Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-08-22
From the Toledo Blade. |
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FUTILE ATTEMPT TO RATIFY THE NoMINA-
TIoN AT THE CORNERS. !

FUTILE ATTEMPT TO RATIFY THE NoMINA-
TIoN AT THE CORNERS. Z
PosTorFIs, CoNFEpRIT X ROADS (Which
is ir the State Nv kentucky, July 81, 1868
We he'd last mite ratification meeting at
the Corners wich started out gloriously, but
didn't enl SO happily ez it mite. l he'd
gone to good deal of trouble about it, and
he'd made all arrangements for feast NV
reason and flow Nv sole exalted by few
ratifcations and surpassed by none
The blessid Deacon, McPelter and Issa-
ker Gayitt, who expect respectively to hold
the posishens Nv assessor, collector, and
whisky inspector for this district, come
down handsomely with the funds, eIuf to
enable me to dekorate tho post otis with
flags and transparencies, and myself with a
pare Nv ready made pants, wich l muddied
considerable to make EN- look old 80 that
they shood not suspect their funds he'd bin
applied in that way. Human nacher is
inscrutable mystery. They wood objeck
did they know he'd clothed myself with
ther money instead NV wastin it on taller
candles and sich, wich burn out and leave
nothin behind.
wuz economickle in my expenditoors, or
ruther but little expense wuz necessary
Desiren to wake the enthoosiasm Nv the
Democrisy, procured psssel NV Confedrit
battle flags, which the returned heroes he'd
brot home with em, and he'd the talismanic
words, Seymour and Blare," painted across
em. The effect wuz gorgus Ez mite ap-
proscht he'd the transparencies saved over
from celebrashen witch he'd been held utter
the battle Nv Chicamauga lighted up. The
enthoOsissm, ez the populace saw these, and
listened to Capten McPelter, ez he red em
to EN-, wuz overpowerin. How they cheer
ed ez the words fasht out into the mite,
"Southern Rites, Southern Men, and a
Southern Government |" death to North
ern Hirelins !" "Down with the gorilla Lin
KIM" "Jeff. Davis and the Confedracy for
ever |" No quarter to Fedrel invaders !"
And when Boregard's black flag, on to wich
Seymour and Blare" wuz painted in red
letters, wuz unfurled, there arose sich cheers
| for the nominees Nv the Moo York Conven-
shun sz / he'd never heerd before, nor expect
| to agin.
At this time jist ez everything wuz get
! tin red hot the trouble commenced. Penni-
backer, wich runs our biggest and best dis
tillery, jumpt onto the platform, at my sug-
gestion, and perposed three cheers for Sey-
mour and Greenbax, and thr ee groans for
| the bloated bondhoders. The crowd, with
true Dimocratic docility, wuz agoin to cheer,
when Bascom, who hez some 5-20s, riz and
swore that he'd be id eff that shood be-
| "Governor Seymour is in favor of payin the
Nashnel Indebtedness, principle and inter
est, in gold. Reed his speech at the Coop
er Institoot." .H
SIS he Z is hei" shouted Pennibacker,
springing onto the platform, "is he 7" Reed
the platform wich he accepts !"
"Don't Belmont and the Eastern bankers
support him I" yelled Bascom.
Don't Vallandygum, Pendleton, Brick
Pomeroy and dirty shirt Dean support
him |" yelled Pennibacksr.
"Yoor doctrin," sed Bascom, excitedly,
''is d-d swindle- "a peece Nv theevin wich
Arab wood be ashamed Nv, and Seymour
sed So"
"Yoor proposshen is q outrage onto op-
prest people, a grinden nv EN- into the earth
under ths iron heels NV bloatsd aristocrats
and pampered sons of luxury, and the plat
form seymour stands onto sez So" shouted
Pennibacker.
"Yoor swindler," excitedly yelled Bas-
com, whereupon they clinchsd and rolled
orf the platform titsly huggin, and making
extraordinary physikls Efforts at injoorin
each other.
To direct the attenshun Nv the populis
from this untowsrd circumstances, l request
cd Isaaksr to sing out three cheers for Blare
"Thrss cheers for Blars J" sung out lsss-
ker, "ths Missoud statesman, who VIII rld