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LIII. FREMONT'S NOMINATION.
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53. LIII.
FREMONT'S NOMINATION.

Halleloogy!

Now is the winter uv our diskontent made gellorious
summer. The clowds that o'ercast the
perlitticle horyzon is broak, and rays frum the
sun uv success hev peerced em, gildin the noses
uv the fatheful with a rajence that whisky can
not give.

Honey hez cum out uv a karkis—good hez
perceeded frum Nazzyreth. The Raddykels hev


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nominated Fremont! Halleloogy! They did it
at Cleveland.

I never votid for Fremont. In '56 I did n't
like—in fact, I aboosed him. I laft at him for
partin his hare in the middle; I accoosed him uv
being a Cathlic, and uv steelin cattle frum the
guverment. Wen Linkin appinted him genral, I
aboosed him agin, and more than ever wen he
ishood his Emansipashen Proclamashen.

But now I diskiver that I hev did him a grevous
wrong. The most bekomin way a man kin
part his hare is in the middle; the steelin uv cattle
frum guverment is a act that no man who supported
Bookannon can condemn, and his Abolishnism—why,
he 's to be pitied for that.

Uv coarse no Dimekrat can vote for him, for
ther is a triflin difference in our principples; yet
about a haff uv the Abolishn party ought to do it
by all means. John C. is the man for them, ondoubtedly.

But wether he gits menny votes or few, his bein
nominated is salvashen to us. Every vote he
gits Linkin won't git, and then what—

The bair thot almost overpowers me. We kin
elect a Dimekrat!

This movement puts a new face upon affairs.
We need n't be pertikelerly anxshus enny moar


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for Lee's success; in fact, I bleeve it wood be
better for us 2 hev Grant whip Lee and taik
Richmond. For why? Becoz. Spozn about the
time the Confederasy is playd out we elect a Dimekrat,
and spozn that Dimekrat lets up on em, restoars
ther niggers, pardons em, pays ther debts,
compensaits them ez hez sustaned losses in the
war, and penshens ther widders, woodent they let
us hev the heft uv the orfisis awhile? Uv coarse
they wood.

I segest that the committis who air takin up
colleckshuns for Vallandigum send the munny
forthwith to Fremont's Execootiv Committy. I
shel taik up a colleckshun in my congregashen
immediately for that purpus.

Reinwiggoratid,

Petroleum V. Nasby,
Paster uv sed Church, in charge.