New Orleans Republican., 1868-11-14
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CWich is in the Stait Kentucky

Mourning.
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| Wlch is in the Stait nv Kentucky :
November g. 1858 }
| Bad news travels fast We have heerd
from enuff of the States to know that the
butcher Grant-he wich wunst afore stood
in the way Nv the Confederacy-hez been
elected President, and that Seemore and
| Blare, our gellOrious standard bearers, hev
bin defeated ignominiously.
This ends it! This finishes it! There is
no longer hope for Democrisy. Our star is
sot in gloom. Never shell | forgit the
| CHASTITY appearance Nv DeehiR Pograu's
| face ez the fatal nooze wuz told him, A
single tear rolled from his left eve down
his furrowed cheek-it glittered for brief
moment on the tip Nv his brillyant nose.
and plunged off into space! How like our
hopes Never word said he, but sadly
beckoned me to foller. Sadly he walked to
the square, mournfuIly he pulled down the
Confedrit Gag which hez waved from the
pole in front of Basooms, tenderly he
folded it, and placed it under the barl NV
whisky in the bar. Thar let il rest
gasped he, in a husky tone, sit will never
kiss the breeze no more" And overcome
with emoshun, the good man burst into
Hood Nv teers, wich saved his life. The
drain nv moisture from his system made IL
necessary for him to take suthin to fill its
place, and that suthin wuz strengthenin.
To save him took suthin strengthenin. too,
And Ben Butler ia elected. That excel
lert Conservative, Richard H. Dana, who
has forgotten that ruffled shirts went out nv
date 20 years ago, and who still reads the
AdShnet IllteltigenCer,spo it to be Whig
paper, IS defeated, and Butler, who wunsi
hung DemOkrat in Moo Orleans, and who
wood do that same every morning to give
him an appetite, is fastened onto this here
wunst happy but now distracted country for
two years more. Grashus 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. Seymour wood
make speeches, Wich hez alluz bin fatle to
Presldenshul aspirants, and Blare wood
write terrible letters, wich is lust as bad.
Besides, Blare fairly represents us, wieb
druv OF all the decent people, and Sew.
mour ruther prides hlsself on bein gentle |
man, wich chilled the aIdor of our own |
party. The nominashens were unforchnit. |
but don't reproaeh em. It's fate.
l sigh, Deekin Pogram sighs, and the |
rest NV our cirkle wood sigh, only thew |
havn't returned from Injeany, wher thew |
hev gone to vote in the interest Nv the Con-
stitooshun and to aid in the maintenance
Nv the laws.
Sigh l hev reason to sigh. For Pol
lock will get the Post Offs after all. Tho
his hands are contaminated by being taken
into the hands Nv niggers-his hands wich
handles liker and draws molasses, and is
eonsekcntly degraded by ealnin his own I
lvln-his hands will pass out to Deekin
Pogram the paper wlch the Corners take |
The Deekin, ez he thought Nv this, bust
into teers agir. 81 shel stop that paper"
see he, "and the Corners shel go back into
the darkness Nv ignorance. l shel never
agin go for letter, nor will ever hev one
written for me to any body. When a
ADIshn face is at the general delivery I
shel stop paternizin the Post Offis!'-
wal the new Administrator deprive a
Whole community Nv paper merely to
give one NV its supporters a posishun We
shell see.
But Good eudoor the loss NV nv posi.
shun-ior prinsiple kin look marterdom
squarely In the face-but l see other and
more terrible results followini this catas-
trOphe.
Wat Nv the niggers? Wat Nv us? We
--S' hASESAG NOtlu az Tue NOIUeIEI J.. we
shel hev, at our poles, all NV the black
cusses who live between here and Carrots
town, votln ez regler ez though thew Wnz
white men. We shel hev EN- de6lin the
sakred ballot-box ez tho they wuz not of a
cussld race. l see dark lines afore our
poor State. They will hereafter hold the
land wlch they hev bought. and wicb
they live on, by shure tenure. and thpv
will increase and multiply. Pollock
will buy ther prodoose, and they will work
and get money. This money they will lend
10 us-for we must have it to sustain life
and they will take mortgages onto our land.
When say our, mean Deekin Pogram
md slch). Ez we never work ourselves.
ind Will not hev, under the present ar
'angement, the means Nv compellin the
aoor necessary to our support, we kin
lever pay and the result will be, this
beautiful land of ourn, witch we so deerly
owe, Will pass out Nv the hands Nv the
'tropger and better race into the control Nv
Weaker and less powerful people.
Ihe Deekln was remarkin suthin to this
meet, when Joe Bigler remarkt in reply,
hat the Deekin he'd better throw himself
INTO the sympathy NV his sons.
why, they can't work any more than
Tin" sed the Deekin.
q don't mean your white sonslp sed this
errible Bigler. "Tbey aint NV no akount.
iut in the nigger settlement and Garrestts-
own 700 hev more than twenty who
The poor Deekin rushed ont nv the
Dom, while Bigler lalt his most ieendish
The people will be deprived w their in
ioeenl ENDORSEMENTS. This Grant win send
n armed hirelins, clothed in oins bloc.
7th muskets and sich, who will prevent onr
ho tin niggers, ana who will perfect on
heir farms and in their shops the Gus North
rners who hev settled 10 our midst. We
bel see the gelloFioua Southern system de-
lice stidily and shoorly. The whiDpiu
losts win rot and Tie stox viii deca