Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-02


TroN Is DELIVERED. aeu ..
rFrom the Toledo Blade.l
Posr orrrs, CoErnDnr x ROADS,
(wlchts in the State nv kentuekyl,o
The Nco Hampsheer eleckshun hez
rome apin us. had hoped that the $50
Der second thought" NV the people
change. bat Il didn't. That "sober sec
ond thought ? won't do 20 depend onto
The giuooine Dimoorat hez no sober
thought aud no second one. The sober
man who thinks twice alluz hez a most
unaccountable habit NV votin with the
Ablishnists. iii m
To Connecticut now we turn our hope.
fll eyes. In Oonne oticut there is still po-
tency in our old watchword, "Ameriky
for white men ~ and the troo Connecticut
Dimocrst still shudders when 700 demand
NV him sternly, "Do yoo want 30 marry a
nigger9" Then its proximity TO Moo York
is pint in our favor, for its oheeper 10
transport voters from that city, than 90
any other State, except Moo Jersey. To
yooze a military phrase, wich / learned
when l wuE in servis In the Loozeanor
Pelikins, Connecticut is near our base Of
supplies. It's too expensive TO do II in
Pennsylvany, and we shel Inever try that
State agin.
A. johnson desired me to go TO Con.
necticut 10 assist Dixon and l spent one
day at that biznis. johnson loves Dixon,
and is pcrtikelerly anxshus that he shell be
in the House when he gifts back into the
SENT. "Then," sed be, "therell be two
NV u.s." / made my way 10 rooral town
in his Deestrick, and arranged for meet
in TO address. There was a goodly at
tendance, and Icongratulatid myselfupon
pleasant and profitable season.
Strikin an attitood commenced by re-
markin that the eyes NV the country wuz
list at this time a restin onto the first dees-
trik NV Connecticut, and that the country
speCtid the eleckshun NV that noble pa
triot James Dixon, proposed TO examine
breefly the record Of the man for whom
solissited their votes. .- .s....
AT this pint the cheermau NV the meetin
pulled my coat tale yilontly,
well :" sed angrily, for wuz gottin
on a most elokent sweat and when | git
TO persprin oratorically don't Ike to be
interrupted, "wst's the matterT
"Don't menshun his Teoord," whispered
he in my left ear. ave dodge thatp
"But before enter upon that" sed !,
slidin off uY that sunken rock, II shol say
a few words regardin the monstrous pro.
necticut Do yoo--"
Agin my coat tail wuz pulled, and an
other nervous whisper.
Don't menshun suffrage-hc voted for
il twice. We dodge that"
"Do 700 desire" resoomed l, somewhat
staggered, for Niger suffrage is my best
holt, and when deprived NV II | am az sea
without chart or compass, Do you desire
the old narrer ideas NV the silk stoCken cd
Whig-"
For the Lords sake, don't" wuz the
next whisper. "DiXon wuz Wbig. We
dodge that"
"That is-wich is"-I struck out wildly
-" do you desire to have the herosies NV
that impractioable Ablishnist, Charles
Sumner"
spoosed Nv course this wuz safe. It's
alluz proodent to aboze Sumner in Dim
ocratic meetin, and when | hev nothing
else TO say, slluz do it with the happiest
results. But there come q mighty pull
and another whisper the mint the name
wuz mentioned.
"Don't say nothin about Sumner
Dixon carries recommendatory paper
from him in his pocket We dodge that"
Dazed and demoralizcd | commenced
agen.
My friends, you are askt by the Alb
lishn candidate TO vote with party wich
only few years ago in their midnite
lodges, wood hev denied the liborty.lovin
emigrant the bal"
GOOD Lord, man." whispered this
cussed chairman, pullin my coat tail till
the stitches yawned; "don't youw kno
that Dixon was Know Nothunp We
dodge that"
Not KNOWN precisely what TO do, and
feelin very much in the eondishun NV
man after hard mites drinkin, made
another dive:
Fellow citizens, the question for us to
consider to-nite is, shel we be taxed topay
an unconstooshenel debt, made by an
un-"
That wuz ez far ez l got. Again that
pull-again that internal whisper;
Don't say anything agin psyiu the
debt. Some Nv our Dimocrisy hold
bonds. We dodge that"
On yoor Dimocrisy wich holds
bonds. They must live in seckshuns
where the Maine ticker law is enforced
Shel l argoo in favor NV payin the bonds"
"No-don't A porshen NV our vote is
agiu it. Wedodge that"
Feelin that there wuz one pint onto
wich l could talk safely l commenced
once more
The Republican party headed by that
bloo-koted butcher, Grant "-resoomcd /,
fselin that that must be safe Vain hope |
Skasely wuz the words out of my mouth
when that cussed pull occurred agin.
"Tech EN- litely. Dixon is sleepin with
Republicans, and hez called upon Grant
We dodge that"
This wuz the last feather wich broke
the cameps back.
Wat is ther 700 don't dodgee Wat
but go to thunder and make the speech
yoorself" ejsckilated |, Indignantly, staw
kin off the platform. al hev wrencht my
self feerfully at times, and am excl to al
most any emergency, but without prepara.
shun, long and painful 1 can't make n
speech IN the interest NV a genius who hoz
belonged TO every party witch hez flourisht
sense he wuz boy, and who is spectin
votes from all Nv EN-. Unite abooze Sum-
ner in one place and praise him in Alother,
but l can't do both TO wunst. Takes a
persimmon above me. / nev made a
speech in the afternoon in favor NV free
trade in Moo York, and the same evenn
advocated a high pertective tariff In Penn.
sylyany, but don't ask me TO do such
things in the same hall to the same ew-
jencel Taught It's too much for even a
Kentucky Dimocrat."
And lefl in disgust. He ought to be
elected, and without any Nv my help, for
ef there's man in Connecticut who can't
hnd suthin in his record TO SCOT him, ne
must be a singler bein. .
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, p. NJ,
twioh means Postmaster.)