The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-06-20
[From the Toledo Blade.]

| From the Toledo Blade
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
witch Is in the State NV Kentucky z
May Sth, 1872
| I he'd. a severe time NV it at the Cor
ners gittin our pepel to consent to takin
the great and good Horace Greeley to
| Their buzzums, and embracin NY him the
same ez thong he he'd bin Breckenridge,
| Hoffman, or some SIGH man, witch they
he'd bin more familyer with. 1t took four
days Nv persistent swearin afore [ Good
| convince EN- that [ he'd any idee Nv sup
portin a man witch they he'd heerd me
| denounce ez the vilest Ablishen despot
on earth, thousand times. Alas! they
| dent know the full elastissity Nv the
Democratic mind.
[ called meetin, and give EN- an &C
count Nv my stewardship at Cincinnati.
I commenst my remarks by sayin that
| [ went to Cincinnati with a view NV nom
inatin that sterlin patriot, Judge Davis
who, tho in offs ez a Republican, hezn't
| enuff Republikinism about him to hurt
him, or that other sterlin patriot, Chas.
| Francis Adams, the son Nv John Quincy
Adams, but witch hezn't anything Nv the
Adams about him but the name. Itwu1
gatherin Nv the people. not an offs
holders convenshen and that wuz wa
WIZ the matter with us. Not one Nv the
delegates held a government posishen
and not one Nv us he'd any chance u1
gettin one under Grant.
sGrant be- DID," wuz the cry il
chorus.
"Give us ennybody else
I contest. tho I wuz somewat disap
pinted. The convenshen he'd thrown of
on Adams and Davis and nominatedGree
ley.
| 'Hang him." shouted the people, g
kin lick emmy man in INFINITE, who ask
me to vote for him ~ shouted Kerne
McPelter.
| paid no attenshun to these compli
ments.
Il he'd no idee Nv even supportin hin
and wuz glad NV his nominashen only e.
| [ believed he wood draw enuff Republi
kin votes to enable US to elect sount
Constitooshnel Democrat
That's wat we want-a sound Con
stitooshnel Democrat II yelled Kerne
McPelter, late of the Confederit seryis.
"But l hev notist that the great ma
jority Nv the Democratic papers-Q XII
read my brethren, and hev that advan
tage over yoo)-insist on adoptin him a
our Convenshun and eff so, he is our can
| didate.''
well see him
Hold u sed I quickly, ''No goot
Democrat kin bolt reglar nominashen
aud after all Horris is not the wnst on,
we kin heV. Our motto wuz principles
not men, We Aarried it out to the let
ter. We adopted principles and ez flu
men, we come ez near nothin ez possible
under the circumstances. Troo, he is
hi rrotecktiv tariff man, witch don't 500
Elder Pennibaker, but the Elder mus
remember that the versateel, Horris- i
willin, eff we will support him, to trea
that ishoo ez one to be settled by tn,
people elsewhere. He wuz an oppresse
Nv the South, Kernel NlcPelter Woo
say. Troo, he wuz at times, and thel
again at times he wuzen't. I hev wach
the great and good Greeley very closel,
for many years. There amt no question
that | now remember NV, Except SLAYER,
! and the price NV the Moo York Weekly
Triboou,) that he amt bin on both side
NY dozen times. Like the intoxicated
individual who coodn't git into bed CO.
the room wuz whirlin round. and VIII,
determined, finally, to lay still and wal
till the bed come round to him, all tina
any question hez cot to do is to stay still
and Horris is certain to come round to it
He bleeYed slavery WIZ unconstitushne
and yet wuz for payin the niger owner
for the niger. He defended Johr
Browns raid and opposed secession.
Then immejitly thereafter he favored Sc
cession, then insisted on war agin us 70
| seceedin, and urged the Fedrel hirelin
on to Richmond; then tried to patch u,
a peace with US. He hez been RadIca
and Conservative Fourierite and :
believer 10 bran bread; he opposed Tay
lor and supported him; he supported
Llnkin and opposed him; in short, hi
hez bin on all sides Nv all sides Nv al
questlens-one side to-day, and tothel
tomorrow, ana very frequently both a
the same time. In short, / don't know
Nv nothin that he hazn't bin, and can
imagine nothin that be amt extremely
likely to be. read bis record yesterday
and Wuz Wuss tore up in my mind ther
ez tho | he'd bin on drunk for week
L never knowd more confusin or intoxi
catin rcadin.
But, sed Deekin Pogram, s'are VIC
Dimocrats to be compelled to vote fol
SIGH bundle Nv contradickshens2
MY aged FRIEND" replied blandl,
wood 700 like to receive from. me the
triaing sum Nv one hundred and eighty
dollars, wich l owe yoo2 Wood Baseom (
| Wood
From every Individual in that awience
there came up like the roar of torrent
''Yest"
| On the question w my payin my debts
the Corners are singularly yoonamous.
My brethren the way to my liquida
ton Is Post Drifts, and Post Drifts only.
1T | wuz in my old place now okkepied