The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-11-20
POLITICAL.
NASBY.

The Presidential Election-The News
Reaches Kentueky-The K Roads in
Mourning.
Post Offs, Confedrit Y Roads,
(Which is in the State Nv Ky.,}
Nov. S, 1868.
Bad news travels fast. We hev
heerd from enuff Of the States to
know that the butcher Grant--he
wich wunst stood in the way of the
Cenfedracy--hez been elected Presi-
dent, and that Seymour and Blare,
our gellorious standard bearers, hev
bin defeated ANONYMOUSLY.
This ends il! This finishes 1t =
There Is no longer hope for Democ-
risy. Our star is sot in gloom. New
er shel i forgit the CHASTITY appear
aDce NV Deekln Pogram's face, ez the
fatal nooze wuz told him. A single
tear rolled from his left eye, down
his furrowed cheek-it glittered for
brief moment on the tip of his brill
yant nose, and plunged offiDto space
How like our hopes! Never word
sed he, but sadly beckoned me to fol-
ler. Sadly he walked to the square,
mournfully he pulled down the Con-
fedrit flag which hez waved from the
pole in front of Bascom's, tenderly he
folded it, and placed it under the barl
Nv whiskey in the bar. THAR let it
rest" gasped he in a husky tone, "it
will never kiss the breezes no more.''
And overcome with emoshun, the
good old man busted into a flood NV
tears, witch saved his life. The drain
NV m isture from his system made it
necessary for him to take suthin to
fill its place, and that suthin wuz
strengthnin. To save him / took
suthin strengthnin too.
And Ben Butler is electid. That
excellent conservative Richard III.
Dana, who has forgot that ruffled
shirts went cut NV date 20 years ago,
and who still reads the Nashnel In
teligencer sposin it to be Whig pa
per, is defeated, and Butler, who
wunst hung a Demokrat in Moo Or
leens and who wood do that same
every mornin to give him an sppe
tite, is fastened onto this here wunst
happy by now distracted country for
two yeers more. Grashus Hevins
send the yaller fever to the Corners
now, and finish us up to wunst. /
1 won't say word ez to the causes
NV this most terrible defeat. Sey-
more wood make speeches, wich hez
allus been fatle to Presldenshul as
pirants, and Blare would write terri
BILE letters, wich il just ez bad. Be-
sides, Blare who fairly represents US,
druv off all the decent people, and
Seymore ruther prides hisselfon bein
a gentleman, wich chilled the ardor |
NV our own party. The nominashens
were unforchnit, but / don't reproach
'em. It's fate.
/ sigh, Deekin Pogram sighs, and |
the rest Nv our cirkle wood sigh, only
they hevn't returned from Injeany,
wher they hev gone to vote in the |
interest Nv the Constitooshen, and to |
aid in the maintenance Nv the laws.
Sigh! hey reason to sigh. Forl
Pollock will get the Post Offiis after |
all. Tho his hands are contaminated
by bein taken into the hands Nv mig
gers-his hands wich handle kaliker
and draws molasses, and is conse-
kently degraded by earnin his own
livin--his hands will pass out to-
Deekin Pogram the paper wich the
Corners takes The Deekin, ez bel
thought NV this, bust into teers agin.
az shel stop that paper" sez he, "and
the Corners shel go back into the
darknis of ignorance. | shel never
agin 90 for q letter-nor will / ever
hev one written for me to any body. |
When q Ablishn face is at the gener-
al delivery | shelstop paternizin the
Post Offs"
Will the new Administrator de-
prive a whole community NV a paper
merely to give one NV It its support
ers a posishun We shel see.
But | Good endoor the loss NV nv
posishen principle 1 kin look
marterdom squarely In the face-but