The state journal., 1876-08-04
NAsBY.
He Crates on the Fourth, and is
Insulted by AbOlitiOnists-Then
He Goes to Saratoga, and Gives
Advice to Tilden and Hendricks.

lnSuICeO Dy ADOl1C1O01SCS-Ine
He Goes to Saratoga, and Gives
Advice to Tilden and Hendricks.
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS WHICH is IN THE
STATE wv KENTUCY, Jooly "a. 1851
got home from injea.y disguised and dis
couraged. After the unfortunit speech
wich Issaker Gavitt spilled, went to two
other appointments aioot. but met no in
curridgment. The Dimocrisy wuz cold
and not impressible. wuzn't invited to
a single mite lodgn. nor drop of any
thing to drink, and gat back ez dry as
lime kiln. But there is something in it,
after all, for in the township Bible, wich
we keep to swear witness onto. found
passage which comforted me, shown, ez
It does, than am better man than /
thought wuz:
"Wben the unclean spirit is gone out
Nv man he walketh thro dry places,
seeking rest and finding none."- MAT.
hew, 12-43.
But there comes in q doubt after all.
Don't the words ''unclean spirits" apply
to the sod-corn whiskey wich hev con.
soomcd, and not to a purityin Nv my NOR
al systemp And that about seeking rest
aud finding none.to my yoonform ill-suc-
cess in beating landlords 1t is singler
fact, whenever Dimscr flies to the BIZ
BILE for consolashen, be alluz retires with
doubts on his mind. He could git more
comfort out Nv 1t. if it wuzn't made up so
largely Nv threatnins and penalties. Hev-
in voted strate Dimocratic ticket alluz,
the story of the thieves on the cross CON-
forts me some, and so does the fact hev
alluz to deathbed repentance to fall back
onto.
conserved it my duty to deliver an
orashen on the 9Th Nv July. to commence
rate the Centennyai Nv Amerikin Inde.
pendence. but wuz subjected to series
NV insults from the Ablishnists Nv the
Coroners witch neerly broke my heart.
When announced it, Pollock, the Illi-
nov disturber, remarked: See Job XXXIx,
3:
Who hath sent out the wild ass free?
Or who hath looscd the bands of the wild
assp
And then was a speakin and layin it
down ruther lively es to the strength Nv
free intooshens wich Good survive hum
dred years, ..Yes," replied that onmiti.
gated cuss, Joe, Bigler. sit is a strong
Government Wen l think IL hez liyed a
hundred years, and is yet healthy, and
remember that there hez bin Dimocratic
party at the head most Nv that time, l am
lost in admirashen as its natural vitality.
Ez it bez survived yoo, and sich ez 700, I
don't despare NV the Republic"
we he'd decided not to kill any more Nv
'em till after the .eleckshun. we he'd to
stand their jeers in silence. It's disgust
in.
The Democrisey hev bin waitin for the
letters Nv tho Reform candidate. Tilden
and Hendrix, accepting the nominas-
huns. They will wait some time yet, l
fancy.
I felt It to be the proper thing to do to
accompany our noble reform candidate
for ce.Presidept, Hendrix, to Saratogy,
to consult with our noble Reform candi-
date for President. Tilden, that they might
agree ez to what they shood believe in
till after the eleckshun.
TiIden was a sittinin his room. smilin,
surrounded by them eminent Refol mcrs,
.John Morrisey, Boss Mclaughlin. Oakley
Hall. and sich, when Hendrix entered
with his Reform hackers. which is me,
Henry Clay Dean, Gov. Allen, Nv Ohio,
and sich.
NV buzm ,swelled with emoshyn ez 1
lookt ever the crowd. SNOW, thot I, the
country-and the Post 'OAises-is safe"
Then was immejetly alarmed. The
mint the two great Reformers met their
ewes glared, and metaforically speekin,
thew lowered their heads at each other
like two enraged Buffalo bulls. We felt
that it was impossible for them two great
intellecks to come together.
We begged NV em to be modrit, to each
concede sumthin, and agree upon some
kind NV q letter, which wood pacify the
party and keep it together and yoonite it.
I made the Openin speech.
s.Gentlemen." sed /, regardln them
with stern look, afore which they quail
ed, "neither Nv yoo must undertake TO
throw the other out NV the party. See
Matthew, 1926:
"sAnd OF Satan cast out Satan he is di-
vided agin hisself; how shall his kingdom
stand p
"Ef we are divided agin ourselves, and
lose this elekshun. what becomes NV us
Ef Hayes is electid kin my mHskeler friend
Morrisey, the pride of Moo York, be Sec-
retary NV the Treasury Et Hendrix goes
down kin nv earthly friend. Dean, be
Minister to England ? 1T yoo both 60 un-
der. wat is to become Nv the long-suffer-
inc repeater NV Moo York. the down
trodden Confederates NV. the south and
the host of Dimokrats which followed the
Iamented Bookanan out Nv oils, and have
hin pittin their likker on tick eyer sence
"And wat is to become Nv me Am !
to be delrauded out Nv the Post Ohs at
the Corners because 700 can't agree on