Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-07-04
MASSEY.
Mr. Nasty in Disgust Returns 80 the
Corners. and Briefly Describes the
Effect Of the BuFchard Resolution
Upom that IIl.FaGed Community.
CONFEDRIT x ROADS,
WHIc,Fy Is N THE S,r ATE nv KFNTTCF4Y

CONEEDRIT n ROADS.
WHICH Is N THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
Joon IL, 1873.
am back in Kentucky, and 1 shell stay
here. I don't want nothin more to do
with Democratic polytix. Eff Bascomb
will give me place ez bartender, will
forever dismiss the hope so long and ia
tally nussed NV bein postmaster, and set
tie down for the remainder up my life,
content. l don't want salary-a perma-
nent pOsishen is all l need. Board and
likker, and sich close ez comfort demands
is all that is necessary for me. hev no
more ambishn-I almost wish I wuz ded.
We he'd the radikels in vice from wich
they Good not escape. We he'd charged
fraud onto Hayes, and we he'd bought up
our witnesses. Eff Anderson wuzn't suf-
icient we Good hev he'd jis ez many more,
quite ez credible, ez we wanted. Witness
ses is cheap. and ez our witnesses wuz
willin to swear to anything we wautid,
there wasn't the slightest defkilty in our
provin everything that wuz necessary
Then all that Wuz wantfd wuz to move on
Hayes with an impeachment, and seat
Il
POstOffises, the Custom Houses, and the
entire patronage NV the Fedrel Govern
ment wood hey cum to us, and there wood
hev bin that peace without witch there can
be no prosperity.
But wat come of it? Jest ez this wuz
all fixed. Burchard interdoost resoloo-
shen declarin that the objik NV the inves-
y A.,
President.
DimOcratic members votid fur it and it
wuz past! In the name NV Hevin wat
wuz it fur then? Fur wat did go to
Washington and spend my time and Til
den's money, eff it wuzn't to oust Hayes?
Fur wat wuz the eyes nv every Dino
crat wich hev looked lOngingly on Post
ofisis and Custom Houses these many
years, turned anxiously to Washington?
Not disturb his title? Why, that wuz wat
we wantid, and all that we wantid. We
wantid them places, wich we Good only
git throo Tilden, and wich so long ez
Hayes sets there, wuz not fur us. Wat
do [ keer eff Paul plants and Apollos
waters ef don't get none of the increes?
The increes is watI wuz after. wantid
days NV ease and mites NV de1ite. wanted
conciliation and offs. l wanted pros
perity restored to the Corners by havin
the Government disburse more money,
and to hev that money cirkelate among
the proper people. L wantid Bascomb to
prosper, and the Deekin's few last days
to be contentid.
All this is lost by the pusilaninity Nv
the Dimocratic members. All this is gone.
They don't want to disturb the Presi-
dents title! The investigashen is now a
farce. 1t is circus without any ring
master, clown or riders. 1t is menagerie
without any animals. The soul is gone
out NV it. What good does it do to inves-
gate eff nothin suhstanshel comes NV the
investigashen?
WO is me! hev nothin left now but
sooiside and an untimely grave. L hev
been 1ivin on hopes ever since johnson
went out and Grant come in, and hopes
hez but little neurishment in EN-. You
kin stand it while on hopes, ez you kin
on stimulants, but you hev to have suthin
more substanshel, or the system breaks.
That substanshel wUz wat the Potter in
vestig gashen promised, but that gone all is
gone. The reakshen is terrible. I look
at the Postof1s and exclaim in the words
NV the poet,
s'Thou art so near and yet so farY'
I am done. 1 don't want nothin more.
Bascom does nothing but look at his slate,
the accounts on which will never be paid,
and weep, and Deekin POgram hezn't
spoke an Ineligible word sense the fatal
news struck him. There is a gloom set
tied onto the Corners the like NV wich
heven't seen since Lee surrendered. 1t
don't matter to me whether Tilden OF
some one else is the Dimocratic nominee
in 1880. The disappointment has so
weighed onto my mind that long before
1880 1 shell be in the silent tomb, and il
won't matter to NEE who succeeds Hayes
I can't live ez hev bin, and the sooner ]
die the better. DimOcrisy amt got nc
muscle nor much intelleck. It's flabby
1t won't survive me long.
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