Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-08-14
Nasty.
NIr. Nasby DepIOres Ghe Conflict Of Ma
ture and the Democracy, in a PItea
GUS strain.
CoNFEDERIT x ROADS,
Wich is in the State NV XVI

SONFEDERIT ROADS,
(Which is in the State NV Ky.9,
July p, 1879.
lam disgusted and dishartened. Ev-
erything under heaven seems to work
agin the DimOcracy, and make a cOntin-
yOod success impossible. We succeeded in
electin Democratic COngris, the people
hevin tired nv Republican rool, and it did
seem to me that ther was nuthin in the
way OF cOntInyOoance thereof, for an
indefinit period. l looked confidently
forered to the Postoffice at the Corners,
ana reely expected that [ shoOd end my
days holdin that Cemmishun and spendin
the salary pleasantly and cheerfully at
Bascom's.
In the fust place we wuz shoor that
Sherman's resumpshen wood cause wide
spred disaster, wich the people wood
charge to the akkount nv the Bepublikin
party, and wood bring the Nashnels over
TO us, yoonitin both parties agin the com
mon Toe, and that after that everything
WOOD be plain sailin. We Good sweep the
kentry like tornado, leevin nary greese-
spot nv the Radikels behind us.
But somehow it didn't work, Sherman
resoomed the fust NV Janooary without
the slitest trouble, and the kentry, instid
NV goln to everlastin room, went on pros
! perrin at faster rate than ever, To our
horror, failyoors begun to grow lesser
and lesser, and when [ went to louisville
and interviewed the merchants and man.
mes wuz better than it he'd bin for yeers.
and that it wuz constantly increesin, and
increeSin too in healthy way, and that
they wuz payin their hands promptly.
and that the hands wuz gittin on fust
rate, and wuz comfortable, then my hart
sunk within my buzzum, and went home
dishartened and discurridged.
Bascom is more NV Roman than 1 am
This WIZ early in the season, and when
WuZ Weepin over the prosperity NV the
country, he remarkt: Brace up, Parson.
there is yit hope for the Dimocrisy. The
| crops may yit fail, and room may yit en-
500 ~
Them words gave 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 cowcumbers
! on the vine!
Oh! that the fruit would perish in the
| bud, and the scab wood git among the
! sheep!
Oh! that the murrain and the hornaiI
wood range among the kline!
Oh that the CHAMBERS wood spred among
| the hosses, and cut them down by the
thousand, yea, by the ten thousand.
Oh, that the cholera wood revel among
the. hogs, and destroy them all, from the
| mature sow to the tender and sueculent
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, resumption and the Re-
publikin party, and we shood elect Til
den and Reform in 1880, and | shoOd en-
JOY my Postoffis.
All NV these wood it take, and more, to
enshoerAa triuWph for the Dimocrisy.
| waited for these in vane. Nacher
| faVOrS thn RoDuhliLriO no rfv TTbapa v1y1,7
no 5cut-worm, no frost, no hog cholera, no
| murrain, ne nuthin.z- [ he'd some hope
wUnst, when heard the weevil and Hes
sian fly he'd appeared in the, wheat in
Illinois, but my soul sank when the re-
port wuZ pronounced unfounded. The
wheat is averagin 30 bushels to the akre,
it is sellin for a dollar or thereabouts, and
the money paid for it is good, and the
farmer is reioicin.
What good does it do for me to go
about howlin about hard times to a far
mer with 30 bushels to the akre in his
barns?
I What good is it to howl about bad mon
ey, when the farmer kin hev gold and
silver, eff he wants it, jist the same ez
paper money?
Watts the yOose NV talkin about a
change Nv polisy when the people is all
on broad grin?
| hev only one more hope. There are
seckshuns where corn is the principal
crop, and corn may yit be destroyed. A
early frost in Southern Indiana might do
lis some good, but after the. disappoint-
ment with the wheat I hev but faint
hopes NV that. But eff there Good be q
frost that wood kill the entire crop, and
thus put up the price Nv whiskey and side
pork, it wood enrage that seckshun and
: enshOor that State for Tilden and reform
But | hev no hope Nv anything. am 81
, yoost to disappointment that / shood bC
surprised at any sieh streek NV luck. Il
don't do no good for me to leen agin {
lamp-post and swear that work can't be
had in conscience NV John Sherman s
reconstruckshen, for Joe Bigler jeers anC
! asks when 1 ever did put in a stroke u
work anyhow? And wunst when WI;
declaimin agin the scarcity NV labor, ht
, put down by Offerin me a dollar aud
halfa day to go out and hoe corn on
farm he hez, for wich he coodent git iabo
! enuff. To give us any hope NV success W,
must hev hard time, in ded earnist, anC
and reel distress, and NV that I see nj
hope. Nacher is agin us, and who kiI
fight agin nacher.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Distressed Financier