Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-10-07
MT. Nasty views the Prospect.

From the Toledo Blade.
At last / hev struck a haven NV
rest. AT last 1 hev a shoor abidin
place, for time at least. How long
l may stay, or how soon / may be
compelled to pick up my landlords
spare shirt and travel, ! can't tell.
But wat do care? For the present
| am under the wing NV aman who
hez twenty millions NV dollars, and
who is usin it at a terrific rate. Some
few drops Nv the golden shower is a
fallin onto me, and am content.
That is, am content personally. /
am ez well off ez 1scood be. hev
twice penetrated the august presence
NV the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, representa-
myself ez President uva Democratic
club in Philadelphy, and twice hev |
received a hundred dollars to carry
on the good work.
lam well enuff off, and possibly
ought to be satisfied, but the condish-
un NV the Democrisy affiix me. The
fact liz, we are in bad way, and Their
amt no way out NV it. We aint got
no yoonanimity-we aint got nothin
to fife for; and the kountry hez he'd
yooniversally good crops. Weather
hez been aSin us. Eff we Good hev
he'd rain enufi' in harvest to hev rust
id the wheat, and enuff follerin the
wheat harvest to hev rotted the per-
taters, and then juicy attack NV
cholera and yaller fever, and other
disorders NV that nacher, so that the
people Good hev got dissatisfied and
ugly and SIGH, ther wood hev been
some hope for US. The pertater rot
in Western Pennsylvany wood hev
made us thousands NV votes alone.
But watts the yuse Nv talkin to farm
ers with teers in yer eyes NV coun-
try goin to ruin, when every moth
er's son NV 'em hev ther pockets full
NV greenbax and a barn full Nv wheat
to bring 'em more? Waits the yoos
NV clamorin for change when the
country's doin ez well ez it can emmy
how?
Then agin, our management hez
bin friteful. In Ohio, we made a
boggle at the beginnin, in the nom
inashun NV Rosecrans. 1t wusn't in
the nacher NV things for our patriots
who had shot officers sent out by this
Rosecrans to arrest ther sons which
he'd taken bounty and deserted to
Kanedy, to vote for Rosecrans, par
tickierIy Ell hundreds NV lem he'd bin
dragged to bastiles for emptyin Their
rifles at lem. The hurrahs stuck in
ther threats. / must confess that tina
made brave attempt at it, but thay
was sick while thay was doin it.
In Pennsylvany we Amt much bet
ter off. Our candidate hez points
about him. He was copperhead
doorin the war, witch makes all that
class NV Democrats enthusiastic for
him; but on the other hand it drives
off the war Democrats, without wich
we amt worth shucks. He hes mon
ey though, and ez he's bleedin freely
he may keep the organizashun alive
Till we can make a fife with man
witch we can elect.
The principal trouble is, however,
to find out what Democrisy is at this
juncter. In Ohio it's agin Niger
ekality and in favor NV payin off the
the bonds either in greenbaX Or re-
pudiashun; in Tennessee it's niger
suffrage and niger offs holdin; in
Konnecticut it's payin the bonds in
gold, interest and principal; in Cali
forny it's anti-Chinese, and in Louis
lana it's Chinese. In Maine our
friends are runnin a perhibitory lik-
ker law, and everywhere else they'r
for free whiskey. In Illinois Dem
ocrisy is free trade; in Pennsylvania
it's high pertective tariff; and so on
around. In short, it's so high mkt
that / wood'nt agree to go from one
county TO another to make speeches,
without havip furst keerfully ascer-
wat the Democrisy of that partickler