Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-16

"a
KIND nv circumstances. It .wuz NV neces-
sisy one thing IN one place, and another in
anothof 30St e8 the pekooliar pekoolari-
ties Nv the people manifested themselves.
II the people Nv certain locality wants
one pertikeier line NV polisy, it is the biz
ness NV, the Dimocrisy to promise it-ef
anothef seckshen desires line nv polisy
precisely To opposite, why the Democrisy
must promise that also. Sich proceedins
will, know, make combinashens NV a
rather startlin character. 1t is staggerer
to gee Our friend Nasty defendin Niger
votin, but hey hopes NV seein Tweed,
and Sweeney, and Schurx and Greeley ali
q workin together on platform Nv oppo.
sishen to c0rrupshen. When success has
crowned our efforts--when there is Dim.
Ocrat in the place of the butcher Grant, a
Dimocrat Congress and Dimocratic Legis-
lachersp and SIGH, then--well, let the
fuchsf dare for herself. The pint now is
success But, he resoomed, comm to
things practikle, s.take another drink"
Itook it, witch made nearly gallon
that he'd absorbed. Nv course l con-
sentid to indorse the platform, adopted by
the convenshen, and commenst my work
the next evenin. My first appointment
wux in sekloodid village, in witch the
Dimocrisy are largely in the majority, and
Consistently are more enthusiastic and
aggressive than they are where they are
weaker. he'd large meeting, and it
ought to hev bin q success, but they
hadn't read the platform and knowd moth
in nv 1t. he'd 1t afore me. and opened
with vigorous eulogy Nv Emancipashen,
and wuz follerin Nv it up, insistin that
the conferin NV the ballot on the nigger
wuz most just and proper thing to do,
when wuz greetid with storm NV Kisses.
Hist the cussed Ablishnist off the
stand y shreeked the enraged masses.
N"Kih the nigger-lover shouted q
skore.
And the Chairman NV the meetin, a
large and muscular man, did deliberately
seeze me by the cote collar and lead me
to the front NV the stage. and with one
well directed kick, shoot me into the very
middle nv the aujence, who fell upon and
beat me in the most brootal manner.
Some ablishnists took care Nv me that mite
or shood hev died. They he'd heerd my
speech, ez far ex got with it. and said to
me that the idea Nv a radikle gettin into
the Dimocratic came the way had done
wux D bold one, bat rather resky.
sought out the Dimocrisy the nexi
mornin and showed EN- my credenshels
They recognized the signatoors Wv tn,
committee, and were within enuff to admi
their genooineness, but they insisted tina
Iwuz either drunk or crazy TO talk sicl
talk Al Dimocratic meetin, and advised
me to git out nv that ez soon ez conven
lent
did it. shell go back to Kentuck,
immejitly. don't like the way things i.
fixed in Connecticut. and I'll none NV it
When man, sent out by Dimocratit
committee, and talkin from the platform
adopted by the Dimocratic Convenshun
comes out nv Dimocratic meetin one
mass of livid brooses and drencht will
goar, Il IS time that suthin be did Sicl
things don't happin at the Corners. ant
there ] shell go, leavin Connecticut TO he
fate. ! hev learned tho, exactly tn
amount Of whisky nessary to bring a Ken
lucky Dimocrat to the level Nv his Cor
necticut brethren. One gallon and pei
haps . pint, unwatered, Is the precis
quantity. PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
a.as shs (Which wuz Postmaster.)