Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-12
from tbs Toledo Biads.)
CoNFEDERATE x ROADS, J
(Which 10 in the State Nv Kentucky,)
February II. 1874.

February IL, 1874.
Ny little effort At reform in Ohio
didn't work jest es he'd hoped, but
don't despare nv gittin suthin out
| of it after all. IF we can't make re-
form 60, what 10 there for as At
the worst l perpose to make it earn
me Twin. / am in the reform
biEnis, and shell push ii ez q biznis.
hev determined to start reform
noosepaper. That idee sprong full
fedged from my massive intelleck
two weeks ago. When / determine
upon a thing l go and do it. ana so,
two weeks ago, i ishood the pros
pectus, and with it the msssedonian
CRY for help to all the rich Dino
Gratis [ knowd or Good heer Nv.
/ stated in my prospectus, (Which
| wrote in Bascom's) that the across
Reads Reformer and Friend nv Puri-
| ty" wood be devotid TO reform in its
broadcast sense, public and privit. l
deplored the widespread cOrrupshen
that he'd pervadid and permeated all
departments nv the public servis,
sence that gileless patriot, A. john
son, vacated the Presidenshel cheer,
ez we'll ez the laxity nv morals that
prevailed ell classes Nv society, witch
wug the legitimit outgrowth Nv Rad
ikle idees. / he'd throwed myself
into the breach, and wux determined
to do all in my power to check the
food nv fraud that WIZ sweepin
over the land, and witch bid fair TO
room the Republik. To the COZ Nv
purity and reform, he'd devotid all
there was nv me.
| stated distinctly that the "Cross
Roads Reformer and Friend Nv Pur-
| ity" he'd but one panacea for all the
evils the country is labrin under.
namely, the bustin Nv the Republi-
kin party and the putin in power
Nv the Democrisy. That is all there
is Nv it. This is the short road to
politikle purity, and, by example,t the
promoter nv privit purity. We
want TO hev back in Congris that
galaxy nv intellscks that shown go
respendentiy doorin Booksnnon's
| Administrator, and in the places of
trust and profit, the patriots who
rallied so glorIously around the crib
presided over by A. Johnson. Some
| Nv EN- are dead, alas but there are
enuff nv EN- left to fill all the offises,
nd thsre amt any resk Nv their de-
clinin.
/ sont an appeal for aid to various
lesdin DEMOCRATS nv the country, and
received responses wich show that
in this enterprise | hev bit the pre-
else idea that is needed For in
stance, Fernando Wood wrote me the
| followin
II agree with 700 that the times
demand vigorous paper, witch
shell oppose the corrupshen which
are sappin the very foundashens Nv
our liberties. The crimes Nv the Re-
publikin party cry to Heaven En-
closed find cheque for $50 l wood
send 700 more, but | heven't realized
on my Credit Mobilier shares yet,
and me and Brother Ben find the
lottery dizziness dull sence the panic
struck us. Trooly.
f FERNANDO w GOD.
His brother Ben. wrote as follows:
Enclosed find $50 TO aid in estab-
lishin The Cross Roads Reformer and
Friend Nv Purity. | wish I Good
spare more, for eff ever Their wuz q
|, time when public and private purity
needed boostin, this il the time. We
} must combine to crush Republican
ism and inoggerate rain Nv purity.
l wood send more, but the fact is
policy selin is dull, and faro-banks
amt more than payin expenses
But such ez my donashen is, take it.
Trooly, BEN. WOOD.
! The noble patriot John Morrissey
wrote me thus
! / bid go you God speed 10 your
noble enterprise. The time hez
come for q vigorous war agin the
corrupshen that is sappin the foun :
dations Nv American liberty 1oan't
! send 700 eny more, for | hev he'd q
terrible run nv luck at two nv my
faro banks, and the repeeters / he'd
to pay at the last eleckshun drained
me, but | hev he'd you appointed to
an offs under the Sheriff Nv Moo
York, and will hev it arranged that
yoor salary shel be sent 700. Wv
course you will hev TO be here Oh
} eleckshun days to vote in SIGH pre-
oincks ez are assigned 700. May
your efforts at bringin our country
J up TO it's former standard nv virchoo
be crowned with success Hopeful
ly. JOHN MoRRIssEY.
Boss Tweed wrote ez follows:
| write in bonds. But opposed ez
| am by crooel persekooters l take q
lively interest in everything that
looks to purity in ofishel matters.
In my lonely eel on Blackwell's
Island do | groan for my country.
} | hev directed my son Richard TO
send 700 $50 to aid your paper jest
! as soon ez he kin collect it from the
|, ongrateful contractors who refoozed
10 divide with me when l got into
; trouble, on contracts witch I give
EN- when | wuz in power. But go
on in yoor good work Trooly,
w NJ. TWEED.
Inc letter wrote TO larry Genet
wuE answered by friend of his, W ho
remarked that Mr. Genet was abroad
for his health, but that he shood for
rerd it to him, and that Mr.. Genet
wood doubtless eontribbis, ex he
wuE, ez he allus he'd been, o stauuch
friend of Reform.
From the South the responsis
were enoouragin, tho not profitable.
| From every one of the glorious
sojers nv the Confederacy came
words of cheer. They bid me go on
and deel heavy blows again the
monster Rsdicleism, and In support,
not only nv Reform, but Nv our oom-