Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-16
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| -.-rs D. 4s1<AOo, Y ..
(wich is in the State NV Kentucky :
- -. - February I, 1871.
Last mite wuz one of the most heven-
ly all things considered, I hev ever en-
tjoyed. / wuz in perfect peace and per-
fectly happy. / he'd sot with my trends
in Bascom's, indulgin in that free, un-
restricted conversashen wich kin u1ly
be among trends, and ever and anon
quaged the kup wich cheers but dost
lintoxicate. till a late hour in the mite.
One bi one my trends departid, till
wuz left alone in my chair, and asleep.
Bascom, with that tender regard fOrme
witch hez afuz characterized him, wood
ent turn me out in the cold mite, but
duinpin me aut unto the floor, put a
chunk NV wood under mi he'd that /
mite rest more comfortable, and left me
to sleep and dream. Iwuz in the most
favurable condishen possible Gu dream
NV Dimocratic struggles, and Idreampt
NV EN-. II
Methaut the great and all important
struggle NV 1872 wuz at hand. The
two giants, Republikinism and Dino
crisy he'd bin braut out by their respec-
tive trainers for the reglar battle wich
they hev wunst in four years. The two
giants wuz so different in pint of size,
and they was both badly dillapidated.
RepublikiniZm wuz wel-maid, but
there wuz suthin about him thatshowd
his inability to make successful shindy
He stood badly on his pins, he wuz
week in the back and thare wuz evil
IDENTIFY pizen in hiz sistem. Wat wuz
the matter with him in partickler Good
ent be diskivered, but that thare wuz
suthin rong with him wus particularly
evident.
Dimocrisy wuz in still wuss plite. He
wuz rotten from top too bottom and oil
| through, wuz bleary eyed and weak
everywhere, yet he was splendidfysup-
ported.-The hackers of Republikinizm
| wuz all a fitin amung thairselves, and
all eff EN- silly .stabbin THAR champion,
while the hackers NV hiZ opponent wur
purfikly harmonious. Bill Tweed wuz
dosin him with tank from bottle la.
belled Treasury NV Moo Yorck," the
Poap NV Rom hizself held him up on
one side, while the English manufactu-
rers supported him on the other, SO that
he made a very respectable show NV
winnin the fite.
RepublikiniZm however, took his
posishen with his back too the kapital.
Jest in front NV him, and regarding
him kritikally, stood Bill Tweed and
Hoffman, with there follower, q nashin
| there teeth ez they Iookt beyond him
at the treasures wich hiz yijilense alone
kept from their pOssesin.
"Heel die Soon-he kant live long,"
sed Tweed, "and then veal hev a ma
shen to plunder instid NV, one poltry
stait.
"Wen he duz died" sed Jim Fisk,
"Ile hev awl the ralerodes atween Moo
Yorck and Woshinton, and lie hev the
Twelv Temptashens plaid in the ovid
theatre whar Linkin wuz shot" ID
'Ile go ez Ministur to Ingland, shur!
sed Valandigem. y,
'sThere be enuff Fedral offises tu per-,
vide fur sich NV the Salisbury fafnilyez
cant be Guvners and Senaturs from
Delawur," sed the coast of the father
of the present::Saulsburys.
In the meantime, there wuz truble
in the other camp. Republikinizm, at
the final mint, wuz found to be SO de-
bilitated tnat he could scarcely stand ON
his feet, and his bachers wuz eggsamin-
in Nv him to find what wuz the mat
ter.
"Why hese kivered all over with
ysrmin ~ exclaimed one, land its ex-
;lHsted his Strenth w
"Yis," sed another, she is eaten up
with en-. His day of usefulness is
| over.
''LoGk at this San Domingo inseck,
whose rite &law liz reechin towardthe
Treasury"
"LOok at this monster under Whitch
thousand imbeGles, witch kin do nu'-
i'll but seek his lifelsIoOd are being har-
bored.' -s9i i.3 .a
"Twas these that esc Cox out of the
Interior. a,I r5s q
1t wuz two troo. There NNz on HIM
every species NV varmin, all Nv EN- ith
too klaws-one fastened into him, and
the other reachin past him into the
Treasury, and those who shood hey bin
a holdin NV him up were payin too
| times the attenshun to the Treasury
clan than tina WIZ to the champinn.
Fenton and Conkiin NV Moo YOrck, for
instans, had one n0nstrns insek be-
tween EN- witch tina wQz carin for and
they fought like tigers over his klaw,
and l notist with delight that half the
blows tha AIMED at each other fell QI,the
| monster.
The presens NV the vaFkAin being dis
kiverd thar. wuz hurried consultation
az too wat to du about it. -.
cline gonert" gasped the unfOrtu-
nate giant. can't stand this drain
long enuff to make fite."
"Dont dye yet % ejackilated three
millions NV nj gers. "for watIl become
of us ?''
"Dont die yet ~ howled the great
without you thars an end NV progress
and an end NV everything that's good
and hopeful in government.
But thar wuz others. Thar come up
] some thousands NV men who hadent
/, more than a quarter inch atween there
eyes, whose peak,-whose necks wuz
long and crany, who wore white neck
erchiefs and not one Nv EN- chawed tr-
bako, all NV EN- that kind NV bluodlis
men wich havunt no pashens, and thar
fore pride themselves on being strikly
virchuOse. They examine closely.
"HeSe got EN- on him from top to toe
lets kill hymnn'
"When he begun life he wuz pure
he is kiyered now with abominable
leecheS-We can't endoOr leachis-kill
him ~ shouted all the narrer heads.
4 "Kili him !" shouted Tweed and all
NV his friends, "for you contracted for
purity and look at the creepin things
witch is on him."
And there went up general cry,
Kill him from a porshen NV his adhe.
rents, at witch Dimocrisy, who wuz red.
dy to give him battle, chuckled, for il
lOokt ez tho his wurk wood be dun
without pullin his kote awf. , s.
"Kill him !" yelled Congressman
from the west, tive kin make the fite
without him."
''Make the fite without him 70 retort.
+ ed another. "You talk ez tho you mad