The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-30

secession. Then immejitly thereafter
hc favored secession, then insisted Oh
wAr agin us H0r seccdin, then urged the.
Fetlral hirciilisCn to Richmond, then
tried to patch mp a peace with us. He
hsz bin Radical land a Conservative,
q Fourieritc and a believer in bran
bread. He opposed Taylor and SUP
ported him Unsupported Linkin and
opposed him. In short, he hez bin. on
all sides NV all questiolls--On side to-
day, and another tomorrow, and very
frekently both at the same time. In
short, don't know NV notlin that he
hezn't bin, and can't imagine nothin
that he hezn't bin, and can't imagine
nothin that he amt extremely likely to
be. read his record yesterday, and
WIZ wuss tore up III my mind than ez
tho | he'd bin on drunk for week.
never knowd more confusion or In
toxicatin readen.' i
"But," seed Deekin Pogram, ssare we
Dimocrats to be compelled to vote for
SIGH bundle NV contradickshcns ?"
"My aged friend, replied blandlv,
"wood 700 like to receive from me the
trifie sum NV enc hundred and eighty
dollars, which l owe 700? Wood,
Bascom? Wood"
From every indivijucl iii that aw-
jence there came up like the roar NV
torrent: "Yesi" M
On the question ov my payin my
debts the Corners is singerly yoonani-
nous.
aMy brethren, the way to my liqui-
datin is Post Orifis, and Post Drifts
only. Eff ! wuz in my old place now
okkcpied by that disgustin nigger,,
Lubbock, 700, wood hev at least a
chance for your money. Eff the great
and good Greeley is elected that nigger
goes out, and / 60 iii. Pollock goes
out ov the Collectors Offs, and in goes
lsakeer Gavitt or Kernel McPelter.
Watkins, the niger Assessor woodent
be allowed to hold his place 4 mint,
and that saint Deekin Pogram, or that
other saint Elder Pennebacker would
be immejitly installed, and
clear! hear!o from Issaker Gayitt.
Elder Penncbackcr, McPelter and
Pogram-Kernel McPelter earnestly
lickin man who INDUCED in the lat
ter.) s s y
"ln short, my brethren. we want the
0fiisis. We hcv been ,catih grass like
Nebuchadnezzar, sence lS60 with the
exception of Johnson's blessed yeers,)
and Pharaoh's lean kline amt nothin to
us. We hunger and thirst for EN-.
w course I'd ruther git my place back
agin thro Breckenridge. but ruther
than not hev it'd take It from Wendell
Phillips hissclf. Ef Greeley is neces-
sary to gittin them / 60 Greeley. He
may shift ez fast ez he pleases, I kin
follow him. Put that Post Orfis in
front NV me, and eff he kin shift faster
than kin, I hev overestimated nv
powers in that line, He will insist
upon qnalificashens strenuously, but
he hez his own standard. He believes
that them who admire Horris Greedy
are, ,ex-offiseo, fit for any place under
any Government, and them who don't
amt with d---n for nything, am
talented at admirin SIGH men, I am.
|. Pogram, Pennibaker. McPelter and
lssaker Gavitt wuz entirely convinced,
but there wuz still muImurin among
the others.
you idiots scd ] sternly, sis Grant
q Republican ?"
'He is !-hc isl
"Hev 700, ez Democrats. ANYTHING to
expect from him p
"Wc hevn't y they replied.
DO you know the pekoolyarities NV
the great and good Horris? We know
what he is to-day e~.knQw wats1i Ike
wuz yesterday. and 6fCh NV VOC a. kin
read plain print and write without
l.
what he Wuz before that. Wat lac haz
been you know, but wat he will be only
the Affinity. who knows all things kin
tell, ana no one but hisself suppOses he
is NV snfiishnt account to be made the
subject Of prophecy. We are very
certain NV Republikin eff Grant is
elected--we may hcv a Republican or
a Demekrat ef Greeley succeeds. Its
an even chance where he lites, with
| the per cent. in our favor. for NV course
the Republicans will make fun NV him,
witch is the only thing he never for
gives. Ez an uncertainty is better for
| US than q certainty, 'rah for Greeley y
They wuz convinst and immeiitly a
Greeley Club was organized. lii Gin
cinnati he'd embarkt- IN -.fok sslaelun.
/ I-hela twenty dollars left from the mon
ey / he'd borrowed NV Judge Davis
committee, and invested EN- in fifty
white hats NV an ancient pattern, ex-
pectin to sell 'em to the Greeley Club,
witch l intended to organize, at, say,
$l.5O each. After the club was organ
lied stated to 'em that the yooniform
must be the style NV dress NV our be-
loved chief:a white hat and the left
pantaloons leg on the top NV the boot
leg, and that he'd sekoOred white hats
enuff to supply the club. Here diff
Guilty okkurred. In the entire party
there wuzn't pair NV pantaloons witch
wuzn't worn off at least three inches
above where boot-top wood be, and
it bein warm weather the aujence wuz
all bare-footed. However they took
the hats readily, and l stashened my
self at table to receive the cash for
'em. A profit of fifty-five dollars
wuzn't SO bad. Alas! how human
hopes are blighted! Bascom sed he'd
take them hats, collect the money for
EN- and credit me on account! and he
did it. didn't geta dollar NV it.!
/ swallowed it ez best mite, for it
amt no good to make a row about it.
No one in the Corners kin oppose Bas-
com, for he hez all the likker there il.
But we he'd a jollificashen over the Or
gBnizashen. 1t wuz chcerin site to
see fifty men all in Greeley white hats
drinkin the health NV the great Horris
in Bascom's new whisky! 1t wuz
cheerin site to see the zeal witch the adj
mirers NV the white-coated philanthro-
pist, all in while hats went for sich Mig
gers ez they found in the streets that
mite! don't despair Nv seein niggers
logged under them white hats.
PETROLEUM v. Massey,
(Which wuz Postmaster).
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