Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-13

Hevin been instructed that the Moo De-
parture wich wuz inauguratid by the Ia
mentid Vallandygum, wuz to be made
middle plank in the Dimekratic platform,
I tried our people second time on it, de-
termined for once at least to be squarely
up with the times They kicked viciously
whenever menshund it.
"Watp sed Deekin Pogram, "am I, in
my old age, after life time Nv strugglin
with Ablishnism, to confess the niger my
ekal-to assoshiate with him, eat with
him, vote with him? NeverP
"H-llp" ejakilated Issaker Gavitt, !" am
to sink all my Dimocrisy and make my
politikle bed with the niger? NeverH
And Captin McPelter, and Elder Penni
hacker, and all Nv em, remarked similar.
/ reasoned with these men. told EN-
that the nigger wuz citizen now-that he
did vote anyhow, and wat wuz wuss there
wuza lively prospeck that he wood con-
tinyoO voting Gd finytu1a. The Dimocrisy
Good never get into power Okkepyln its
present posishun, and ez the principle
principles NV the Dimocrisy wuz to git
into power, why not shift to accomplish
that pint? "For instance, confess |
want the Post Offs; Issaker Gavitt feels
that the country needs his services ez As
SCISSOR, and Captin McPelter would ac-
cept the posishun Nv Collector. Eff the
New Departure is the way to them posi-
shuns why not walk therein? Success is
wat we want, and wat we must hev. Be-
sides, when we've got the power, eff the
idea don't SCOT us l spose there is sich a
thing ez goin back on the arrangement"
That little orashun fetched EN-. Issaker
sed he wuz willin, Captin McPelter i'm
mejitly expressed hisself delited with it,
and ez we all owe Bascom, he insisted on
it. Deekin Pogram and the rest Nv EN-
still hung out obstinit, but they wuz easily
settled Bascom merely remarkt, "New
departure, gentlemen, or no iikker," and
they succumbed. What wonderfulipower
that man wieldsl Wat an enviable posi-
shen he holds-the only grosery for four
miles!
I never do things by halves. 1mmejitly
1 told our people that this thing wood
hev to be done in good faith. The niggers
and people from the North resident in the
Corners must be met in the spirit of
friendlinis, and the rite hand NV fellowship
must be extendid to EN-. They must be
convinst that we are in earnest To that
end l arranged for quiet reunion the
next evenin at Bascom's-a sort Nv So
shell meetin to wich all Nv them classes
wuz to be invited.
1t workt well. The niggers wuz all
whites also. 1t was cheerin site to see
Deekin Pogram and Elder Pennibacker
minglin~, with EN- freely, shaking hands
with EN-, and pattin EN- on the shoulder,
and conversin with EN- easily and without
any reserve whatever. They played it
beautiful and the niggers took it in dead
earnest.
Joe Bigler and Pollock wuz there, Nv
course, and they appeared ez pleased ez
the rest Nv em. Pollock lay back on a
chair with one eye shut, exclaimin "Glory
amt it beautiful while Joe Bigler, swear
in that things wuz now jest ez they should
be, andsunder this arrangement he Good
act with the Democracy once more, in
vited us all to take drink. Instantly
every man Nv us rushed to the bar and we
all drank to the moo departure and i'm
mejitly resumed our pleasant talk with
the niggers.
In perhaps ten minutes Joe sed that this
wuz the proudest moment Nv his life.
The people Nv the Cross Roads, his native
place, wuz at last livin in harmony and
wuz all brothers. The white, the black,
the Northern man and the Southern man
wuz all standin on the same platform, in
peace.
"Troo! trool josef" sed I graspin a
pertikelerly black niger by the hand, ii
is ez it shood be. Thank Haven for this
blessed dayl"
Ijine yoo in yoer thankfulness," sed
Josef. "Ef 1 he'd a flag wood wave it
but ez I hevn't a flag-iet's take drink p
There was another rush, and after the
drink we resoomed our conversashcn with
the niggers.
"Bascom," sed Joe, "to save time, spose
you put gallon out on the bar and let
our reconciled friends help theirselves.'
This proposishen wuz reserved with
alacrlty and there Wuz one more rush.
The niggers didn't git drop of this, fo1
we Nv the Corners give EN- no room. The
gallon wuz consoomed in perhaps four
minits and a half.
There is suthin in whisky that lets out
whatever is mean and ugly in man. A
man in state of sobriety may control
hisself, but when he hez whisky down
him, wat there is in him is certain to come
out 1t wuz so in this case.
Issaker Gavitt after the fifth drink he'd
the ugliest glare in his eyes [ ever saw
McPelter, Pennibacker and Pogram be-
come suddenly reserved. At this juncter
Bigler sung out:
Another gallon, Bascom!" and that
gallon went quickly ez the other
There wuz sudden change. The noe
departure wuz forgotten. Issaker and the
rest Nv EN- found there wuz niggers and
Northerners in the room, and that wuz all
they saw. The whisky he'd revived the1
dormant Dimocrisy, and brot to the sur
face ther actooal selves. They wuz Dime
Gratis agin, Nv the old stripe.
Wat the merry he'll are 700 doin here
with white men, you black scoundrel !''
sed Issaker to the most: spectacle niger
we had been able to sekoor.
"Why-Whv-T'se here hecoz-D
lssaker heerd no more, but struck we'll
directed blow and that niger spred hisself
onto the floor. Led too much down me
to hev prudence, and from sheer force Nv
habit l knocked another one endways
The entire Corners followed SCOT, and with
cries Nv "kill the id niggers-kill the
id carpet baggers," and SO on, there was
the liveliest shindy again in mint ever
participated in.
The eXershun sobered me a trife, and
over the oaths and exclamashens, I heard
the jeerin laff Nv Bigler and the feendish
chuckle Nv Pollock. Then I seed it all.
1t he'd all been put up by those twin devils,
to spile the plan he'd laid to capcher the
Niger vote.
1t only cost Pollock and me SO to see
how sincere you Wuz,' sed Bigler to me
the next day, and it wood heY bin cheap
at twice the money"
don't think we shel git the new de-
parture to work very well To keep our
people actin decently toward the niggers,
we must keep whiskyEaway from en- FL
we keep whisky away from the Dino.
cracy, the older ones Nv the party will
die, and the younger ones will learn to
read and will finally drift into Sunday
schools and from thence inevitably into
the Republican party. The conundrum is
perplexing one, and confess my intel
lect amt ekal to the solvin of it. We
must hev, wat from the very nacher Nv
things, we can't git. Wat the end is to be
I don't know.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. M.
(Which wuZ POstmaster).
Anecdotes of Rufus ChOate.
RUFUS CHoATE and Chief Justice Shaw
of Massachusetts, often indulped in wordx