Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-02
CONFEDRIT x ROADS,
(WICH Is IN THE STATE wv KENTUCKY,)

CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(WICH IN THE STATE wv Kentucky
April II, 1872. J
I hev at last succeeded in so arranging my
sublunary matters to be totally shoor nv
reglar subsistence, till the triumph Nv the
bolten Republicans and the Democrisy give
me back the Post office Nv wich the butcher
Grant deprived me. Bascom and / hev come
to an understandin. He agrees to say moth
in more about wat owe him till after git my
place back agin (when agree to pay it in full),
and in the meantime / agree to stand regler
ly at his bar, from seven in the mornin to
twelve at mite, and accept invitashens to
drink, he payin me two cents on each invi-
tashen for witch cash is paid, and one cent
where the party tells him to "jest mark it
down." The amount / shell make will de-
pend, Nv course, on the power Nv endoor
ance Nv my bowels. Yesterday made enuff
to pay for wat likker I needed in the slack
times Nv the day, and also to buy one square
meal, witch satisfies me.
We determined two weeks ago to cast our
lot with the liberal reform movement inog-
gerated in the Republican party by those
great good men Horris Greeley, Carl Schurz
and Trumbull. The Dimocrisy Nv the Ger
ners feel keenly the need of a thorough,
sweepin, radical reform in the administra-
shen Nv the Government. We feel that cor
rupshen, violence, brootality and tyranny
hev held sway too long, and we hail gladly
any prospeck Nv releef. Here, in the heart
Nv Kentucky. niger is Postmaster while
L am pickln up precarious subsistence ez
best may, dependln on chance lnvltashens
to drink for a livelihood. Pollock, an Illinoy
interloper, sells goods and collects the rev
enue in perfect sekoority, with that disturber
Bigler, ez his deputy, while nigger assesses
onto us unconstooshnel taxes. Two hun
dred nigger families up toards Garrettstown
are livin on land wich wuz wrestid from the
aristocracy NV this seckshen, mockin us by
wearin clothes sich ez wich we can't afford,
and endangerin our instooshens with
schools and meetin houses in which heresies
Nv the most alarmin nacher is taught and
preached. Troo, that land wuz bought, and
paid for, but for its sale the tyrannical Gov
ernment is nevertheless responsible. He'd it
not been for the unconstooshnel war waged
onto US, there never wood hev bin no neces-
sity for sellin it, and there wood hev bin no
free niggers to buy it.
received from Tweed NV Moo York, a ac-
count NV the great Liberal Republican meet
in held in Cooper Instoot in that city on the
18th inst, wich Greeley got up for Schurs
and Trumbull, with the Napoleonic injunc-
ton at the bottom, "do likewise" / to
wunst called together the faithful and in
structed them in the new deparcher, and ez
to the methods Nv gittin at it.
EZ matter Nv course the first step wuz
to hev meetin Nv the Liberal Reform Re-
publikins, that noble army who is opposed
to the corrupshens now pervadin all the de-
partments Nv the Government, ez well ez to
the centralizashen Nv power aimed at by
those now in power, and we determined at
that meetin to not only enunciate our princi-
pies but to nominate county ticket. The
call WIZ circulated by Deekin Pogram and
Kernel McPelter, and wuZ signed by all Nv
the citizens Nv the corners who kin write, ex
cept Pollock, the Illinoy store-keeper, Joe
Bigler, Lubbock, the nigger Postmaster and
Watkins the nigger Assessor.
The meetin wuz one Nv the most enthoosi-
astic l ever presided over. The meetin house
wuz decorated with sIch banners ez we hev.
1t wuz, NV course, Republican meetin, but
the fact that they were Confederit flags and
the Seymore and Blair banners Nv the last
campane, didn't seem singler or strange. In
addishun to these, we he'd hung about the
walls in conspicuous places, portrates wich
he'd bin painted for Lee, Boregard and
Breckinridge, but we simply changed the
names under em to Greeley, Schurz and
TrEmbull, and they ansered the purpose jst
eZ well.
Ipresided Nv course, and the rest NV the
citizens present wuz made Vice Presidents
and Secretaries The preliminaries hevin
ben gone thro with, Ireported the following
declarashun of principles:
ResolUed, That any attempt to convert this Re-
public into an absloot monarchy, with hereditary
Emperor and titled nobility, shood be severely
and is hereby frowned down.
ResolUed, That public offices are, or should be
created Tor pubic convenience and not rewards
for partisan service, and that therefore, the ack-
shen the Administration in removin the Assess
or, Collector and Postmaster NV Confedrit Roads,
who wanted the places and who he'd them, and
appintin in their stead men who hednt the places,
but who did vote for the present President,
wuz act wich can't be too severely frowned
upon.
ResolUed, That the triumph Nv Republican prin-
ciples is of paramount importance to the country,
and that therefore pledge to Messrs. Greeley,
Schurz and Trumbull our corjel co-operashun in
their laudable efert to bust Grant and the Repub-
likn party. Stipulatin, course that in the new
deal there shell be fair divide of the plunder
among all concerned.
Resotued, That the prosperity NV the country de-
Hands, thorough, radical and imejit change in all
| departments the public service-specifyin per-
nkeleriy the posishens Assessor, Collector and
fostmaster at the Corners, which places wuz taken
from the honored chairman Nv this meetin Kernel
Mcfelter and lssaker Gavtt and given to two mig
| gers and an Ablishen interioper 80
| ResOlUed That on the minor question NV tariff
banks, payment Nv the debt, and SIGH it aint hes
| to express any pcrtikeler opinion, allowin each
| man to hold his own, if he kin. We welcome
and Proteckshun, Wells and Free Trade, Schurz
and Amnesty, Trumbull and Perlitikle Disability
| and everybody else who desires Reform by beat,n
Grant, with watever assorted cargo NV principle.
| they may happen to be loaded with.
| At this pint Pollock, Bigler, Lubbock
| Watkins, and a dozen or more Nv the Repub
| likins Nv the Corners made their appearance
and demanded the rite Nv participatin in the
proceedins. We mildly but firmly denied
this rekest.
"Isn't this Republican meetin?" asked
| Pollock.
at is" responded
"Wen, then" sed Pollock, "why shan't ]
| participate? wuz delegate to the Pitts
burg convenshen wich organized the party
| voted for Fremont, for Linkin twice, and
! explained to the misguided man that