The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-09-01
MIR Nasty Woes,

| lnc hCV lClrOleum V. Nasty lnut
describes the recent election in Kentucky
s'The elecshun went off magnifcently.
Never did / see in all my experience, witch
hez bin very great, sich extensive pre-
parations made, liascom's bar wuz made
free. Deckin Pcgin, Kernel MclelieI
and myself, one Nv wich holds govern
offs, and rhe other two expects to, he'd a
bari Nv new FL, clshum whisky purchist,
which Elder Pennback, notwihstandin
his dlsaffeckshun, lurnisht at cost, which
wuz % cents per gallon, ez no tax he2
bin pade in his dstrick.
l opened the polls, usin for the purpus
hat, and the votin commcnst lively. -
put in two, Bascom slipt in three un-
der different names, and the other faith
full ones voted ez many times ez they thoi
nessary, About 10 o'clock Pollock,
came up to vote, at witch | WIZ was sur.
prised, When | say surprised | mean it.
The very presence of the man at SIGH time
and place WIZ startlin, and it had tel
ribe effect on the populis. "Wat u
said Isaaker Gavitt, Indignantly, "shel
a 1llinoy Ablishnist--a man not born in
Kentucky man who holds views SO
totally different from ourn persoom to
vote at these ere poles Never.
And Issaker, biin over with rage,
went for him, in witch he wuz assisted by
the entire balance Nv the Corners The
wretched man paid heavy penalty for
his insolence lie wuz carried off by
some sympathsin nggers, a mere wreck
of his former self
A little later the "Uoonyun men," e7
they call themselves, upon Pike Run,
come down to vote. But Issaker and
McPeter reasoned with EN-. Kernal
McPe'ter's remarks wuz pertikelerly I'M
pressive. They asserted that ez Ameri-
kin citizens they he'd rite to vote and
shood do so at all hazards, The Kernel
in reply, statid TO EN- that the Corners
wuz fitin for their liberties-that nc
matter wat their abstrack rites mite be,
the Corners Good not permit herself to be
contaminated with Ablishn votes.-
'Shood 700 attempt it," sed he Impress
lively, "the blood NV the Corners will be W
and / won't be answerablc for the conse'
kences. Beware !"
They pressed forerd, when from among
our people single shot was heard, ant
the head ore NV EN-, preacher, fel
within in the dust
Ipltie1 the poor wretch. but wha
kin we do' Why will they come abou
with incenjary votes! That man had {
family, Wat reason will he give them
when he's carried home dead, for his on
timely deceese? Its ever thus. The Alb
lishnists will mover let us alone. And
yet | spose that hircln and subsidized
press in the North, in the face NV The
provocashen we received, will accuse II,
Nv murdrin this man,
Our ambishen wuz to hev the vot,
clean Dimekratic. But it wuz not 50 -
At about l p, NJ, Joe Bigler, who het
heerd Nv the doins come to the polls,-
Issaker and McPelter wuz goin in to pre-
vent him from votin, but the villain drawt
a revolver the mint they look. at him
and they partid, maxim lane for him t,
the hat.
"Does any one challenge my vote p
scd he, cockin his wccpon. "Ef so l.
em speak"
But no one interfearcd, and | took it
When we countid out there wuz barely
one Ablishn ballot in the hat. It WI
Bigler's. But we were neer cnuf yonan
linus, and we perpose to keep So TIL,
process is simple. 1t consists merely il
shootin all who differ with Us. illus W,
have peace at home.
Our politille prospects, are mixed =
The reduckshun NV the tax on whiske,
inclined many NV our voters toward Re
rublikini-m, but headed this orr b,
swearing that the Dcmocrisy wuz pledge,
to take it orr altogether Tn, Northern
papeis a-sertin that Blarc's letter don
mean revoloo,hcn i huriin Us some, bu
that is more than balanced by the cas-
with witch we kin organize Yesterda,
an entire regiment in the Confedrit ser
Wis reorganized as n Seymour and Blar
Club-retainin their officers ez doorin tn
war, ard yoosin the ilentike rolls nag-
and sich, 1t aids us wonderay
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY y. NJ.
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