The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1868-12-11
Nasby on the Future Of Democracy,

The unparalleled postmaster Of Con-
federate Cross Road INDUCES in the
following dolorous strain over the
terrible result November Sd.
The people will be deprived NV
their innocent amoosements. This
Grant will send on armed hirelins,
clothed in ojus bloc, with Inuskets
and sich who will prevent Our shootin
niggers, and who will perfect on their
| farpns and in their shops the oius
| Northernes who hev settled in our
midst. We shel sec the gollorious
Southern system decline stidily and
shoorly. The whipninposts will rot
and the sto& viii decay-the yelp Nv
dorgs viii no more be heerd, and
tho cheerful crack uv.the pistol and
the shreek NV the man wat has got
his Cruel will no more be heerd in all
tho land Bascum, after he hez the
few farms still unmortgaged in the
vieinty, will close, and 90 to louisville
and em bark, into wholesale grocery
trade and jiAe the church, and give
IfbrallS to Snndy.skoois; his grosery
will fall into decay and the sine will
hang by one hinge. We shell see
churches and skooI houses, factrys
and villages everywhere. The Po-
gram place nv 1000 akers will be d.
vided Up into twenty farms, and onto
them farms will be the buStlin Moo
Yorker, the COOL caIculatin Yankee,
the stiddy, hard -workin German--who
will display his grovelin nacher by
workin himself instid NV foiein niggers
to do it for him. We shel be run
over with skool marms; deldged with
academies, plastered over with moose
papers, stunned machineery, drove
crazy by the Whit, crash and clash
nv mowin machine and reapers. Aud
there will be cheese made at the
Corners. PehnibaGker's distillery will
bo turned into d cheese e-factry, and
weak whey will run where now the
genfous high-wines fash along the
trohghs. Their will be no reclifyin
at the Corners-the pens will be
abolished and In their sted will be
skool-house. And methinka | see in
my minds eye, Horasho, the sperit,
the ghost Nv the departed Pogram (for
he Won't sttvive it lohg), a hoverin
over the SCENE ez Hathlick's father
did. The Blessed shade will look in
vain for his bouse on Tie spot where
it stood there will be al acdemy. He
will turn to Baseofn's, bit there be
will find deestrict ssttle. TO PEN
nibacker's' he will gasp IN d sperit
whisper, and with a sperit6oal SMACK
nv bis spiritual lips We viii hover
over it; but the smell OF cheese In The
place nv the strenglhnin odors in
which he delites, viii send a splr.
itooai sbudder thr6 him. A COST NV
a tear will run down his speeritooal
nose. linget for a hhinnit at the tip
like q dew drop on tho rose, ahd falll
Then will the dissatisfied g6st demand
to be taken back to burgatorSi place
less triten 10 his nerves.
Deekin P6gram has only britened
up wunst. A tho, flashed over bis
mind which gave him comfort for a
minnit. Isn't their Booth for Grant
ez their wuz for Llhkiny' ask he.
'Ah' sed /, in alarm, wood yOu kill
Grant to heV Colfax in his pIacel-
We mite kill Colfax, say you. Alars,
sposn they'd elect Sumper Sz Prcsi.
dent Nv the Senitl Kill SumnerY
Good Lord, notl They'd then elect
Butler Speeker nv the House and
he can't be killed. No! Mol We
he'd better bear the ills we ho7 than
ay to them wo know hot Nv.