The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-08-19

not be anything but a troO Dlmocrat
but found, to my sorrow, that wolves
often put on sleeps clothing, so per.
fectly ez to deceive the very elect. Ar.
rested and taken to a camp NV Linkir
hirelings, / wuz clothed in ojus bloc
musket wuz forced into my unwillin
hands, and | wuz ent Ssouth to dip my
hands in the goar NV my trends. Did
do itF No ! deserted the first mite
and escaped to the Dimocratic hosts
with whom served till a battle wuz
imminent, when ! made my way North
agin.
Rooined by this unlawful secure, for
the bars at wich / wunst he'd credit re-
foosed to open accounts with me agin,
devoted myself to aboosin a tyrannlc-
al government engaged in prosecootin
an unconstooshenel war. / headed the
Holmes County patriots who resisted
drafts, | organized the Knites Nv the
Golden Cirkle in Ohio and Injany, and
organized more riots than any one
man in these two States. kin say
trooly that doorin that short time, no
less than twenty young men framed and
eddicated by me, who had not the dis
creshen ito get out at the proper time,
was inearseraied in Basteels, where they
languisht for months.
My career sence the mournful endin
nv the war, is well known. support
ed Andrew Johnson the moment he de-
serted the Ablishnists. wuz with him
in his triumphal progress throttle North.
| held up his hands doorin the i'm
parchment struggle, and | bought up
three Nv the Union Senators wich voted
for acquittal. / assisted also in the
slaughter nv niggers in Memphis and
Moo Orleans.
am, NV course, acceptable to the
strate- out Dimocrisy, ez l hold views
entirely in consonance with them. l
am inAexibly opposed to the payment
Nv the nashnel debt, l am opposed to
the fifteenth amendment, and my daw-
ters, if l he'd SIGH, shood never marry
niggers On these questions no man
in Ameriky is more sounder than |.
The Dimocrisy Nv Ohio owe me this,
for services rendered l hev bin drag
ged throo horse troffs for hurrahin for
Vallandygum. Ihev bin pulled out Nv
my bed in Janooary by solers, and
compelled to take oaths NV allegiance,
and languished once in a Bastie for
for my stedfastness to Dimocrisy
These things ought not to dwell on
to, but if no one else will, / must.
hev made other sacrifices When
torn from my peeceful home to fite our
friends Of the South, / he'd a wife wich
l loved. Life wuz a peeceful streeme
and we foated calmly along. She took
in washin and talked politics at a
neighbOrin grocery, investin the pro-
ceeds NV her labor in the sustenance
afforded at the bar When / returned
wat met met The KILN nv men out
rite wuz not the most hart-rendin incl
dents Nv that fratritidle struggle. 1t
wuz the sevrin NV domestic ties-the
tearin down Nv domestic altars, and the
separatin Nv families. When | return
ed l wuz coldly met. Looizer Jane
wuz washin as yoosual, only harder
than ever, and ] notist the children he'd
new frocks and shoes. The fust after
noon / wuz at home I askt her in my
old familyer way for dollar and half,
ez wantid to go down the street.
"That's played" she remarkt.
"Hevn't you got it?" l askt.
81 hev," she replied, sand ! perpose
to keep it. 1 hev diskivered suthin
since yoove bin gone. l hev found
that it's easy enuff to support myself
and the children, washin at a dollar a
dozen, but add to that hulkin man,
with nose like yoOrs, and its harder
than l keer. This house is mine-yoo
kin vacale."
And she calmly rung out a shirt ez
tho wat she sed wuz commonplace
remark insted Nv practikel diverse.
left her. A feendish Ablitionist
he'd put this idea into her head and she
he'd actid onto it. Since that time l
heve wended my way alone, subsistin
by chance. Ablishnism owes me the
home he'd Ablishnism owes me the
likker / ought to hev he'd, out nv wat
that woman hez earned sence that croo-
ell day. 0 wat a fearful debt to pay.
The acoot Democrat may ask wat l
want Nv nominashen when defeat is
certin. Its suthiD to be candidate.-
should make vigrous campane. The
masses in the rooral deestricks don't
often see candidate for so high an Of
fis, and / shood beam onto EN- ALL, Nv
course l shood from this date to the
second 'Toosday in October hev free
likker The rank and file wood
esteem it an honor to drink with me,
and | shood consider it convenience
to drink with them. For two months
| shood hev all ! wanted, wich wood
be the happiest two months in my life
l shood probably die Nv delirum tre-
mems, but l Good afford it. Oh wat a
gorgus prospeckl Oh wat an elysium!
Kin the Democrisy of Ohio be so croo-
el ez to deprive me NV it7 | kin at
least hold the votes Nv the hard-handid
Dimocrisy wich wuz knowd ez Copper
heds doorin the war, and can't see
that we hev ever got any other kind 3,
no matter who we nominated. Ef
that element aint strong enuff to elect
me I snnsa I shnnd 90 To inc the In.