The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-08-30
THE CECIL WFIIG EIKTON SATURDAY. AUGUST 30 1879
LETTER rpCH lIASEY.
CNNFEDEIT Y ROApS.
{ Wich is in the state NV Kentucky.
Aug p. 1919. !

I " ltn - III ltlt 'Nt.lbC Nv
Aug -. 1879.
lam Disguised and dishaltcucd. Every
thing under heaven seems to work agin
the Democracy, and make 4 continJood
success impossible. We succeeded III
clectin 4 Dimocratic ConSri$, Tie people
hcvin tired NV Republican rool, and did
seem to Inc that there wax nuthin in the
way Nv a continyooancc thereof, for ali
inlinit period l looked confidently
forcrd to the post Office at the Corners,
and RELY expected that | shood ,nd my
days holdin that commishun and spendin
the salary pleasantly and cheeriully at
Bascom's.
In the fust place we wuz shoor that
Sherman's resumpshcn wood cause wide
sprcd disaster, which the people wood
charge to the akkourt Nv the Republikin
party, and wood bring the NashncIs over
to us, yooniten booth parties agin the
common zoe, and after that everything
wood lie plain sailin. We could sweep
the kcntry like a tornado, levin nary
greeseSpot NV the Radikcls behind us.
Eut somhow it didn't work sherman
resoomed the fllst Nv Janooary without
the slitcst trouble, and the kentry inStid
NV goin to everlastin rooin, went on pros
perrin at I; faster rate than ever. To our
horror. failyoors begun to grow lesser,
and when l went to Louisville and inter
viewed the merchants and manufacturers,
and they all told me that biznis wuz bet
ter than it he'd bin for ycers, and that it
WIZ constantly incrcesin, AMI incrcesin
too in healthy way, and that they WIZ
payin their hands promptly and that the
hands WIZ a gittin OIL fust rate, and WIZ
comfortable, then my hart sunk within
my buzzum. and | went home dishcart-
ened and tliscurridged.
BaScom is more nv a Roman than am
This WIZ early in the season. and when
WIZ vcepin over the prosperity nv the
kcntry, he remar!lt: Brace up. Pa-son.
there is yit hope FOR the Dimocrisy. The
crops may yit fail, and room may git en-
soo!'
Them words give me hope and watch
ed the crop reports with intense anxiety.
and | daily sighed like jeremiah the great
lamenter:
Oh. that the frost would strike the
corn in the blade, and the covcunGers on
the vine
Oh! that the fruit would perish in The
bud, and the scab wood git among the
sheep!
Oh! that the CHAMBERS wood spread
among the bosses, and cut them down by
the thousand, yea, by the ten thousand.
Oh. that the murrian and the horn-all
wood rage among the kline.
Oh. that the cholera wood reyel among
the hogs, and destroy them all, from the
mature SOW to the tender and succu.ent
sucking.
Oh. that the rot wood destroy the po-
tato, and the cut worm the tender corn.
Then wood the people be distrest, and
they wood charge it up to the account of
John Sherman, rcsuElpshcn and the Re
publikin party. and we shood elect Tildcn
and reform in 1880, and shood enjoy my
post offs.
All of these wood it take, and more. to
enshoor triumph for the Dimocrisy.
| waited for these in vanc. Nachcr
favors the Republican party. There WIZ
no cut-worm. no frost. no hoG-cholcra, no
murrian, no nuthin. | he'd some hope
wunst. when heard the wccvil and Hes
sian fly he'd appeared in the wheat in Hi
nois. but my soul sank when the report
WIZ pronounced unfounded The wheat
is averagin 30 bushels to the allre. it is
selin for dollar or thceraboutS. and the
money paid for it is good, and the farmer
is reiuicin.
What good docs it Go for ne to 60 abot
howlin about hard time to a farmer with
30 bushels to the akrc in his barno
What good is it to howl about bad
money when the farmer kin hev gold and
silver. cf he wants it. jist the same ez
paper money?
What's the yoosc W talk III about a
change NV poiisy when the people is all
on a broad grin?
hev only one more hope. There are
seekshunS where corn is the principal
crop. and corn may yit he destroyed. \
early frost in southern Indiana might do
us some good. hut after the lisappoint-
ment with the wheat hev but faint hope
of that. But ef there Good he a frost that
wood kill the entire crop, and thus put
up the price NV Wiiiskey and side pork,
it wood cnrame that ScekShun and enShoor
that State for Tildeu and reform.
But | hey no hope NV anythin. am
SO yoost to disappointment that | shood
be surprised at any sich streek Nv luck.
1t don t do no good for me to leen agin a
lamp-post and swear that work can't be
had III consekcnse NV John Sherman re-
colistrVckshun, for Joe Bigier .jcers and
asks when cyeT did put in stroke NV
work anyhow? And auns, vine" | vuz
declaimin agin the scarcity NV labor, he
put me down 10y oflerin me dollar and a
half Il day to go out and hoe corn on a
farm he hez for wich he coodcnt get labor
enIfi. 70 give rs any hope NV success
we must hev hard times in led earnist,
and reel distress, and uv that 1 see 10
hope. Nacher is agin Us, and who kin
fight agin nacher:'
PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Distressed F'inancer.