The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-03

their heads ano shee-hammers in their hand
with strings Nv rats over their shoulders
and puppy-dogs running away from EN- il
affrite, and send EN- to Massychoosits, Con
necticut and Calforny.'
The caricatoor Nv Chase and the green
backs, wat can we do with them p scd I.
DO with EN- p he answered, change the
caricatoor to portrate, and under the green
back write 'In this sine we conker p and
send em west. 1 wish that all our work wuz
ez easy ez Chase hez made this.
The Horris Greelys kissen the niger
wimmin, wat shell be done with themY /
askt.
Improve Horrisses feechers to suthin or
dinarily intellectooal-soften the wenches
face, and for an inskripshen write The era
Nv good feein hez come, and send EN- South
the other bafmust be doctored trihe. Rub
out the first six words, leavin only 'Protec-
tive Tarif,,' and send EN- to Pennsylvany,
Moo England, and sich Congressional Dec
stricks elsewhere ez are largely interested in
manfakters'
80 far so good sed 1, but there is thou.
sands Nv baupers protestin again drafts and
sich, wich we RELY can't afford to lose. The
muslin onto which ther painted is ez good
ez new, and its pity to throw EN- away
There's no need NV thrown NV EN- away,
or even wastin paint and labor on EN-. Send
EN- jist ez they are to the interier counties
Nv Penusylany. Tho Democrotic Central
Committees in those counties probably
know that the war is over, but the rank
and file don't and these'll do to fire their
hearts ez well ez anything else. See that
all this iz done, and be very keerful to
pack and send EN- per dircckshuus."
Ez soon cz the artists he'd finished their
work packt them aud thankt that tejus
work wuz off my hands, but little
did l antisipate tie sea of trouble into
which I he'd plunged myself aud the CON-
mite. he'd two assistants to direct the
boxes and the committee sent us demi-
john Nv likker for rcfreshmeut. We re-
treshed perhaps more than wuz prudent,
considerin the very delikate nacher Nv the
work we had to do, and with recklis stoo- !
pidity directed the boxes at random. Ez
mite hev bin expected, the banners inten-
ded to capher the niger in the South went
to Southrn Ingeany, where they stone mig
ger lovers, and the caricatoors Nv niggers
intended for Southern Illinoy went South.
The Free Trade banners went into Pennsyl- |
vany, and the Pcrtective Tariff ones into
the wheat states Nv the West.
Every box come back, and si,h litters
ez accompanied them The Pennsylva-
committees all sed that eff Free Trade wuz
trooly made part Nv the Dimcratc creed
they wood swaler it, but it wuz dose for
EN-, but all the rest cussed us for a set Nv
sots. A niger in South Carliny, which
our people down there had capbered, opend
a box (Which should have gone to Injeanyl
containing the most horrible caricatoors Nv
his people, and read the letter which we
in which we urged the Central
Committee to ite the battle upon the one
ice that niggers was apes and entitled to
no rites whatever He Indignantly want
ed to know 'et this wuz Dimocrisy" The
committee in injeany, who shocd hev got
this,got one instid full Nv the picters Nv the
improved Greeley kissing the..improved fe-
male niger, with inskripshen, The era Nv
good feelin is come and he Indignantly
wantid to know 'ei this was Dimocracy /?
and so on all around.
This thing Nv hevin a dozen sets Nv
principles may have its advantages, but
kin swear that it hez its perplexities. The
The Committee wuz immejitly called to-
sether agin to take sich steps ez they kin
o nootralize the effects Nv the blunder.
Wat they kin do in the matter the Lord
,nly knows.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY.