An Appeal to the People just before the October Elections.
POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT × ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
October 1, 1866.
President Johnson, who hez bin likened to Androo Jaxon, and wich, since
my appintment I conseed him to be, in many partikelers, his sooperior,
requested me and William H. Seward (his secretary and chaplin) to draw
up and publish to the Democracy of the various States 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.