Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-08-14
Massey.
A MEETING At THE CoRNERs-ELDER
rENN1BACKER GOES BACK on THE
NONtNATIONs. ~

July 27, 1863.
We he'd mcetin at the Corners mite
afore last for the purpus NV organizin
Seymour and Bare Club Their wuZ
ruther a spectacle show NV enthoosiasma at
the beginnn. Deekin Pogram, who hez
mn ambshun NV becomin the collector NV
the Deestrik, wuz reely affected ez he spoke
NV the many good qualities NV our noble
standard -hcarcr, Seymore; and Kernel
McPeter, who hez his beamin eye onto the
assessorship, wuz similarly bold and out.
spoken in his admirashun NV their CRATE
qualities. The Kernel wuz espeshly elo-
kent ez he spoke NV the gratens Nv Gin
erel Frank Blare, wich nc felt that he he'd
rite to admire Ther wuz suthin about
him so noble, so grand so patriotic, and
so troo, that he felt that he must weave
one little oratoricle chaplet for his classikle
brow. EZ a solger, he shood cheerily sup
port n solger
Wv coorse made the regler speech
wich Is allus expected NV me. ] slung
slitely into the biography NV our cheef
tains, | tribootid meekly to ther good
qualities w head and heart, discussed the
platform and commended IL, and woundup
with an impressive appeal to the Dimoo.
risy to rally to th2r support without diVis-
ion or hestanCy.
wuz about gittIn fairly launched into
my perorashen, when Elder PennibaCker
arose lie remarkt he he'd word wich he
must say.
"Certinly, Elder" sed I, "say your say.
We want all the faithful To speek. Free
your mind Gush onto u.s."
al shel, said the Elder, trust me for
that To begin with pernounce this en-
tire biznis y most onmitigated swindle. I
may possibly vote the Seymore ticket, but
don't like IL. A man who ct crow
wunst remarkt that while he Good eat crow,
he coUdent conshienshusly say he hank
cred arter It, Even 50 with the nomina-
shun. wuz and am Pcndletonian; am
bleever in the doctrine NV greenback
| payments NV the bonds. / haint no bonds
myself but hate the bloated bondholders.
| Ez don't pay no taxes myself !, in com
mon with the heft NV the Dimocrisy, hate
and loathe the party wich is grinding us
into dust with taxashen Tor the payment NV
the unconstooshnel debt. wuz Pendle-
tonian, for it wuz the fust step toward re-
poodiashen, and rcpoodiashcn is balm for
| all DimOCratic wounds
| "Now, wat did the delegates wiCh as.
scmbled at Moo York mean when they put
sich man as Soymore on the track 2
| Wat did they mean when they throwd
overheard the Young Eagle NV the West
and put IN charge NV our banner the hook
bcakcd vulchor, Seymore, toprey onto our
| vltylsY l don't fancy the style NV Dimoc-
risy we are hayin now days. Durin the
war | opposed war yishusly | wuz for
nenst bein dragged into the serviz uv a
government wich | detcstcd, and to titin
for coz wich hated. | he'd my rifle put
| into order, and | shot FedTal piCkitS AT
mite reglerly for months, and jined John
Morgans excursion into Ohio. Our Con
yenshun Mt Shicago declared the war u
iaiIyoor and the DimocriSy opposed to it,
but wat tollered? Why, they nominated
towunst solger whose sword was drip
pin in gore, and who wuz ez fierce fer con.
tinyooin the war on us ez the old gorril-
Ter, Linkin himself IL this DimoCrisy
l askt myself Ef so, count me out
wat different is the sitooashen now
We declared agn the non-payment Nv the
bonds in anything but grecnbaX, witch is
! equivalent to not pawn NV 'em at all, and
forthwith went to Moo York, where i
yoor speeker, was enticed by a strange
woman and lost my watch and black
| satln vest, my boots ana eight dollars and
sixteen cents, all the money he'd, wich il
would have bin the same had it bin more
similarly, and put in nominashen man
| wlch sleeps onto bonds and spends the
hett NV his time cutting off coopons !
Brethren, II hev to pay the debt wat di r
ference does 1t make who levies the tax
KIN stand 1t ez long under Grant e2 | kin
under Seymore, IL amt the person wicE
leyies the tax wich object to, so much e9
IL Is the levying NV The tax l have to pay
| gold, why not as well under Grant ez Sey
more .tea|,
Likewise Is my sole vexed Mt another
thing, wich can't or won't git over. Or
my way TO MOO YORK, where | was SC
Nllely yooseu was compelled for ~ miles
either 10 stanu up or set down IN the same
seat WIN dlrty nlgger, Joe Williams, d
Ielega'e 10 the C0hYenshun, whose mother
wunst owned, That he is mulattc
uoh I help the matter That delegates on
teachers reflected, don't make it any better
lie is Niger and my politikle faith i,
based on the cndoorin rock that a niggel
amt ez good ez Il white man. That i:
Dimocratic doctrine. took it in with my
mothers milk and l can't get rid NV it
And yit wuz compelled to associate will
this Niger on terms NV ekality all the
way down to Moo York, where lost my
vest, etsettry, and his seat in the Conven
shun wuz next To mine. stood this but
at our boariin house, only two squares
from where lost my boots, sc, with The
American flag floating over our heads
wuz compelled in conscience NV the house
bein crowded to sleep with him And
the infamous stinkin niger absolootly
had the Impotence to object to the
arrangement becoz ez he sed my feet
smelt Then the iron entered my sole
Then | felt that the Dimocrisy wuz trooly
sucked cgg-a shell without any meat
in it,
"When l saw that nigger in that Con.
venshun, felt that the pillers NV the Re.
public wuz totterin, that the chaos wu2
come agin. | felt that Amerilky, bein nc
longer for white men, wuz no place for me
| felt that Republican institooshuns wu1
forever destroyed, and that henceforth and
forever there wuz no place for me in my
native land"
And the teers roned down the Elder
nose, the pearly'whtte thereof tormin pen
dents wich ghltered like diamonds in con
tTaSt with the red nnSa nj tho ppn1 nv ui ial