The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1868-11-19
written tor tho Toledo Blate.l
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The Presidential Election The News
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Nov. 3, 1868, J
Bad news travels fast, We hey
heerd from cnutf NV the States to
know that the butcher Grant he wich
wuust aforc stood in the way NV the
| Confcdraey-hez been elected Presi
dent, and that Soymore and Blare
our gellorious standard bearers, hey
bin detected iguomiuously.
This ends it This finishes ii -
There IL no longer hopo for Demoo-
risy Our star IL sot in gloom.-
Never shcl forgit the gastly appear
auco NV Deekin pogram's face. ey the
fatal moose wuz told him. \ single
tear rolled from his left eye, down
his iurrowed cheok-it glitlored for
briof moment ON the tip NV his
brillyent nose, aud plunged Of Into
space How like our hopes Never
a word scd he, but sadly beskoned
me to follcr, Sadly he walked to the
square, mOuruIully he pulled down
the Coul6drit flag which hoz waved
from the pole in front of Bascoms,
tcndcrly he folded it, aud placed il
under the barl Of whisky in the bar.
Thar let it rest" gaspcd he in a
J husky tone, at will never kiss the
brcczcs no more" Aud overcome
with omoshun, the good old man
busted in a food NV tears, wich saved
his life. The drain NV moisture from
his system made it necessary for him
to take suthn to GIL its plasc, and
that suthiu .wuz strengthuiu. TO
save him | took suthiu strcugthnin
] 90.
And Ben Butler iz elected, That
excellent conservative, Richard IL.
Dana; who has iurgottcu that ruillod
shirts went out NV date 20 years ago.
and who still reads the Nashnol la T.
tclligencer sposin it to be Whig
paper, IL defeated, and Butler, who
wunst hung Domokra in Moo Or
lceus aud who. would do that same
every morhin to give him au appetite,
is fastened onto this here wunst hap
py but now distracted country for
two yeers moro. Grashus Hevins
send the yallcr fever to the Corners
now, and flush us up to-wunst.
won't say word cz to the causes
NV this most terrible defeat, Sey
more wood make speeches, wich hez
alluz bin faile to Presidenshul aspi-
rants, and Blare wood rite terrible
letters, wiet IL just oz bad. Besides,
Blnrc fnirls,mprosents US, wich druy
off all the decent people, and Sey-
more ruther pridcs hissolf ON bein a
gentleman, wich chilled the ardor of
our party. The uomiuashuns were
unforehnit, but l don't reproach 'em, q,
Its fate
i sigh, Deekin Pogram sighs, and
the rest Nv our circle wood sigh, only
they hevn't returned from Injeany,
where they hev gone to vote ia the
interest Nv the COnstitooshen, and to
aid in the maintenance NV the laws.
Sigh ! i hey reason to sigh. For
Pollock will git he Post Otis after
all. Tho biz hands are contaminated
by bein taken into the hands NV mig
gers-his hands wich handles kaliker
and draws molasses, and il consekent.
ly degraded By earnin his own liyin
his hands will pass out to Doekin
Pogram the paper wien the Corners
takes ! The Deekin, ca he thot NV
this, bust into teers agin. "I sholl
stop that paper" sez ho, pand the
Corners shel so back into the dark.
mis- NV ignorance. sholl never 60
agin for lettcr-nor will L hey one
written for me to any body. Whom.
a Ablishn face is at tho general de-
livery | shel stop paternizen the Post
Offs ..,. . t..a. Irf,is .dfr.
Will the new Administrative de-
prive a whole community nv paper
merely TO give one Nv its supporters
posishun 4? We shell see. di77.' m
But, | Good endoor the loss NV my
| posishon--for principle / Kin look
marterdom squarely 'in tho face but
| see other aud more terrible results
followin this catastrophe.
Wat Nv the niggers? Wat NV us {?
We shell hov biggers votiu at the
Corners! We shell hev, at our poles
all NV the black cusses who live be-
tween here and Garretstown, Yotin
ez regler ez though they wuz white
men. We shel hev EN- defilin the
sakred ballot.b box ez tho they wuz
not Nv cussid race. L sec dark lines
afore our poor State They will
hereafter hold the land wich they hey
bought, aud wich they live on, by a
shure tenure, and they will increase
aud multiply. Pollock will buy ther
prodoOse aud they will work and get
money, This money they will lend
to us--for we must hev it to sustain
life-and they will take mortgages
onto our land (When | say DIR, l
mean Deekin Pogram aud sieh.) Ez
we never work ourselves, and will not
hev, under the present arrangement,
the means Of conpellin the labor nee.
essary to our support, we kin never
pay aud the result willbe, this beau
tiful land NV ourn wich we so deep.
ly love, will pass out Nv the hands NV
the stronger and better race into the
control NV weaker and less power
ful people. The Deekin was remar-
kin suthin to this effect, when Joe
Bigler remarkt in reply, that the
Deekin he'd better throw himself on .
TO the sympathy Nv his sons. '' ~
1 Z "Why, they can't work any more
!. than | kin, sed the Deekin. , w
Z. 81 don't mean yoor white sons r.
sed this terrible Bigler. ''They amt
NV no akkount. But in the nigger
settlement at Garrettstown 700 hev
more than twenty who wood" .g
1 The poor Deekin rushed out Nv the
room, while Bigler laft his most feen