Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-20
NASRY.
The Corners, Afflicted by the Gross
In6deIity of Col IngersOI OrIIIInOIs,
Hold meeting 10 DenOunee him
Joe BIgler makes Trouble.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,

IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY,
Sept. 23d, 1876. }
ed by the Abilisnists at last. They have
Bob Ingersoll, Nv Illinoy, on the stump,
shreeking for Hayes, and agin our reform
candidate, SamyOoel Tilden. To say | am
shocked is to state the state of my feelings
mildly. Don't they know Ingersoll is an
middle? Don't they know that he didn't
believe in revealing religion? Don't they
know that he haint no vital piety?
told Deekin Pogram Nv it, and when l
explained to him what an middle was, he
was shocked.
''Waty' sighed the deekin, mot bleeve in
religion? Let's hold a meeting and protest
agin the cuss."
The deekin's suggestion struck me as be-
in an exceedingly good one. and deter
mined to act upon it. l he'd my mail to
git thro first, and that took me nearly all
day. coodn't stop, even to rebook inf
deity, til did my biznis. he'd received
81 900 from the New York committy to be
used in sending voters to Injeany-I he'd
to reed two letters from John Morrisey in
structin me how to yOose the money, and |
he'd to find quarters for brooser who he'd
been pardoned out Of prison to assist in
this campane, and who he'd been sent on TO
show US how to work repeaters to the hest
advantage. Afore Good assist in rebookin
Republican infdelity and casting a stigma
on religion, he'd to get all this out Nv the
way.
called the meeting at Bascom's. our
church not hevln bin opened for religious
meetins senee Johnson went out in 1859. 1t
was a lively meetin. When the Corners
wuz informed NV the impiety and irreligion
Nv this pet Nv Republikanism, there wuz
an indignashen manifested that wuz trooly
incurridgin. They wuz all convinst that
If such contemmor Nv religion wuz per.
mitted to go loose without rebook, there
wuz very little hope Nv Republican insti.
tutions, and after drinkin around two OF
three times, we organized. took the
cheer.
remarkt that it was no ordinary occa
sion that he'd called US together. Our lib
critics wuz in danger from the Republikir
party, and our religion from the shockir
infdelity OF one Of its chief advocates. We
may lose our liberties, but shel we lose oul
religionP
"Not by long site!" ejackilated the aw.
ienee as one man.
l then presenthd a series Of resalaoshens,
es followsi
WAREAs, The Republican party heE on the
stump, advocatih its hereSies, Bob 1ngersoll
Nv llienoy and
WAREAs, sed IngersolI is an middle Nv the
iasl !aSsl Tadiele stamp. man who denies the
Wat is Holy Writ?" asked dozen. ]
he'd to stop and explain to EN- that IngeF,
soil wanted to destroy the Bible, wieh in
fooriated EN-,
'Ain't We to lie allowed to hey our reglel
township Bible? Wat'Il we hey to sware
witnesses on in hoss cases? they indignant
ly demanded. "Go on! go oni Down with
the infddlep
WAREAs, The appearance NV sich man on
Ihe stump Is kalkilated to outrage the feelins
Nv lhe corners, and tare up the bulwarE NV
society; therefore, be 10
Resotred, That the election NV Tilden and
Hendrix is necessity, and that, after this
eXhioition NV intdelity on the part Nv Inger-
soll, every republican that don't immejitly
jine us aud cast his ballot for Tilden and re-
form, is unworthy OF salvashen.
AfOre we took a vote on the resolooshens,
we adjourned to take drink, and while a
takin Nv it, Joe Bigler and Pollock came in.
| shuddered when | saw them, for in all the
twelve yeers them carpit-baggers hev bin
mere never saw them without antissipatin
trouble, and wuz never yet disappointed.
When we come TO order agin, Josef ask
ed permission to make few remarks. He
Sympathized with the meeting heartily
lie knowed IngersUll, and knowed him to
oe an middle and unbleever. Feelin that
that he must add his unworthy testimony
asln sleh man and sich doctrines, nc
Sood-out ef the meetin wanted TO llear
rim they must git away from the bar.