Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-06-05

Dimocrats to be compelled to vote for sch
bundle NV contradickshuns -
My aged FRIEND" | replied blandIy,
a. wood 700 like to receive from me the tri-
Hin sum Nv one hundred and eighty dol
lars, wich | owe you? Wood Bascom
Wood"
From every indivijuel in that awjence
there came up like the roar Nv torrent,
" Yes ~"
On the question ov nay payin my debts
the Corners is singery yoonanimous.
My brethren the way to my liquidatin
is Post Orifs, and Post Orifs, only Ef
wuz in my old place now okkepied by that
distin niger, Lubbock, 700 wood hev at
least a chance for yoor money. Et the
great and good Greely is elected THAT
NIGER GOES OUT, AND GO IN. Pol
lock goes out Nv the Collectors and in
goes Issaker Gavitt or Kernel McPelter
Watkins, the niger Assessor woodent be
allowed to hold his place a mint, and that
saint Deekin Pogram, or that other saint
Elder Pennebacker wood be immeiitly in
stalled, and"
" Hear hear from Issaker Gavit.,
Elder PenneDacker, McPelter and Pogram
Kernel McPelyer earnestly Hckin a
man who INDUCED in LATTER
" In short, my brethren, We want the
| offs. We hey bin eatin grass, like Neb
uchadnezlar, since 1860, with the excep-
tion Of johnson blessed years and Pha-
raoh's lean kline amt nothing TO US. We
hunger and thirst for em. Uy course, Ia
ruther cit my place back agin thro Breck-
inridge, but ruther than not hev it, Ia
take 1t from Wendell Phillips hisself Et
/ Greeley Is necessary 20 gittin them | 20
Greeley lie may shift ez fast ez he
pleases. | kin follow him. Put that Post
/ Orltfs in front Nv me aud eff he kin shift
faster than | kin, hev overestimated my
powers in that line And we she'll git tho
oths under him. lie will insist upon quail
4 lfcashens strenuously, but he Eez his own
standard. He believes that them who ad-
mire Horris Greeley are, ex ofisho, tit for
/ any place under any government, and
/ them who don't aint wuth q d-n for any
thing. | am talented al admirin sich men
/ am.
P0gram, Peuuibacker, McPelter and
lsSaker Gavitt wuz entirely convinced, but
there wuz still murmer' n among the others.
d" You idiots, sed l, sternly, d" Is Grant
a Republican
" tie Is he Is
Hev yoo, ez Democrats. anything to
expect from him
We havn't?" they replied
DO yoo knoow the pekoolyarities NV
the great and good Horris ? We know
wat he Is to-day; we know wat he wuz
| yesterday aud sich uv VOC e kin read
plain print and write without runnin your
tongues out kin assertaine wat he wuz
before that. Wat he hez been VOC know,
| but wat be will de only the Almity, who
/ knows al. things, Kin tell, and no one else
| Jut hlSse.t >upp0ses be Is uv sutlent ac-
count 10 Doe made the subject ov prophecy.
/ We are certin NV q Republican eff Grant
is eIccted-we may hev a Bepub.Ikin or a
| Demokrat cf Greeley succeeds. Its an
even chance where be lites, with the per
cent r. our favor for NV course the Re
publikius viii make fun NV him, wich Is
the only thing he never torgives. Ez an
uncertainty l. better for Us than Ger
tainty, ran for Greeley
They wuz conyinst and immejitly Gree
! ley Club was organized In Cincinnati
! | bed embarked IN speSulashun. [ he'd
twenty dollars left from the money | he'd
/ borrowed NV Judge Dayis's committee,
and invested em in fifty white hats Nv al
ancient pattern, expectin to sell EN- 10 the
Greedy Club, wich l intended to organize,
al say SI50 each After the club was
| organized | stated to EN- ;hat the Yooniform
must be the style OF dress NV our beloved
chief. a white hat aud the left pantaloons
leg on the top NV the boot leg, and that
he'd -eko0red white hats enotf to supply
the crowd. Here a difficulty okkurred. IN
the entire party there wuzn't a pair NV
panta Icons which want worn off at least
three inches above where a boot top wood
be, and it bean warm weather. the auience
wuz all barefooted. However, they took,
the hats readily, aud stasbened myself
at a table 10 receive the cash for en- A
poi Nv fifty five dollars wuzn't so bad.
Alas how human hopes are blighted
| Bascom sed he'd take them hats, collect
the money for en- and credit me on account
and he did it. | didn't yet dollar NV
| it
l swallowed it ez best | mite. tor il ain t
no good to make row about it. Nc one
in ia Corners kin oppose Bascom. for he
heL all the likker there Is. But we he'd a
iolli6eation over the organization. 1t wuz
cheerin site to see fifty men all in Gree
ley white hats drinkin the health Nv the
great Horris in Bascam's new whisky 1t
wuz a cheerin site TO see the zeal with
wich the admirers Nv the white coated
philanthropist, all IN white hats, went
for sich niggers ez they found in the streats
that mite | don't despair Nv seein mig
gers fiogged under them white hats
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