New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-22

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While in reaches OF innocent thought
3 The immutable marble of deathless iegret
To an image of thee has been wrought!
And if evrr that image doth seem to uprise
Through the shadOwike vApOr that dms.
IT'S from tears dropping down out Of Memory
On the lamp that she watches and tri1ne.
Nasty IN OHI0.
MIR. Nasby Goes 60 Ohio to Assist in Or
Ganizins u County for Allen and Cary
The Nlis fortune that BefelI tlim.
! PKrTrsKs CORNERS
WICK Is IN SUTHEKN OaIo
August 2, 1875.
Thet hez bin , beep Nv trouble crowd,
into the seventy yeers that l have lived
onto this earth-probsbly more than hei
fallen to the lot uv any one man now livip
Them ez hez seen tz much trouble ez he,
all died under it. live becoz nv q min(
that laffs at misfOrchOOn, aad defies fate
And besides hev euthin rO live for. 81
long ez theirs barl Nv whisky attainablt
and Dimekratic party, l perpose to exist
When they go out shell probably succum
l am hevln my regular amount Ov trouble
now. Jest ez soon ez the day come for thu
Dimekratic State COnvenshun at Colum
bus, / went over to Pettuses Corners, il
Ohio. to assist in organizer that county fol-
the ens0Oin eleckshuD, for realized the
fact that ez Ohio goes this fall so the mex,
Presidential eleckshun goes, and that the
party calls upon every Democrat to do his
whole dooty. For me success next yee1
is necessity. That post offs at the Cor
ners must be mine if ever. Failyoor would
break my heart.
Pettuses Corners ia the most Dimekratic
| nv I'LL the villages IN Suthern Ohio. 1t bez
| populashen NV cay 500, witch supports six
prosperous groceries, two good bars at
taverns and q small skooi house, wich hez
never bin finished, and in witch the Metho-
1 dists hold their meetins. 1t is very small
| sko0l house, but it lie large enuff for the
meetins on Sunday. The inhabitants mostly
devote themselves to politics and the grose-
Nv the rest Nv the citizens, witch makes it a
| soft thing all around.
Nv course every Dimekrat in the COUNTY
| is born with the expectashen Nv some day
holdin county offs. To be infrmary d.
recter is glory-tO be county tresrer is the
summit Nv earthly grandyer. Them e. is
| successful start in ez infrmary director
then they git to be county commishner. then
the Legislacher, then sheriff. At this pint
most Nv EN- goes hence with delirium ire
mems. Occasionally one whose stumick is
glass-lined and backt up with fire brick,
goes on to be Auditor and Tresrer, hut them
is exceptions. To 90 the whole string ire
| MENUS constitushun is nessary.
Their amt no money in holdin offs ther
for it costs the entire salary the first year
to seko0r the eleckshun, and the entire cal
ary and mortgage on yoor farm every
year thereafter to keep it; but then an Off
ahel can't treat voter without drinkln
likewise, SO he hez good time eff he does
room hisself.
Naturally, however, some of them make
themselves good by an occasional defalca-
shen and by spekelatin in county improve
ments; but opportunities is limited in the
county, and it won't do ez reliance.
arrived at Pettuses the mite Nv the day
with open arms. l got the Democracy to-
gether to ratify the nominashens, bat we
mite 60 into the canpane with that enthoo-
siasm witch is necessary to success. We
waited for the nominashens impatiently,
and finally they came:
For G0vernOr-Willyum Allen.
For Lieutenant Samyooe! F.
Cary;
and Cary"
The cheers were given with will. The
Dimokrisy NV Pettus' Corner are excellent
The platform adopted by the convention
hadn't come to hand, but l didn't care. l
perceeded to draft q resol0oshen or two, tor
knOwd the candidates SO WE'LL wuz so
we'll posted "a to their antecedents and
utterances-that felt perfectly certain wat
the platform wuz on wich they wuz placed,
and wrote the resolooshen accordin. The
fO'lerin was the first:
Resolved. That it is the yoon aoimous ex-
preston Nv the Dimocriey nv Pettusses |
Corners, that in n0minatin for Governor |
Wiilyum Allen, the eloquent champion NV |
bard money, the Dimocratic State Conven- |
shun merits the g1atit0od not only nv the |
Dimocrisy nv the Yoonited States, but |
nv every honest man. That his rngln de- |
nuDshiashen Nv dirty rag money, and his |
money, will, in the fucher ez in the past, be |
potent for the pertecshun Nv a long sufferin |
an0 oppreset people.
my friends" sed /, drawing myself up
30 ez to resemble DanI Webster ez much
ez possible, "before you take a vote on this
hev q word to say. Willyum
Allen. Ole Bill Allen, honest Ole Bill Aller,
s emtatikall the peoples friend. He is
banks and bankers, and the most inveter.
ate, vindictive, deadly enemy Nv this food
~ rotten paper money which hez so long
afflicted the kentry and blited it's pros.
perity, Honest Ole Bill Allen hez from
lis infancy denounst paper money
Y the insidious foe Nv the workin
nan, the destroyer Nv the far
ner and the oppressive weapon
" the bloated aristocrat In the SENT and
IN the stump, by voice and pen, honest true
DIE Bill Allen hez demanded that gold,
,ard, honest gold. only shood be considered
money, and that the dirty, filthy rag money
shO0d by q Black Republican Congris be
TIA mpt out. That demand he renOos to.
iay-that demand q Dimekratic State con-
'ention hez made by nomlnatin' him, and
ct US, the Dimokrisy of Pettuses Corners,
lailiDg' our kulors, Hard money forever
o the mast, pass this resolooshen."
The speech fecht IN, and the resolooshen
Vus passed with such empba ais ez 1 never
eed. Then three rousin' cheers wus given
or Honest Old Bill Allen, the friend NV the |
,eople and the hope uvvthe countryside
lndannted, unpurchisable friend NV hard
money. and the denouncer nv rag money in |
whatever shape it come.
So far, 80 good. They passed this reso
Ooshen easily, for ez none nv em ever had
ny money they never wuz pertikeler ez to |
vat pertikeler kind they Endorsed, but the
ext step wus RELY q delikit one. had
nOwd Sam Cary for years, and knowd
i'm ez the very he'd and front nv the tenn ,
erance party NV the State. / knowd he ,
% son nv temperance and the most in
olerable prohibishinist the State he'd ever
IN cust with. l he'd myself heard him de- !
ung, and il he'd BEEN my pleasin dooty to !.
clip rotor egg him on several occasions
heA he was maxim rabid Temperance :
,eeches. But l PERFORMED that our lead
. he'd determined on . bold stroke to
stch the temperance vote, relyin on the .
aown cGsactse Nv the pagty TO hold the
hisky voes. g to aivnA emyool send
I interdoost tits resolooshen: lie
Resolved, That the Dimokrisy nv Pettus- Z
. CoEnen endorse the ucminaahun nv