The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-11-26
From the Toledo Blade.
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The Presidential ElcctiOn-%The
News Reaches Kentucky---The \
Roads in Mourning. Ean

PosT OFTIs, CoNFEDRrr x ROADS, l
(Which is in the Stait nv Kentucky0 }
Nov. 5, 1868. J
Bad news travels fast. We hev heerd
from enuff of the States to know that
the butcher Grant--he wich wunst atore
stood in the way of the Confederacy-
hez been elected President, and that
Seymore and Blair, our geIlor Gus stan
dard-bearers, hey bin defeated igno-
miniously.
This ends it! This finishes it! There
is no longer hope tor Democrisy. Our
star is sot in gloom. Never shel l
forgit the ghastly appearance NV Deekin
Pogram's face, ez the fatal nooze wuz
told him. A single tear rolled from his
left eye down his furrowed cheek-it
glittered for breef moment on the tip
NV his brillyant nose, and plunged of
into space! How like our hopesl
Never word sed he, hut sadly beck
oned me to foller. Sadly he walked to
the square, mournfully he pulled down
the Contedrit flag which hez waved
from the pole in front of Bascom's,
tenderly he folded it, and placed it
under the bari NV whisky in the bar.
Thar let it rest" gasped he in a husky
tone, sit will never kiss the breezes no
more" And overcome with emOshen,
the good old man busted into food
NV teers, wich saved his life. The
draiuuv moisture from his system made
it necessary for him to take ,s,ithn to
fill its place, and the suihip wuE
strengthnn. sTosaye him tookisuthin
stIengthnin too. % 81 ..t, aa
Aud Ben Butler is elected. That
excellent conservative Richard II Dana,
who has forgotten that ruffled shirts
went out Of date twenty years ago, and
who still reads the Ndshael Intetiigsacer
sposin it to be whig paper,is defeated
and Butler, who wunst hung a Demo
krat in Moo Orlecns and who wood do
that same every mornin to give him an
appetite, is fastened onto this here
wnnst 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. Seymore
wood make speeches, wich hez slluz bin
fatle to PresldenShul aspirants, and
Blare wood write terrible letters, wich
| is Just ez bad. Besides, Blare fairly
represents us. wich druv off all the de-
cent people, and Seymore ruthrr pridrs
hisself on bein gentleman, wich chilled
the ardor of our own party The
nominashens were unforchnit, but ]
don't reproach 'em. It's tate.
Isigh, Deekin POgram sighs, and the
rest NV our tirkle wood sigh only they
heyn't returned from Injeany, yher
they hev gone to vote in the interest
NV the COnstitooshen, aud to aid in the
maintenance NV the laws,
Sigh! hev reason to sigh. For
Pollock will git the Post Offs after all.
Tho his hands are contaminated by bein
taken into the hands nv niggers-hiG
hands which handles kalliker and draws
molasses, and is consekently degraded
by earnin his own livin-his hands will
pass out to Deekin Pogram the paper
wich the Corners takes The Deekin,
ez he thought Nv this, bust into tesrl
agin. II shel stop that paper" sez he,
"and the Corners shell go back into th'
darkuis Of ignorance. | shel nSveI
agin 90 for a letter--nor will | evei
hev one written for me to any body
When a Ablishn face is at tine genera
delivery ] shell stop paternizin the Pos
Offis!" m
| Will the new Administrator deprive
a whole community Nv paper merel!
to give one of its supporters a pOsishun
We shel see.
But, Good endoor the loss NV m
posishen-for principle I kin look mar