
wich it would hev bin the same he'd it
bin more similarly, and put in nomina-
shen a man witch sleeps onto bonds and
spends the heft Nv his time cuttin of
rcoopons Brethren, if hev to pay the
debt wat difference does it make to who
Ieyies the tax :? ken stand it ez long
under Grant ez / kin under Seymore.
1t amt the person wich levies the tax
wich I objeck to, SO much ez it is the
levyin NV the tax. If have to pay
gold Why not ez well under Grant ez
Seymore
Likewise is my sole vexed at another
thing, wich I can't or won't git over.
On my way to Moo York, where was
so vilely yoosed, I was compelled for
twenty miles either to stand up or set
down in the seat with dirty niger,
Joe Williams, DELEGATE TO THE Con-
vENsHUN, whose mother wunst owened