The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-29
Nasty.
MIR. Nasty and his People Accept the spas
sive POiicy"-The Amendme nts of Gavitt,
III Enscom, Pennibacker, and Deacon Po-
gram and the Terrible Result.

w HUH IL IN THE pTAIr Nv
Nov. "a, 1871.
We hev heard NV Ohio, Pennsylvany,
Moo York, and number Nv other
States, at the Corners, and are satisfied
that suthin hez got to be done for the
Dimocrisy. The entire yoonanimity
with witch the country hez pernounst
agin us, is one Nv the most remarkable
things which ever occurred TO me. |
endoored Ohio; | stood firm under
Pennsylvany, but when Moo York
went agin us, | felt that all wuz lost.
When the Dimocrisy Nv Moo York lose
confidence in Tweed to the extent NV
jinin hands with the Ablishinists, | felt
that it was NV little difference wat hap
pened thereafter, and l took my drinks
mechanically, like one stunned. So
dazed wuz that for week after the
election | didn't accept the invitashuns
to drink over half the time.
| notice that the Moo York World
and other leading Dimocratic papers
are urgin the policy NV not nominatin
a Dimocratic candidate for President in
1872 but NV allowin the Dimocrasy and
all the elements which don't like Grant
to yoonite and run Independent can
didate. | agree with the World. | am
satisfied that the Dimocrasy kin never
elect Dimocrat in 1872. 1t seems clear
to me that the indicashuns are that the
people don't want Dimocrat to fill
that posishen, and | am content to bow
to the will Nv the people. The Dimoc
risy alluz bow cheerfully to the will NV
the people when they can't possibly
ahnl hat 10 -,
shen just now. | therefore accept the
passive policy, and am convinst that the
Dimocrisy shood not, as party, nomi-
nate a candidate for the Presidency,
but shell, to save the country from i'm.
pendin' room, relinquish their party
organizashun, and cooperate with SIGH
Nv the Republicans ez are dissatisfied
with the Administrator, to overthrow
the present tyrannical Administrator,
and inoggorate reign ov purity. My
noshen was eminetly strategical. 1t
wuz to make a platform, which sed
nothin in perticleler, and put onto it
man nobody ever heerd NV, and de.
pend for the fucher upon the fact that
he he'd bin elected by Dimocrats, and
wood hev to take his tone from them.
| communicated this idea to the Dim
ocrisy NV the Corners, and meetin' wuz
held to give shape to our thoughts on
this subject. | opened the ball by intro
doosin' the follerin' resolushen
WHEREAS, 1t seems to be tolably GER
tin that eff we, the Democrsy, shood
nominate candidate, he wood, in al
probability, be whaled out NV his boots,
and
WHEREAS, While we ought to be
somewhat yoosed to the whalin process
by this time, we hev never yet got to
likin it, therefore
Resolved, By the Dimocrisy Of the
Confedrit X Roads, that in their opin-
ion, the Dimocrisy Nv the Yoonited
States, in spirit Nv lberality, and ac-
tooated solely by desire to rescue the
country from impendin danger, shood
decline to make nominashens for the
offices NV President and Vice President.
but shell .jine hands with dissatisfied
Republicans, Labor Reformers, Temper
ance men, Civil Service Reiormers, and
SIGH other people ez object to Radical
ism, on the basis, solely, NV opposishen
to Radicalsm.
Here the thing should hev endid. This
resolooshen should hev passed and the
meetin shood hev adjourned. But
Deekin Pogram got maggot in his
head, and he wanted a resolution added
ez follows
Resolved, That the Dimocrisy will
not ask for the nominashen NV q Dino
crat, but they must insist that the nomi-
nee pledge hisself to undyin hostility to
the l4th and 18th amendments, and to
all the measures Nv reconstruskshen,
inventid and enforced by the Republi-
kin party, and III short, the entire Radi.
cal policy concernin the niger, from
the Emancipation proclamation down to
date.
And the idiots passed it unanimously,
and before the Deel<in he'd sunk into
his seat, Bascom, to my horror, moved
the adopshun NV this resolushen:
Resolved, That the Dimocrisy will
not ask the nominashen NV Democrat,
but the nominee Nv the .jint allies must
pledge hisself to the repudiashen NV the
unholy nashnel debt, and TO all the
tinanshel measures Nv this admlnistra-
shen and that Nv the late A. Linken.
Eff it is considered advisable not to 90
the whole fgger NV repoodiashen, the
nominee shell pledge hisself to at least
make the debt worthless by adoptin
Pendleton's greenback dodge, or some
thin equivalent.
This wuz adopted, with loud cheers,
despite all | Good do, and immeiitly
Capt. McPelter arose. He sed he wuz
pleased at the perceedins. The liberality
NV the Dimocrisy in surrenderin' their
organizashen, NV layin it, he mite say,
on the altar Nv their country, Good not
be too highly commended. He would
sejest, tho, that the nominee, whoever
he might be, shood be required to pledge
hisself to prokoor the repeal NV all Ku-
Klux legislashen, to never interfere in
any way with the whites NV the South
in wat they might desire to do, and
pertikerlerly, to hev to wunst the tax
on whisky and tobacco repealed.
There wuz no use Nv tryin' to stop it,
and | didn't. Elder Pennibacker wuz
satisfied to nominate sum wun not a
Dimocrat, but the Convenshun witch
nominated him should put him on a