Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-08-07
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HE rEorosE, To STUMP THE COUNTRY.
B,ENUu's HoIEL.
Baltimore, July :, 1872.
am ez a matter of course, a delegate
/ to the Baltimore conven>hun, where | am
/ TO proudly cast my vote for the tavoritc Nv
the Democracy, Horri- Greeley, the wood
chopper Of Chappaqua. do not feel in a
pertiSelerIy strong and healthy mood. On
the contrary. | am in a condshen so dazed
and bewi .dered that | hardly know where
| am.
came here a Greeley man. am a
leader uy the people, Democratic leader
Nv the people-and ccnSekentIy heyn't buc
one priucip'e-post offs. Convince me
that a candidate IS sound on that question,
and in the words Nv the poet
n he is mine and am hizleu-
Whist k.u want beside.
Show me two candidates. one uv wich Is
soundcr than tother on the question Nv
post offs. and [ am for that sounder one
first, last and all the time Nothin what
ever can shake me in this
But it amt so with all men. There Is
a great mass who see suthin In poitiks
beside post offs; men wich hev pet hob
bies. wieh they ride vehemeutly and
increasingly. and who verify bleeye in en-
[ hev bln interviewed by dozens Nv this
most exasperatin and sole wearin class for
ten days Ny he'd whirls ez tho he'd bin
Sea-sick for q week.
Imagjn me standin at the bar at Bar
NUNS hotel, a takin soul-soothia nip NV
my iavorit bevridge, whisky straight, with
my white hat hangin gracefully on my left
ear, dreamin peacefully Nv that comm
day when Greeley shel be safe in the
chair. and l shell hey my commission onct
more hanging agin the wall uv the post
oils at the corners. Imagine ones being
reused from a reverie so delishus by loud
mouthed cuss slapping you on the back
and shoutin, Jones, my boy, take suth-
in" On sich occasions | alluZ answer to
the name of ,Iones, and respond with
alacrity. Thank yoo-don't care if
do. And then to hev this fellow exult-
ingly cxclaim, '' What u God-send Greeley
Is to US, [ am from Georgia. | wuz in
the rebel army, and wuz compelled after
the war to join with my neighbOrs to
restrain the lawleSs violence Nv the
infooriated Africans and northerhers. We
wuz opprest with military by the tyrant
Grant, but now, thank Heaven, there shell
be no interference with Us. The crate and
good Horris sympathises with Us. hev
It from his committee in Moo York. Won't
you take suthin p
Then five minits after imagln me saloot-
ed by a Maine Demokrat with suthin like
this d" Wat blessing is Greeley With
Greeley We shell hev reform and peece. I'm
der Greeley ther will be lawlisness on the
part Nv no ex-rebels; the Ku-Klux will
be put down by the power Nv the military,
and the niggers will be protested in their
rites. l know this will be done, for hev
it from his committee Won't you take
suthin ~
Four minits and half another man
comes up Pennsylvania holds out her
hands for Greeley. The vigorous old pro-
teetionist-the man wich hez fought the
battle Nv Ameriken labor agin turrin
pauper labor, kin allus command the voice
of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania goes for
Greeley and protection! There vii! be no
more lowerin Nv tariff under Honest Old
Pig Iron Horris [ hev it from his COM
mIttee Take suthin?'
In about seven minits before L he'd
another drink fairly down an Illinoy man
came boomin up. Rah for Greeley :" he
yelled i" Rah for Honest Old Horris
With the great Horris at the head Nv
affairs, the bloated aristocratic manutac-
turers Nv Pennsylvania and Moo England
will sing small With the CRATE and good
agricul tooral and editorial wood chopper
Nv the Triboon, there will be no more op-
preston Nv the farmers Nv the West with
tariffs aud sich. hev it from his com
mittee. Will you take spthin ~