Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-12-20

HIS SATISFACTION AT TIE ACQUIsI-
TioN OF MEssRs. CoNoyER AND PAT
TERsoN, BY TIE DEMOCRACY. =
d. CoNFEDRIr Y ROADS.
(Which is in the State of ky.,)
Noy. 2G, 1877. }
Iknowd it--I hcv felt it. Doorin
the long dreery years that the Dim
ocrisy hev mourned under Radikel
rool, hev bin certin that the day
wood come when we 'hood hev our
own agin, and wunst more controle
the de ,tinies and postoilises NV this
great republic.
/ never did live for one day, nor
never made base calkilashuns on the
events NV a single yeer. The phi
losopher hez to go the bottom NV
things, and reeson from COZ 70 ofi;~st-
~ The Dim pcratic party hez the rum
mills, the Irish and the Cross Roads,
Everything in society and popelashun
that grayltates downward, comes to
US jist ez materially cz iron films comes
to a magnit. 1t is law NV nachcr
that like attracks like. Start lsloon
in the strictest Moo England town
and the few Dimocratic voters will
find it out in week, and from that
time their caucusses will be held in
the back-room, and eff the 'slOOh
keeper is industrious the party will
be reinforced by all the men wich
wood like to be dissipatid in the vi
sinity.
NV faith wuz based on this law NV
nacher.
The Dimocrsy bein in a minority
becoz NV the presller Nv the war;. it
KEEP the drift. wood i'll the RepubliIin
camp. But when that preshcr wuz
removed, and the independent Re-
publikins commenced to split upon
other questions than reconstruckshen
and sich, and the Dimocrisy takin adj
vantage NV these dissenshuns began
tu kerry this deestrick and that dee
strik, ontil they he'd the House, and
this Senator and that Senator till they
wuz within Two votes NV a majority
in that body, l knew wat would
come. g I'll
1t hez come.
Conover and Patterson hev come
over to us. Conoyer and Patterson
hev cast in their lots with us, and
hentcforth and forever will. he found
battlin for purity and reform, in the
Dimocratic ranks. "A E
It's an aequisitions
Patterson is threatened, it IS trpo,
with the Penitenshary, but wat NV
that?
Whenever a Republican gputs his
self in danger NV the Penitenshary,
he jist begins to be fit for the Democ-
risy- HillnNF Il H&I iii
A Republicans bcin in danger NV
the Penitenshary, shows that he ,hez
bin contemplatin Il change in his 20
litille affillasheus, and hez bin Fpre-
palins for it. = ~
Welkom. Patterson and Conover !!
Welkoml last recroots to the army
NV reform.
see the end. The House is ours.
the Senit is ours, and the yooserpei
stands alone. He hez in his yooser-
pin hands the symbol up power, but
it ez harmless ez sword Nv lath,
We hev him and the party which fore
ed him onto us. Eff the Dimocrisy
hev any senee, the postoffises is ours
in 1880.
Thank hevin that our enemies il
made up Nv men with opinions, an'
thank heyin they pride theirselve
onto it. Thank hevin that they diffe
so ez to the way to do it, that the,
pervent theirselyess from doin it a
all. While they are fitin over hoy
the game shell be played, we hev ru
off with the stakes. 1t is deliteful t
b'long to party whose only prins
| pie is postoffis.
Il We are SO neer the controle NV Il
Government, that the drift-wood WI
either come to us, or rename nootre
and that drift-wood we kin mana:
better than the Republicans did. v