The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-11-19
MASSEY.
The Presidential Election The
News Reaches Kentucky The x
R0edsin Mourning.

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Posr OIrrcz CoNrHDR1r K ROADS, \
(which 10 in the Stait nv Kentucky
sis5 November 8, 1853.
From ths Toledo Blade,
Bad news travels fast. We hav,
heerd from enuff Of the States tt
know that the butcher Grant-hs
wich wunst afore stood in the way
nv the Confederacy -hez been elected
President, and that Seymour and
Blsre, our gellorious standard bear,
ers, hev been defeated ignominious-
y.
This ends i'll This fuishesitl There
is no longer hope for Dimocrisy. Our
star is cot in gloom. Never shell ]
forgit the ghastly appearance Nv
Deekin Pogram's faco ex the fatal
nooxe wux told him. A single tear
rolled from his left eye down his fur
rowed cheek-it glittered for q mo-
ment on the tip Nv his brillyant nose
and plunged of into spacel How like
our hopesl Never . word said he, but
sadly beckoned me to foller. Sadly
he walked to the square, mournfully
he pulled down the Confedrit flag
which hes waved from the pole in
front Of Bascom'A tenderly he folded
it, and placed it undr the barl Of whis-
Ky in the bar. "Thar let it rest, "
gasped he in husky tone, "it will
never kiss the breeze no MORE
And overcome with emoshun, the
good man burst into a food Nv teers,
wich saved his life. The drain NV
moisture from his system made it
necessary for him to take suthin 70
fill its place, and that suthln WIZ
strengthen. To save him / took suth-
in strengthen too.
And Ben Butler is elected. That
excellent conservative, Richard 81.
Dana, who has forgotten that rnf1ed
shirts went out nv date 20 years ago,
and who still reads the Nashnel In
telligeacer sposin it to be Wing pa
per, is defeated, and Butler, who
wunst hung Demokrat in Moo Or
leans and wood do that same every
mornin to give him an appetite, is
fastened onto this here wunst happy
but now distracted country for two
years more Grashus Hevin! send the
yaller fever to the Corners now, and
finish rs up to wunst.
y
The people will be deprived nv
their innocent amusements. This
Grant will send on armed hirelins,
clotheld in ojus bloc with muskets and
sich, who will prevent our shootin
niggers, and who will perfect on
their farms and in their shops the
ojus Northerners who hev settled in
our midst. We shell see the glorious
Southern system decline stidily and
shoorly. The whipping posts will
rot and. the stox viii decay-the yelp
nv dorgs will no more be heard, and
the cheerful crack NV the pistol and
shreek nv the man wat got his Cruel
will no more be heard in all the land.
Bascomb, after he hez the fcw farms
still unmortgaged in the vicinity,
will close, and 60 to Louisville, and
emberk into q holesale grosery trade
and jine the church, and give liberal
" to Sundy-S -Skools: his grosery will
fall into dekay, and the sine will
hang by one hinge. We shell see
churches and skool houses, factories
and villages everywhere. The Pog-
ram place Nv 1000 akers will be di-
vided up into 20 farms, and onto
them farms will be the bustlin Moo
Yorker, the cool, kalculatin Yankee,
the stiddy, hard workin Germrn-
who will display his grovlin nacher
by workin himself instid NV forcin
niggers to do it for him. Weshel be
run over with skool marms, deluged
with academies, plastered over with
noospapers, stunned with machinery
drove crazy by the whirr, crash and
clash nv mowin machines and reap
ers. And there will be cheese made
at the Corners. Pennibacker's distil.
lery will be turned into . cheese fac
tory, and weak whey will run where
now the generous highwines
flash along the troughs-
Their will be no rectifyin at the Corn
ers-the hog pens will be abolished
and in their sted will be skool-houses.
And methinks I see in my minds
eye Horasho, the sperit, the ghost Nv
the departed Pogram (for he won't
survive it long), q hoverin over the
scene, ez Hamlick's father did. The
blessed shade will look in vain for his
house e-on the spot wher it stood ther
will he nm Aeademv H0 will turn