The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-01-02
Letter From Dimmycrat Ann spooEs.
CANADA, (Which is in tho Forkso
of the Santiam), State of Or
egon, Dec. 23d, 1868.

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Petroleum Verdigris Nasty; butt though
| i am his ant, I am proud too say that /
was nercr know NEVER born Whig
| 1t is absolutely sole cheerin, two the hart
| of a Dimmycrat two here the many
| touchin' stories I can tell of the daze Of
hour ants-sisters. When the blood Of tic
new born nation which the Wings called
a Federal Union was gushin' Inn its in
fancy when the Wings lnfamed that
| blood TO fever r-heat buy Revolution which
| plunged the striplin into war; when
Washington at the head Of the Federal
army was leadin every ything two victory,
n,y ants sisters proved to the world that
there's was Dimmy yeratic blood. The
Wings stigmatized them as Tories then,
even as there descen dants, the Black
Republicans, would now brand hour suns
as Copperheads.
My brother, the lamented father of
the iilustrious Petroleum Verdigris, was
nerer born Wing. True, he was unfor-
tunate in his marriage relation; havin' bin
chosen buy a woman who always voted
him on the Whig tickets; and who would
have voted him last November against the
Secmore and Blarc ticket, strait on two
Bllck Republican perdition, if he hadn't
inn mercy too his family seen fit two
kick the bucket and save US the disgrace.
Petroleum don't do his family justice
He lays awl his Dimmocracy two his
dread of niger equality, women's writes.
taxation, and the like. He needn't Dim
mocracy's inn his blood. It was badly
adulteratcd buy his unfortunate relation
to ann Abolition mother, but Dimmycrat-
ic invigorator is mitey ant-I-dote two
such adulterations and, though We never
could (owin to that unfortunate relation)
quite obliterate his natural propensity for
seein' and talkin' of things SO that people
can see 'em as they air, We as family
have long bin content two leave his Dim
n,oeracy in the care of Basconl and his
whisky.
no, Mr. Editor, yew wood have shed
tears by the quart over my unhappy state
of mind if yew had had the pleasure of
my distinguished acquaintance during
the dark and bloody daze Of the late
dark and bloody Abolition crusade.
/ awlweighs acas literary apfweighs.
I have never believed women had politi-
cal writes any more than niggers; and
hear too-four, when awl the mite of my
giant intellect has been stirred buy Dim
mycratc troubles tand nun but the
faithful can no the depth of theml when
defeat coiled itself around hour trailing
banners when Joe Lane hid himself;
when Valiandigham ran away two Cana
da (knot Canada which is inn the Forks
of Santian, butt 'tother place. This
ones named for 'tother because its bin a
rendezvous for Dimmycratic refugees),
when Lee surrendered and Jefferson
Davis, our idle-eysed and how-main
Precedent, was surprised inn the pleasant
occupation of tryin' on his wIfc's female
riggin; when Abolition ghouls surround
ed aud made him prisoner of war even
under awl these try alls, I held my piece
and kept the allotted place of woman ;
that is two say, supported my family,
raised my own and my husbands toe-5ack-
owe, and knit socks two sell for hour
whisky, while Jedcdiah Spooks CHATS
my husband) voted Dimmycratic strait.
But tie late disastrous de feat has rou-ed
me, sir I shan't keep still if I am a
woman! Black Republicans, bee-wcar !!
A Dimmycratic woman is aroused this
time, and yew shall tremble I'll tell
the truth, even as I understand it, feclin'
that its a sin to longer hyde the brilliancy
of my classic intellect behind the big
and burly shad-owe of my drunk old man!
This effort has exhausted ne! I
meant two tell yew in this letter sum-
thing about hour efforts hear in Canada
two see-cure Dimmycratic Precedent
butt indignant nature can stand know
more. Next weak you'll hear from me
again. Bee patient.
Your distinguished correspondent,
DIMMYCRAT ANN SPOOKS,
which is Ant to tho illustrious
Pastor Petroleum Verdigris Nasty.
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