National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-14
MISCE LLANEOUS.
NAsBY DLsHEARrENED.
He Deplorcs the Conflict of Nature and tho
Democracy In Piteous strain.

"o Depiofcs the Conflict OF Nature and tho
Democracy In PIteous strain.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS
witch is In tho State NV Kentucky.
l am disguised and dishartencd. Every.
thing under heaven seems TO work agin tho
Democracy, and makes q continyood success
impossible. We succeeded in electin Demo-
cratic Congris, the people hovin tired NV Re.
publikin roo, and II did seem TO me that there
wuz nothin in the way NV a contiyooance thereof
for an indefinite period. / looked confidently
forerd to the postofice at the Corners, and
RELY expected that shood end my days hol d.
ing that cOmishun aud spcndin the salary
pleasantly and oheorfully at Bascoms.
In the iust place we wuz shoor that Shor-
mans resumpshen wood cause widespread dis
aster, witch the people wood charge to the
akkount nv the Republican party and wood
bring the Nashnels over TO us, yoonitin both
parties agin the common foe, and after that
everything wood be plain sailin. We could
sweep the kentry like tornado, leaving nary
greesespot Nv the Radikels behind u.s.
But somehow it didn't work. Sherman re-
soomcd tho fust NV Janooary without tho
sitest trouble, and.the kontry instid NV goin to
everlasting room, went on prosperin at faster
rate than ever. To our horror, ailyOOre begun
TO grow lesser and lesser, and when / went to
Louisville and interviewed the merchants and
manufacturers, aud they all told me that biznis
wuz better than it he'd bin for years, and that
1t wuz constantly increesin, and increesn too
In a healthy way, aud that they wuz q payin
their hands promptly, and that the hands wuz
Citing on fust rate, and wuz comfortable,
then my heart sunk within my buZzum, and
went home dishoartened and dscurridged.
Bascom Is more of a Roman than am. This
wuz early in the season, and when l wuz
weepin over the prosperity NV the country he
ranarEf NUrnna m Darann io ,,it ko,1
for the Democrisy. The crops may yet fail,
and room may yet onsooW
Them words give me hope, and 1 watched
the crop reports with intense anxiety and I
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 murrian and the horn.ail wood
rage among the kline
Oh that the CHAMBERS wood spred amoug 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 succulent sucking.
Oh that the rot wood 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 Sher4
man, resumption, and the Republican party,
and we shood elect TildeD and reform in 1880
and should enjoy my postoftis.
All of these would it take, aud more, to en-.
shoor a triumph for the Democrsy.
l waited for these in vane. Nacher favor
tho Republican party There wuz no cut
worm, no frost, no hog cholera, no murrain, nc
nothin. / had some hope wunst, when / heard
the weevil and Hessian fly he'd appeared in thu
wheat in Illinois, but my soul sank when thi
report wuz pronounced unfounded. The wheat
| 10 ouin thirtv hnchnlc m lao bra ID Il.
sellin for a dollar or thereabouts, and the
money paid for it is good, and the farmer is
rejoicin.
What good does 1t do for me to go about
howlin about hard times to a farmer with
thirty bushels to the akrc in his barns2
What good is it to howl about bad money
when the farmer kin hev gold and silver,
eff he wants it, just the same ez paper money!
Watts the yoose of talkin about a change NV
polsy when the people is all OH broad GRIM
hev only one more hope. There are seek
shuns where corn is the principal crop, and
corn may yit DO destroyed. early frost in
Southern Indiana might do us some good but
after the disappointment with the wheat hov
but faint hopes NV that. But ef there Good DO
n frost that wood kill the entire crop, and
thus put up the price Nv whskey and side
pork it would enrago that seckshun and en-
shoor that State for Tilden and reform.
But hev no hope NV anything. l am 30
yoost to disappointment that should be sur
prised at any SIGH stroek NV luck. 1t don't do no
good for me to leen agin a lamppost and swear
that work can't be had in conscience nv john
Sbermans rcconstruckshen, for Joe Bger jecrs
and asks when ever did put in stroke OF
work anyhow And wunst when l was do
claimin agin the scarcity Nv labor, he put mo
down by offering me n dollar and a halfa day
to go out and hoe corn on farm lie hez, for
witch he coodent git labor enuf. To give u
any hope NV success we must hev hard times
in ded earnist, and reel distress, and Nv that
see no hope. Nacher is agin us, and who can
fight agin nacher?
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
Distressed Financior.