Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-08-28

w it'N ARob iiiti u lut6lln
at the Corners wich started out glorious
iy but didn't end so happily ez it mite.
| he'd gone to a good deal of trouble
about it and he'd made all arrangements
for a feast of reason and flow of sole
exalted by ratifcations and surpassed
by none. The blessid Deacon, McPelter
and lssaker Gavitt who expect respec-
lively to hold the posishens NV Assessor,
Collector, and whiskey Inspector for this
district, come down handsomely with the
funds, enuff to enable me to decorate the
post offs with flags and transpariencies,
and myself with pare Nv ready made
pants, wich | muddied considerable to
make EN- look old so that they should not
suspect ther funds had bin applied in
that way. Human nacher is a inscruta-
BILE mystery. They wood objek did they
know l had clothed myself with their
money insted of wastin it on taller kan
dies and sich,. .wich burn out and leave
nothing behind.
wus economical in my expenditoors,
or ruther but little expense wuz necessa-
4 ry. Desirin to wake the enthoosiasm Nv
the Democracy, ! procoored passel Nv
Confeerit battle flags, wich the returned
heroes he'd brot home with them, and had
the talismanic words, Seymour and
Blair" painted across EN-. The efeck
was gorgus Ez mite approacht he'd the
transparencies saved over from celebra-
snen wich he'd bin held after the battle
uv Chickamauga lighted up. The en-
lthoosiasm, ez the populace saw these, and
listened to Captain McPelter, ez he read
EN- to EN-, wuz overpowerin. How they
lcheered ez the words fasht out into the
Unite, Southern Rites, Southern Men,
land Southern Government " " Death
ito Northern hirelings " Down with the
gorilla Linken!" jeff Davis and the
Confederacy forever!" "No quarter to
invaders And when Boregard's black
flag, onto wich "Seymour and Blair," +"
wuz painted in red letters, wuz unfurled,
ther arose sich cheers for the nominees
NV the Moo York Convenshun ez never
heerd before, nor expect to agin.
AT this time jist ez everything wgz a
gittin red-hot the trouble commenced.
Pennibacker, wich runs our biggest and
best distillery, jumpt onto the platform,
at my suggestion, and perposed three
cheers for Seymour and Greenbax, and
three groans for the bloated bondholders.
The crowd, with troo Dimokratic docili-
.. ty, wuz a goin to cheer, when Bascom,
who hez some 5,20's riz and swore that
he'd be id eff that shood be. "Gov-
ernor Seymour is in favor of payin the
Nashnel Indebtedness, principle and in
terest in gold Reed his speech at the
Cooper Institute"
"Is he ? Is he ?" SHOUTED Pennibacker
springing onto the platform, els he
Read the platform wich he accepts +"
"Don't Belmont and the eastern bank
ers support him ?" yelled Bascom.
"Don't Vallandigham, Pendleton
Brick Pomeroy and dirty shirt Dean sup
port him?" yelled Pennibacker
"Yoor doctrin,' said Bascom, excited
ly is a id swindle-a peace of thiev
in wich Arab wood be ashamed Nv, am
Seymore sed So"
"Yoor proposishen is outrage ont
a opprest people, grindin NV EN- int
the earth under the iron heels Nv bloate
aristocrats and pampered sons of luxur
and the platform Seymore stands ont
sez So" shouted Pennibacker.
"Yoor a swindler, excitedly yelle
Bascom, whereupon they clinched an
rolled off the platform titely huggin, an
making extraordinary physikle efforts
inioorin each other.
To direct the attenshun Nv the popul
|. from this untoward circumstance,
kested Issaker to sing out three chee
: for Blare "Three cheers for Blare
sung out Issaker, "The Missouri state
man, who will rid us Nv Freedman's b
, rows and military rule"
"Three groans for Blare!" yell'
Punt" A Ablishinist and Linken hir
ia. ling, wich shot my unkle in Missouri
. and burnt my grandmother's house ne
U Vicksburg
"He amt no Ablishnist " exclalm
$. Issaker, reed his letters"
: "Its difficult to say wat he Is to-da
but I'll sware to it he wuz three yea
ago, but it makes no difference. lswe
four years ago to lick any man "
: hurrahed for any member of the Bis
family"
And this infooriated wretch pounc
Y onto Issaker, and they rolled Oft
a. stand to join Bascom and Penniback
who hedn't settled their unpleasant
: vet.