Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-06-23


cbeerfully, for Lis method of conduk-
tin the impeachment trial hez salts
fed us nv his hankerin for standin
in our party. Besides this, havin
made start, we consider him safe
anyhow. The man witch kin take
nominashen at our hands, or identity
hisself with US, may allus be couatid
onto. The Ablishnists never forgive
SIGH, and there amt no place to go.
When Johnson and Doolittle and
that crowd LETT the Ablishnists, |
knew wher they would land better
than they did. FdciliS deceadus auerni,
which bein translated into the yul-
gar tongue, means the road to hell is
macadamized. Hancock won't do.
becoy our Suthren brethren hey q
prejoodis agin the flag he drawed his
sword under. Pendleton wood an.
swer the West, but the East is OPP
posed to him. therefore, after Civ
in the matter matoor consideration.
hev desided to propose for the posi-
shen, the name NV Jethro Il. Kippins.
NV Alexander county, lllinony.
hev the follerin reasons for insis-
Tin on his noininashen.
|. He's geographically level. By
lookin on the map, it will be seen
that that county in Illinoy, is the
extreme south,westerly part Nv the
State. 1t is Northern county with
Southern ideas. Across the river is
Kentucky, west is southeastern
Missoury and east is lower Injeany.
They grow tobacco there, and yearn
after slave labor ez intensely ez we
do across the river.
2, Nobody knows him. The name
OF Jethro l.. kippins hez never filed
the soundin trump NV fame. With
him on our tikkit several pints wood
be gained. On all the Questions on
which there is doubt in the minds
Nv the Democracy Jethro l.. Kippins
is uncommitted. He is unembar
rassed' with views, and on troubles
some questions hez nary al opinyun.
The trouble Pendleton hez with the
greenbax wood not affect him, Meth
er wood any Nv them other questions
witch are ruther embarrassin than
otherwise. de hez but one political
principle, which he holds is enuff for
any one man, and that is Democracy,
ez it hez bin, ez it is, and ez it may
be. He believes firmly in the cuss
Nv Canaan, he holds close to Onesi>
mus and Hagar, and hez sworn a SOL
emn oath that no niger shel ever
marry q daughter NV hizzen. This
noble sentiment witch allus strikes a
responsive cord in evry Democratic
buzzum wood be embiazoned on the
Kippins banner.
g. Jethro Il. Kippinses posishen
on the war question Is happy. He
opposes all the steps witch led to it,
and when II finally broke out he
proposed the only troo Demokrati 1
way Nv stoppin it. 1t wuz his opin-
yum that we had no rite to coerce
the S0uth-that there wuz no war
rant in the Constooshen for any sich
precedin. Ell Boregard fires onto
Major Anderson" sed he, let Ma
jor Anderson go atore the nearest
Justice Nv the Peece and hev him
bound over to keep the peece. FL
he won't keep the peece, and the
justice don't enforce his warrant,
why that ends it. We can't go be-
yond the Constooshon." After hos
tilties actooally begun, his posishen
was eminently satisfactory to both
sides. He wuz in favor Nv the war
but opposed its prosekooshen. He
remarkt that the South he'd commit
ted indiscreshen, but were he in
Congris he shoodent vote for nary a
man nor dollar for carryin on war
agin en- His two sons served in
the war-one in the Confedrit servis
and one in the Fedrs.l--both ey suit
lers. The war bore heavy on him
he made great sacrifices. Three
other sons he supported in Canada
doorin the continyooance Nv the un-
nachral strife.
A. Jethro L. Kippins hez all the ell
ements Nv popularity. He wuz born
in log cabin---he studied Daboll g
arithmetick by the lite nv pineknot,
held for the purpose by his mother
he drove hoss on the canal, wuz a
salt boiler in Sonthrin Ohio, wagon
boy on the Nashnel Road, wuz left
an orphan when six weeks old, swept
store in his early yooth, went down
the Mississippi on fiat boat, wuz in
the Mexikin war, and hez consoom
in pashen for horses He hez, ia this,
the advantage NV Grant, ez his pash
en- wuz so consoomin that it got him
into a temporary difficulty, which re.
CURED II men, a judge, and 2 lawyers
to settle, one nv the lawyers being
States Attorney Nv the county. =
These facts in his biography ! got
from his own lips. Eff there's any
discrepancy, uv course the commits
the on biography will reconcile EN-.
1t may be that he may hov done too
much-which is to say eff all he seq is
true, he wood two or three hundred
ltcTS OlQ- III 81, IL VIII NOV w NC
pared down. He hez bin justis Nv
the peece ten yeers in bis nativ o
town, which gives him splendid
knowledge Nv constooshnel law.
3. He's trooly nashnel in his views.
He knows no north, no south, no
east, no west, no nothin. This last
qualificashon mite prejudis sum agin
him, but to me It's his chief holt. For
with SIGH man in the Presidenshel
chair | wood be safe. We hev an
abundance Nv SIGH men ez Wood, Sey
mour, Vallandygnm, ct settery, who
kin manage president but who are
too odorus to be elected very much
To that position themselves. There,
fore. it is necessary that precisely
SIGH man ez hev described be elect
ed and the fact that Chase knows too
much is the objection ! hev to him.
Polk wuz manageable, Pierce eminent
iy go. and moor old Bookanon was