Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-11-04

(Wich is in the State NV kentucky ;
October lj, 1880
The Cross Roads met at the meetin- house
the mite after the October eleckshun. II
wuz pertikerly gloomy meetin. the most
espcshly gloomy hev ever xitnist Me-
Indy Pogram and Hammer NcPel,er he'd
spent the entire day in preparin the house
for the occashen. They draped the skulls
Nv the loonvun sojers killed at For, PilIer
IN five cent bombazine, folded the Confedrit
flag, wich is our pride. in mournin. and run
stripes Of blSk caliker all over the house
The pictures Nv Jeff Davis and Boregard
wuz likewise draped and only two candles
wuz put upon the pulpit.
The exercises wuz opened by singin this
hymn wch adapted for the occashun:
Plunged In gulf OF dark despair,
We wre,ched sinners lay.
The niggers votid everywhere,
Upon election day"
After wich read EN- the follerin
VALE w ANGIsH:
"A Dimekratic man is Nv few days and
very full w trouble.
lie goe,h forth to the polls smilin in the
mornIn, and returneth at mite full w wounds
and brooses and petrifying sores
The DImekratlc party Is too short at both
ends
1t is a harlot that dresses too low in the
neck and too short in the skirts
Il is weak in the middle and no strength
ahideth AZ the top or bottom.
The Lord is agin the Dmokrasy.
In vain We prayed for short crops. and in
vain our supplicaShsns went up for rinder-
pest and hoof-root among the cattle on 4
thousand hills.
In vain We implorcd for potato rot and
potato bugs. or ANYTHING else that wood dis
tress the lank and make him howl for a
change.
In vain We invoked the aid Of the wceylc
and the iIessin ty, and the chiutx bug. and
army worm. that the husbandman should
curse the administrator and turn 10 us,
10, the more We prayed for distress the
more there wuz prosperity.
The crops were good. and the prices there
for bully, and what kin Dimekra, do when
there is no trouble2
We preached hard times ard they shook
gold and silver under our noses
We said to the laborer. 10. YOU are op-
pressed. and he jccrcd. showln NV us saw
ms bank book
The smoke Nv the furnace was 10 Us the
smoke Of the torment.
The clang Nv hammers. and the whceze
uv the engine wux our funeral knell
We sent Blackburn and other brigadcers
70 the north, but the people put their
tongues N their check, and wasged their
heads IN der!slou.
We sed 10, we hey yoonyun soljer for
our candidate.
And they ansered, sayin. verify he hez
changed his uniform.
They shattered Greel, and they hey
cracked Hancock between their thumb nails
We offered en- free trade and they an
swered. sayIn give Us 4 tariff,
We offered EN- soft money but they re-
Piled, sayin no soft money in ourn.
We offered to take the government of
their hands, but they sed it was dom very
we'll now thank WOO.
Gone IS the postoffices, and the custom
house shel never know us again.
Gone IS the hope Nv penshuns and the pay
ment Of our war claims
Bascom will either hev to shut shop or
forcclose on our farms.
For hi, chalk is out, and talk is cheep.
but lIkker costs money.
The moonshincrs will be hunted in the
moun,ins and the dweller on the plains will
90 athirst.
The nigger Lubbock will coutinner in the
pos,ofiis, and Pollock from Illnoy will sit at
the recet Wv customs.
And Joe Bglcr will Vet be his deputy and
yex the people.
Wher shel fly Wher is the rock that
shcl hide me ?
Too Moo Jersey The Radikels will ker-
~ that.
To Delaware They are reechin out
their impious hands for that,
To Florida That will swell the vote for
the feend Garfield
TO Mississippi The nigger will vote in
that state next yeer and it will be no place
for me.
To Arkansas? Ez goes Mississippi so
will she.
The nigger will vote, and he will ask
wages for his laber.
And his wife will not be ourn agn, nor
his doter.
We shel not sell them ez paupers to the
highes, bidder, and they will own land, anu
mules and sich.
We shell see skool houses in the South
and preachers, and other abominashens.
And who kin tell ? We NAV hev Rollin
Mills and such things III the Corners
For when the shivelry is bustid what is to
prevent the iank with his money from comm
down and possessin the land9
We are helplis.
To beg We are ashamed and thar amt
nothin here to steel.
We Good hev wurried along with the Post
offises but they are gone.
In the vally Nv the shadder sit We, and
thar amt no ladder by wich We can cline
out"
After weepn an hour the meetn dispersed
an re-assembled sadly at Bascoms.
Civ US drink sed the Deekin in a fal-
trim voice.
Show me yure MUMMY" wuz the onfeelin
reply. IL he'd ruther keep the hkker than
to sell it fer promises. Gentlemen. cash is
the rool frum this time out"
And ez he wuz inflxible, an thar wuzn't a
dollar in the party. We sot parched to the
very ntrales.
lssaker Gavitt wuz the fust to break the 81
lence.
My line Nv policy is clere. shell jine
the Republicans an put in fer an offs
II wuz ez if the sun he'd risen an wuz a
streemin thru the cracks in the ruff.
$50 will l." sed NJ Pelter
An they all sed the same thing.
l think myself it wood be the best. Ii is
the shortest way to kill the Republican
party. For the Republican party to take in
the Corners and sich wood be like hethy
man takin stricknin. Somehow evry or
GYMNASIUM we hev jined hez managed to
die with CRATE dispatch.
Possibly this is our way out Nv the woods.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBy, (oppressed)
Information has been received at Ottawa