The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
NAsBY GOES TO OHIO.
PETTUsvILLE, }
(Which is in the state nv Ohio.) ;

: PETTUsvIILE,
+ (Which is in the state NV Ohio.)
s Aug. 9, 1879.
felt IL my dooty to heed the Masodc
: man cry wich the Dimocracy nv Obi
l yelped, "Kum over and help us ~ an
| went, to do little mishunary wor
in the suthern part nv the state, for tina
possel NV Unlimited money, that har
binger of good times, Gep'l Ewing.
2 wish wuz back in the Corners, an,
shell git there jist ez SOON ez the Sentra
Committy let's me leave this most dis
couragin kentry.
Ef the rest Nv the state is anythn.
like this seckshun, Ohio is gone up
Room is before Ohio and the state /
driven full tilt onto it.
met with no success at all, whicl
wuz not my fault, ez the condishuns ar,
agin me. | wuz never SO disappintet
In my life and hope never to be so agin
expected to find a people ready u
receive Dimecratic doctrine. | expect
ed to find distrest kentry filled will
farmers bemoanin the hard times, ant
mechanics layin idle, with their familiel
starvin. l expected to find a shoelis
hatlis, coatlis community NV serfs, wicl
he'd ben ground down by the none,
power till they wood be willin TO re.
ceive any promis Nv change with Joy
and gladnis. j expected to see factris
silent and farms disertid, shops shct up
and only nashnel banks and sich open
expected TO find pale men, weak-eyed
with hunger, and pale-faced, dispairin
women, starving themselves that they
mite keep life in their angel babes.
he'd ben reedin the Dimecratic pa
pers, yoO see, about the people bein
ground under foot, and l hied me to
Ohio with the most joyous antissipa-
| shens.
When / struck Pettusville il occurred
to me that | must hcv got into the
wrong locality. l arrived in the mite,
and nOiist the landlord nv the hotel
weighed suthiDg over two numbered,
and his wife wuz suthin heavier, but
that didn't affect me. In all strikly
Dimecratic localities landlords git fat,
no matter who else grows lean, wich
they generally do. turned in and
hugged the idee to my buzm that
shood hev easy work to do in that place.
The fust thing notist in the mornin
wuz string NV teens, mile long,
more or less, waitin to onload wheat at
the warehouse on the ralerode. The
men onto the loads wuz about ez hale
and harty set NV fellers ez ever seed.
They wuz'nt pale, nor wan, nor nothin.
They wuz hefty specimens, and loOkt
ez tho they he'd three square meals
day all their lives.
To my horror notist that the shops
wuzIall open and the mechanics all very
hard at work, and that the three facto-
ries in the town had torrents NV smoke
a bilin out NV their chimneys.
Bein entirely shoor that l had ben
sent to the rite place in spite nv these
discouragin appearances, approached
a farmer wich he'd sold his load and
wuz just agoin into bank with his
wife.
"My friend" sed l, "yoo arc victim
nv the money powerp
"Mat!' wuz his reply, looking ez tho
he thOt wuz a escaped lOonatic.
"Yoo are a serf, bondman and are
held in the grip NV the bloated bond
holders, wich is squeezing the life
blood out NV yoo."
"Is theyw sed he. sI never thot NV
that. But l kin beet 'em. l really
havn't time to discuss the matter, for,
700 see, Pm goin to be bonded bloat-
holder myself. l hev jest sold my
wheat, and I'm jist goin in to buy a
bond or two. want to be aristocra-
cy myself awhile"
And he elooded me, leavin a button
in my hand.
Repeatin the same remark to another,
he merely remarkt: go, git out, yoo
ass! Wheat thirty bushel to the acre
and dollar bushel, gold. ! want a
great many years more NV this Kind NV
room. Where 700 frum, anywayY
Abandonin the farmers in disgust, for
got the same answer from all NV 'em.
1 attempted to git in my work on the
distrest mechanics which must hev bin
rooined by resumpshen, but my success
wuzn't any better. / don't know but |
Good have convinst 'em that they wuz
all rooined ef he'd he'd fair show, but
the alarmin fact wuZ they wuz all too
bizzy to listen to Inc, for il happened to
be pay day. Every man NV 'em went
out Nv the offs with his money in full,
and every man Nv EN- declined to hear
word l sed.
1t wuz in vane urged that they wuz
serfs, 1t wuz in vane that l told cm they
wuz bein ground into the dust by the
nashnel banks, it wuz in vane told em
resumption wood be their room, for ev-
cry one of EN- filed past me and went
and deposited their spare earnings in
one of these octopusses, tho nashne
bank NV the place.
l can't understand what Ewing sent
me to sich place fur, and / telegraphed
him. The Dimecratic Central Commit
ty ansered:
"HOld on a while. A heavy frost
may come in August and kill the corn,
and fetch EN- to their senses. Then
they will know what Sherman has done
Tor EN-. Suthin must DO left to Provi-
dence."
And SO am sittin in the tavern,
watching the thermometer. Ii is corn
kentry, and the farmers depend on that
crop for the heft of their profits. Ef the
Lord wood only take pity OH the Dim
ocracy and send heavy frost, n regular
black frost, this month, i shood hev
some show. 1t wood derange things
and tear up matters to sich all extent
that IL wood give us chance. But
then the wheat crop was SO heavy that
Pm not shoor that even the totle de-
struckshen NV the corn crop wood save
us. The hog cholera can't come soon
enuff, and ez for cattle and horses,
never saw EN- so disgustinly healthy.
Still, shell sit and watch the ther-
mometer and cuss John Sherman, ez
the Central Committy direx. II is pos
sible that some distress may come upon
the kentry before October, tho reely l
see no encurridgin signs.
PETROLEUM V, NAsBY,
Distrest Finanseer.