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Toledo Blade.l
SaWe put off the ratifcashen NV the Dime
kratic nominees till this late day for two rea-
sons, viz, we wantid to wait till somebody had
tapped his barl so that the ratificashen Good 90
off with some eclaw, and second-we he'd to
wait till Boscom got fresh barl NV likker from
louisville Yoo kant ratify Dimekrafic
nominashun here on half barl, and hev eny
enthoosiusm manifested. 1t amt our style.
We held the ratification last mite The
meetin-house he'd bin decorated by the patri-
otto wimmin NV the Corners in the most gor-
geous style. The two candlesticks on.the pull
pit wuz furnished by Miss Melindy Pogram,
bein made from the thigh bones NV Federal
hirelings which perished justly, at Anderson
vile; the hammer yoosed by the chairman
wuz the shin bone NV niger who went up at
Fort Piler, and the Confedrit flag wuz taste
fully draped over portraits NV General Lee,
Jefferson Davis and uther heroes who gave
themselves to the cause of the sunny (now SOL
id) South.
commenst proceedins by remindin the aw-
Jence that this wuz a sollum occashun For
the fust time for many yeers the Dimocrisy NV
the country he'd chance Nv succeedin in their
effort to do justis to the surin South, or ruther
the suffrin South he'd opportunity NV don
justis to themselves. We hev evry earthly
chance to succeed, and eff we don't, it's our
fault. Their is no more acknowledgements
matter how long patriot served in the Con-
fedrit Army, he can vote jest the same as tho
he he'd served in the Fedral Army 1t is troo
we hev bin obleeged to nominate Fedral solier
but that shood be no obiekshun. Eff he fit ON
one side he hez votid on the other with
commendable regularity, and it is time that
the South berried sich isshoos. For one, he'd
forgiven Gineral Hancock for drorin his sword
on the wrong side. forgive him, and shell
vote for him, even ef he wuz agn us. L earn
estly hoped that his bein Fedral soldier wood
not be held agin him, but that the solid South
would show its generosity by broad and ccm-
prehensive forgivenis.
Deekin Pogram sed thet it wuz bitter Dill
for one wich he'd lost his niggers, and whoos
fences and pertaters he'd bin taken by Ginral
Morgan, and wich the Fedrel Government he'd
refoosed to pay for, to vote for Fedrel Ginral.
1t ruther riled him to vote for eny man wich
he'd ever wore bloc. But eff it wuz nessary to
do so in order to ketch enuff Northern votes he
sposed he shood hev to sabmit. He did sub
init, and wood publicly say that he forgave
Ginral Hancock for bein in the Fedral army
1t wuz the dooty Nv the South to forgive, b.
cause we want jestis dun us. We want our
brave solJers penshuned, we want the losses
inflicted onto US by a crooel and uniustifable
war paid, and while it will do the present GEN
erashun sum good, and we want Seceshn erik
slack watered. If to do all this requires the
eleckshun Nv Northern solier, so be it, With
the understandin thet Hancock repents his
vandalism the deekin exprest hisself ez willing
to vote for Hancock. English hez nothin 10
repent NV.
Issaker Gavitt sed he took brorder yew nv
the nominashen. He he'd assendid higher
plane, and knowd no South, no North no East,
no West. He wuz for the hull kentry. The
North wuz rich, the South wuz poor. The
North loved to accumulate property, the
South to spend it. The North pado taxes, the
South didn't. He wood proudly appeal to any
one present tor ite ef he he'd ever pade eny
taxes, ceptin incidentally the accursed tax on
likker, and thet wuz mostly evaded by gittin
our supplize Nv the Moonshiners. Wat folly
then for the Corners, wich wants a custom
house and ship canal, and improvement NV
Seceshn erik, and dozen other things wich
will take frum the n orth million Nv dollars,
and distribbit it down here, to stop to inquire
wat color the nominee NV the Dimekratic party
wore doorin the late unholy war. When he
thot NV them appropriations he wuz reddy to
consider the crooel war eZ over. When he
considered that the South wuz the Dimekrafic
party, and thet whoever took a nominashen at
its hands gave mortgage onto hisself in favor
Nv the South, he shood hate hisself of he hednt
the sense to Civ him his support. He wantid
pay for the property wich the Confedrits took
when they wuz ragin throo Kentucky and he
wantid appropriashens. Consistently he took
broad. statesman-like vew Nv the matter, and
shood vote for Hancock jist the same ez tho he
he'd bin ez good a Confedrt ez Lee hsself.
He forgave him frum the bottom NV his hart
for bein Fedrel soljer. Gnral Hancock
coodent helpit.
Kernell McPeiter remarkt that in vew NV
the necessity NV havin Suthern soljers PEN
shuned, and Suthern loses made good, like
wise Nv hevln some sort Nv controle NV the
labor NV the slaves wich the infamus Linkin
unconstitooshenelly freed, he wuz willin to
forgiv the nominee Nv the Dimekratc party
for BARN arms agin the South But he felt that
suthin wuz doc the South, suthin NV sooth-
in nacher. The South wuz proud, and to con-
Stantly remind her Nv her humiliashen wuzn't
jist the thing. He wood seiest to Hancock
that, inezmuch ez the South forgives him, that
he drop the title Nv gineral and be spoken NV
hereafter ez simply Mr.. Hancock. Shoorly no
man wich wood take nominashen at the
hands NV the Dimocrisy wood want to retain a
title won by fitin agin that party. He he'd NO
doubt that our nominee wood zee the propriety
Nv this act Nv jestis the mint it wuz seiestid
to him.
The meeting then endorsed the nominees,
tho hintin that the sooner Mr.. English opened
his BAR, the sooner the Corners wood feel like
bein enthusiastic. Another resolooshun recitid
that while there wuz no question that Sam'l j.
Tilden wuz defraudid out Nv the presidency
yet his persistent refoosle to send money to
Kentucky to aid in a Dinekratic triumph
triumph mitgatid our greet and wood finely
eradicate it. 1t wuz hard yellin fraud dry
Tipped. The paper contanin the platform he'd
bin lost and we didn't know wat it was 1t
made no difference however, for Issaker Cav
lit moved that 1t be heartily endorsed and that
the Corners accepted it ez the soundest kind Nv
sound Dime crisy. And then we adjourned to
Boscom S, the likker bein charged ap to the
Dimecrati. Central Commtty.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY
with prospex NV again snin hissef P. NJ
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