The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-11-24

From the Toledo Blade. o
PosT OFFIs, CoNFKDRIT < ROADS, z /
witch is in the Staff nv Ketucky,)
November 5 1868 a
Bad news travels fast We hev heerd
from enuff nv the States to know that
the butcher GrAnt-he witch wunst afore
stood in the way NV the Confederacy-E
bez been elected President, and that
Seymore and Blare, our grllorious stand |
ard bearers, hey bin defeated ignomini
ously.. A-R A~ 81
This ends it'll This finishes it There
is no longer hope for the Democrisy
Our star is sot in gloom. Never shell
forgit the CHASTITY appearance Nv Deekin |
Pogram's face, ez the fatal nooze wuz
told him. A single tear rolled from his
left eve, down his furrowed cheek; it
glittered for brief moment on the top
NV his brilliant nose, and plunged off in
TO space How like our hopes! Never
word sed he, but sadly .beckoned me to
Sadly he walked to the square, mourn
fully he pulled down the Copfederit flag
wich hez waved from the pole in front
nv Bascom's; tenderly he folded it, and
placed it under the barl NV whisky in
the bar. 4, stE74s .so4 = a7e7' .YsE
.sThar let it rest,n gasped he in a hus-
ky tone, ''it will never kiss the brezes
no more" And overcome with emo
shun, the good old man busted into
flood NV teers, wich saved his life. The
drain nv moisture from his sy stem made
it necessary for him to take suthm 70
fill its place, and that .suthin wuz
strenQthnin. To save him took suthin
strengthnin too. 1890 Sf
And Ben Butler is elected. That ex-
cellent conservative, Richard II Dana,
who has forgotten that ruffied shirts
went out NV date 20 zee, ago, and who
still reads the Nashnel Intelligencer,
sposin it to be a Wing paper, is defect
ed, and Butler, who wunst hung DEM
okrat in Moo Orleens, and who wood do
that same every mornin to give him an
appetite, is fastened onto this here
wunst happy but now distracted country
for two yeers more erasmus Hevins!
send the yaller fever to the Corners now,
and finish us up TO wunst
won't say q word ez to the causes
NV this most terrible defeat oeymore
wood make speeches, wich hez allus bin
fatIe to Presidential aspirants, and Blarc
wood rite terrible letters wich IS just ez
bad. Besides, Blare fairly represents
us. wich druv off all the decent people,
and Seymore ruther prides hisself on
beip a gentleman. witch chilled the ardor
of our own party. The nominashus
were unforchnit, but / don't reproach
en- It's fate. =.
I sigh, Deekin Pogram signs, and the
rest Of our cirkle wood sigh, only they
heven't returned from Injeany, wber
they hev gone to vote in the interest," NV
the Constitooshen, and to aid in the
maintenance of the laws. SD ~
Sigh! / hevs reason to SIGH fol
Pollock will git the Post Offs after all
Tho his hands are contaminated py pen
taken into the hands Nv niggers-his
hands wich handles kaliker and draws
molasses, and is consistently degraded
by earnin his own liyin--his, hands will
pass out to Deekin Pogram the papel
wich the Corners takes! The Deekin
ez he thought NV this, bust into teers
again 81 shell stop that pepper" SEE he
ssaud the Corr ers shell go back into th'
darknis of ignorance. I sbel never aglr
20 for letter--nor will ever hev ont
written to me for any body. When :.
Ablishn face is ut the general delivery
shell stop paternizin the Post Offs !" =
Will the new Administrative deprive
whole cummunity NV paper merely K
give one Nv its supporters a posishun
We shell see. al q sids4a zaiasas 81
But Good endoor the loss wv my pc
sishun--for prinsiple can look marter
dom squarely in the face-but ! see 9th
er and more terrible results Efollowin tn
catastrophe.
Wat NV the niggers Wat Nv us
We shell hev niggers votin at the Cor
ners. We shell hev at our poles all II
the black cusses who live between her
and Garrettstown votin ez regler e
tho they wuz white men. We shel he
EN- defilin the sacred ballet box ez tn
they wuz not NV cussed race. l Sc
dark lines afore our poor State The
will hereafter hold the land wich the
hev bought, and wich they live on, by
shure tenure, and they will increase an
multiply. Pollock will buy their pre-
doose, snd they will work and e
money This money they will lend t
4 us--for we must hev it to sustain life
and they will take mortgages onto on
land when say oar, I mean Deck
ourselves, and will not hev, under tn
present arrangement, the means NV CON
pellen the labor necessary to our sur
port, We can never pay; and the resu
will be. this beautiful land nv ourn vic
i we SO deerly love, will pass out Nv I'll
q hands NV the stronger and better rae
into the control NV q weaker and LEI
+ powerful people. s5s-4asgt
The Deekin was remarkin suthin
this effect, when Joe Bigler remarkt
reply, that the Deekin he'd better thro
himself onto the sympathy nv his son
eWhy, they can't work any more tha
kim" sed the Deekin.
II doA,s mean yoor white 2sons!' sc
this terrible Bigler. "zhey amt NV I
akount But in the niger settlement
Garrettstown 700 hev more than ~ VT
wood ., ,ss59 -psoixaa 1aisg
g The Door Deekin rushed out nv II
room, while Bigler laft his most feendii