The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-03-16

they wuz to the champion. Fenton and
Conklin Nv Moo York, for instance, he'd
one monstrous iuseck between EN- Wich
they wuz carin for and they fought like
tigers over his claw, and I notist with
delight that half the blows fell on the
giant
The presence w the vermin bein dis
kigsTed Their wuz a hurried consultation
as 70 what to do about it,
81 m goner!" gasped the unfortu-
nate giant. II can't stand this Drain long
enuff to make fte. y
"Don't die yet p eiackilated three
millions nv niggers, for wat'll become Nv
us?"
"Don't die yot! - howled the great
majority Of the people in korius; for
without you theirs an end Nv progress
and Nv everything that's good and hope
ful in government"
But there wuz others, There came
up sDme thousands Nv men who hedn't
more than quarter inch atween. their
eyes, whose necks Wuz long and crany,
who wore white nekercheefs, and not
one Nv EN- chawsd tobacco; all Nv EN-
tina: kind Of bloodlis men witch haven t
no pashens and therefore pride them
selves on bein strickly virchuous. They
examined closely.
"He's ct ON Oh him from top to toe
shouted one loud-mouthed one lets kill
him -
"When he began life he wuz pure
he's kivered now with abominabled
leeches-we can't endoor leeches-
KILL HIM!" shouted all the narrer
heads.
"Kill him!' shouted Tweed and all his
friends, for you contracted for purity
and look at the creeping things wich is
on him."
And there went up general Cry
''kill him ~ from porshen of his adhe-
rents, at wich Dimocrisy, who wuz reddy
to give him battle, chuckled, for it lookt
as tho his work wood be done without
pullin bis coat of, at all.
XIII him - yelled a Congressman
from the west, 1--WE kan make the fife
without him.
'Make the fite without him /" retort-
ed another. "You talk ez tho 700 made
bim-Why 700 mizable ass, haven
you sense enough to know he made
yco ?'
But this man wuzn't allowed to be
heard. ''Kill him-he's foul with YER
min-.kill him." shouted an immense
number Nv them in the ranks behind
him. At that moment I wuz soopreme-
" happy. I wooden't have given ten
cent postal currency to hev been ashoored
my post Gifts at the corners-indeed
the possibility nv bigger even that
entered my mind. The throng Nv In
dignant men took the weapon witch the
Dimocrisy wuz only too willin tc
furnish and wuz about to carve him
when a man from Massachusetts sprane
In front NV the victim and ejacllla
| ted.
Frionds-T don't like vermin but dc
like Republcinism Hedn't we better
save him, and Kill the vernin witch has
fastened on to him p
Immeiit1y the aspeck Nv affairs
changed. That idee had never struck
the assaiIants before, and they saw the
pint te wunst. In a second thousand
Willin bands wuz at work. The leeches
wuz pulled off, and ez eech one was dis
lodged the giant seemed to get new
strength. Color came to his checks
he Strengthened up wonderfully-and in
an instant almost he assumed the old
look and attitood wich characterized him
in the early part Nv his life.
At this pint | awoke, SO [ did not see
the result Nv the battle, or whether Their
wuz battle at all. But ef ther Wuz a
fite, and eff the champion Nv Republican
ism went into the shape and condishen ]
saw ez I awoke, Their coodent be no
doubt ez to the result. Mo, indeed.
VIII the Republicans hev sence enuf
to bring themselves up afore US in that
shape in 1872? On that depends my
hope Nv the post orlis at the corners.
Wood, oh, wood that [ knew.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
(Which Wuz Postmaster.