The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-07-09

PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, |
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,) ;
June 20, 1868.
The Chase movement hez bin weigh
in on my mind like incumbus Their
wuz among our people feelin NV dis
trust at this idea NV takin up ez our
candidate man who, to say the least,
wuz the bloodiest Ablishnist who ever
Gust the country, and l coodent alto
gether blame EN-. Ez Deekin Pogram
remarkt to me at tie very last CONVEX
sashen we he'd but one, ~ kin possibly
go Chase, but Wilt end there! Spozen
Butler shood bolt Grant, must we put
him up for Vice President? Hev
got to support Chase and Butler, or
Chase and Sumner Forbid il, IIevin."
/ therefore went on to Washington
to interview with Chase.
The Cheef Justis received me cor
jelly. When he found l wuz from
Kentucky he remarked that he wuz de-
lifted that ] came when he was OFF the
bench, ez he wood hev felt it his duty
to hev adjourned court ohev the pleas
ure of an interview, and he really dis
liked to interfre with public biznis
'"Now, sir" sed he, "I am ready to
give yoo ansers to sich questions ez
yoo may desire. Yoo will find pa
per and pencil on the table to put down
my ansers, or eff 700 prefer it, will
hev short hand reporter in the pres
ence."
| declined the short hand reporter,
and perceeded.
The Dimocrisy Nv Kentucky hev
long admired yoor gigantic abilities and
the sterlin strate forerd simplicity nv
yoor character They wood hev bin
glad to hev testified at any time their
appreciashen NV 700, but there was be-
tween yoo and them some site differ
ences NV opinion upon matters NV pub
lie policy wich prevented it. But they
alluz loved yoo and they rejoice that
ther is a prospect now that these differ
ences may be smoothed down, so that
yoo may rush into the embrace nv
Kentucky. May l ask yoo to give me
yoor views upon the question NV Afri-
can slavery"
"Willinly, willinly, and bear in mind
that / shel speek with the utmost frank
ness and plainness, Slavery, my dear
sir, | consider, in the abstract, an evil,
tho perhaps it wuz, in its practicle
workins, an onmixed good. Their is
no yoose, that l kin see, in discussinit.
Its cleerly dead ishoo, and my motto
hez alluz bin-let the dead bury the
dead. Pass on to the next question"
swat is yoor opinyun Nv withdraw
in the troops from the Southern States?
"The Constooshen knows the South
ez the North. The citizens NV the
Southern States, now that the crooel
and devastatin war is over, kin find
ample perteckshen under the Constitu-
ton and by the operation of the laws.
Hev'nt yoo justices Nv the peice, and
amt they sworn to vindicate the laws3
To them let the people of the South
confidently appeal. Why keep any
thing there to remind an already irri-
tated people of a dead ishoo7"
"Wat is your opinyun NV nigger
suffrage 7"
81 object mildly, but firmly to the
use of the term 'nigger' There is no
SIGH a word. Webster puts the word
niger among the vulgansms Nv
wich this age is onfortunitly prolific.
It is doubtless a corruption of the word
NEGRO, wich word is yoosed to kiver
the Afrikin race. l wave my objec-
ton to the word, however. Ez re-
CARDS extendin the suffrage to our At
rican citizens NV American descent, l
wood say that it's question witch re-
quires the heaftiest craftsmanship to
deal with. It might be denied them
altogether on the ecore Nv the ekality
onto witch our government is built, or
it mite be given to some and withheld
from Others, or it mite be left to the
States. Ez an original States rites man,
and consequently in perfeck harmony
with the Democrisy all my life, ceptin
in some trifin questions wich are fort
nifty settled, can't say that / hev
cleerly made up my mind on this ques-
ton. incline, however, to the bleef,
that it amt worth while to discuss it.
1t seems to me that this question, tho
it wuz wunst vital, is now cleerly a
dead ishoo."
"Wat is yoor views on the question
NV general amnesty"