The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-07-10
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Toledo Blade,1

On some accounts | wish our people did reed.
They woodn't make so meny blunders, but on
the other hand they woodn't be so eesy to
1t is bad thing for Dimocrisy when
people git TO reedin and thinkin for themselves
Joe Bigler come around to Bascom's last
mite and reportid tibet he he'd advices from
reform wuz shoor thing. He sed the South
srn Brigadiers he'd so decided, and that settled
1t.
Bleevin in the words NV this arch deseever
witch takes delite in confusin us, l immejitly
organized the Faithful into a meetin. re-
markt that we he'd wunst more candidate
under witch we Good rally, without eny fear NV
results. We wuz, happily, rid Nv the military
element in Democratic pollytix, element
witch evry troo Dimocrat dispised, onlcss it
wuz clothed in gray.
(Which NV us liz ther," remarkt, witch duz
not remember the disgust with witch the nomi-
nashun NV Miklellan inspired us in 1864? We
wuz then compelled to cast our ballots for
man witch coodent help slawterin sum NV our
brothers, tho, to do him iestice, wood say
tibet he did jest ez little NV it ez he Good. The
mistakes. Saml J. Tilden hez ever ben the
friend Nv the South, and never drawed no
sword agin it. He wuz our friend, fust and
last, and shell never Geese to reveer his name
till forgit the $3.50 he paid me for my vote at
St. Loois four yeers ago. He is no bloo-coatid
hirelin witch went forth to destroy us ez did
Garfield; he il man Nv peece, witch is wat we
want the north to alluz nominate. In the
south we hev different vews Then moved
the adopshun NV the follerin resolushuns:
Resolved, Thet the Dimocrisy NV Kentucky,
now ez ever, deprecates the nominashun Nv
men for civil offises, witch hev nuthin but mil
itary records to back 'em. ..
Resolved, Thet holdin the late war to be an
unprovoked assault upon the liberties Nv the
SOUTH we rejoice tibet the Dimocratic conven-
shun hez given us candidate witch hez no
military record to apologize for, and no blud
nv the south to anser for.
Resolved, Thet the Corners, in the interest
NV constitooshunal liberty and NV free guvern-
ment, will Civ Saml. J. Tilden every vote in
the precinct, and eff any Niger or northern
agitater in these parts attempts to break our
unanimity by voting for Garfield, tibet his he'd
o. The resolushuns wuz passed immegitly, and
Bascom wuz SO delited tibet he to wunst an
nounsed suspenshun Nv reols, and remarkt
tibet in vew Nv the speedy openin Nv Tilden's
bari he wood also open a bari, and wood Civ
credit to-nite eff he code inter BANKRUPTCY to-
morrer. Bascom duz git deliteful streeks now
and then.
Everything wuz now ez wantid it. Bascom
wuz tappin fresh bari, and the Dimocrisy
stood round in state NV expectancy witch may
be imagined but cannot be described. Our
mouths wuz q waterin for the likker witch wuZ
to cum. Bascom wuZ jest q film the pottle to
pass it round, wen jest at the most unforchoon-
It time Pollock the Illenoy disturber, cum in
That man liz alluz bird Nv ill-omen.
"Bigler," sed he, 81 hev jest received tel
s sil." from olnSinna'l' 1t ain : i'laen at
& "Who is it?'' demanded
"Genral Winfield S. Hancock" sed he, "a
Fedrel solier."
And he and Bigler walked out, Bigler leerin
at me in the most feendish manner.
I am seldom cot in a dilemma witch / can't
git out NV, but this rather staggered me, and
it did the Dimocrisy assembled.
