Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-31

Hrbt HlIei anu escaped 10 the DINO
cratic hosts, with whom / served til
a battle wuz imminent, when | made
my way North agin.
| Rooined by this unlawful secure
for the bars at witch | wunst heC
credit refoosed to open accounts
with me agin, | devoted myself to
aboosen a tyranniele government en-
gagged in prosecootin an unconstoosh-
mel war. | headed the Holmes coun
ty patriots who resisted drafts, | or
ganized the Knites nv the Golden
Cirkle in Ohio and Injany, and | or
ganized moro riots thaa any one man
in these two States. kin say trooly
that doorin that short time, no less
than twenty young men framed and
dedicated by me, who hadn't the
descreshen to 60 ont at the proper
time, was incarserated in Basteels,
where they languisht for months.
My career sence the mournful end
in Nv the war, is well known. |
supported Andrew Johnson tho mo-
ment he deserted the AbIishnists.
wuz with him in his triumphal prog>
ress thro the North. | held up his
hands doorin the impeachment strug-
gle, and | bought up three Nv the
Union Senators witch voted forFac-
quittal. | assisted also in the slaugh.
ter nv niggers in Memphis and Moo
Orleans.
! am, Nv course, acceptable to the
strateout Dimocrisy, ez | hold views
entirely in consonance with them.
am infexibly opposed to the pay
ment Nv the nashnel debt. | am OPP
posed to the fifteenth amendment,
and my dawters, if he'd SIGH, shood
never marry niggers. On these
questions no man in AmeriKy is more
sounder than am |.
The Dimocrisy Nv Ohio owe me
this, for services rendered. | hev
bin dragged throo horse troffs for
hurrahin for Vallaudyfum. hev
bin pulled out Nv my bed in Janooa-
ry by sojers and compelled to take
oaths Nv allegiance, and languisht
once in a bastile for my steadfast-
ness to Dimocrisy. These things |
ought not to dwell onto, but if no
one else will, | must.
hev made other sacrifices. When
torn from my peaceful home to fife
our friends Nv the South he'd wife
wich | loved. Life wuz q peaceful
streeme, and we foatei calmly along.
She took in washin, and | talked poll
itics at a neighborin grocery, invest
in the proceeds Nv her labor in the
sustenance afforded at the bar
When | returned, wat met me
The KILN Nv men ourite wuz not
the most hart rendin incidents Nv
that fratrisidle struggle. 1t wuz the
sevrin nv domestic ties-the tearin
down Nv domestic affairs, and the
separatin Nv families. When | re-
turned 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 afternoon | WIZ at home |
asked her in my old fanilyer way
for dollar and half, ez | wanted
to go down the street.
''That's played r she.remarkt.
"Hevn't you got it n l askt.
81 hev," she replied, 'and | per>
pose to keep it. / hev discovered
suthin since yoove bin gone. l hev
found that it's easy enutf to support
myself and the children washin at
dollar a dozen, but add to that
hulkin man, with nose like yoors,
and it's harder than [ keer. This
house is mine-you kin yacate."
And she calmly rung out shirt
ez thoo wat she sed wuz q common
place remark instead Nv practikle
diverse.
left her. A fendish Abishnist
ned put this idea into her head and
she he'd actid onto it. Since that
time l hev wendell my way alone,
subsistin by chance. Ablishnism
owes me the homo [ he'd. Ablishn-
ism owes me the likker ought to
have he'd, out nv wat that woman
hez earned sence that crooel day
o wat a fearful debt to pay.
The acoot Democrat may ask wat
| I want Nv a nominashen when defeat
is certin. Its suthin to be q eandi,
date. / shood make Vigorous cam
pane The masses in the roOral
deestricks don't often see a candi>
date for so high an offs, and | shood
beam onto en- all. Wv course |
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 a convenience to drink
with them. For two months shood
hev all | wanted, witch wood be the
happiest two months Nv my life |
shood probably die nv delirium tre-
mems, but 7 Good afford it. Oh wat
a gorgus prospeck! 0 wat an elys-
iuml Kin the Dimocrisy Nv Ohio
be so crooeI ez to deprive me Nv it !?
I kin at least hold the votes Of the
hard handid Dimocrisy wieh wuz
knowed ez Copperheds doorin the
war, and | can't see that we hev ever
got any other kind, no matter who
we nominated. EFF that element amt
strong enuff to elect me, spose |
shood go to jine the unnumbeved
throng Nv Dimocratic candidates
who have encountered defeat in the
dreary years gone by, and whose
ghosts still hover on the confines Nv
politikle life.
submit this to the Dimocrisy NV
| Ohio, feelin that am askin only wat
is my doc.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY,
witch wnz Post Master.)
/ PERsoNAL--Hon. Harrison Reed
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