Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-19

CHAPPAoUA, (wich is in the State uxl
Moo York, Aug. %, '72.
It WIZ determined br our resident
committee that it wood be joodishus
thing to do to hev the great and good
| Greeley to go on toor thro the States
NV New Hampshire and Maine, to en-
courage the week, and to sekOor the
-vassilation in those Statee. opposed
lit, ez he'd some experience with trips,
hevin accompanied the immortal John
son on all NV hizzen. wuz overrooled,
but they conceded to me the arrange
meBt NV the tOor, tho they took con
troll NV the great and good man from
the start to IFS concloosion. They
insisted that it wood hev two good
effects: 1st, We should dodge the
frekent delegashums wich affiict us at
Chappaqua; and, 2nd, That the exhi
bition av Horris wood hev a good af
feck on the rooral populis. yieldid,
and set about fittin him for the journY
Ehed very difficult JOB to git the
philosopher mp properly for the occa-
sion. j. took Whetstun and rubbed
the inside NV hiz rite hand for hours,
till it perdoOsed sieh calious spots
onto it ez the most horny-handed
labrer in Vermont might be proud NV,
and instructed him that when shakin
hands with the yeomanry to grip hard,
that there mite be no mistake ez to
feelin them callous spots on hiz
labor hardened hands. I then he'd him
git out in the sun two hours each day,
with his face up turned, till it become
Drowned by exposure to the eiemenee
after wich he'd badly fttin SCOT ny
close made for him, that the people
mite feel that he he'd attempted to
dress up on their account. but that,
after all, he wuzn't accustomed to so
much grandyer.
Then came the most difficult part NV
!. the out-fttin biznis, wich wuz to in
struct him in wat he shood say, but
succeeded. 1 charged him espeshelly
that he shoOd never menshun poIlitix,
(ceptin that he mite now and then
howl mildly suthin about the era NV
good feelin, and should be speshely
keerful to dodge all them pints out nv
wich offence NIT come. "The toor"
remarkt sis to be one NV sentiment
We are on a pilgrimage to the tooms
Nv our ancestors-we are a goin to re
visit the scenes NV our child hood, ez
it were /; to revive remembrances Nv our
youthful days and sich, and it must be
confined strictly to that. I hev arran-
ged with our committees on the route
, to organize for a spontaneous out
pourin NV the people to receive 700,
and yoo must speek to EN- at each
stoppin-place. I wood recommend
that your responses to the greetins
= be mostly .alloosions to the grandyer
: Nv the mouDtins, and the purity NV the
air and water, and above all, don't for
git the mother biznis. Eff you Good
J ring in a verbal pikter NV yoor m other
yearnin for nOoze NV her absent son,
it wood hez a good effect. Yoo
needn'nt trOt out yoor father, foI
fathers is played out. It's the mother
that teches the popular heart. And
yoo must nit yoor eyes in condishen
to drop a sympathizin teer or two ei
occashen demands. 1 hev done good
. things before now, by weepin per-
loosely at the rite time. -
Thus prepared, the farmer states
man left the classic shades of Chap
paqua
The mint the procession he'd start
, ed onto its toor, I packt my valise
with bottle, and possibly a shirt OF
N two, (tbo / reely forgit about the lat.
ter, payin so little attenshun ez l do tc
the mere luxuries Nv life, and startet
:, for an interior village Nv Pennsyl
vany, where / made speech last year
and consistently knowed all the prin
IS ciple Democrats. l put up at the ole
familyer tavean, where the ticket
knowd to be good. / he'd barely timt
to hist in three of four slugs afore
of it wuz nois ed abroad that l waz there
In twenty minits a person appeared t.
interview me. He interdoost hissel
ez Mr.. Slodgers-a Liberal Repub
likin, who he'd determined to vote 70
Honest Old Horace. | askt him tC
drink, wich he did and then went on
He wuz disgusted with the corrup
ton and rascality Nv the Republican
party, and felt that he must leave it.
IL He wanted purity--he yarned for a re
turn to suthin beside office seekin.-
Hence, he he'd decided to supper
! Greeley. "But.' resumed he. Il he
made sacrifices in this, and must he
ashoorences. 1 wuz an unsuccessful
es, applicant for the Post Offs in this vii
A@lIAhlDS III 1CO4 bnCA
in 1865 I succeeded in gitten it u
johnson in 1866, when the incumben
s, wuz dismist, and held it till Apri
ne 1869, when the tyrant Grant dismisse
at me and re-pointed my predecessor,an
left me to languish all these year
IN without official position, and to sub
lat sist on the petty earnins Nv my wife
-. wich is milfiner. Eff Horris is elect
rm ed, kin hev that offs? kin contro
re- the Liberal vote NV this county, sir
as hold it in the holler Nv my hand"
''Say no more, SIR sed 81 full
appreciate yoor posishen. Wv cours
kin make no positive promise; bl
it is safe to say, sir, that the posishe
shell be yoors. But that Liberal R,
publiken vote, sir, must be all pollet
We shell hold yoo responsible for it
~ He left the presence profoose I
n. thanks, and took four more drink
hand run min.
Mr.. Slodgers hedn't any more tha
got out, when another citizen entere
and announced hisself ez a Libral r
publikan, wich his name wuz Perkins
He wanted to be understood, to b
gin with, ez holdin the Libral Repu
ng s likan vote in his hand. He Good CO.
low troll it. Without his aid nothin coo
me me be done with it. He created it, an
oi- he held it to-day. But he he'd mat
sacrifices. He he'd bin candidate Fl
C. Treasurer Nv the county reolerlv fro