Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-11-27


Any one with half eye wich wood
gaze onto my classicle face wood know
that he'd herd from MASSACHUSETTS, and
Moo York. Any one wood also know
that the Corners he'd herd from them
States, eff they wood gather in Bascom's
for minut. There is settled gloom
pervadin the feechers Nv the regler sit.
ters wich is diStreSSin-that gloom wicl
kin only come from disaster Nv gigan,
tic peerporshens. Sich disaster is onto
us. and we feel it.
The day afore the elekshun all wu7
joy and happinis. We sed "we shel ker-
ry Moo York, and that settles the Presi-
denshel elekshun next year. With a
Dimekratic President and DimekratiC
Congris, we shell hev cOntrOle NV this
! Government. We shell hev the mere
working grubworms Nv the North where
they ought to be, under the feet NV the
shivelry NV the South. We shel to wunst
vault into the place we Okkepied afore
| the war, when we commanded and the
North obeyed Thus will the pride that
fills every Southern heart be gratified."
but this is not all. Stumicks is e2
necessary to be filled eZ hearts, and this
victory will be one for the stumick e2
well ez heart. We shell hev the South
ern debt paid, We shell hev Southern wal
claims paid, we shell hev custom housis
and postoffises built, we shell hev Seces-
sion erik slack-watered, and the Cross
Roads and SeeessionYille railroad con-
structid at the expense NV the Guver-
ment (Which for sich purposes is a ma
shen), we shell hev money paid by the
mere trade in mechanics Nv the North
fiowin thro the South, like the Nile
when its banks is Overfiowed, enrichin
every inch NV our territory. We shel
hev the consent Nv the Northern eend Nv
the party to re-enslave the nigger in
some form, and we shell hev no Fedrel
bOyOnits to interfere when we want to
git shet NV Northern settlement"
This Sed we one to another.
| MASSACHUSETTS wuZ to heV given us
wat We yearn for, jiSt ez much onlimit-
ed currency-troo Suthren currency
wich the man yoo owe hez to take, and
wich hez no earthly pervlsiOn for REDEEM
shen, wich We consider jist ez good ez
buyin goods on credit in Moo York, eve
ry bit. We wuz agOin to hev Massvchu-
sets thro Butler, set the printn presses
agoin, and heV prosperity speed by
steem. Then we shoOd hev emancipa-
It'd ourselves from the iron grasp Nv
BaScom by payin him off in fiat money,
and shood hev startid fresh with him,
and SO long ez the Government wood
print, shood go on on cash basis, witch
we wuz aliuz willin to do ef we Good on
| " hev he'd the money.
Our hopes is dashed. Moo York in
suits the South by electin Cornell, and
MASSACHUSETTS dashes the cup wuz jist
at our lips by berryin Butler. The Re
publikins hev swept everything, and
with their success down we go. Ther
will be.a Republican President to veto
wat our Congris may do, and before we
kin git another there will be Republican
Congris. to grind us into the dust.
Deekin Pogram is neerly hart-broken.
Il shell go down to my grave" said that
sufferin saint to me, Yesterday, teers a
chasin each other in rapid succession
down his venerable cheeks, each maxim
| its little furrOr eZ it went. Il shell 60
down to the grave without ever wallop-
in a nigger agin, and 1 shell never eat
the produx NV ther accussid hands. My
clame for the two hundred constructive
mules John Morgan stole NV me will
never be paid, and next spring l shel hev
to put in crop NV corn with these
hands wich wuZ never attoOned to Ia
Dor. And Bascom will foreclOse his
mortgage, and L shell be turned out to
starve, melancholy sample Nv the room
caused by an unhOly war; 1t is too
much"
The Deekin's remark about two hun
dred constructive mules needs explana-
shen. John Morgan really took from
the Deekins farm one mule and a sorrel
mare. The Deekin put in a claim for
two hundred mules, on this basis, viz:
The mare would probably hev he'd a colt
next year, and that colt would hev he'd
one the year after, and so on. Doublin
them up that way like the sum in the
rithmetic about the hoss nails, the Dee
kin felt that he was entitled to pay for
at least two hundred, and wuz Serusly
contemplatin film a supplemental claim
for hundred more, when it looked eZ
tho we WIZ goin to sweep the North.
But now the old mans hopes is pros
tratid, and he goes about ez one without
hope.
The Radikels will never pay for the
bilt thro my farm, and we amt Il goin
to hev influx of fiat money. Their amt
nothin left for me but to lay down and
die, for am too proud to work and
ther amt nobody round here to beg
from.
We do it better in Mississippi. Their
the Dimocrisy know how to carry eleck-
shuns. We hev kerried YaZoo county
by increest majorities. Ever sence the
last barrel uvpOwder, with shot agreea-
BILE, wuz sent down there, ther hez bin a
reglar lessenin NV the Republican vote,
and the trade in tOmb-stunS wood hev
bin tremenjusly increest, eff the survi-
vors he'd he'd the temerity to stay long
enuff to put up monuments to ther ded.
But wat kin Mississippi do alone? We.
feel good at hevin that refuge from the
storm, but it amt enuff to do us any
praktikel good. Zach Chandler's death
is suthin, but both these Dimocratic
games won't save us.
The jig is up. We hev nothing now
to hope. Eff W he'd sposed solid South
wood hev made a solid North we mite
hev kept our hands off till we wuZ more
sekoOrly fixed in the saddle, but we did
wat We did, and spose we shell hev to
abide the consekences, terrible ez they
are. But who wood hev bleeved that
North he'd so much backbone? Posi-
bly, they amt serfs after all. l kin
stand it. A few yeeFs more NV bOrrer-
in, few yeers more NV fnanshel skir-
mishin around bar rooms, and shel go
hence. Then wat difference will it
make to me who is President or who hez
the Congris. A disappointed life will
hev fittin endin.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Disconsolate