The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-07-11
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Mr.. Nasty at Home The Corners Final
iiy Brought to the SppOrt of Mr.. Gree
ley.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS.

ners gettin our people to consent to tax
IN the great and good Horris Greely tc
their buzzums, and embraciu Nv him the
same ez tho he he'd bin Breckinridse
Hftoman, or sum sich man wich they he'd
bin more familyar with 1t took four
days Nv persistent swearin afore | Good
convince them thet l he'd eny ijee NV sup.
porain man. witch they he'd heerd me de.
nounce ez the vilest Ablishen despot on
erth thousand times. Alas they don't
know the full elastisity Nv the Demokratic
mind
called mection and give em an ac-
count Nv my stewardship at Cincinnati.
| commenst my remarks by saying thet
| went to Cincinnati with view Nv nom
lnatin that sterlin patriot, Judge Davis,
who, tho in offs ez Republican, hezen' t
enut Republikinism about him to hurt
him, or that other sterlin patriot, Charles
Francis Adams, the son of John Quincy
Adams, wich hezn't anything NV the
Adams about him but the name. 1t wuz
gatherin Nv the people, not an offs
holders convenshun and thet wuz what
wuz the matter with us. Not one Nv the
delegates bad a government posishen, and
not one Nv US he'd any chance Nv gttin
one under Grant. Grant be id" was
tie cry in chorus. "Give US anybody
else"
| contest, tho, l wuz somewhat disap-
pinted. The convenshun he'd throwd off
on Adams and Davis, and nominated
Greeley.
Hang him ~ shouted the people,. 81
kin lick any man in a minute who asks
me to vote for him !" shouted Kernel
McPelter
| paid no attenshun to these compli-
ments.
Il he'd no idea uv supportin him, and
wuz glad Nv his nominashun only ez l
bleeved he would draw off enutf Republi-
kin votes to enable US to elect sound
Constitushonel Demokrat-"
"Thet's what we want-a sound Con-
stitushnel Demokrat ~ shouted Kernel
McPelter, late Nv the Coniedrit servis.
"But | hev notist that the great ma
jority Nv the Demokratic papers-U kin
read my brethren aud hev thet advantage
over yoo)-insist on adoptin him at our
convenshuu, and if so he IS our candidate"
well see him"
"Hold y said l quickly, "no good
Demokrat kin bolt a regular nominashun,
aud after all Horris is not the wust one
We kin hey. Our motto wuz principles,
not Men We carried it out to the let
ter. We adopted principles and ez for
men We come eZ near nothin ez possible
under the circumstances. Troo, he is a
high protective tariff man, wich don't
suite Elder Pennibacker, but the Elder
must remember that the versateel. Hor-
ri. is willin, eff we will support him, to
treat that ishoo ez one to be settled by
the people elsewhere He wuz an op-
pressor Nv the South Kernel McPelter
wood say. Troo, he wuz at times, and
then agin at times he wuZn't. i
hev wacht the great and good Greeley
closely for mauy years. There amt no
question that now remember Nv Except
slavery and the price Nv the Moo York
Weekly TriLoon,) that he amt been on
both sides Nv dozen times. Like the
intoxicated indivijuel who coodent git in
bed coz the room wuz whirlin round, and
who determined, finally, to lay still and
waite till the bed come rond to him, all
that eny question hez to do is to stay still
and Horris is certain to come round to it,
He bleeved slavery wuz unconstitushnel
and yet was for payin the nigger owners
for the nigger. He defended John
Browns raid and opposed secesshun.-
Then Immediately thereafter he favored
succession, then insisted on war agin us
for secediD, then urged the Federal hire.
Inns on to Richmond ; then tried to patch
up a peace with us. He bez bin Radi-
cal and Conservative Fourierite and
a believer ia bran bread. He opposed
Taylor and supported him he supported
LiDkin and opposed him in short he hez
bin on all sides Nv all questions-one
side to day and other to morrow, and very
frekently both at the same time. In short
/ don't know Nv nothin that he hezen't
bin, and cant imagine nothn that be
amt extremely likely to be. | read his
rekord yesterday, and wuz wuss tore up
in my mind than ez tho he'd bin on
drunk for a week / never knowd more
confusin or intoxicatin readin."
But" said Deekin Pogram, "are We
Dimocrats to be compelled to vote for
sich bundle Nv contradicshuns 7"
"My aged friend" | replied. blandly,
"wood 700 like to receive from me the tri
fin sum Nv one hundred aud eighty dol
lars, which | owe you? Wood Bascom ?
Wood"
From every indivijuel in that awjence
there came up like the roar Nv torrent,
"Yesw ~
On the question Nv payiu my debts the
people at the Corners are singerly yoo
nanimous.
"My brethrin, the way to my liquidatin
is Post Offs, and Post Offs only. Eff |
wuz in my old place now okkupied by