Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-29


From the Toledo Blade.I 7iss
iCHAPPAKuA, (which is in the State uvl
| Moo YORK. August 5. 1872. i :.
Lam quartered now more nearly tf
my taste than 1 hev ben since the
halcyon days Nv A. johnson, who d
now no more. I hev room to myself
to witch my meals is sent;I hev my
own private bottle, and the labor is
light, though the responsibility is
heavier than I could wish. wuz sent
here by the Nashnel Democratic Com
nnittee to take charge nv these prem
| ises, and to see that our beloved candi-
date, the great and good Greeley, does
not make an ass NV himself more
frekently than is good for us. .s0l 4
1 arrived yesterday mornin and
towunst assoomed the dooties of the
posishen My first work wuz the in
specshun NV the axes on the faFnls
wich the. great and good Hooris yoeses
on his trees, I found them all too heavy
for sieh continyuous chopin ez he hez to
do. With them axes his strength wood
give out long afore the campaneis over.
I ordered a half-dezen Hghterones, and
sold the stock on hand to the naberin
farmers, the proceeds NV wich ! shel
remit to the Nashnef Conimittee-efI I
don't fergetit. Then, agin, 1 found the
ladder witch the great wood-chopper
yooses to ascend trees, wuz not only
clumsy In its construckshen, but dam
gerous, and 1 ordered another Nv a bet
ter pattern. I he'd meny other things
to reform. Just after the Cincinnati
Convenshun it was reported to Horris
that it wood hev good effect ef visi-,
tos shood aIluz ketch him up tree
.trfnning branches, andever senee the
old man hez gone out at nine In the
mornin, cium a tree and stayed their
till mite, wich loonatic procedure wuz a
fearful waste nv time, ez visitors only
come four times a day. He wuz terribly
exhausted. fixed this by hevin a sn,au
but intellectual boy perch himself onto
a post in the road witch leads to houses
with signal flag. When party head
ed for the philosophers house makes its
the boy waves his flag, and
the great and good Greedy takes off his
coat and gets up tree, waiting to bel
surprised at his yoosual avocation. AT
first he yoosed to git down too quick to
make It look natral, but I hev trained
himse that he whaeks away with a.
most bland expression on his face, till |
[ call him two or three times. To save
walkin 80. far, dig up tree and plant.
Itnear the house. One will keep green
81 ten days and. when the bHaacessk
sut off we take the naked trunk and put |
another in its place. oa,
I hev, however, some trouble. Mi
appearance is better sooted to
he latitood NV kentucky than Moo
York, and hev to wear hat without
my rim to 1t, in the sun, to account for
he redness NV my nose. Then L hey
o meet so many kinds uvlpeople. We
the old Ablishnist and the Old
Sefnb nbeFat, wieh ara ehardest to man
Ige. Then comes the modified Denlor
rats, who accepts niger suffrage and
ich, if he kin be ashoored the Post Offs
n his nativ village, and the modified |
who is willin to swallerl 4
and likewise to doubt wheth7i
II universal suffrage wuz good thing
.fter all, provided he kin be ashoored |
lv the collectors offs witch Grant re-
oosed to give him, and witch is now I
leld by a minyn and nepot. In short, |
We hev all shades here, and its bother /
O take care NV em all. / don't like |
nulatto babies, becoz every one Nv em
5 proof positive that there has been /
.dultery somewhere, Fer the same
eason I don't like! eoal alishlIni parties. |
They amt natral, and every one Nv eIn
)ears the mark NV the sin thrO wich
t come into the world. Ours is mule
)arty, eff there ever was one, and
,eartily wish we wuz thro with it. \
/ he'd fearful time NV it yesterday.
Dur picket guard waved his flag. Hor-
is got up his tree, and in moment
here appeared a delegashun Nv Moo
escortin a adelegashun NY South
4nefss Il Itooki em5 out, HBder the tree,
aorris came down, and we went to the
house, and commenst immejit1y dis
,ussin the questions Nv the day. The
Moo Yorkers was importers and conse-
Iuently tree traders, and the Southern
rs wuz free traders of Course. The,
yreat and good Greeley wuz ek2l to the
He did not deny that at
various periods Nv his life he had lean
d somewhat to the doctrine Nv pro-
10, What mis- views were now
IN this jmpoatant subjeck he wood not
II this time state, that is, in full. By
reference to his letter it wood be seen
hat all such minor questions he'd been
eft TO the people. Eff the people want
ID Free Trade, Free Trade they should
new. Eff the people wanted Perteck- /
hen, while his views he'd modified
somewhat on that question, ne shood-
At this pint / interrupted him. My
,orrified Vision saw that internal flag
wayin. Horriss started for his tree from
,heer force of habit, but I checked him,
and went out myself to meet them. Il
Wuz not long left In suspense ez to who
they wuz. They wiz manufacturers
rom Massychoositsi Here wnz q fix,
5outherners and Moo York importers,
and Moo England inanufak kterers, all
calIin on a Presidenshul candidate to-
wunstl Itwuz too late to git Greeley
out NV the way, and there wuz no way
but to let en- come together and trust to
luck. I Understood em and stood by to
see the result. Poor Horris saw the fix
he wuz In, snd prespired. -elos
The Moo Englanders opened by a
direct reference to the tariff question,
when I throwed myself into the breach.
-o,nariraf7 that This WHY M time In |