Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-04-11

Important business called me to neigh
b0rin village, and | wuz absent from the
Corners two days The biznis wuz, |
NAV say, not altogether unconnected with
a supply Nv shirts. Doorin the campane
for Tilden and Reform, witch hez endid so
pnhappily, my linin wuZ wore out, and
went out to a seckshun wher they hev SIGH
things, to borry three or fosr, witch | did
off NV lines-without hevin any prelim-
mary conversashun with them NV whom
7 borrereu EN-. | shood hev preferred to
hev EN- dun up, but shirts dryin amt
bad. | amt proud-the troo Dimecrat
skorns starch.
When the cats away the mice will play.
Smite thessheperd and the sheep will be
shattered. Scasely had turned my back
onto the Corners afore Pollock and Joe
Bigler got at the people, and they cap
cherd Bascom. Capcherin Bascom, they
he'd the res. Nv EN-.
They red to the Corners the inoggeral
of the Yooserper Hayes, and explained
to EN- wat the polisy Nv that arch cOnspir-
ator wuz goip to be. They red over a
list Nv his Cabinet, dwellin espeshly on
his appointment Nv that runnygade, Key,
and tole EN- that he wuz goin to run the
Government in the intrest Nv the whole
country, and not NV any seckshun, and
that the time he'd come for the lion and
lam to lie down together, and that the lit
tie child wuz in trainin to Iced EN-.
And blest eff they didn't git EN- imprest,
and they showd BascOm that it wood be
better tor the Corners eff the old feelin
wuz done away with entirely, that the
two parties shood dwell in yoonity, and
instd Nv wastin their strength contendin
with each other shood expend it q maxim
suthin Nv the place.
arrived at about seven O'Clock in the
eveI.in and went, ez wuz material, strate t.
Bascom's. felt well. My expedishen
he'd proved a success, for got not only
more shirts than any Reform leeder in
Kentucky ought to hev, but | he'd also
prokoored sum sox and pare Nv boots
witch wuz standin convenient outside a
door
"Where is G.. w. ?" | asked Nv Mrs
BasCom, who wuz in the bar
"Ther is meetin at the church, and
Bascom is there"
"a meetin at the church, Who dares
TO call meetin in my absence"
And feerin evil fastened over to the
meetin-hOuse.
1t wuz harrowin site my eyes restid
ento There on the platform sot Pollock,
the niger Postmaster, M'Pelter, Issaker
Gavitt, sevrel more niggers, Bascom, an
other Niger, and--the Deekin. Joe Big
Ter wuz standin up and reCdin from a
paper.
. Wat is this?' I shreeked " Bascom,
M'Pelter, Issaker and Ell tU BroOt-the
Deekin with them Radikels! Wat does
this meen ~
"The gentleman will take his seat, and
keep quiet, while ! reed these 1esoloo
shens," returned Joe, and he red EN-:
WAREAs. The country hez bin KEEP in hot water
for about fifteen years, and
WARFAs, Hot water amt the most comforta-
Bile thing in the world for the fish that is in It, e
they hev bin accustomed to cold and
WAREAs, Ez President Hayes appears to be
t-yin the best he knows how to settle things on
proper basis, and in sich way ez to do jeStis &c
every one. ana iniestis to none, therefore be it
HeSoi,ed. That the Corners, recogni2ln the gooc
intenshuns Nv the President and his advisers
pledges itself to stand by him, without regard t
former party atiilashens, and to do wat we kin t.
bring about he era of good teelIn.
ReSol,ed That from this time ont all the bit
TERMS NV the past shell be buried in the Corners
that every man Will recognize every other MAJ
ez a citizen all heyin ekal rites, in life, hbert,
and the pursoot Nv suthin to eat
d" And drink" sejested Bascom.
And that all the divisions on politikle quee
tons shell Geese onil things hev settled, and suth
in occurs to divide us more material way.
Rcsolted, That
Good stand this no longer, and sprung
to my feet.
"Deekin! Bascoml M'Pelter! Issaker
My Frendsl are 700 agoln to set there
and let them infamus incenjary resoloo
shons 90 forth Ell the voice Nv the Corners
Are 700 aGoin to be led by your enemie
into such trap"
Why not?n askt BascOm. Amt VI
he'd hell enutf here? Hez anybody mad
anything by all the worry and trouble u
the last ten yeerss'
Bascom, eff them resolooshens pass
and ef they are carried out in the spin
witch seems to pervade this unconstitoo
shnel assemblage, wat, let me ask, 4
dg0in 10 becuna ur m6r IF ther Is gon {
be peece and harmony, ug aoot goose am /
Eff thcr amt agOin to be no more I. gger
TO kin, ef everybody hez Their rites, et the
amt no yOoserper to struggle agln, Il
BascOm's har-room, ef Their amt no occa
shen for eloqucnCc and defiance, lcat an
10 dog Wat do YOU want to throw me on
Nv bizniz for? Fl 700 acknowledge tn
yoosurpcr Hayes, wat need hey yoo nv
defender? Why, 700 leeve me, strandi
and helplis, and mite jist q well lcey
the Corners to wunstl Deekin, Bascom
Isaker, kin 700 do thisy'
don't see, commenst BascOm, bu
/ woodent let him 90 on.
"But see. Ell this cry NV good feeli
sets in, | may eXc,ame with the niger
the play, OtheIlo's Okkepashcn's gone
My friends before 700 commit yoorself
this beresy. let Us consult
| finally goL these misguided men OF
nv the house, and into Bascom's. and th,
Iappeeltd to EN- more at an advantag'
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