The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-07-16

PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, |
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,) :
June 27, 1868.
Last mite after l had addressed a
Chase meetin in Garrittstown in the
afternoon and one at the Corners in the
evenin, | retired to my virchus couch
full of my subjlck, and whisky. Its
ruther tryin for man at my time of
life to do these things. To say nothin
Nv liftin up my voice like one cryin in
the wilderness for an old line Abolishi-
mist, the terrible uncertainty ez to
whether l ought to holler "Ekal Rites
Suffrage for all! !" or "Ameriky for
white men," troubles me. likewise
does the doubt ez to whether ! ought
to make speeches in favor nv payin the
debt in Greenbax, a Ia Pendleton, or
in Gold, a Ia Seymore, or nv repudiatin
the debt altogether like Pomeroy, is a
incubus wich weighs heavy onto me,
and paralyzes my best efforts. For
instants, at both meetins wuz COM
PEELED to talk NV tariffs and sich, NV
wich our people know jest about ez
much ez the gentle hog docs nv lie
brew. Wood oh wood the nomina-
shens wuz made and the platform
adopted, that l mite go on instructin
our people from a proper standpint.
Tired out and disgusted, | retired early
and slept a troubled sleep. o sich a
mite! l dreemed most horrible dreems,
the follerin bein a feeble statement NV
the lightest Nv EN-:
In my dreem l wuz in country the
like NV wich never seed afore. There
wuz low, level place, sort NV pit
indeed, and not pit either, 80 much
ez wuz a swamp or bog, with only here
and there a dry spot 1t wuz not e2
cheerful a lookin place ez you Good
think NV. 1t wuz full NV skulls and
dead mems bones. The highways
leadin into it were slushy and nasty,
and an odor ez NV seven hundred thou
sand million dead cats constantly as
sendid tovex the pure air above. 1t
wuz inhabited, it wuz. Rollin about
in the corrupshun, l saw the face nv
every Demokrat he'd ever seen, and
they wuz Gll about ther yoosnal avoca-
shens, too. Ben Wood wuz sellin
lottry tickets. Ferhandy he'd his hand
into city treasury. A, johnson wuz
signin pardon for a counterfeiter
(another counterfeiter, who wantid the
skill nv the inkarserated one, wuz a
waitin to carry it to him) immense
concourse NV John Morrisey's constitu-
ents were organizin raid onto niger
orfan asylums, and another immense
mass wuz a burnishin weapons ez if for
another confick with suthin. Rite
back nv this place wuz a precipice risin
up almost perpindicular many feet, on
the top NV wich stretched away a most
beautiful prospeck l asked one who
wuz crawlin out Nv the place what il
all meant, and he replied that it wu'
the restln place nv the Democrlsy
"Look!" !" sed he " about 700. Seest
you that elevated breezy plain7 That's
the chosen home NV Republikenism up
there, and I'm goin for it,"
"Butstay!" !" sed l, 81 fain wood know
more. Who's that" askt, ez body
come shootin down the abyss, boundir
plump into most friteful mass nv cor
rupshen below.
"Thats Ross, NV Kansas, sed he
"Look out, here comes Henderson, too
and Fowler Hal hal" lated this es
capin one, ez he saw Ross and Hender
son scramble out of the dirt, with i
stickin to EN- and try to crawl up tn,
side Nv the precipice, Fowler seemed
to like it and settled down ez tho h
intended to stay. There were other
who cot SO close to the verge Nv th
prisipice, that / RELY trembled for en-
but they he'd strong hands holdin u
EN- back.
"You notis that there is one way u
communication between the two places,
sed he, "wich is legitimit. Yoo oh
serve that ladder?"
81 hedn't, but ] do now. My eye
is dim," sed /, swat is them inskrir
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