The Portland daily press., 1877-02-27
There is a weep n firmer set,
And surer than the bayOnet.

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And surer than the bay0net
Tilden and Reform hez a better show with
dollars than they ever did with bayonets, tho
really bleeve that a Dimecrat who hez bin hun
germ for an offs sixteen yeers wood fite for it
ruther than not git it. Shoo1 we ever come to
the arbtrashen Nv AIMS shell, eff hev COM
mand Nv the rilden and Reform forces, mass
all in front nv the capitle, and hang onto the
other side so that they kin all see il, a banner
with this inscription:
''Commishns for the post ofises made ou
herew
Their wood be sich a rush ez all the troops
that Good be unconstoOshnelly concentrated in
WashntOn cOOdent Withstand. Artillery Good
ent keep the patriots back
But this is dgreshn. Wat wantid to say
wuz, Providence takes better keer Nv the Re-
publikin party than it does NV ITSELF For Jest
as we he'd it all fixed to hev the Commishn ap.
pintid, and he'd dedwood on hevin Davis for
the fifth Judge, givin us majority. that self
seekin man he'd to 60 and be elected to thu
SENT from IllinOy, maxim it nessary to hev
Bradley in his place, wich is pizen. And when
Tllden and Reform begged Davis TO decline
the SENT and get into The Commishn, that
selfish man remarkt he'd see him further fust.
which leaves 100000 Dmocrats which wants
appoinsments on the anxshus sect.
With Bradley on the Commishn, the Corners
is ceerly nv he opinyun that it is uncon-
stooshned Sich a thing wuz never contempla-
It'd by the fathers, inwuz never done afore, and
ther amt no precedent for it. The idee Nv
hevin compermise in wich the Dimocrisy
didn't git more than twice what they claimed,
is Suthin new in Amerikin history. L don't
comprehend IT,
Ell this Commishun wuz to give Hayes a
chance, what did be want it fur? He had 1S5
votes, and wat is yoose Nv gon thrc all this for
mality onlesS the objick is to List him? When
L play / want the keerds properly put up-ef
want to make a livin by work ther amt NO
yoose in playin it at all 1t wreDcht my moral
back to acksede to a volashen Nv the constO0-
shn when we wuz to make suthin by it-but to
violate that sacred instrooment, aud then lose
the post offises by it, is too terrible.
The Dmocrisy mite ex we'll pre- pare for wal
to wunst and be done with 1t. [ see notbr
else 1t is impossible that l shood live fou
years longer, and see all the ofises filed witt
Ablishnlsts, and we out Nv place, and hev en-
faunt their commIshns in our faces and taun
us with holdln nv EN- by viTchoo nv com
mish wich we urged
L am equal to great deal Nv greef-I hey
philosophy enuff for almost anything. L hey
dropt bottle afore he'd moistened my lips al
its strength-givin mouth, and hev seen its gold
en- contents flow sadly away on the sidewalk
lost forever. L hev bustid jug Saturdy lite
after all the groseries wuz shut up; and hex
ia led to borrow dollar wher thot l he'd
ded-shoor thing onto it. All these woes L he,
survived, but this one cannot The agony il
too long drawn out / will not stay in the Cor
neis four years and see Radikel nigger dis
tribbt the paper that comes here, and stant
and read lottry clrclers to our citizens. Aud
then when l think that that man let's tn,
money wich our confiden citizens to lottries z,
direct to their desiinashen, swellin the Golfer:
Nv pack Nv swindlers in Moo York, l an
driven almost to madnis.
1t is to be expected that l am to support
Commishn wich IS shoor to continyoo SIGH out
RACES ez these? i will fite fuss, aud the Cor
ners sustains me.
On receet nv money enutf to buy suffisheni
cloth to haff sole The trowsis Nv our CITIZEN
so that our noDle-heartid wmmen won't hev t
stand Ill front Nv EN- all the time when the.
drill, will organize company to wunst New
trowsis wood encurridge the Corners iist now
mitily. Ez commander NV the forsis l ought Il
hev a moo pare Nv boots
feel more like titin for the Constitooshel
now, than hev sence l enlisted in the Loosi
ana Pelikens 10 1861.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
Ex-Reformer.