The Portland daily press., 1879-08-08
Toledo Blade.1
Nasty.
He is Disheartened and Discouraged"
and Deplores the Conflict of Nature
and Democracy in a Piteous Strain.

L am disgustid and dishartened. Everything
under heaven seems to work agin the Democ-
rasy, and make continyood success impossible.
We succeeded in electin a Democratic Congris,
the people hevin tired nv Republican rool, and
it did seem to me that there wuz nothin in the
way Nv a continyooance thereof, for an indef-
init period. looked confidently forerd to the
post office at the Corners, and RELY expected
thet shood end my days holdin that commits
shun and spendin the salary pleasantly and
cheerfully at Bascom's.
In the fust place we wuz shoor that Sher-
mans resumpshen wood canse wide spread
disaster, wich the people wood charge to the
Republican party, and wood bring the Nash
nels over to us, yoonitin both parties asin the
common foe, and that after that everything
wood be plain sailin We Good sweep the KEN
try like tornado, leevin nary greese-spot nv
the Radikels behind us. e.a -
But somehow it didn't work. Sherman re-
soomed the fust NV Janooary without the
slitest trubble, and the kentry, instid NV goin
to everlastin rooin, went on prosperin at a fast
er rate than ever. To our horror fallyoors be-
gun to grow lesser and lesser, and wen went
too Louisville and interviewed the merchants
and manufacturers, and they all told me that
biznes wuz better than it he'd bin for yeers, and
thet it wuz constantly increasing, and increes-
in to in helthy way, and thet they wuz a-pay-
in their hands promptly, and thet the hands
wuz a-gitting ON first-rate and wus comforta-
ble then my hart sunk within my buzzom and
1 went home dishartened and discurridged.
Bascom is more NV a Roman than / am.
This wuz erly in the seeson, and when wuz
weepin over the prosperity Nv the kentry, he
remarkt, "Brace up, parson, there is yit hope
for the Dimocrisy. The crops may yit fale, and
room may yit enSoo!'
Them words give me hope, and 1 watched
the crop reports with intense anxiety, and l
daily sighed like Jeremiah, the great lament
er- F..t.
Oh thet the frost wood strike the corn in the
blade and the cowcumbers on the vinei
Oh thet the fruit wood perish in the bud,
and the scab wood git among the sheep!
Oh thet the murrain and the horn-ail wood
rage among the kinel
Oh thet the CHAMBERS wood spred among the
hosses and cut them down by the thousand,
yea, by the ten thousand
Oh thet the cholera wood reyel among the
hogs and destroy them all, from the mature
sow down to the tender and succulent suck
lingi
Oh thet the rot wood destroy the pertater,
and the cut-worm the tender corn!
Then wood the people be distrest, and they
wood charge it up to the account NV John Sher-
man. resumpshun and the Republican party,
and we shood elect Tilden and Reform in 1880,
and 1 shood enjoy my post-offis.
All Nv these wood it take, and more, to en-
shoor triumf fer the Dimocrisy.
waited fer these in vane. Nacher favers
the Republican party. Their wuz no cut-worm,
no frost, no hog-cholera, no murain, no nuthin.
1 he'd sum hope wunst, when herd the weevil
and Hessian fly he'd appeared in the wheel in
IlIinoy, but my sole sank when the report wuz
pronounced unfounded. The wheel is aver
agin 30 bushels to the aker, it is sellin fur
dollar or therabouts, and the money pade fur
it is good, and the farmer is reioicin.
What good does it do fur me to go ABOUT
howlin about hard times to farmer with 10
bushels to the akre in his barns?
What good is it to howl about bad money,
when the farmer kin hev gold and silver, Ell he
wants it, iist the same ez paper money?
Watts the yoose NV talking about change
NV polisy when the people is all on broad
grin?
hev only one more hope. There are occa-
shuns when corn IL the principle crop, and
corn may yit be destroyed. A early frost in
suthern Indiana might do us sum good; but
after the disappointment with the wheel hev
but faint hopes NY that. But eff there Good be
frost that wood kill the entire crop, and thus
put up the price NV whiskey and side pork, 1t
wood enrage that seckshun and thus enshoor
that State for Tilden and reform.
But hev no hope Nv enything. i am so
yoost to disappointment that l shood be sur
prised at eny such streek ov luck. 1t don't do
no good fer me to leen up agin q lamp post and
sware that work kant be had in konsekence
Nv John Sherman's reconstructshen, for Joe
Bigler ieers and asks when I ever did put in
stroke NV work enyhow And once when was
declaimin agin the scarcity NV labor, ne put
me down by offerin me a dollar and half
day to 60 out and hoe corn on a farm he hez,
fur wich he coodn't git labor enuf; 10 give
us eny hope Nv success we must new hard
that see no hope. Nacher is agn us, and
who can fite agin nacher?
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Distressed Financcer.