The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-08-23
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Mr., Nasty Who is n New York on Po-
litical Business Interviews Several
Dis ingu shed People, and Pro-
poses a New Ticket.
petroleum V. Massey,

| CONFEDERATE Y ROADS
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky,
| August u, 1854.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
| cum to New York to attend meetir
of the Independent Republicans witch he,
boltid Blame and perpose to elect Cleve
land, to see eggsackly wat they mean tc
do. WIZ forchnit in my time NV comm
for there wuz a meeting Nv EN- the mite
| struck the Metropolis. There wu1
present George Wilyum Curtis, Car
Shurts, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and
others too tejus to mention.
| cant say they greeted me with that
corjality wich ought to eggsist atwiXt
brethren engaged in a common coz, and
am satisfied that the ginooine Demo
crisy Nv the kentry kin never work in
harmony with EN-. They are altogether
too nice for our party. Mr.. Shurts re.
marked suthin about eileen shirts bein
not altogether undesirable, wich wuz
evidently leveled at me: Out NV defer
ence to these finicky men he'd borrered
shirt from a cloze line at 1 A. NJ, to
come to Moo York in, and he'd only wore
it a week. Wat do they want? Wood
They ought to see that shirt week from
now.
George WIlyum Curtis shifted at my
breath, and Henry Ward Beecher re-
foosed to speek to me at all. However.
| don't mind trifes like that. mingled
with EN- aflably.
The question under discussion, wuz
the proper method NV conduktin the
campane on the part nv the Independents
and Mr.. Curtis spoke fust.
Mr.. Curtis remarkt that he he'd killed
the Republican party, origineely becoz
nv the depravity NV its candidate, the
tattoed Blame. 1t wuz his orignel lice
that he Good never support a man witch
he'd any stane onto his character Nv any
kind. But his views he'd undergone a
modificashen recently. He he'd origi-
nelly intended to eliminate poilytix from
the campane entirely-and he'd notified
the Dimocratic Nashnel Committy to
that effeck-and fife it out purely on the
sooperior morality NV Mr.. Cleveland, but
his views he'd undergone a serious change
sence subslz'd press he'd charged Mr..
Cleveland with sedoosln a wilder and
bein the father wv ilegitimit child
A e0irs from tie uwjchse-' .And prov ed
it, too"
81 admit the correscbun And proved
it. hev sence desidid that the bringin
NV the persnel character NV candidates
into the canvass is all wrong. For the
time bein, | only ask ofiishl purity NV a
candidate. Wat hez the Wilder nalpin
to do with civil cervis reform? Wat hez
the Widder IIalpin to do with
.Xysey-"The postoflises.''
"Wat hez the Widder Halpin or the
child, Oscar Folsom Cleveland to do
with purifyin American politix? Moth
in. This campane must now be fought
on them ishoos, and none others"
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher spoke next.
"Ef sposed," sed Mr. Beecher, chat
Mr.. Cleveland wuz actilly guilty NV the
heenyus sin that has bin charged to him,
| suppose | Good not conschienshusly
vote for him. a man in public life hez
no rite to indulge in sins in SIGH way
that it can be proved agin him. Ruther
than hev it proved agin him he he'd
better keep virchus. In matter of this
kind the objectionable sin is to hev it
proved agin 700. | kin sympathize with
MIR. Cleveland, for have been slandered
myself. You all remember the painful
circumstance. But | wuZ shoor NV nv
ground. | wuz acquitted. My people
all bleeved that, while | wuz innosent,
Elizabeth wuz guilty, and l most ear
nestly hope that our noble standard
bearer is fixed the same way. We care
not how guilty Mrs. IIalpln may be con-
sidered, but we must doubt the gilt nv
Mr.. Cleveland. And, after all, l shell
vote for him anyway. SEE the Holy
Scrplers. Let him witch is without sin
cast the fust stone To forgive is divine.
We all need forgivenis. Sposen Theo-
dole he'd succeeded in huntin me out NV
my pulpit, wat wood Brooklyn, and the
Independent Republican organizashen,
and the world hev lost? When the puri
fyin NV the pollytix Nv this great kentry
is under considerashen it is idle to take
into account SIGH a tritle ez the seduck-
shen NV woman, the abduckshen NV
child, or trifles like that We shood
keep our eyes fixed steadily onto wat we
sot out to do-the establishment NV rich
usnis in pollytix. Not wun NV us kin
vote for man like Blame, whose char
acter is smirched."
1t wuz my turn to chip in wch I did
ez follows:
"My friends and workers" | re-
markt, 81 bring 700 glad tidngs NV
crate joy. The charges made by venal
and subsidized press asn Mr.. Cleveland,
don't affect the Dlmocrsy NV the Cor
ners at all. That feend, Joe Bigler,
sposed it wood hev sum etfeck upon the
Dimocrisy and he sposed that he wood
denounSe man for SIGH misdemeanor,
and demand his retirement from the
tik ket. We held meetin to consider
the matter and Josef fixed to put us to
confusion, witch is his prinsible biznis.
He gathered together hundred or more
mulattoes, the most NV EN- over 80 yeers
NV age, bein the sole reminders NV the
old patriarkle system witch the Republi-
kin party destroyed, all NV EN- barein
the honored names NV Pogram, McPelter
Gavit and Cutie, and all NV EN- resem-
bin the Pograms, Gavitts, McPelters and
Guttleses to wonderful degree. He
gathered together these niggers, and
brot EN- to the mcetin house, and in
tended to spring EN- on us jist after we
he'd passed resolooshen denounsin
Cleveland for hevin bin the father NV Il
illegitimit child. Did he put us to con-
fooshun? Not any, quoted the passage