Hancock" growled Issaker Gavitt, "Why
Hancock wuz soljer wich wuz at Gettysburg,
and agin u.s."
q. Hancock be id" sed Dekin Pogram, she
fit agn us from fust to last 81 -
1t took me sevral minits to colleck myself,
witch l did vile wuZ burnin the resolooshuns
we he'd passed. But finally got my thots to-
gether. m
to think Nv it we wuz too fast to go to passin
resolooshuns till we knowed fur sartin wat we
wuz resolootin about. We hev committed
them resolooshuns to the flames, and we
won't pass no more till we hev wat the Com
venshun actooally did, under the name of the
President and Secretary. Then we will pass a
set witch will reaffirm wat they hev dun with
great cheerfulness and alakrity A Dime
krat's fust dooty is to obey his Convenshun,
and to do wat his Convenshun direx him to do.
don't deny but wat my hart is sumwhat
tried by the nominashen NV Fedrel sol er witch
arms bore agin us. But why shood we repine?
Why shood we question the wisdom Nv the
choice? WITCH seckshun controlled that Con-
yenshun? Paws and refeck. Wuz it the
North or the South? Eff the North, wat differ
ence is Their betwixt an Northern .Dimekrat
and a Suthern one, anyhow? But the North
ern Dimekrats dident hev nothin to do with it.
The Convenshun wuZ controlled entirely by the
Solid South. The Brigadeers wuz all ther.
Their wuz Wade Hampton, Nv blessid memory.
Their wuz all NV EN-. Their wuz present every
the defense NV the South, either ez delegate
or ez infiooenshel spectator. Bare this in mind
her touznt a niger delegdit in the entire Con-
oenshun. Not one! 1t wuz a COnvenshun NV
white men, actin for white men and in the in
terest NV the white mems party.
Does it make any difference to the Corners
who the fgger he'd is that is put up? Not at
all. The Corners wants Seceshun erik slack
watered, the Corners wants Custom House
and a Post Offs, and the Corners wants her
Suthern heros penshund and the losses NV the
crooil war pade, and dun ez quickly ez posi-
Die. The Corners, onto witch BaScom heZ got
morgij, wants relief in the shape NV money
from the Fedrel Tresury and that immejitly.
We want our niggers back agin-we want the
old system restored, and the Corners wants to
rool this kentry ez it did wunst.
Eff Hancock is the way, walk We in it. Duz
any one suppose that Hancock, witch is to be
electid, eff he is elected at all, by the solid
South, is agoin back onto the solid South after
his eleckshun? DUE the ass know his masters
crib? Is he agoin to turn and rend the hand
witch feeds him?
Are we so stoopid ez to spose that the
Southern Brigadeers WITCH run the Cinsinnati
Convenshun didn't know wat they wuz about?
Heyin but one thing to do do you spose they
kerry some Northern States, and wood it hev
bin polissy to hev put up Brigadier in gray to
hev skeered the Northern Dimocrisy whose
stummicks are still week? We kin forgive
Federal Gineral which, for the sake NV bein
President, is willin to undo ez President ell
ez soldier IL past-wat he will
do o. President IL yet to come. We hey
not gone back onto ourselves in nominatin
himIef he goes back upon hisself that is his
own DlZnl5.
My trends, it is perfecly safe to take any
Fedrel solier witch is willin to take a nominal
ton at the hands of Suthern brigadeer, VOC
bet yer life. And it IL perfeckly safe for us to
swaller the resolushuns, no matter wat they
may be- They all pint one way. Eff they are
for tariff or agin tariff, they meen the old rool
Nv the glorious South. Eff they are for hard
money or soft money, they mean the triumph
NV the South Miklellan, eff he he'd bin electid
wood hey done jest ez well ez Jefferson Davis,
and SO will Hancock
We adorned with three cheers for Hancock
and the platform, tho we hadn't reserved the
platform and didn't know nothin about it.
But ez in the case of the nominashen, we know
the men witch made it, and that is enuff.
Kentucky will role up good old fashioned
D1mocratic majority this Fall, shoor.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Exultant
T. s. Bascom is concerned about the bari.
satisfied that much doubling man by assur-
ing him that Tildens bari wood be opened list
the same. But the Nashnel Community want
to be in haste about fxin that. We kin take a
candidate on trust, but the bari must be
reality. We must know all about that and for
shoor. PV
Negro Murderers Hanged. D.
CHARLESTON, S. c., July 9-Daniel Wash
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