The Shasta courier., 1869-10-09

1 am content. That is, am
sonally. L am ez well off ez |
hev twice penetrated the augu.
NV the Democratic candidate tor Governor
NV PENNSYLVANIA, representing myself ez
President NV Democratic club in Phil
adelphy, and twice have received hun
dred dollars to carry OF the good work
The young man wien guards the outer door
NV the cdndiddtorlal manshen IS most
acoot judge uu human nacher he ser
want at the door askt for credenshels, al
wlch the young nan, who happened to be
in the hail, noticln me, rebuked him tor
delayin me-
Terence! J! remarkt he sharply, "admit
all sich noses without question. Yoo bet
they are our friends
That nose hez cost me thousands NV
other peoples dollars to keep it up in color
Thank Heaven, its repayin me some NV the
trouble hev gone to On its account.
am well enuf off, aud possibly ought
to be satisfied, but the condshen NV the
Democrisy aidix me. The fact IL, we are
IN a bad way, and ther ain t no way out NV
It, We amt got no yoonanimity ain t
got nothn to tte for, and the country hez
ned universally good crops. The wether's
bin agln us. IF we Good hev he'd rain in
harvest enuH to hev rustld the wheat, and
enuH follerln the wheat harvest to hev.
rotted pertaters, and then a juicy attack
of cholera aud yaller fever and other dis
orders OF that nacher, so that the people
Good hev got dissatisfied, and ugly, and
sich, ther wood hey been some hope for
Us. The pertater rot In western Pennsyl
eany wood hev made thousands NV votes
fall alone. But watts the yoose Nv talkin
to farmers with teers in yoor ewes of a
country gon to room, when every mothers
sou NV EN- hey their pockets stuffed with
greenbax and barn full NV wheat to bring
more F.! Watts the yoose of clamorin for
change wen the co1ntry's doin ez well ez
it kin anyhow ?
Then agIn, our management hez bin
friteful. In Ohio, we made boggle at
the beginning, III the nomena shun of Rose
ecrans. 1t wuznt in the nachur NV things
for our patriots who had shot officers sent
out by this Rosecrans to arrest their sons
which he'd taken bounty aud he'd deserted
to Canady, TO vote for Rosecran,s par ickey-
ly ez hundreds Nv EN- he'd been dragged
to bastiles for emptyin their rifles at EN- =
The hurrahs stuck in their threats. |
must confess that they made brave at.
tempt at it, but they looked sick while they
did It, Their efforts to hurrah for Rose
Grams, and the face they made Nv it, re-
minded me Nv an insident wich occurred
to me wunst.
L he'd a friend whose name it was Brown,
who wuz given to indulgence in the fowin
bole to fearful extent. Wun mite he
attempted to be conyivyel on new brand
NV whisky, and it foored him. Atl1
P. NJ, | found him cingiD to a lamp post,
and vomilin ez tho ther wuz miniatoor
earthquake into his sides.
6 Brown y remarked |, layin my hand
affectionately onto his shoulder, i" Brown
are you sick p
" SICK! Sick p replied he, swingin
around to the other side Nv the post and
dischargin another avalanch. "Sick
HI! do 700 think I'm doin this for the
fun Nv the thing 2"
Our Democrats in Ohio swalered Rose
Grams, but their hurrahs were so much like
the retchln NV man with load onto his
stumick, that it reminded me Nv my friend
Brown.
! In Pennsylvania we aint much better off.
Our candidate hez pints about him He
wuz copperhead dooring the war, which
makes all Nv that class NV Democrats en-
thuslastic in his support; but on tother
hand 1t drives off the war Democrats, with
out which we ami worth shucks. He hez
money though, and ez he's bleedin freely
he may keep the organizashen alive till
we kin make a fte with a man which we
kin elect
The principle trouble is, however, to
find out wat Democracy is at this juncter
In Ohio its aein niger ekality aud in
favor Nv payin of the bonds in greeubacks
or repudiashun in Tennessee its nigger
sutf age and Digger offs holden; in Con-
necticut it's payin the bonds in gold, in
terest, and principle; in Californy its anti
Chinese, and in Loosiana, its Chinese. In
Maine our people are runnin perhibetory
llkker law, and everywhere else they're
for Tree whisky. In Illinois, Democracy
rs free trade IN Pennsilvany, its high pro
tective tariff, and so on around La short,
its so high mixed that l woodc't agree to
80 from one country to another to make
speeches, without having first carefully
ascertained what the Democracy Nv that
pertikeler county believed in.
got Democratic papers from all the
States one day, and by persistent readin
Nv em for five hours | became so mixed as
to be promisin candidate for loonatic
asylum.