Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-09
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The Cross-Roads Philosopher Mourns over
the New Condition of the South.

Lie CTOSS-1COa0S PHILOSOPHER MOurnS over
the New Condition of the south.
Toledo Blade.
CoNFEDRIT X RoADs witch is in the
State NV Kentucky, Oct. 27 1877
Despite the Dimocratic triumph in Ohio
and the prospective success in Pennsyl-
vany, my hart is sad
The Dimocrasy NV the South is crush
ed, and there amt no life into EN-. For
the first time sence the beginnin NV the
unconstooshnel war, the Corners haint
got grievance with witch it can infame
the public mind or fire the public
hart.
The infamus eight to seven President
Hayes, hez taken away all our capitle
and did it in sich a crooel manner that
heven't words to express my detest-
ashen NV the man, or my hatred NV his
ak.
For fifteen years or thereabouts
can't git fax down to a fine pint in my
present demoralized condishun-we he'd
a soft thing on the Radikels. I he'd it
in my power at any time to inhame the
Corners to pitch!uv frenzy, witch ena-
bled me to do anything under heaven
with EN-. All / he'd to do wuz to leen
on the bar at Bascom's, and sigh, and
demand NV the people wat wuz the use
NV startin WOODEN factry, or develpin
plantashen, or bildin cotton mill, or
anything Nv the sort, so long as the
South wuz overrun with bloo-coted MIN
yuns, and all our energies are para
lyzed.'
Then Issaker Gavitt, after tryin in
vane to bOrrer a quarter NV Deekin Po-
gram, wood jine in. wat is the yoose,'
he wood say, NV capitalists investin
their meens in develOpin the country,
when they were groanin under military
despotism? For one, I'll never put my
mems into nothin, not till we are re-
leeved."
Then the entire bilin Nv EN- cz wuz
lecnin on the counter, waitin for some
stranger to come in and trect en-, wood
swear that so long cz they wuz a-groan-
in under the oppresshun nv military
rool, that they'd be id if they'd adj
vance anything for any enterprise of
any kind. 1t wuz no time to put out
money, when capitle wuz liable to be
rooled by the iron heel nv military
power.
After this ebullishn they'd look wea-
rily around to see witch Good hold out
the longest, and finely jine aein Bascom
and so worry him that he'd give en- each
credit for bowel-warmer, rather than
be annoyed with EN-, after witch they'd
90 home and brood over the oppresshun
they wuZ sufferin under, while Their
wives WIZ splittin wood with witch to
fry the bacon they had borrerred.
Now this is all over We never did
hev any military at the Corners, but
Their wuz about 800 scattered through
the South. Them is all withdrawed. and
our capitle is gone. We can't enthuse
any more. That withdrawal NV the mil
itary sealed up the fountain NV teers
wich we he'd been in the habit NV she'd
din over the oppreshun we he'd bin suf-
FERN under, and choked off our lamenta-
shuns Eff | say military okkepashen,"
immejitely some Radikel remarks that
the troops is all withdrawed, and Their
ain bloo-cote in the South.
Then my sole sinks
Wat good wood rcformer be in
world witch hez no sin in it? Wat good
is there in being agitator when Their
amt nothin to heller agin? Eff the yoo-
serper he'd left hundred soljers in the
South-ef he he'd left ten-ef he he'd
left one or the ghost NV one-ef he he'd
put up bloc cote in corn-feld it wood
have been enuf, but to send the entire
500 off to fife Injuns wuz crooelty to ne
and SIGH ez me, for wich ! shell never
forgive him.
The idee of Dimocratic conversions
bein obleeged to indorse the acts NV a
Republican President. The idee Nv hev-
in nothin to howl about!
| hav he'd nothin but trouble and dis
appointment sence this policy wuz adopt
ed. When | wuz in Moo York last week
| tried to raise fund to organize the
Dimocrisy for the next oampane in the
South. Not dollar kood | git, for the
merchants all remarkt that tina wuz too
busy shippin goods to the South to at
tend to nashnel politix. Tina refoozed
to contribbit cent for tina sed things
wuz doom quite well. thank 700. and tina
thot tina kOod git along without any NV
my help.
In Kentucky, outside Nv the Corners,
the people hey quit politix, purity much,
and hev settled down to workin the
plantashens, and the planters are concil-
latlng the nlggers and pawn NV EN- big
wages. The niggers amt yotin togeth-
er, and the whites amt nuther. The
mizable, low-sperited beins are goin on
quietly attendin to ther bizness. and
ther ain t no call for men like me. Tha
remark to me that ez tina ain t got emmy
rites that are in ieperdy, tina amt stuff
rim for a defender to emmy alarmin ex-
tent, and tina step up and take Their
drinks by therselves, and don't ask me,
and so | suffer from drouth.
When the pot hiles the sediment
Gums TO the top. The yooserper hez
poured lie into the pot, and it don't bile.
The sediment stays quietly in soak at
the bottom, and I am the sediment, and
wo is ne.
| am at the bottom while fat is at the
top.
Death can't come to my relief emmy
too quick. PETROLEUM V. Nasty.