The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-07
Nasty.
Mr. Nasty Deplores the Conflict OF M.
tnrc and the Democracy In a PiteOus
strain,

July %, 1870.
lam disguised and dishartened. Every
thing under heaven seems to work agin
the Democracy, and make a condnyood
success impossible. We succeeded in
electin a DimoCratic Congris, the people
hevin tired NV Republican rool, and it did
seem to me that there wux nuthin in the
way Nv a continyooance thereof, for an in.
defnit period. I looked confidently for
erd to the postofice at the Corners, and
RELY expected that l shood end my days
holdin that commishun and spendin the
salary pleasantly and c~heerfully at Bas.
CONS.
In the fust place We WIZ shoor that
Sherman's resumpshun wood cause wide
spred disaster, 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 COM
mon foe, and that after that everything
wood be plain sailin. We could sweep
the kentry like q tornado, levin nary
greese-spot NV the Radikels behind us.
But somehow it didn't work, Sherman
resoomed the fust Of Janooary without
the slitest trouble, and the kentry, instid
Nv goin to everlastin room, went on pros
pering at a faster rate than v To our
horror, failyoors began to grow lesser and
lesser, and when l went to Louisville and
interviewed the merchants and manulaC-
turers, and they all told me that biznis
wuz better than it he'd bin for yeers, and
that il WIZ constantly ~increesin, and In
creesin too in a healthy way, and that
they wuZ a payin their hands promptly,
and that the hands wuz a gittin on fust
rate, and wuz comfortable, then my hart
sunk within my buzzum, and l went
home dishartened and discurridged.
Bascom is more Nv a Roman than | am.
This wuZ early in the season, when l wuZ
weepin over the prosperity NV the coun-
try, he remarEt; brace up, Parson, there
is yit hope for the Dimocrisy. The crops
might yit fail, and room may VT ensool"
Them words gave me hope, and l watch.
ed the crop reports with intense anxiety,
and l daily sighed like jeremiah, the great
lamenter:
Oh. that the frost would strike the corn
the blade and the cowcumbers on the
vine!
Oh! that the fruit would perish in the
bud and the scab would get among the
sheep!
Oh! that the murrain and the horn-ail
wood rage among the kinel
Oh! that the glandeB wood spred
among the HOSES and cut them down by
the thousands, 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 pota.
to and the cut-worm the tender corn.
Then wood the people be distrest, and
they wood charge 1t up to the account Of
John Sherman, resumption and the Re.
publiEin party, and we shood elect Tilden
and Reform in 1880, and shood enjoy my
Postotfis.
All Nv these wood it take, and more, to
enshoor a triumph for the Democrisy.
l waited for these in vane. Nacher Ia.
vors the Republican party. There wuz no
cutworm, no frost, no hog.cholera, no
murrain, no nuthin. he'd some hope
wunst, when l heard tina weevil and Hes.
sian fly had appeared in the wheatIin iii.
nois, but my soul sank when the report
was pronounced unfounded. The wheat
is ayeragin 80 bushels to the akre, it Is
sellin for a dollar or thereabouts, and the
money paid for it is good, and the farmer
Is Teioicin.
What good does it do for me to go about
howlin about hard times to a farmer with
80 bushels to the akre in his barns?
What good is it 10 howl about bad
money, when the farmer kin buy gold and
silver, Of he wants it, iist the same ez pa
per money?
Watts the yoose uvtalkin about a change
Nv polisy when the peoplei is all on a broad
grin2
hev only one more hope. There are
seckshuns where cornis the principal crop,
and corn may yit be destroyed. A early
frost in Southern Indiana might do US
some good, but alter the disappointment
with the wheat I hey but faint hopes Nv
that. But ef there Good be a 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 Tlden and reform.
But hev no hope OF anythin. am so
SoVSb W disappointment Ludt suUOu De
surprised at. any SIGH streek nv luck. Il
don't do any good for me to leen agin q
lamp-post and swear that work can't be
had in conscience Nv John Sherman's re,
construckshen, for Joe Bigler jeers and
asks when l ever did put in q stroke ny
. work, anyhow? And wunst, when l WI
declaimin aginst the scarcity Nv labor, ht
|. put me down by otferin me a dollar and
/ half q day to go out and hoe corr on
} farm he hez, for which he coodent git Ia
} Dor enuff. To give us any hope Nv sue
cess we must hev hard times in ded earn
/ list and rs0l distress, and up that l see nj
> hope. Nachef Is agn US, and who XII
. fight agin nacher?
Not "a Beverage.
"Tksy are not a beverage, butt med