ates holdin elecshuns
this fall an address, or ruther an appeal, firmly beleevin that hed he
extendid his tour to Maine, and isshood an address to em, that that
state wood not hev gone ez it did. William refoozed to take part in the
appeal, sayin that it warnt uv no use, and so the dooty devolved upon
me.

DEMOCRATS AND CONSERVATIVES UV THE NORTH:

Appresheatin the gravity uv the isshoo, I address yoo. The signs uv the
times is ominus. A Radikle Congress, electid durin the time when the
Southin States, wich comprises reely all the intellek uv this people,
didn't take no part in the elekshen, bein too bizzy gettin out uv
Sherman's way to open polls,--a Congress, I repeat, in wich there ain't
no Southern man, and wich consekently kant, by any stretch uv the hooman
imaginashen, be considered Constitooshnel, hez dared to thwart the
President uv the United States, and set up its will agin hisn! I need
skarcely recount its high-handed acts uv usurpashen. It passed a bill
givin rites to niggers, wich, accordin to Scripter (see Onesimus, Ham,
and Hagar, the only three texts in Scripter uv any partikeler account)
and the yoosages uv the Democrisy, ain't got no rites; and the
President, exercisin the high prerogatives put into his hands by the
Constitooshen, vetoed it. Here the matter should hev endid. He hed
expressed, in a manner strikly Constitooshenel, his objecshens to the
measure; and a proper regard for his feelins, and just deference for his
opinions, ought to hev indicated the right course. Here wuz peace
offered this Congres. Here wuz the tender uv a olive branch. The
President didn't want a quarrel with Congres; he didn't desire a
continyooance uv the agitation wich hed shook the country like a
Illinois ager; but he desired Peece. Congres cood hev hed it hed they
only withdrawed their crood noshens uv what wus rite and what wuz wrong;
ratified, ez they shood hev done, sich laws ez the President saw fit to
make: in short, hed they follered the correct rool when we hev a
Demokratic President, and put the Government in his hands, with an
abidin trust in his rectitood and wisdom, we mite hev avoided this
struggle, and thus wood hev bin peaceful. But this reckless Congris,
bent upon consentrating power in its hands instid uv dividin it between
him and Seward, passed the bill over his head, regardlis uv his feelins!
The responsibility for the dissension rests, therefore, with Congres.

But these questions are altogethe