The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-08-20

NIB. NAsBY DEpLoREs THE CONFLICT
OF NATURE AND THE DEMOCRACY, IN
A PITEoUs STRAIN.

A PiTEOUS STRAIN.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
| (Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky (
| July 2s. 1873,
i / am disguised and dishartened
Everything under heaven seems tc
work sgin the Democracy, and make
continyood success impossible. We
succeeded in electin 3 Dimocratic
Congris, the people hevin tired Nv
Republican rooI, and it did seem to
me tha. there wuz nuthin in the way
Nv q continyooance thereof, for an
indefinit period. Hooked confidently
forerd to the Postofiice at th Cor
ners, and rely expected that / hood
end my days holdin that Commishun
and sperdin the salary pleasantly
and cheerfully at Bascom's.
(! In the fust place we wuz shoor
that Sherman's resumpshen wood
cause widespread disaster, wich the
people wood charge to the akount Nv
the Republikin party, and wood bring
the Nashnels over to us, yoonitin both
parties sgin the common foe, and
that after that everything wood be
plain sailin. We could sweep the
hole kentry like a tornader, leevin
nary grees-spot Nv the Rsdikels be-
hind us.
But somehow it didn't work
Sherman resoomed the fust Nv JAN
ooary without the slitest trubble, and
the kentry, insted nv gin to everlast-
in rooin, went on prosperin at fast
er rate than ever.
To our horror, failyoors begun to
grow lesser and lesser, and when l
went to Looisville and interviewed
the merchants and manufacturers,
and they all told me that biznis 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 q
gittiu on fust rate, and wuz comforta-
BILE, then my hart sunk within my
buzzum, and l went home disharten.
ed and discurridged.
Bascom is more Nv Roman than
| am. This wuz early in the season,
and when l wuz weepin over the
prosperity Nv the ke1try, he remark
ed:
"Brace up, ParsoE, there is yit
hope for the Dimocrisy. The crops
may yit fail, and rooin may yit en-
500 !"
Then words give me hope and l
watched the crop reports with in
tense anxiety, and l daily sighed
like Jeremiah, the great lamenterl
Oh, that the frost would stike the
corn in the blade, and the cowcumber
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 horn
all wood rage among the kinel
Oh, that the glanders 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 ten
der and succulent sucking.
Oh, that the rot would destroy the
potato, 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, resump-
shun aud the Republican party, and
we shood elect Tilden and Reform
in 1880, and ! shood enjoy my Post
offs.
All nv these wood it take, and
more to enshoor a triumph for the
Dimocrisy.
/ waited for these in vain. Nacher
favors the Republikin party. There
WIZ no cut-worm, no frost, no hog
cholera, no murrain, no nuthin. l
he'd some hope wunst, when l heard
the weevil and Hessisn fly he'd ap-
peared in the wheat in Illinois, but
my sole sunk when the report wuz
pronounced unfounded.
The wheat ia aversgin 80 bushels
to the akre, and it is sellin for q dol
lar or thereabouts, and the money
paid for it is good, and the farmer is
rejoicin.
What good does it do for me to go
about howlin about hard times to @
farmer with 30 bushels TO the akre in
his barns?
What good is it to howl about bad
money, when tie farmer kin hev gold
and silver, eff he wants it, jist the
same ez paper money?
Watts the yoose Nv talkin about q
change of polisy when the people is
all on broad grin (?
hev only one more hope. There
are seckshuns where corn is the prin-
cipal crop, and corn may yit be dis
troyed.
A early frost in Southern Indiana
might do us some good, but after the
disappointment with the wheat / hev
but faint hopes nv that But eff there
Good be frost that wood kill the en-
tire crop, and thus put up the price
nv whisky, and side pork, it wood
enrsge that seckshun and wood en-
shoor that State for Tilden and Re-
form.
But / hev no hope nv enything. /
am 30 yoost to disappointment that /
shood be surprised at any sich streek
nv luck.
1t don't do no good for me 20 lean
agin lamppost and swsre that work
can't be had in conscience nv John
Shermsn's reconstruckshen, for Joe
Bigler jeers and asks when ever did
| put in q stroke nv work anyhow ?
And wunst when / wuz declsimin
sgin the scarcity nv labor, he put me
down by oferin me dollar and ahaf
9 day to 60 out and hoe corn on a
farm he hez, for which he coodent
git labor enuff.
To give us any hope Nv success we
must hev hard times, in ded earnist,
and reel distress, snd nv that ! see
no hope.
Nacher is sgin us, and who kir
6ght sgin nachery