Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-05-27
Nasty at Home.
He COMES OUT FOR GREELEY.
CoNEEDRIT x ROADS, \
(Which is in the State NY kentucky !
Nav 8. 1870

ners, gittin our people to consent to tax
in the great and good HoRR1s GREELEY
ia Their buzzoms, and embarcin NV him
the same ez tho he he'd bin BREcKIN-
RIDGE, HOFFMAN. or some SIGH man,
witch they he'd bin more familyer with.
It took four days Nv persistent swearin
afore Good convince EN- that I he'd any
idee Nv supportin man witch they he'd
heerd me denounce ez the vilest Ablishen
despot on earth, thousand times. Alas
they don't know the full elastissity NV
the Democratic mind.
called meetin, and give EN- an ac-
count Nv my stewardship at Cincinnati.
l commenst my remarks by sayin that
I went to Cincinnati with a view Nv
nominatin that sterlin patriot, Judge
DAVIS, who, tho in offs ez a Republican
hez'nt enuff Republikinism about him to
hurt him, or that other sterlin patriot,
Chas. Francis Adams, the son Nv John
Quincy Adams, but witch hem any NV
the Adams about him but the name. It
wuz gatherin Nv the people, not an off
is-hoIders convenshen; and that .wuz
what wuz the matter with us. Not one
Nv the delegates held government po-
sishen, and not one Nv us he'd chance
Nv gittin one under Grant "Grant be
DID, wuz the cry in chorus. 'Give
us anybody else" The Convenshen he'd
throwd off on Adams and Davis he'd
nominated Greeley.
'Hang him p shouted the people
81 kin lick any man in mint, who asks
me to vote for him p shouted Kernel
McPelter.
paid no attenshun to these compli-
ments. 81 he'd no idee Nv even supportin
him, and wuz glad Nv his nominashen
only ez | believed he wood draw off
enuff Republican votes to enable us to
elect a sound Constitooshenel Demo-
GRAFT"
THAT'S what we want-a sound Con-
stitooshenel Democrat yelled Kernel
McPelter, late Nv the Confedrit servis.
''But hev notist that the great ma
jority of the Democratic papers-Q kin
read, my brethren, and hev that advan-
tage over 700, Insist on adoptin him
at our Convenshen and eff so, he is our
candidate
well see him"
''Hold!' sed | quickly. ''No good
Democrat kin bolt regler nominashen,
and after all Horris ez not the wust one
we ken hev. Our motto wuz "Princi-
Piles, not men," We carried it out to
the letter. We adopted principles
and ez for men, we come ez. near nothin
CT possible under the circumstances
Troo, he is high protective tariff man,
witch don't SCOT Elder Pennibacker, but
the Elder must remember that the yer.
sateel Horris is willin, eff we will sup.
port him, to treat that ishoo ez one to
be settled by the people elsewhere. He
wuz an oppressor Nv the South Kernel
McPelter wood say. Troo he wuz at
times, and then agin at times he wusnt
[ hev wacht the great and good Greeley
very closely for many years. There
ain no question that l now remember
Nv, Except slavery and the price Nv the
New York Weekly Tribune, that he
amt bin ON both sides NV dozen times
Like the intoxicated lndsvidijuel who
coodent git into bed coz the room wul
whirlin round, and who determined final
ly to lay still and wait till the bed come
round to him, all that any question hei
got to do is to stay still and Horris is
certin to come round to it, He believed
slavery was unconstitooshnel and We
wuz for payin the niger owners for thu
niger. He defended John Brown
raid and opposed secession. Then i'm
mejitly thereafter he favored secession
then insisted on war agin US for seducin
then urged the Federal hirelins on t
Richmond then tried to patch up
peace with US. He hez bin Radica
and Conservative; Fourierits and
believer in bran bread. He opposed
Taylor and supported him; he supporte'
Linkin and opposed him +; in short h
hez bin on all sides Nv all questions
one side today, and tother tomorrow
and very frekently both at the sam
time In short, I don't know NV moth
in that he hezn't bin, and can't imagin
nothln that he amt extremely likely t
be. read his record yesterday, an
wuz wuss tore up in my mind than e
tho he'd bin on drunk for week.
| never knowed more confusin or intox
icatin readin.
'But," sed Deekin Pogram, "are W
Dimocrats to be compelled to vote fo
SIGH bundle NV contradickshens 90
my aged friend / replied b!andly
''wood 700 like to receive from ME tn
trifin sum Nv one hundred and eight
dollars, witch owe 700 % Wood Bas
com? Wood"
From every indivijuel in that awjenc
there came up like the roar of torrent
Eyes p
On the question NV my payin m