New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-03

minutes was in the souare, in front Nv Bascoms.
Wot site met my eyes! There waz Deek'n
Pogram bearin' an effgy Nv Greeley, Bascom,
Issaker Gavitt, and young Penn!backer had all
the Greeley campane banners ana slch, ana the
entire Corners wuz marchin' in percesslon to a
bonfire, wich they proposed to burn an TINS
paraphenalia amid wild shouts Nv Rah Tor
U'Conor! They sposed the old and ancient
Democracy he'd riz and asserted herself and their
Democratic iustinks riz likewise. The perces-
sion happenin' to notice Niger or TWO wren
curiosity he'd attracted to the show, 1t went Tor
EN-, and the work weeks wuz undun IN
mint. Instead NV treatin them niggers eZ men
and bre.hren,' they knock down two NV EN- and
he'd one strung up to a tree. rushed INTO the
throng ez strong ship Bullets the waves; l
cleaved my way through the excited crowd and
cut that niger down.
go back!' yelled in voice NV authority;
'Deekin Pogram, hist that eftigy Nv the good
and great Greeley up and saloot it. Bascom,
unfuri them banners with the sainted names NV
Greeley and Prown, and chuck in that lire the
| O'COnor banner which now insults the tree AIR
Nv Kentucky. 700 hev been misled. o Conor
is not the Democratic candidate, but Greeley is
| Now, every man TT 700. Three cheers for Hor-
ris Greely!"
For the frst time in D,y life words avaIed me
nothin at the Corners. Bascom remarked that
he he'd hurrahed for RI. Greeley jist ez long ez
he proposed to. and Deekn Pogram swore that
he hedn't he'd mites sleep sence he acted at
tthe Greeley ratification meeun, and he hed
| list ez much of it e2 he wanted in hizen, and
brushin me one side they reformed in perces-
sion aud was going on to consummate their pur'
pose.
MEN and brethren" shreekt, Eye knew
not wat 700 do. Horris Greeley is
"ls watt" asked Bascom, lis he dino,
crat? will he pay the contederit debt NV wlch
hold three bushels? will he pay for the horses
the fedras stole? will he pay for the niggers
Linkin robbed us NV? will he
| determined to hold nay trump, which wCz tc
ashoor them that Horris wuz all that they want
it him to be, and wood DO all that they wantit
him to do, when just ez he'd got ont the word:
s.Horris Greeley is" that cuss Joe Bigler anC
Pollock hove in sight with every Niger in the
Corners, incloodn al! NV them which hat
been workin with before went to Chappaqua
to convince them that Horris was the same Ole
ablishnis he auz wuz, and that it wuz the De
mocrisy which he'd changed
swat is Horris Greeley aSkt Joe with
hellish leer on his face. Me and my friend
here want to know. Go on, parson, go on.'
l coodent go on and he knowed it. Eff satis
, fed my friends | wuZ certain to MORALLY offen
hizzen, and vice vercey 1t wuz death in an
event. and so after abusn Grant for appointin
, all his relatives to offs managed to get tn
, meetin adjourned, and the people dispersed
Our folks refoose to support Greeley at an
price, aud Pollock and Bigler hev got the mig
, gers and the northern settlers in solid body fO
Grant Ez the democratic vote will be divided
it woodent be at all singular eff they shood carr
the Corners. And then, even eft we elect Gree
{ ley, with what kind Nv face kin l ask for tn
post offs? Troubles is coming thick abo,
5 me- 1t is q terrible thing to hev to carry al
t lshnis, even eff he is deoderized, in SIGH con
e munty as ours. Wood OH wood. that WIZ
e republican. so that story wood do for all IL
y caiities and auinces.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
witch wuz postmaster, and witch hopes to
j. agin.)