The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-06-18
Massey.

Mr.. NAsBT AND HIS FRIENDS DISCUSS
THE ARMY BILL, AND DEPLORE THE
OPPRESSION THE SOUTH Is GRoANING
UNDER, AND THE NORTH AS WE'LL.
CoNFEDRIT y ROADS,
witch is in the State NV Ky.,) ;
June 3, 1879.
There WIZ q sad meetin at Bias
CONS, the mite we heerd Nv the
Presidents veto Nv the Army bill.
A feelin NV gloom pervadid the room,
and there wuz a ssdnis hat WIZ
painfully vizable on every face.
Deekin Pogram he'd succeeded in
borrerin two dollars Nv a Northern
vagabond witch wuz prospectin the
Corners with a view NV startin a
baggin mill, on Secesshun erik, and
but for that we shood hev sunk IN
der the new trubble that he'd come
upon US. The Deekin is libral when
be hez the means, and SO long ez the
two dollars lastid we managed to
keep up, witch we did fer some time,
likker bein redoosed now to five cents.
There wuz forty drinks in that sum,
to say nuthin Nv three rounds we got
cut NV Capt. McPelter, whose credit
is not yit eggshaustid.
"We shell hev o regiment at the
poles here next fall" sighed the good
old man, "and every cussid niger
in Libbertyville will vote, jist the
same ez tho they nj troo Kentuck-
ians."
"Aint they troo Kentuckians ?n
asked Josef Bigler witch wuz present
ez be alluz is when we don't want
him. "Ain't they born on the soil,
and don't the most Nv EN- hev the
best blood Nv Kentucky coursin thro
their vanes? The heft Nv EN- are
three-quarters white, and they must
hev got it from Kentuckians. ez none
NV their dear mothers ever left the
State.n
We paid no attenshun to The ribald
skofer.
Thine wuz," sed Capt. M'Pelter,
"when we he'd it in our power to
keep a Yankee from votin here, to say
nuthin Nv niggers witch never dreem-
ed NV SIGH a thing"
"Ah ln sed Issaker Gavitt, his eye
litin up with o momentary enthoosi-
asm, 81 remember in 1859, Nv hangin
q Yankee skool teacher who insisted
on vo.in an Ablishun tikkit. The
tree is still stsndin, and alluz shell
stand ez a momentum Nv days for
ever fed"
1--WE kin stand it," | remarkt, "for
we are yoosed to bein ground down
under the iron heel Nv oppres-
shun."
"Never saw any %soljers at the poles
here" sed Bigler.
eve are yoost to bein ground
down." | continyood, not heedin the
interrupshun. "but alas for our trends
in the North With %soljers at the
poles, and with the supervisor system
continyood, what will the Irish in
Moo York do? What viii 0'Brieas
and 0'Shaughnessys, and the hosts
nv faithful Dimocrsts witch vote
from morning till mite, do, when q
frankie Government interieres with
glissnin steel to prevent en-! Ne
things / see tie faithful patriot wich
hez votid a dozen times langishin in
a basteel, and for what? Ga for the
days NV Tiides and Holman, when
the patriotic impulses nv q Irish citi-
zen run and wuz gDorifed."
at is thunderin bad" sed 10 Big
Ter, 'to think Nv a lazy patriot like
ClaGin only votin wunst when Ted
dy O'Brien who pits in a whole day
Nv it, hez TO be arrestid snd basteel-
ed. 1t is shockia."
"Wait till another Presidenshei
eleeshun," sed Bascom. "Then the
Dimocrisy viii git its rites. There
will be no ablishniss General 10 the
Glare TO interposs bis veto. Then
we shell hev what We wsnl. The
eonfedrit ~soljers will hev their PEN.
shuns, and our clames for property
destroyed by the Linkin's feends will
Se paid. / see a glorious prospeek p
sed Bascom, bis eye litin up very
much like g prophit's. ~ see Con-
fedrit %soljers comm into this bar in
droves and each Nv en- payia for
their drinks jist afore taken Nv EN-, 10
prevent mistakes. / see the akkounts
that 700 men hev bin runnin up doo-
all these dark days balanced, and
the money in the till. ] see the
creGi; system for drinks abolished
aud the corners come back to cash on
the nale, and no tick. / SEE