Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-03-02

forts to reach the door, and soon the
church was evacuated. The result
was that the perpetrator Of the wick
ed joke was arrested by the Sheriff
of St. Francois county and kept in
Jail over night, when, on the interpo.
sition of friends, he was released.
Massey.
HIS Views as to the Electoral Commls-
sion.
Toledo Blade.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, (wICH IL IN
THE STATE OF KENTucKY.) Feb. Sd,
ls77.-I wuz wunst in favor Nv the
Jint Commishn, and wuz eager tu
hev it. When il wuz ez good ez
shoor that a majority Nv the Judges
wood be Dimocratic, givin us ma
jority Nv wun in the lot, l bleeved it
TO be constooshnel. When it looks
ez tho we could git Tilden and Re
form in that way, and make me sure
NV my post offs, preferd it to blood.
I am not, ez genral thing, Il thirst
or tor gore he'd much rather hev
Tilier by his way intu the Pre>iden-
cy than tn hev to 6te for it. When
think NV his barls NV mummy, and
remember his skill in distributin NV
it, say with the poet
There il weepin frmer set.
And surer than the bayonet
Tilden and Reform hez a better
show with dollars than they ever did
with bayonets, tho reely bleve that
Dimocrat who hez bin hungerin
for an offs sixteen yeers wood fite
for it rather than not git it. Shood
we ever come tn the arbitrashen NV
arms, 1 shell, eff l hev command NV
the Tilden and Reform forces, mass
all in front Nv the capitle, and hang
onto the other side, so that they kin
all see it, a banner with this inscrip-
shun:
"Commishns for post offises made
out here!"
There wood be sich q rush ez all
the troops that Good be unconstoosh-
nelly concentrated IN Wa hinton
coodent withstand. Artillery Good
ent keep the patriots back.
But this IL a digreshn. Wat |
wanted tu say WIZ, Providence takes
better keer NV the Republican party
that it duz NV itself. For jest az we
he'd it all fixed tn hev the CommiShn
appintid, and he'd lockwood on hevin
Davis for the fifth Judge, givin us a
majority, that seltseekin man he'd tn
90 and be electid til the SENT from
Illanoy, maxim it nessary tu hev
Bradley in hiz place, wich iz pizen.
And when Tilden and Reform beg
ged Davis to decline the SENT and
git intu the Commishn, that selfish
man remarkt he'd see him further
fust, wich leeves 100000 Dimocrats
wich wants appointments on the anx.
ious sect.
With Bradley on the Commlshn,
the Corners il cleerly Nv the opinyun
that it iz unconstooshnel. Sich a
thing wuz never contemplated by the
fathers, it wuz never dun afore, and
ther amt no precedent for it. The
idee NV heven a compermize in witch
! the Dimocrisy didn't git more than
twice wat tina klaimed, IL suthin nu
in Amerikin history. l don't com
perhend it.
Eff this Commishn wuz tn give
Hayes chance, wat did he want il
fur? He he'd ls5 votes, and wat IL
the yoose Nv goin thro all this form
atty, onless the objick iz tn hist him
Wen l pla want the keerls proper
ly put up-ef l want tn make livir
bi wurk, ther amt no yoose in play
in it at all. 1t wrencht M mora
back tu acksede tn violashen II,
the constooshen when we WIZ II
max suthin bi it-but tn violate thai
sakred institooshen and then lust
the post offises hi it, il too terrible
The Dimocrisy mite az well pre-
pare tor war tn wunst and be dur
with it. l see nothin else. 1t IL i'm
possible that | shood liv four years
longer and see all the otfises tilie'
with Ablishnests, and we out u,
place, and hev EN- flaunt their kom
mishns in our faces and taunt IL
with holdin NV eln bi vurchoo NV :
kommishn wich we urged.
am ekal tn CRATE deel Nv gree
1 hev filosofy enuff fur almost emmy
thing. l hev dropt bottle afore
he'd moistened mi lips at its strength
givin mouth, and hev seen it's golden
contents flo sadly ava on the side
walk, lost forever. l hev bustid :
jug Saturdy mite, after all the groser
les wuz shutup; and I hev failed tu
borro doller where | thot | he'd :
ded-shoor thing ontu it. All these
woes I hev survived, but this wun
kannot. The agony iz too lons
drawn out. l will not sta in tn
corners four years and see Radikl'
niggcr distribute the paper that cum
here, and stand and reed lottry circ
| ICIk III our CltlZcuS. <AuN titVu "uOt
l think that that man lets the nun
ny wich our confidln citizens send tu
lottrys go direct tn their destlnashen
swellin the Golfers NV pack u,
swindlers in Moo York. instid Nv Ia
kin Nv it out, and spendln it at Bas
CONS, am driven almost tn mad
MS.
1t iz tu be expected that l am tu
support Kommishn witch IL shool
tn kontinyoo sich outrages ez these'
will fite fust, and the Corners sus
tains me.
On reject NV mummy enuff tn buy
suffishent kloth tn haff.sole the trow
sis NV our crtizens, SO that our noble
hartid wimmen wun't hev tn stant
in frunt NV em when tina drill, | viii
organize a cumpany tn wunst. Moo
trowsis wood encurridge the Corners
jist now, mitily. Ez commander u,
tho forsis. oupht to hey moo Dar(