Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-11-26
NaSbY.

| thes wiz ObbNhOf oit, nC W I'LL OtACb
afore stood in the way ov the Con-
federacy-hez ben elected Prezyient
and that Seymour and Blare, our
gellorious standard bearers, hev ben
defeated ignominusly.
This ends it! This finishes it,
Their is no longer bit NV hoab fur
the -Demokrasy. Our star is sot in
gloom. Never shell forget the CAST
ly appearance of Deekin Pogram's
face ez the fatal muse <wos told him.
A slngle,teer rolled from his left eye
down his furrowde -cheek-it glitterd
for moment on the tip ov his bril-
yant nose and then plunged off into
space. Never word sed he. But
he sadly beckoned me to foller. He
sadly walked to the square, mourn
fully he pulled down the Confcdrit
fagin front NV Bascom's, tenderly
he folded it and placed it under the
bari Of whisky in the tar
And Ben Butler is elected. That
excellent conservative, Richard II.
Dana, who has forgotten that ruffied
shirts went out ov date 20yeers ago,
is detected, and Butler WHO'D wonss
hung a Demykrat in Moo Orleens,
and who wood doc that same every
morMn before breakfast to Civ him
an appetite, IS fastened onto this Ice
ha. Npy but now distracted country for
2 yeers more. erasmus Hevins!
send tire yaller fever to the corners
now and finish us mp to onct.
l wont say word as to the coses
ov this most terrible depheet. See
more wood make speeches, which
hez allus been fatal to Presidenshul
aspyrants, and Bare wood rite ter
rible letters, which is jest as bad. Be
sides, Blare fairly represents us, witch
druv of all decent people, and Sey-
more ruther prides hisself on being !
a gentleman, which chilled the al dor |
ov our own party. The nomnashun
wos unforchinit, but / don't reproach |
them, it's late.
l sigh, Deekin Pogram signs, and |
the rest of our cirkle wood sigh only |
they haven't returned from Injeanny,
where they hev gone to vote in the |
interests NV the constitOoshun and |
to aid in the maintenance oy the
laws.
Sigh. hev reason to sigh. forPol-
lok will get the post office arter all.
Tho his hands are contaminated by |
being taken into the hands ov nigers
his han.ls witch handles kaliker &
draws molasses, and is konsckwent-
ly degraded by ernin his own Twin
his hands will pass out to Deekin
Pcgram the paper witch the Corners
takes. The Deekin as he thought
ov this busted into teers asin. Il shell
stop that paper" ses he, land the
Corners shel go back into the dark
ness of ignorance. ] shell never agin
60 to the oils for q letter-nor will
] ever hev one ritten for ME to en-
nyboddy. When a ablishen face is
at the general delivery l shell stop
paternizen it.
But Good endure the loss ov my
posishun-for principle L kin look
martyrdom in the face-but | see
other and more terrible results fol-
lowin.
Wat ov the niggers? wat ov us?
We shell hev niggers votin at the
Corners. We shell hev at our poles,
all the black cusses that lives twixt =
here and Garrettstown. votin es of
ten as tho they waz white men. We
shell hav EN- defilin the sakerd ballot
books es tho they was not NV Gust
race. see dark lines afore our poor
State They will hereafter hold the
lands witch they hev bot and live on,
and will increase and multiply. Pol
lok will buy ther produse and thay
will work and get money. This mon
ey they will lend to us-fOr we must
hev it to sustain life-and they will
take mortgages into our property
when l say our / mean Deekin Po-
gram and SIGH. Ez we never work
ourselves, and will not be allowd to
compel ere to work for us, we kin
never pay; and the result will be
this butyful land ov ourn viii pass
out Of the hands ov stronger and
better race into the hands ov a wea-
ker people.
The Deekin was remarkiu some
thing to this effect, when Joe Bigler
remarkt that he had better throw
himself onto the sympathy ov hiz
sons. "Why, they can't work any
more than ! kim sed the Deekin to
him.
81 don't meen yoor white sons, for
they amt ov no akkownt. But in the
niger settlement at Garrettstown
700 hev more than twenty Who
The poor Deekin rushed out ov
the room while Bigler laft his most
fiendish laff.
The whippin posts viii rot, the
yelp Of the dogs will be heard no
more, and the cheerful crack ov the
pistol likwise. We shall see churches,
skulehouses and SIGH like. Cheeases
will be made at the Corners. Penni-
hackers distillery will be turned in
to cheese factory, and weak whey
viii run where now the genrous hi
wines flash along the troughs. And
methinks 1 see in my minds eye the
ghost of the departed Pogram (for
he wont survive it long) a hoverin
ole the seen as Hamlick's father did
in olden times. The blessed shade
will look in vane for mis- house-on
the spot wher it stood will be a new
academy. A COST ov teer WI run
down his spiritual nose, linger for
minnit on the tip like dewdrop on
the rose, and fall. II en- will the dis
satisfied COST demand to be taken to
purgatory, place less tryin to his
nerves.
Deekin Pogram hez only bright
cned M once A tbot flashed over