The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-01-20
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Mr.. NASBY.
lie MAKES TOUR OF THE NORTH TO sEE
HOW MANY DIsGCsTED REPUBLICAN,
WOULD BE WILLING To JOIN THE PAS
sIyE DEMOCRACY.
CONFIDENT X ROADS,
witch is in the staff Nv Kentucky
December 90, 1871.
The hopelisness Nv electin a Dimekratie
President by Dimekrats alone wuz appa
rent to all the gigantic intelleks NV the
party, over year ago. A conference wu7
held in Moo York eighteen months ago
Tweed, Hall. Connolly, and Sweeny, repre-.
sentin Moo York, ME and Garrett Davis
representa- Kentucky. the Blairs represen.
tin Missouri. and so on. We decided then
that the Dimocrisy should appeal directly
to the people to yoonite with us to beat
Grant. Gen. John c. Breckenridge desired
that the issue be made fairly between
Grant and Despotism on the one hand, and
the People and Yoonyun on the other
Tweed liked that idea, but he desired to
add toit. He wanted the issue to be Grant,
Despotism, and Corrupshen on the one
hand, and the People, Yoonyunn, and
Purity on the other. That wuz wat Tweed
wantid. With SIGH ishoo ez that, he fell
that he Good go afore the people and make
SIGH fife ez he never made afere Gen.
Breckenridge accepted this amendment,
gladly. He felt that the corrupshen Nv the
present Administration, ez we'll ez its at
tacks upon constitooshnel liberty, he'd bin
a stencil in tho nostrils NV the people, in
wich opinion Mr.. Tweed conceded. 1t was
resolved there and then to make the fife in
this way and upon this basis, and the
meetin adjourned.
Some months after the conference, Mr.
Tweed, for obvius reasons, dropped out NV
the management Nv affairs, and the Dimoc.
risy was left, RELY, without head But
felt that the programme laid down wa.
the proper one, and determined to make
tour thro the Northern States to ascertain
how much strength we Good depend upon
gitten from the Republicans. l jist gol
home from that trip yesterday, and the
followin extrax from my diary will show
how successful the raid wuz:
Smithville, N. Y.-Found one man, ].
G., who was strongly in favor reorganizin
the parties on a new basis. Had groaneci
over the corrupshen NV the Republican
party for years. He'd bin member NV the
party from its organization, but owing to
the prejoodisses Nv the members thereof i'll
his county he'd alluz been debarred from
holdin offs, up to the year 1866. In Marcel,
Nv that yeer, President johnson made him
Collector NV Revenoo which Office he held
with profit to hisself, till that ojus military
tyrant, Grant, was elected. Their WIZ
some triilin irregularities in his accounts,
and he wuz dismissed and supple tool Nv
tyranny appointed in his place. His bail
wuz outrageously sood for his defalcashun,
and he'd bin crooelly perseckooted ever
since. Wuz a earnest believer in Civil
Service Reform, and would jjine heart and
sole in this movement. Wv course he wood
want his old place back agin, in the event
of success, and when he gets it, shood favor
law maxim it perpetooal Shell want
money from the general committee to use
among shaky Republicans.
Jonesboro, Ohio.-Found Mr.. NJ. l.. in a
grocery, with his feet cooked up onto a
counter. Wuz disguised and heartsick
at the profligacy Nv the present Admins
tr.,shen, and saw no hope Nv any change
for 10 better until present party lines wuz
bustid. Hope the new organizashen wood
not overlook the claims Nv men Nv talent
and genius ez completely ez the party now
in power hez done. His friendc he'd urged
him time and again to the present tyrannical
Administration for various posishens, from
Minister to VENEZUELA to the post Office in
his native village, all NV witch the military
tyrant now at the head Nv the Government
he'd persis's ntly disregarded. Felt that
there mus: be change or that room wuz
inevitable: wuz in favor Nv the new move
ment, sti uulating, Nv coarse, that he shood
hev his eli VI e Nv the offises in that locality.
Browns, vn, Illinais-P. B. contest that
the post otis in his native village he'd bin
the height "f his ambishen for twelve years,
and ez he led never bin able to yet it under
Republicin rool, he wuz willin to Jtae the
new move" .ent eff that wuz promist him
Hez a bro: o..r-in law who did want to be
collector, :tAd possibly he could be indoost
to GO, in ais :. He is doubtful, however, ez
he hez lats y experienced religion. Will
try him any how, ez it isn't certain that he
hez bin soundly converted. The promise
Nv the place may possibly fetch him. Ez
for him the corrupsheu Nv the present
administrator was too glarin to permit
him to stay mint in party which sup
ported it. He wanted it to be understood
that he wuz to hev the post offs.
Noblesville, Indiana.-Got together a
meetin NV the leading Dimocrisy and the
dissatisfied Republkins-tan Nv the latter.
One he'd bin histed from the post office, and
the other nine had applied for it in vain
Their WIZ much enthoosiasm at the begin
min, till the question happened to arise ez
to the distribushen wv the offises in the
event NV success. The ten disgustid Re-
publikins INSISTED that they shood be given
to them, ez without their assistance the
Dimocrisy couldn't do nuthen, and the
Dimocrisy insisted that eff tho Republican
renegades wuz to hev the offisis, they didn't
care tinker's cuss whether they did any
thing or not. GET Republicans is to hev
the places anyhow" yelled the Dmocris y
all i'll korus, "we'd rather it would be
the decent ones" Meetin broke up in a
row. Paid my own expenses out of that
town.
break off my diary thus abruptly, for
these are specimens NV the whole. found
in each town visited Republicans willin
to join us, but Their wuZ aluz two troubles
in the way, viz:
I. They wuz't never the kind NV men we
wanted.
2. They all want just exactly what we
most desire, and without witch triumph is
yooselis for us, viz: the offisis.
They are alluz men NV that pekoolyel
caracter who hev to be carried, when wat