VIII.

A Plan suggested for the Up-building of the Democracy.--The Idea not
New, but one which the Leaders of the Fierce Democracy have acted upon
from the Beginning.


CONFEDRIT × ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
January 27, 1866.

Halleloogy! halleloogy! halleloogy! I see a lite! It beams onto me! It
penetrates me! It fills me! Goy to the world!

I hev diskivered the cause uv the decline uv the Dimocrisy. I seed it
yisterday. I wuz a wanderin on the neighborin hills, a musin onto the
cussednis uv humanity ez exemplified in the person uv the grocery keeper
at the Corners, who unanimusly refoozed to give me further credit for
corn whisky, wich is the article they yoose in this country to pizen
theirselves with. He asshoored me that he hed the utmost regard for my
many virtues; but he diskivered that the one he prized the most I hedn't
so many uv, to wit, that uv payin for my likker. Therefore the account
mite be considered closed. Then, for the fust time in my life, I bleeved
in total depravity.

While musin, in a melonkoly mood, on this dark cloud wich fell across my