Fello Dimekrats uv the Yoonited Staits:
I address yoo! Not speshally in the bowils uv
luv, but from the bowils uv necessity; and from
them bowils alluz cums the most agonizin cries.
Next Toosday is the eventful day wich desides
whether the post-orfises is to remane another four
yeers in the hands uv the Ablishnists, or whether

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we, who are literally hungrin and thirstin for em,
shel hev em.

I appele not only 2 the Dimokrasy, but 2 the
people. We hev hed 4 yeers uv onpleasantnis—
2 uv wich, after the grate Micklellan wuz dismist
by a corrupt administrashen wuz actooal war.
Wat hez bin the result?

We hev overrun over the half uv the Dimekratic
Staits.

We hev slawterd untold thousens uv good Dimekrats,
who 'll never rally 2 the poles agin.

We hev made it necessary for our Suthern brethren
2 run up a debt wich they kin never pay.

We hev bombardid their cities and burned
their houses.

We hev stole their niggers and made em fite
their masters, wich is unscriptooral.

A vote for the ape Linkin is a vote to continue
all this, until the South lies helpless at his feet,
shorn uv her niggers and Dimokrasy, wich is synonimus
terms.

A vote for Micklellan is altogether another
thing. It is a vote for a armistis—a cessashen
uv hostilitis until we kin find out what the South
want, and also whether the people is in a frame
uv mind for givin. Ef they ain't, then the war
will be continued, but in such a gentle and

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brotherly stile, that we will soon be willin to kum 2
sech terms ez they desire.

O, my brethrin, imagin us back under the wing
uv the Democratic Staits, with Davis and Toombs
and Stephens back in the Senit, a releevin uv us
uv all the trubble uv guverment, and a throwin
2 us sech offisis ez they do n't want 2 fill, with a
prodygal hand! O the delites uv them picter!
It may be realised.

I give the follerin few plane rools to be follered
by our workin committis:

1. Do n't argue, unless yoo kin git holt uv a
Ablishnist who can't reed, and then be sure yoo
git him out uv the way, wher no uther Ablishnists
kin heer what yoo say 2 him.

2. Hev yoor knockin down committis on hand
early, and be sure they are joodishus men, who
will keep sober enuff 2 know who 2 hit.

3. Ef yoo hev a recent convert frum Ablishnism
in hand, keep him drunk by all means, no
matter wat the whisky costs. Ef he is allowd to
git sober, he 'll be very apt to go agin us.

4. Git the fraudulent votes all in, early in the
mornin, be4 too menny uv the enemy are on hand
2 be easily whaled.

This is our last chance. Ef we fail on Micklellan,
we 're gone in for want uv leeders. They

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must hev offis, for they can't live on credit forever.

Rally, then, to the poles! Remember the
drafts and the taxes, and rally! The opposishen
tell us that we will be draftid and taxt, the
same under Micklellan as under Linkin. It is
probbyble; but O, my friends, can't yoo see how
much better it is, that yoo shood be draftid and
taxt for the benefit uv yer frends, than for the
benefit uv yer enemies! We who expect to hold
the offisis kin.

Then make wun last effort, and deserve the
success I wish we wuz shoorer uv winnin.

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