The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-09-18
from the Toledo Blade
MIR. Nasty Initiates the Example of
Wade Hampton.
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
In the State NV Kentucky
Aug, q. 1880.

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Aug. q, 1880.
L sigh ez did the late Henry A
Wise, NV Virginny, for kentry in
witch ther amt no newspaper. Noos-
papers and skools is wat kills the
Dimekratic party. They can't get
along together nohow. Wat the Di.
mocrisy wants is a seckshun in witch
Their amt no noospaper, ceptin them
witch is published by authority, and
whose contense is soopervised by a
commity before publicashen.
Two weeks ago we he'd eetin at
the Gross Roads to reconsile differ.
ence that he'd unfortunately sprung
up in the ranks NV the Dimocrisy.
The trouble wuz this:
The Corners he'd ishoCd its bonds
to build Court House and a Markit
House and .Other Improvements witch
Bascom he'd TUX, he bein the prinsi-
pie capitalist. He bought EN- up at
about 10 cents on the dollar, and
holds EN- to-day.
Now comes the trouble. The city
zens don't want to pay the bonds at
all. They hold that they hev the
buildings, but that there is some le-
gal flaw in the contrack, witch don't
compel EN- to pay, and they perpose
to take advantage NY it.
Immejitly ther wuz a split among
the citizens. Them witch holds the
bonds insists tibet sumthing shood be
paid onto EN-, and them witch don't
hold EN-, but hev to pay taxes, insists
that they shan't pay anything.
The questiod hez gone into politix,
and the result is two tikets liable to
be nominated, and the Dimekratie
party divided.
1t wuz my duty to prevent this,
and called the Corners together. land
made a speech to EN-. l he'd the
meetin house decorated the same ez
| alluz do on important Occashuns.
l he'd on the pulpit the skulls of the
Federal sellers from Bull Run, the
thigh bones NV the Fedrel soljers
starved at Andersonville, and the
skeleton of the niger killed at Fort
PilloW.
Friends" said I, SIN the presence
NV these reliks l implore you to
pause. Wat is bonds, wat is taxes.
compared to Dimekratic triumf?
700 are quarrelin over purely lokle
ishoos. Before 700 divide and en-
danger Dimekratic triumf consider
wat Lee would hev done, wat Jackson
wood hev done he'd they bin ia yoor
places. Remember that the prin-
ciples we are fitin fur to-day are the
principles they fit fur, that the idees
underlying the Confederacy did not
die with the surrender Nv Lee, but
that.tbey are in eggsistence now, and
that this eleckshun decides whether
the South or the North triunfs."
l went On in this way an hour, and
finally got the people satisfied to
settle the matter without any trouble,
and went home feelin good.
Now wat happenedY There hap
pened to be present that mite cousin
NV farmer in the naberhood, who
is the editor Nv RadIkal paper in
Injeany. That feend took down in
shoi t hand my entire speech, and he
sent it to his PAPER in Inieanv and
published itin full, with illustrashuns
of the bones NV the Fedrel soljers,
and everything connected with the
meetin. And the Republican press
Nv the North is using it to show that
the old Rebel sperit is not ded yit.
This is what bothers NE. Wat rite
hez that man to send speech North
that wuz intended solely for the
South p
/ didn't want that speech publisht
in Injeany, 1t was intendid for
Southern consumpshen only, 1t wuz
made for the Corners and for the
Corners only. 1t is a trubble with
Dimocrisy, that you hev to hev
speeches for every different lokality
Eff / make speech at the Corners l
don't want it sent up into Injeany or
Ohio, and red there, for Dimocrisy at
the Corners and Dimocrisy in the
North is two distink things.
l don't know ez it will do me eny
good to deny it, ez Wade Hampton
does, for the cussid speech wuz re.
ported in full, and is kerrect. But it
is Ialsin blazes with US. 1t is bein
yoosed to show that we Nv the South
hey not lost eny NY our old idees, and