Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-28
NO. 1877
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Mr.. NAsBY AT HoME-TnE CORNERS Fl.
NALLY BRorGHT TO THE SUPPORT OF
GREELEY.
CoNFEDRIr x ROADS,
! (wich is in the State NV Kentucky
May 8, 1872.
| l he'd severe time NV it at the Corners.
gettin our people to consent to takin the
great and good Horris Greeley to ther
buzzums, and embracin Nv him the same
ez tho he he'd bin Breckenridge, Hoffman.
or some sich man, wich they he'd bin more
familyer with. 1t took four day uy per.
sistent swearin afore I Good convince EN-
that he'd any idee NV supportin a man
which they he'd heerd me denounce ez the
vilest Ablishen despot on earth, thousand
times. Alas! they don't know the full
elastissity Nv the Democratic mind.
called meetin, and give em an ac-
count NV my stewardship at Cincinnati.
commenst my remarks by sayin that
went to Cincinnati with view NV nomi-
natin that sterlin patriot, Judge Davis,
who. tho in offs ez Repnblikin, hezn't
cnuff Republikinism about him to hurt him
or that other sterlin patriot Charles Fran
els Adams, the son Of John Quincy Adams,
but wich hezn't anything NV the Adams
about him but the name. 1t wuz gath
erin NV the people, not an offis-holders
convenshun; and that wuz what wuz the
matter with us. Not one NV the delegates
held Government posishen, and not one
NV us he'd any chance nv gettin one under
Grant. Grant be id" wuz the cry in
chorus. "tiive us andbedy else.'
| contest, tho. wuz somewhat disap-
pointed. The Convenshen he'd throwd Oft
on Adams and Davis and nominated Gree
ley.
Hang him = shouted the people. II
kin lick any man in minute, who asks
me to vote for him !" shouted kernal Me-
Pelter
paid no attention to these compliments.
II he'd no idee NV even supportin him,
and wuz glad NV his nominashen only ez
believed he would draw off enuff Repub-
likin votes to enable us to elect a sound
Constitooshnel Democrat"
"Ihats wat we want-a sound Consti-
tooshnel Democrat y yelled Kernel Nc
Pelter, late NV the Confederit seryis.
''But hev notist that the great majority
NV the Demokratic papers-U kin read.
my brethren, and hev that advantage over
yoo) o)-insist on adopting him at our Con-
venshun, and eff so, he is our candidate.
Wen see him"
"Hold! :" sed quickly, mo good Dem
okrat kin bolt reglar nominashen, and
after all Horris is not the wust one we kin
hev. Our motto wuz Principles, not men,
We carried it out to the letter. We adopt
ed principles; and ez for men, we come
ez near nothin eZ possible, under the cir
cumstances. TroO, he is high protec-
tive tariff man, wich don't SCOT Elder PEN
nibacker, but the Elder must remember
that the versateel Horris is willn, eff we
will support him, to treat that ishoo ez
one to be settled by the people elsewhere.
lie wuz an oppressor NV the South Kernel
McPelter would say. Troo he wuz at
times, and then again at times he wusnt.
hev wacht the great and good Greeley
very closely for many years. There amt
no question that now remember NV (ex-
cept slavery and the price Nv the New
York Weekly TriboOn), that he amt bin on
both sides IVA dozen times. Like the intoxi-
Gated individjuel who coodent git into bed
COZ the room was whirlin round, and who
determined finally, to lay still and wait
till the bed come round to him, all that
any question hez got to do is to lay still
and Horris is certain to come round to it,
lie beeved slavery wuZ uncOnstOoshnel
and yet wuz for payin the nigger owners
for the nigger He defended John Browns
raid and opposed secession. Then imme-
! jitly thereafter he favored secession. then
insisted on war agin US for secedin, then
urged the Federal hirelins on to Richmond,
then tried to patch up Il peace with us.
He hez bin radical and Il conservative,
Fourierite and a believer in bran bread.
He opposed Taylor and supported him;
he supported Linkin and opposed him. In
short, he hez bin on all sides NV all ques-
tions-one side to-day, and tother to-mor-
row, and very frekently both at the same.
time. In short, | don't know NV nothn that
he hcz mt bin, and cant imagine nothin that
he aint extremely likely to be. read his
record yesterday and wuz wuss tore up in
my mind than ez tho he'd bin on drunk
for u week. never knowd more confu-
sin or intoNicatin readin.'
but" said Deekin Pogram, are we
dimocrats to be compelled to vote for sich
n bundle NV contradiks kshens? ?''
"My aged friend" replied blandly,
''Wood 700 like to receive from me the
trifin sum NV one hundred and eighty
dollars, wch owe yoo? Wood BascOm?
wood"
From every individual in that awjence
there came up like the roar NV torrent
"Yes!n
On the question NV my payin my debts
the Corners is singnlarly yoonanimous.
MY brethren, the way to my liquida-
tin is Post Offs, and Post Offs only. Ell
| wuz in my old place, now okkepied by
that disgustin nigger, Lubbock, yoo wood
hev at least a chance for yoor money Ell
the great and good Greeley is elected that
nigger goes out, and go in. Pollock
goes ont NV the Collectors Offs, and in
goes Issaker Gavitt or Kernel McPelter.
Watkins, the nigger Assessor woodent be
allowed to hold his place mint, and that
saint, Deekin Pogram, or that other saint,
Elder Pennebacker wood be immejetly
installed, and"
| ("Hear. hear" from lssaker Gavitt,
Elder Pennibacker, McPelter and Pogram
Kernel McPelter earnestly lickin man
who INDUCED in lafter)
In short, my brethren, we want the
offisis. We hev been eatin grass like
Nebnchadnezzar. sence 1860, with the