Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-02-13

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WICH Is IN THR STATE Nv KENTUCKY, :
January 81, 1879.
The perverseness of some men Is be-
yond all human calkalashun, and the
nisfOrchoons Nv the Dimocrisy Is suth>
in wich nothin short nv infinity kin
ealkelate on. There ainG no disiplin In
the party, but it seems on the contrary
ez tho every man NV em, from the
highest officer down to the lowest phi
Wit in the ranks, was f1tin on his own
hook.
Their wuz bill interdoost into Con
girls remOoneratin Kentuckian named
Mitchell for cotton seezed by Linkin's
hirelins, and the proceeds NV wich
went into the Fedrel Tresury and was
yoosed to crush the South in its holy
struggle for its rites.
1t wuz very simple case. Mitchell
went South at the beginnin NV tie
unholy croosade. He he'd q pass OF
suthin FROM q Fedral general to 90
South, but when be got there he pre-
ferred to stay, and he did stay for three
years.
Bein q troo Kentuckian Mitchell
went into the Confedrit servis, ez q
commissary or suthin nv the sort.
That he was troo friend Nv the South
is evidenced by the fact that he come
back alive, and wuzn't hung 10 the
neerest tree.
DoOrin his absence his cotton wuz
remorselessly seiz'd by Linkin's feends,
and conflskstid.
After the South was crushed, Mr..
Mitchell's wealth being mostly in
COdfedrit money, he bethought him.
self of the cotton. / don't know how
much cotton was TAKEN. nor is it ne
cessary that ] shoOd know. 1 only
know that he put in claim for SI28,-
COO, enutf to enable him to live In con-
siderable comfort and smooth his path
way to the silent tOom. That Wuz all
ther wuz about it. 1t vas case wich
appeeled to every DimOcrat, and il
ought to hev gone thro the House with
whoOp, ez the beginnin Nv consilia-
shen.
But before it cum to a vote, a Dime
krat named Bragg, of Wisconsin, made
4 incendiary speech agin it, and 10 add
insult to ipjoory he gave the sufrin
South DUtiS that sich claims wood be
resisted by the DimOcrisy NV the
| North, and that ther wood be no earth
| ~ yOOoC III lDOcIOOOSlu Slcn DlllS.
Let me ask Mr.. Bragg wat he means?
Is ne Dimekrat and does he compre-
bend the bull duty Nv a Dimekrat?
Wat wuz he electid fur? Wat rite hez
he to bold seat in Congris, ez Dim
ekrat, and cast his vote again Dime.
Braiic measures? He is insubOrdinit.
He hezn't the remotist idee Nv wat his
dOOty really is. Wat did the South
cum back into the Yoonyun fur?
He sez it will be the entrin wedge
for sich appropriateness, till the Tresu~
ry is bankrut. Sposn it is? Doesn't
Mr.. Bragg understand that rite here in
the Corners we hev claims aRin the
gineral Government for more than
twice tine amount NV Mitchells beg
carly demand? Why Deekin Pogram
lost II mules and all his fences, and
Capt. McPelter his distiIlery with its
preshus cOntence. Isaker Pogram sez
he lost suthin, and there amt citizen
Nv the Corners but wich diskivered he
he'd been impoverished by the bloo-
kotid hirelins, the very mint it wuz
diskivered that there wuz a prospeck
Nv Dimekratic House and Senit; and
consekent payment Nv these claims.
The effect on the Corners NV this
prospek Nv payment WIZ instantane-
Gus and strikin. Tber revived in our
breasts feelin Nv devoshun to the
old flag wich we hedn't felt for years.
There wuz an immejit longin to see its
folds hOatin everywhere, and exprcsh>
uns begun to be heerd that the South
had made mistake, and that the old
flag was good enuff for US. And wat
hQtf0r flat n kok kL.,
payment of these claims wuz consider
ed shoOr thing, Bascom re-establIshed
the credit system. and in the most
generous manner put down on his
slate jist ez many drinks ez we ordered.
When citizen sed Put it down, Bas
conn., his inquiry wuz: 'Hev you q
clame agin the Government? and ez
the anser alluz wuz: Certainly--mules,'
he put 1t down cheerful and smilin.
boo you know, Mr.. Bragg, wat yoor
inseDjary speech hez dun? 1t hez
crushed out yOonyunism here, entire.
ly. 1t hez revived the old fealin nv
animosity to the Fedrel Government,
and revived the smoldsrin discontent
that was we'll nigh extinguished. The
citizens murmur: Then the Govern
ment amt goin to pay nae fur my
mules? D-n the Government
Isaker Gavitt sez that eff Bragg, nv
|, Wisconsin, succeeds in blOckin the
payment to him fur the mules thet
John Morgan took, the hopes NV the
South for free government are forev-
er dashed, and that freedom may as
well commence her shreek.
The reedin NV Mr.. Bragg's speech
hez plunged the Corners into gloom
from which it will take months tol
arouse it. Biznis is deprest, and there
is general stagnashen. Bascom refOOs.
ed credit at his bar to wunst, and we
hev to depend on chance commershel
travellers from Louisville, for wat re-
freshers we git. We sit and sit afore
his fire, and wonder Of the time will
ever come when supplies will be reg
lar, and the worm that dieth not in
our stumicks will ever be suffishently
satiated. All this we owe to Bragg
nv Wisconsin.
/ never want to see Dimekrat elect
id from State like Wisconsin. They
amt half baked. Wat Bragg shood
hev done wuz to vote for that clame,
and take defeat, when he came up for
re-eleckshun, like q man, trustin the
next Dlmekrat President, wich will be
under Southern eontrole, to give him
q furrin mishun.
Sich Dimekrats must be red out nv
the party. We didn't come back into
the Yoonyun to play the second fiddle
to the North. Nv the Radikel North
we expect opposishun. Nothin less
will anser. The Braggs must either
git into their old places, or 60 out
~ AlS.Af~laAu sal
weepin and wailin and gnashin nv
teeth.
The cardinal principles Nv the Suth-
ern Dimocrisy Is:
1. Payment NV all clames that any
Confedrit may make on the Ginral
Government for property used upI
doorin the struggle.
2. Pension Suthrin soljers, incloodin
even sich ez wood like to hev gone In
to the servis, but didn't.
3. A comprehensive system nv ins