The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-31


tooshnel Democrat" yelled Kernel Nc
Pelter. late NV the Confedrit servis.
"But | hey notist that the great ma.
iority NV the Demok ratio papers, kin
read, my brethren, and hey that adj
vantage over yoo)-insist on adoptin
him al our Convenshen, and eff so, he is
our candidate"
Wen see him"
Hold - sed quickly no good
Demokrat kin bolt regler nominashen,
and after all Horris is not the wust one
we kin hev. Our motto wuz 4" Princi
ciples, not men," We adopted prn-
ciples and ez for men, we come ez near
nothin ez possible, under the circum-
stances Troo, he is high protective
tariff man, wich don't SCOT Elder PENN
hacker, but the Elder must remember
that the versateel Horris is willin, eff we
will support him, TO treat that ishoo ez
one to be settled by the people else.
where. He wuz an oppressor NV the
South, Kernel McPelter wood say. Troo
he wuz at times, and then agin at times
he wusnt. l hev wacht the great and
good Greeley very closely for many
years. There amt no question that |
now remember NV Except slavery and
the price NV the New York Weekly Tn.
BOOM that he amt bin on both sides NV
"A dozen times. Like the intoxicated in
divijuel who coodent git into bed COZ
the room wuz whirlin round, and who
determined, finally, to lay still and
wait Till tine bed come round TO him, al
that any question hez get TO do is to
stay still and Horris is certin to come
| i 4 4 4 Il
unconstitooshnel and yet wuz for payin
the niger owners for the niger. He
defended John Browns raid and OPP
posed secession. Then immejitly there
after he favored secession, then insisted
on war again Us for secedin, then urged
the Fedral hirelins on TO Richmond
then tried TO patch up peace with us.
He hez bin Radical and a Conserva-
tive; a Fourierite anda believer in bran
bread. He opposed Taylor and sup
ported him he supported Linkin and
opposed him; in short, he hez bin on all
sides NV all questions-one side to-day,
and tother tomorrow, and very fire.
| kently both at the same time. In short,
| don't know NV nothin that he hezn't
bin, and can't imagine nothin that he
amt extremely likely TO be. | read his
record yesterday, and wuz wuss tore up
in my mind than ez tho | he'd bin on "a
drunk for week. lnever knowd more
confusin or ;ntoXicatin readin.
"My aged friend" | replied blandly,
"wood 700 like to receive from me the
triflin sum Nv one hundred and eighty
dollars, witch | owe 700? Wood Bias
com? Wood
From every indivijuel in that awjence
there came up like the roar Nv tor
rent y es u
On the question ov my payin my
debts the Corners is singlerly yoonani
nous.
"My brethren, the way to my
liquidatn is Postorifs, and Postorifis
only. Eff | ~uz in my old place, now
Dixie pied by that disgustin niger, Lub-
book, 700 wood hev at least chance
for your money. Ef the great and good
Greeley is elected, THAT NIGER GOES OUT
AND ! GO IN. Pollock goes out NV
the Collectors offs, and in goes Issaker
Gavitt or Kernel McPelter. Watkins,
the niger Assessor, woodent be allowed
to hold his place a mint, and hat saint
Deekin Pogram, or that other saint,
Elder Pennebacker, would be immejitly
installed, and"
{" Heart hear !" from Issaker Gavitt,
Elder Pennibacker, McPelter and Po-
gram-Kernel McPelter earnestly lickin
a man who INDUCED in LATTER
In short, my brethren, we want the
oflisis. We hev been eatin grass, like
Nebuchadnezzar, sence 1860 with the
exception of Johnson's blessed yeers)
and Pharoah's lean kind amt nothin to
us. We hunger and thirst for EN-. Nv
course Id ruther git my place back agin
thro Breckenridge, but ruther than not
hev it I'd take it from Wendell Phillips
: hisself. Eff Greeley is necessary to git
tin them l 90 Greeley. He may shift
ez fast ez he pleases, ! kin follow him
Put that Postorfis in front Nv me, and
l eff he kin shift faster than ! kin, hey
overestimated my powers in that line
? And we shell git the offisis under him
He will insist upon qualificashens strenu
ously, but he hez his own standard. He
believes that them who admire Horri
Greeley are, ex-offisho, fit for any place
under any government, and them whC
' don't Amt with d-n for anything
| am talented at admirin SIGH men
| am"
Pogram, Pennibacl<er, McPelter, anC
Issaker Gavitt wuz entirely convinced
:. but there wuz still murmurin anon,
o the others.
y "You idiots" sed sternly, is Gran
n a Republican ?'
i " He is he isl
1 "Hev 700, ez Democrats, anything t.
t expect from hm?'
n ave heven't!' they replied.
y ado you know the pekoolyarities u
d the grea. and good Horris? We know
J. wat he is to-day; we know wat he WI
d yesterday, and SIGH NV 700 ez kin reaC
II plain print and write without runnii
yoor tongues out kin assertane wat h
;. wuz before that. Wat he has been yo
!. know, but wat he will be only tn
It Almity, who knows all things, kin tell
v and no one but hisself supposes he i
e NV suffishnt account TO be made tn
/, subject of prophecy. We are very cer
n tain NV Republican eff Grant is elected
t, we may hev a Republican or Dem
n okrat if Greeley succeeds. Its an evel