The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-08-23
Won't Wash Out.
From the Toledo Blade.l

CoNFEDERIT X ROADS WITCH Is in
the State NV Kentucky, July W.-l
he'd another dreem last mite wich left
indelible impression on my memry'
l don't understand why shood con-
tinyelIy dreem, but vishuns come to-
me nitely. l can't tell why. Itcan't
come from fizzekel causes, for l live
reglerly, ez l alluz hey done. l fill
up reglerly at BascOm's every mite,
the amount 1 hist in dependin onto
the temper NV the old man or whether
there is a stranger from Louisville
there, and roll off toward my peece
full couch at about 12, and sleep ez l
hev alluz done. Why, then, sh0od
dreem more now than / used to?
In my dreem last mite, methawt
the old giant, Dimocrisy, waz trotted
out to be put in order for t!!.cc !!.cc- -ssttxlns.
four yeer's race. His old grooms and
hackers WuZ with him, but it looked
ez tho by common consent they he'd
turned over the keer NV him to anOo
lot wich he'd him in hand. There
wuz George Wilyum Curtis. and the
eddytur Nv the Moo York Times, and
Henry Ward Beecher, and lot NV
fellers from Massachusetts wich wuz
examinin him critikeIly and maxim
sejeStuns ez to wat shOod be done to
improve his condishn.
George WiIyum looked him all
over keerfully.
"There's too many spots on him."
wuZ the remark.
"Here is a very sore spot marked
Slavery another 'Seceshn,' another
'Repoodiashen,' another Free Trade
another States Rites and a dozen
others, wich are positive blemishes.
They must be removed"
"Troo," sed the Massachusetts fell
Iers. hut douttlis they are only skin
deep, and kin easily be rubbed out.
The fust thing to do therefore is to
rub them out"
"Eggsackly," "sed Curtis. "We will
immejitly perceed to rub them out"
The old hackers smiled sardonic
smile, for they knowd the giant bet
ter than that, but they cheerfully
| furnished brushes and cOnsentratid
lie and all sorts of powerful soaps,
and George Wilyum, Mr.. Beecher,
and the Massachusetts fellers went
at it.
They applied the soap and the hot
water. and they scrubbed at the spots
an hour or two till they wuz out Nv
breath, bnt it didn't somehow remove
them. In fact the frickshen made
EN- shine out all the more prominent.
They stopped and gazed at EN-.
"Trooly," sed George Wilyum, 81
hev scrubbed faithfully. and hev re-
doosed the size NV the giant an inch,
but the spot remanes ez dolefully
plain ez ever"
"Veriiy," sed the Massachusetts
! fellers, "the spots we hev bin Workin
at are not eradicated by no means on
the contrary, they are even more
disgustinly vissibIet to the nakid eye" "
Then they cOmmenst agin. The
body NV the giant wuz bein' visibly
redOost under the Operashen, for it
seemed ez tho all ther wuz Nv him
waz dirt, but the spots remained.
They wuz puzzled to know wat to
make NV it. Finally, Henry Ward
Beecher, wich he'd scrubbed more
faithfully than any Nv EN-, took a
penknife and jabbed vishusly around
the spot he he'd bin working at, and
made an eggsaminashen. and threw
down his brush and soap in despair.
"It's no yoose !" wuz his breef re-
mark. "Scrubbin was in vane. Those
spots are not merely skin deep they
go cleer through !"
"Troo," said George Wilyum Cur
tis. "I hev made the same diskivery.
Let us cut EN- out"
Then the old hackers interfered.
and perhibited it. "Ef 700 cut em
out, 700 kill the giant. Its born in
the flesh, and can't be eradicated. To
eradicate the spots wood be to eradi-
cate the giant. Its NV no oyoosc. Yoo
must take him ez he is"
The MASSACHUSETTS, fellers took one
good look and one smell Nv the giant
carkiss they he'd been workin at, and
holdin their noses retired with great
rapidity. George WiIyum Curtis and
Henry Ward Beecher tried to git
away, but they he'd permitted the
giant to git grip onto EN- and they
ceodent, and they laid down beside
him. Just then l awoke.
Their is a moral to this dreem wich
no one knows better than l do. The
fact is, Dimocrisy is Dimocrisy, and
it amt nothing else. We can't make
it over or improve it. Wat Dimoc-