The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-22
CONFEDERATE x ROADS,

CONFEDERATE u ROADS,
(Which is In the State NV Kentucky
Ell the Dimocrisy NV the North Good only
realize the condishen the Dimocrisy NV the
South is in, they wood put ON their armor and
never lay it off till the last vote wuz polled
Ihe condishen Nv the South is pinable in
the eggstreme, and onless immejt relief is ex-
tended, nobody kin be miserable for the con-
sciences.
The mountins IL full Nv distillers, wich IL
bein huntid by frankie government. Tho
rites NV the citizens NV the South to manufS,r,
ter ther corn into whisky and sell that whis
without pay fl emmy tax onto it, is dispootid
Fedrel revenoo agents, backed up by armed
men, is a scourin the mountins, and when
moonshiner is caught, his likker is con-
fskated and his still is destroyed. 1t wood
be suthin ef the likker wuz brot down to the
villages and distributed to the citizens, but II
Is not. The heds Nv the barls are crooely
stove in and the preshus fluid is drunk by the
non-appreciative wich d hez no bowels
that need it.
over thirty thousand gallons hey thus ben
destroyed within ten miles Nv the Corners,
this year. Think Nv the Dimekrats that this
likker wood hev made. Think Nv the comfort
that likker wood hey bin to me and Deekin
Pogram.
But it is lost forever.
We want Congris that will keep the tax
on lkker, but we want President and
Treasury Department that will not collect the
tax in the South. Eff the tax wuz removed
the North wood undersell u.s. and destroy this
revenue, but by maxim the North pay the tax
and hevin revenoo offisers thet wood not COL
lect it in the South this industry Good be main
tanned.
We want the tax on terbacker repealed en-
tirely, ceptin on sch varieties ez they raise in
the North. Our Northern trends must remem-
Der that the heyiest tax we pay is on terback-
er, and it bares hevily onto our people. The
impoverished Sonth needs heep NV nussin
Jest now, and this wood be help to us only
sekond to proper arrangement OF the likker
inter st.
Then we must hev the ofises. The Dimoc-
risy Nv the South lost their labor wen the
feend and goriller, Linkin, emansipatid the mig
gers, and the Southern gentleman is altogeth-
er too hawty TO perform manyooal labor his
self. Next to livin off nv Niger labor he is
sdapted TO holdin light and esy ofises, WHARF
the tn labor isn't too hefty, and the pay is ample.
The ottises is now all in the hands NV the Rad
ikels, and we languish. All our industries
langulsh. Not bein postmaster hev no mon
ey to spend at Bascom's and he mourns. Not
being collector NJ 'Pelter hez bin obliged to put
mortgage ON his farm in favor nv Bascom.
wich Bascom don't want, ez he hez to pay cash
for likker in Louisville.
We want these places ourselves, and must
hev them.
Then we want to be shoor NV bein free frum
eny interference with our system NV labor
We perpose to hev the niger back to his nor
NAL condishen in some shape or another, wich
we kin never do so long ez the Abolshionist ia
are at the he'd Nv things in Washington, and
the government is controlled by Radikle-
Congress. Republican government is a stand
ing menace to the South.
1t amt necessary for me to refer to the pay
ment Nv our clames for losses doorin the war
and the penshunion Nv our Copfedrit heroes.
This is the very first thing to be done, for wat
he South Heeps is capitile.
We hev now clames before Conoris wicb
amounts to several billions, and we must hev .
Congris wich will pay them clames. and a
wich won't veto the bills We are sufferin for
this money. Deekin Pogram hez a came in
for hundred mules that Morgan seezed, and
the poor old man, ON the verge NV the grave.
wants the money. hev clame In for = pen-
shun for servis in the Looizeana Pelikins, and
want 1t to smooth my pathway to the toom.
We shan't be hard upon the government
We shell want part Nv 1t cash down, and the
balance in bonds. To make the down pay
ment the government can ishoo greenbax witch
Dy Inc reesin the vollum NV the currency wood
stimulate trade, and the bends mite run for
ever Of interest wuz promptly paid. Yoo SEQ
we are reasonable. We don't wish to embar.
ras nobody.
Pay theseclaims, penshun our soljer,s and
give us sich appropriations ez we want, and
the South will be loyal to the government 50
long ez 1t hez government bond left. Is it
nkeiy we'd ever rebel agin government on
the interest Nv whose money we wuz living,
and wich we controlled. There is but one way
Nv soothin the Southern hart, and paoifyin the
Southern soul.
Dimekrats nv the North, to you we appele.
You see the fix we are in. Eff Southern
planter Good go to work like Northern farm
er, it wood be differant. We might then re-
kooperate ourselves. But 1t kant be did. We
are proud, governin, roolin race, and must be
cared for ez sich. 1t wuz the North that took
away our niggers, and the North must take
ther place.
The South holds out her hand to VOC. See
that we are not disappointed agin.
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY,
Manager for Hancock.