The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-03-06
rr eev Correspondence Ottawa Free Trader.
PARDIGGLE DIS0USTED.
GRANT A BAuLKY Hoss!
Toad HOLLKR, LA Gel KOUNTY, !
Eahrnxarx ODD 1890

astt +f.. TouHVWSEy sou 1oO0.
This Ravine is in . tumulchss uprosr. The
loyal people are mad at Grant, and the dimmy-
Gratis is reioicin. Grants last speech, delivered
in front of the oommitty which notified him of
his eleckshun, 10 enuf to make saint sware. He
won't lead, ner be won't drive. He won't be
Grant He is stubborner ner baulky boss, and
as unreasonable in his ackshuns as a blind mule
He refuses to ask advise from the galaxy Of
bright and true, virtuous honest and legal men
who compose the republican part Of our present
administration, and proposes to go it alone. He
skorns advice from that seraphic statesman,
Benjamin +. Butler; he shuns the aid of the
pellucid minded Chandler; he heeds not the
sober words of wisdom which flow in unceasing
streams from that fountain of purity, Yates; he
turns aside from the angelic Morton, whose other
name is "Moxa;" he is oblivious to the witching
Burt Kook, Nancy Arnold, and all the others of
the softer SEEKS, and declares to the committy 'be
will remove whom he pleases, for dishonesty or
i inkompetency. without hesitation,"-them's his
very identical wurds! Jest to think Dosrin
the eleckshun Grant didn't make speeches. Not
KNOWN how to speak. he kept mum and quiet as
bump on a log, but now he blates out speech
| setch as would ruin even the best party under
| the sum- mean ourn, the republican party
and he spoke this vile speech right in the face of
the sivil tenoor ackt The house ben afraid Of
| Grants obstinate muieishness, repealed the tener
hill INIT -. l..
didn't; but what does Grant keer? Eff they
should repeal that aire, Grant wouldn't respeckt
them the more, cause he knows they know the
Serpreme Keurt knows the hole thing is unkon.
stytuticnel. The house can't haul him over the
koals, cause the miserable kopperheds will hev
SO many members in the next kongress that no
one can be impeached, except for good cause. So
Grant he take refuge behind the ,limmycrats
aud defy us, and at the same time he is sort of
independent of all parties, and we kant help it,
That's what we git for eleoting such an indepen-
dent critter as Grant is, and we might hev ex-
pected jest setch kalammity. Why is this
thusly? Air the great Yunyun party to be per-
petually hornswoggled by every president they
elect Is Grant agoin to turn out wus than
ever? Will he Tylerize, Filmoreize and John.
sonizs usY Exc answers, Ubetr'
Who elected Grant? Say? Was it the dim.
mycratsF Not any! Was it them women's
rights he-women and she-men Me cum arouse !
Nc sir; it was the republican party composed
of the high, moral and dog and cock fighters, the
super, pious and hoss-racin populashun,--all of
the truly loyal stripe; and to hcv Grant 90 back
on US now is abominable, &c. But it is jest what
comes Of oowardice and the doctern Of available
ty, which 10 the ruling pashun with our party of
late. It has been our misfortune to have no com
petent and respectable and i.auenshal men in
our party, except the very dregs Of the dimmy-
crat party, which that organizashun has spewed
up, and which we hsv grsedily gobbled up and
exhalted in our ranks, until we hev no others to
lead, and 1t seems the meaner and more unprin-
cipled the renegade dimmycrat the greedier we
swaller aim and tho sooner and higher We els-
vate him. sgtra tf.rD- laH lss
We knew Grant drank whisky ton times wuss
than AndyCohsson, another sweet specimen Of
high, moral republican, which we dug up in
Tennessee, all for availability we knew Grant
want true radical; that he want moral nor
religiousin the truly loil standpilt; that he
was stubborner than q drove Of mules, and that
he is n hoss.rscin, eock.H9htir chap, with per-
digious fondness for wide-mouthed, slobber-lip.
ped. bob.tailed. heavy-iawed, crop.eared dogs,
and that he is given to fastness generally. We
took up this Employment of pure cussedness and
ran him against n undetermined christian gem
tlamsn and statesman, against whose karacter
not one word of reproach could be truthfully
uttered and we beat that man with our Galena
horse jockey, and we goried in the result But
be hss bAnlksd, even before being hitched to the
presidential wagon lie don't care for them
that supported him. Who were they Most of
the presohers- who east religion aside for
politics; the lsng-haired, frisxls-heaied. bran
bread. cut Observation-Disclosures philosophers went
for Grant; the snti-whiski, snti.tobsoko, temper.
anoe-on.ths. brsin. cold water. hot bath. women .
rights, high.nsral, part-your-hs,r middle,
swindle the government, steal from sanitary fairs
factions went for him: the horse-raoin, dog faa-
ciers, cock fighters and blaok.snd-tsps every.
where, and especially these cot and deliostsly
psrfumed pinhs u isdiosl loilty. the nes-ross,
went for him; AAd lew he refuses to allow the
ebsn.hued, delishussosatid mon and brouthsrs
" attend the Inaugural bsil! e. 'e'
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