The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-08-27
MR.. NASBY VOTES.


describes the recent election in Kentuckv
'oThc elecshun went off magnifcently.-
Never did | see in all my experience
wlch hez bin very great, sich extensive
preparations made. Bascom's bar wuz
made free. Deekin Porgram, Kerne
McPelter and myself, one NV wich holds
government offs, and the other two cx-
poets to he'd barl NV new eleckshun
whisky purchist, wich Elder Pennibacker
notwithstandin his disafecksh un, furnisht
at cost, wich wuz % cents per gallon, ez
no tax hez ever bin pade in his districk.
L opened the polls, usin for the purpus
hat, and the votin commenst lively. |
put in two, Bascom slipt in three under
different names, and the other faithful
ones voted ez many times ez they thot
nessary. About 10 O'Clock Pollock came
up to vote, at wich [ was surprised. When
L say surprised [ mean it. The presence
Nv the man at sich a time wuz start
lin, and it had a terrible effeck on the
populis. 'What % said Isaaker Gavitt,
Indignantly, "shel Illinoy Ablishnist-
man not born in Kentucky-a man who
holds views so totally different from ourn.
to vote at these ere poles Never ?"
And Issaker, billin over with rage,
went for him, in wich he wuz assisted by
the entire balance NV Corners. The
wretched man paid heavy penalty for
his insolence. He wuz carried off by
some sympathisin niggers, mere wreck
Nv his former self
a little later the "Uoonpun men," ez
they call themselves, upon Pike Run,
come down to vote. But Issaker and
McPeltcr reasoned with EN-. Kernel
McPel.er's remarks wuz pertikelerlry
Impressive. They asserted that ez Ameri.
kin citizens they had rite to vote, and
shood do so at all hazards The Kernel,
In reply, statid to EN- that the Corners
wuz ftin for their Hberties-that no
matter wat their abstrack rites mite be.
the Corners Good not permit herself to be
contaminated with Ablish votes. "Shood
700 attempt it, 'sed he impressively, "the
blood Nv the Cornerswill be up, and L
won't be answerable for the consekences.
Beware J"
They pressed forerd, when from among
our people single shot was heard, and
the head one Nv EN-, a preacher, fell writh-
in in the dust
L pittcd the poor wretch, but what kin
we do? Why will they come about us,
lrritatin our people with incenjary votes?
That man he'd a family. Wat reason will
he give them, when he's carried home
dead, for his ontimely dececsc2 It's ever
thus. The Ablishnists will never let us
alone. And yet l sposc that hirelin
and subsidized press in the North, in the
face Nv the provocashen we received, will
accuse us Nv murdrin this man
Our ambishen wuz to hev the vote
clean Dimekratic. But it wuz not so.-I
At about l p. m, Joe Bigler, who he'd
heerd Nv the doins, come to the polls
lssaker and McPelter wuz a gion to pre-
vent him from votin, but the villain
drawd revolver the mint they lookt at
him, and they partid, maxim lane for
him to the hat,
'Does any one challenge my vote ?''
sed he, cockin his weepon. "Ef so, let
'em speak"
But no one interfered, and [ took it.-I
When we countid out there wuz barely
one Ablishn ballot in the hat 1t wuz
mus, and we perpose to keep So The
process is simple. 1t consists merely in
shootin all who differ with us. Thus we
hev peece at home.
Our politikle prospecks are mixed
The reduckshen Nv the tax on whisky in
clincd many Nv our voters toward Repub-
likinism, but | headed this orf by swear.
ing that the Democrisy wuz pledged to
take it orf all together. The Northern
papers assertin that Blarc's letter don't
mean revolooshen is hurtin us some, but
that is more then balanced by the ease
with wich we kin organize. Yesterday
an entire regiment in the Confedrit servis
as Seymour and Blare Club
-retainin their officers ez doorin the war.
md yoosin the identiklc rolls, flags aud
sich. 1t aids US wonder1y.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, p. NJ.
(Which is Postmaster.)