Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-06-11

From the Toledo Blade.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS.
y W (Wich sin the State NV Ky.)
& June l, 1868.
.s The matter NV Presidenshl candidate
hez opprest me, and hez also exercised
the gigantic intellex who congregate at
the Corners We hev decided that Cheef
-Justis Chase won't do. We-kin support
him cheerfully, for his method NV con-
duktin the impeachment trial hez satis-
fed us NV his hankerin for O stahtin in
our party. Besides THE havins made a
start, We consider him safe any how
The man wich kin take O nominashen
at our hands, or identify hisself with us,
may alluz be cepntid onto. The Abo--
lishpists never forgive sich, and their
amt no other place to go to-. When
Johnson and Doolittle and that crowd
left the Ablishnists, 1 knew wher they
would land better than they did. Encitis
decensus dpe1ri, witch bein translated
into the vulgor tongue, means, the road
to hell is macadamized. Hancock won't
do, becoz our Suthern brethren hev a
prejoodis again the flag he drawd his
sword under. Pendleton wood anser the
vest, hut the east Is opposed TO him;
Seymoure wood do the east, but the west
is opposed to him. / therefore, after
givin the matter matoor considerashen,
hev decided to propose for the posishn,
the name NV, Jethro Il. Kippins, NV
Alexander county, Illinoy. ID .f,r' ;tl
hev the follerin reasons for insistin
on his nomina hen. 49, 49,, -;
l. He's geographically level. BY look
in on the map, it will be seen that that
county in Illinoy is the extreme suth-
westerly part NV the State. 1t is n
Northern county with Southern ideas.--
Across the river is Kentucky, west is
soutL ca. tern Missouri and east Is lower
Injeany. They grow tobacco there, and
yearn al ter the slave labor ez intensely
ez we do across the river.
2. Nobody knows him. The name of
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 which there is a
doubt in the minds of the Democracy,
Jethro l.. Kippins is uncommitted. He
is unembarrassed with views, and on
troublesome questions hez nary an opin-
yum. The trouble Pendleton hez with
the greenbax wood not affect him, neith-
er would any Nv them other questions
which are ruther embarrassin than 9th
erwise. He hez but one political princi-
pie, which he holds is enuff for any one
man, and that is Democracy, ez it hez
bin, ez it is, and ez 1t may be. He be-
leeves firmly In the cuss NV Canaan, he
holds close to Onesimus and Hager, and
hez sworn solemn oath that no niger
shal ever marry daughter NV hizzen.--
This noble sentiment which a1luz strikes
responsive cord in every Democratic
buZzum wood be emblazoned OH the
Kippins banner.
3. Jethro l. Kippinses posishen on the
war question Is happy. lie opposed all
the steps wich led to it, and when it f.
nally broke out, he proposed the only
troo Demokratic way NV stoppin it. 1t
wuz his opinyun that we he'd no rite to
coerce the SOuth-that there wuz no
warrant in the Constooshen for any sich
percedin. EFF Boregard fires onto Major
Anderson sed he, "let Major Anderson
go afore the nearest Justis NV the Peece
aud hev him bound over to keep the
peece. he won't keep the peece, and
the Justs can't enforce his warrant,
why that ends it. We can't go beyond
the Constooshen." After hostilities ac-
locally begun, his posishen wuz emf
nently satisfactory TO both sides. He
wuZ in favor Nv the war, but opposed to
its prosekooshen. lie rumnrkt that the
South had committed o indiscreashen
butwere hein Congris, he slIootlent vote
for nary man nor dollar for carryin on n
war agln 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 OH hiin--ho made great
sacrifices. Three other sons lie support
ed In Canada dooriag the continyooance
Nv the unnachral strife.
4. Jethro l.. Kippins hez all the 'ele-
ments NV popularity. He wuz born i'm
q log cabin--he studied Daboll's arith-
metic by the lite NV n pine, knot, held
for the purpose by his mother-he drove
hoss on the canal, wuz n salt boiler in
Southern Ohio, q wagon-boy on the
Nashnel Road, wuz left an orphan when
six weeks old, swept a store i'm his early
yooth, went down the Mississippi on q
fiat boat, was in the Mexikin war, and
hez a consumin pashen for horses. He
,heZ, in this the advantage NV Grant, ez
his pashen was SO consumin that il got
him into temporary difficulty, which
required IL men, a judge and two law
yers to settle, one NV the lawyers bein
the States Attorney NV the county,
These facts In his biography got from
his own lips, Ef there's any discrepan-
cies, Nv course the committee on byog-
raphy will reconcile EN-. 1t may be that
he may hev done too much--wich is to
say, eff all he says is troo, he would be
two or three hundred years old. Ef so,
1t will have to be pared down. He he2
bin justls NV the peeee for ten years in
his native township, which gives splen-
did knowledge NV constooshnel law.
s.. He's trooly nashnel in his views.--
He knows no north, no south, no east,
no west, no nothing. That last qualifi.
cation mite prejudis some agin him, but
to me it's his chief holt. For with sich
man In the Presidenshel chair wood
be safe. We hev an abundance NV sich
men as Wood, Seymour, Vallandygum,
ct settry, who can manage President
but are too. odorous to- be electid very
much to that posishen themselves.
Therefore its necessary that precisely
sich O man ez hev described be electid;
and the fact that Chase knows too much
Is the objection hev TO him. Polk was
manageable. Pierce eminently So, and
poor old Bookannon was wonderfully
pliable. a7fia ia.s ah'
Sich Is the candidate wich I present.
There are many pints In his favor. Our
people wood to-wunst exclaim, "Who'n
thunder is Kippins?n and before they
Good find out the day NV election wood
be on em, and they'd vote him. His
hevin no record is also In his favor, -
Wat wood Pendleton, Vallandygum
Seymour and Wood give of they he'd no
record? A record Is like a tin kittie to a
dogs tale-it's noisy appendage which
makes the dog concpicuous, and invites
every body to shy a brick at him.
l hevent menshend In this, nor shel i,
who would be proper man for the sec.
ond place ON the ticket. l hev my opin-
ion. Kentucky Is deservin NV recogni-