Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-25
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Behind the Scenes of the BLACK
'Crool<-eonae Facts Concernine
the SiEners OF she 9 aCalIed
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E4ected lhe lncubasiOn. aai
MoNTGoMERY, February IL.
"The d-d thing is busted" said one
God and Morality candidate here to
Ianother on Friday last, and SO it now
Eappears. The bogus Black Crook con-
] stitution is gone gone by twenty thou
: sand- gone glimmering to the shades of
night. As soon as the polls closed Sat
i urday the saints held a love feast of
crackers and cheese at their headquar-
j ters to condole on the sad event, and the
next morning the conservative papers
cameiout exultant, loudly proelaimiug,
in language halt, borrowed from the can
didate above mentioned, '"The thing is
busted, and carpet-bags are at dis
count. ~ But the Black Crook made a
staving fight for it. Its eyes were ev-
erywhere; its hands, full of ballots, in
all the negroes pockets, and its legs
the Crooks legs-were as the legs Of
grasshoppers in celebrity. Such racing
and chasing. surely, never were seen
since the days of the young Lochinvar,
in SCOTS Cannobie Lee. On the third
day Of the show, though the waters
were out, and the bridges gone, and the
mud deep and the rain falling, here
came an Alabamian from. Illinois, a can
didate, of course, all the way from
Lowndes county, booted, and spurred,
and spattered, from head to foot, to swear
that the rebels had "got" the polls there,
and ..the niggers wouldn't fvote," and
the constitution would be lost, and be
defeated, and the whole thing was going
to - -" So clamorous was this saint
THAT corporal's guard of troopers was
sent down with him to open fresh pre-
cincts and stir up the freedmen, and act,
great 'Evingks! as Judges of election.
This disposed Of, here came another
Alabamian-an Alabamian from Skow-
hogan, Maine, Crookite. of course, and
a candidate-all the way from down in
the cane-brake country, to swear, in his
turn, that in has section, also, the thing
was "busted" unless 1--WE" could get help.
Imagine Dumas pere as he appears. say,
in the Adah Isaacs Menken photograph
Dumas, with his intellect departed
and you will have very fair idea of
this latter patriot, whose three hundred
| pounds of too, too solid flesh must have
groaned under the rapid skurrying to
and fro, to secure an election, imposed
upon it. H2 % e.,1 Jios7 - - al
And now here, in the third place,
comes this morning into court the Presi
dent of the Black Crook-its premier
danseuse as it were-one E. w. Peck,
known to the unrighteous here as Old
Mother Hubbard, and he is wroth to
find no bones in the cupboard for the re-
construction dog. Up from Tuscaloosa
county came this worthy man, and is
understood to be now cogitating some
means whereby to declare the bogus car
ried anyhow, and to issue certificates OF
election to all the candidates running
under it. Of course if the saints finally
decide upon this course, Congress will
back the move, since where is the exact
synonym of the reconstruction written ii
not in the word rogue And, to inter-
polate moral idea .;or two, Just here,
what q terrible thing this reconstruction
is, to be sure-and so very hard to un-
sderstand. 8Allthese ten thousand sup
Elementary bills, more or less, are lik.
the; Frenchman's flea, that you never
know when. you've got 'em. Here's
the President and the General
of the Armies i'll direct conflict
over one of them, and one says one thing
and another another; and one backs up
his statement with its own iteration, and
the other backs his with whole Jury OF
Cabinet ministers, and all that a plain
man can make out of the matter is that
somebody has told a most enormous lie
And then, leaving the Executive, W.
find Congress III a terrible stew about
these bills and put to its wits ends
and that's not far-top putty up the cracks
as fast as they appear, and then the
cracks, being puttied up, break out
afresh'in renewed and most aggravat-
ing manner, and the very tightest bill
Thad. Stevens can draw is unable to
keep ''the thing from busting" And
then there's the Supreme Court in a
twitter, and the Chief Justice fairly
frizzling in his robe for fear he'll be
forced to decision; and with all this
doubt and turmoil. and uncertainty in
high places, small wonder that the
Crook in these parts is most helm
ously perturbed and hardly knows
which way to look for aid. But
one thing it does know, and that
is, that the earth is the, Saints, and a
Crookite being ez-odfcio in that family, it
must have the offices for which it ran
Immediately, if not sooner. And didn't
| it run! A deep interest in Crookism has
led me to some investigation, and the re-
suit Of these perquisitions are such as ]
would not willingly let die. OF sixty
eight Crookists signing the late departed
/" constitution "-or making their cross
marks and spider tracks upon it, find
that thirteen certified to their own cleo
tion as delegates" and these thirteen
with six other OF the brethren certified
to thirty-one in all, or very nearly third
of the whole Crook. And more than this
I fnd-for, of the sixty-eight s;gnists,
markists and trackists above mentioned,
fifty went home immediately on the fall
of the curtain, and ran for office under the
buzzard they had Matched. These facts;
gentlemen Of the jury, are in evidence
and we now proceed to open
the case. Let the books of thu.
Registrar General of the State of Ala.
bama, as they stood on the 9Th of Feb.
r,iary, A. ID. 1868, be brought int
court and you will therein see that nine