Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-17

MIR. Massey GOES FORWARD TO ARRANGE
HIS EXPERIENCE-HIs CONCLUSIONS AS TO
THE PROFITS OF THE TOUR.
CHAPPAQUA.
(Which Is in the State Nv Moo York,
Sept. %, 1872.
/ am here safe at Chappaqua, and i am
glad NV it. don't live here ez high ez did
on the road, but to offset that, hevn't the
grindin anxieties. And things is better here
than at first. / wuZ, at the first, terribly
afraid NV Greeley's intense temperance prin-
ciples, and wuz afeerd to take drink in his
presens, but his posishen on ikker is modi-
fed, the same ez it is on the tariff. He sez
he is an infiexible temperance man yet, but
he is willin that it shell be left to the people
NV the Congressional deestriks. "Yoo are
Nv the people," sed he, land the question
hez not bin passed upon" l drink, there
fore, with freedom.
AT the time left the party at Pittsburgh,
it wu8 decided that we shood visit the In
dustrel Exposishen at Cincinnati, the same
at Louisville, and return thence quietly and
unostentashusly by the way nv Nashville,
Memphis, st. Loois, indianapolis, Cleveland,
and thence thro Pennsylvany. Our toor be-
In one Nv observashen Nv industry, we pro-
posed to go quietly, and without regard to
politikel effect. The great and good Greeley
ley is opposed to candidates goin about seek
Ing ovashens, and making speeches for votes,
from pallis cars, ez the tyrant and despot
Grant does.
Ez our route lay thro the Cross Roads, /
felt it q dooty owed the party NV Peace and
Reconciliashen to 90 ahead and prepare the
way. / hastened to Louisville, and from
there struck south. notified the Dimocrisy
NV every stashen wat to do, reservin the
Cross Roads for my own hands.
found my little flock in condishun to do
anything / wanted en-. We raked over the
rooins of the nigger skool house wich he'd
bin burnt one night, six weeks ago, and sod
ded the place all over nicely. The post on
wi nod n in in rh hob nv hanuiu MIR
gers, we sawed off, and white washed it, con-
vertin it into a most bland, innocent and
conciliatory hitchin post, and we positively
forbid any Nv our people from offer;n any in
dignity to our Northern fellow citizens till
after the Presidenshel cavalcade he'd passed
thro.
So much for the Cross Roads. Now the
pint wuZ to git up proper conciliatory spec
tacle to greet the sage at the depot at Seces-
sionville, our railroad stashen. / he'd the
Confedrit flags all taken down and Union
flags put in their places. The depot happen
ed to be the place Nv meeting of our Ku-klux,
and he'd the masks and sich taken out and
put in a safe place, so that eff we fail politi-
kally they kin be where they kin be got at
imegitly agin, and made sich other changes
ez sejested therselves to muskeler intellect
to put the place in shape for an impressive
scene when the PresideHshel train shood
pass. i he'd a tablo arranged. Ihired four
niggers at So piece, to stand on the plat
form in an attitood, with lssaker Gavitt,
Kernal McPelter, Bascom, and Deekin Po-
gram a claspin hands with EN-, while solem-
ly waved the Star-Spangled Banner over EN-,
smilin sweetly over the calm and peaceful
condishen of things.
The day arrived, and the nlggers and our
men were promptly on hand. The toot NV
the engine wuz heard in the cut above the
stashen, and the tablo wuz organized. he'd
EN- in a semicircle, / stsndin Jest behind EN-,
with Mclissy Pogram and several NV our
young ladies jest back Nv me on benches
smilin approvinly. 1t wuZ a techin tablo.
The train came in, and ez 1t stopped, yelled,
"Three cheers for Horris Greeley, the great
Pacifcator I"
"Wat in thunder is this all about?" sed
the conductor.
"Where is Greeley?'' demanded, a cold
sweat breakin out all over me.
"He changed hiz mind and went to In
dianapolis," sed the conductor.
"Aint he aboard the train ?" demanded
Issaker.
"NoIn
"Nor none Nv hiz partys"
"No"
"Take that, you black cuss," sed Issaker,
strikn hiz colored friend with whom he had
been bin claspin hands, a blow wich wood
hev felled a mule. "Take that d-n 700.
If Greeley amt comm things is precisely ez
they wuz."
And Dee kin Pogram, seezin the flag out Nv
the staff, and afore i could prevent 1t, them
four unfortunit colored brethren wuz pum-
meled out NV all semblance to ther natrel
selves. Their blood wuZ up, and coodent
control EN-. Immejitly the old Confedrit
flags wuz replaced, the Ku-Klux material
wuz put back in its place, and Bascom wrote
me that they made it warm that night for
the niggers up towards Garrettsville. 1t wuz
a most disastrous day for the coz.
But don't know that 1t wuz any worse
there than it wuz all along the route. we
he'd half dozen Nv Moo York importers on
board the train, and we dassent talk tariff in
Pennsylvany for fear Nv offendin them, tho
he druv them off the train before he got to
Pittsburg by aboosin ther free trade ideas,
and holdin up the benefits NV proteckshen To
EN-. Comm into Pittsburgh, the Great
Paciicator wuz a readin Nv the Convenshen
NV soljers then in session in that city, and
the resolooshens they passed to support
Grant, and he become enraged and consekent
| ly muddled. In that condishen he got oil {
| porshen Nv a speech wich he had prepared tc
yoose in Kentucky, aboosin the soliery anC
| SIGH In Cincinnati he denied wat he sed in
| Pittsburgh, wich wood hev bin well eff il
| wuznt for the cussed telegraph and tn,
| shorthand reporters, on whose heads rest
| cusses. In Louisville he busted the entir'
North, and in Jeffersonville he went back OF
his anti-slavery noshens, wichis wat we tool
him up for, and in Easton, Pa, he he'd thu
Internal indiscreshen to go back on his pro
tecshen idees, without wich we are helpless
in Pennsylvany.
q am nothin if not akkriD we stand abou
| ez follows:
/. Talkin protecshun to the free-traders
he hez driven them off.
9. Talkin, publicly, free trade to the pro
tecshurists, he heZ driven them OF.
8. Talkin aboose to the solgers at Pitts
burgh, he hez driven them off.
4. Talkin about the possibility Nv his anti
slavery idees bein a mistake, at Jefferson
vile, to Abolitionists, he hez driven then
off.
5. Not being practiced drinker hisself
among the conviyialists, he hez driven then
off.
9. Hevin me with him, and shown my nos
into the face Nv the temperance people, h
hez driven them of.
In short. all he hez left is my pekoolye
friends in the South, and the old and stanc
Copperneads in the North. He haint don
nothin to offend them yet, but l am expecti
every mint that he will say suthln to driv
them of. / he'd wunst great idee NV Gree
lev, but that's all gone. His pride is that
Is a self-made man, and come from nothn.
think he did, and the result is exactly wa
mite be expected from the commencement
| never agin will attach myself to talki
candidate. The tongue is an unruly men
her and its friction makes a consoomin tir,
still hurrah for Greeley, for / git thre
square meals day with him, but the pro
peck NV ever gittin into that Post Offs grow
DINNER and DINNER. / aint encourages
The great and good Greeley feels safe becC
the people turned out to see him at stashen
/ but good heavens, don't the ancient innocel
know that two-headed calf alluz draws Il
biggest crowdsg Men go miles to see a mo-
, strosity, when they wouldn't go rod to s,
{ handsome ApolloliRe man like mysel
: I'm sick and weary NV life, and wish WI
: a nun. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY
5 (Which wuz Postmaster, and wants to be agin