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ol where the President makes his appintments; there is the Post Offis Department, where all the Postmasters is appinted. Here it was that Jaxon rooled. I hed a respex for Jaxon. I can't say I luved him, for he never yoosed us rite. He hated the Whigs ez bad ez we did, but after we b

e uv sich a man ez m

nished to see how much work I accomplish with sich dirty tools. My dear sir," sed he, pintin to the door, "when I r

t the offic

. I hed lived two months by passin myself off ez Dimekratic Congressmen, but that cood only last a short time, there not bein many uv that persuasion here to personate. I had gone the rounds uv the House ez often ez it wuz safe, an

name?"

look, I retorted, "Do

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ignominiously kicked into the street. Drinks obtained at the expense uv bein kicked is cheep, but I don't want em on them terms; my pride revolted, and so I emigrated. The gentlemanly and urbane conductors

bushwhackin expeditions, and announsin myself ez a constooshnel preacher from N

, "The wagis uv sin is death

uch so, indeed, that the principal biznis uv the head is to fill the stumick, and mighty close work its been for many years, yoo bet. Let yoor beloved pastor drink, uv a nite,

the assessor is to kum around-ez nite is to foller day. The Dimekratic party, uv wich I am a ornament, hez experienced the trooth uv

errupted me. He sed he hed a word to say on that subjick which must be sed, and ef

Jaxon wus a honist man, who knew that righteousnis wuz the nashun's best holt. But he died, and a host uv tuppenny politicians, with his great name for capital, jumped into his old clothes, an undertook to run the party. Ef the Dimocracy coold hev

ds 4 years uv rest.' We elected Poke, and here it wuz that Sin got a complete hold uv us. Anshent compacts made with the devil wuz alluz ritten in blud. We made a contract with Calhoonism, and that wuz ritten in blud wich wuz shed in Mexico. Here

not fortunately died too soon, and skores uv uthers followed soot. Things went on until Peerse wuz elect

d got down to a Vallandigum. The Devil, to wich we hed sold ourselves, wood not let us off with this, however. 'The wages uv sin is deth,' and we hed not reseeved full pay ez yet. He instigated South Karliny to rebel; he indoosed the other Democratic States to foller; he forced the North

very is dead. We fit for a confederacy, and the confederacy is dead. We fit for States Rites, and St

in uv niggers, and now they are taken from us with nary a compensate. In short, whatever uv good the Devil promised us in pollytix hez resulted in evil. My niggers is gone, my plantashen here hez fed alternately both armies, ez they cavorted backerds and forrerds through the Stait, my house and barns wuz burn

on. I dismist the awdience with a benedickshun, hopin t

eum V.

he Church uv the