The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-12-18
Local and Miscellaneous.
Mr. Nasby takes a Retrospective View
Church NV the Slawterd Innocents,)
Lait st. Valandigum)
Al.
Dec. the 18th, '63.


Dec. the 11th, '63.
Yisterdy I heerd a Abolishnist re-
mark "The world moves" The OBJ
servashen (wich l bev heerd fire.
quently NV lait) set me into trane
NV refeckshen. My comprehensive
mind sprang back into the misty daze
NV the past, and / wuz a boy agin.
Twenty six yeres ago wuz n splittin
my simetrikle throte a hollerin fer
Van Booren. Them wuz the pammy
dazs nv Dimocrisy. Androo Jaxn
he'd left us his naim ez cappytal fer
US to do biznis on, vile he wuz out
NV the way, and coodent interfere with
our steelin, wich wuz comfortable.
We wuz beetn, but wuz still strong
and vigorous, knoin that we Good
manU to live doorin Harryson's rane
on wat we he'd stole doorin Van Boo. l..
ren's, the fasilitis hevin bin unlimitid.
o them times Their wuz Cass and
Davis, and Dickson, and Calhoon,
and looms, and Bill Allen, and Dug.
lis, (who wuz jest comm in, J and
Cromwell, and Ritchy, and Benton and
isaer Rynders, and Wise and Yankee
Sullivan, a gelloreous galexy Nv in
tellectooal and muskeler Dimocrisy.
sech ez the world never seed afore
and never will agin. Wuz abolish
nizm tolratid in them happy daze
Not emmy. o with arder DIN Luv.
COY wuz shot at Alton-how wigger
erusly the Dimocrisy laberd to throw
his press in2 the turbid waters nv
the Mississip. Wood, wood that
we Good hev sunk his doctrins with
his press. Did we allow abolishn
talk? Nary. These stalwart arm
hev hurled baskit-fuls NV unsavry eggs
at the pedlers NV polittikle heresy,
and my skill in eggin abolishn lee
terers wunst maid me gusts NV the
peese in my naytiv township.
In the south evry hillside wuz dot
It'd with the carcases NV Moo Ingland
skoolmarms and masters, who heyin
bin suspected NV teechin niggers to
rede, wuz justly hung, and the Piles
ent crack NV the whip wuz heerd all
over the land. Oh them Arcadian
dase, wen it only took 20 minits to
arrest, try, sentence, hang and divide
the close NV Yankee skoolmaster
But alas |! heresis crep in2 our
ranks, and ther wuz confoozhun.-
Van Booren bolted and bette Cass,
and Notwithstanding he repented, af-
terward, the abolishn pizn he inter-
doost in2 the Democratic body polly
tik, renamed. 1t broke out in ugly
sores in Ohio, in 1S4s, in the shaip
Nv the feendish Free sile party. Then
Chais and Brinkerhoof sluffe orf.|
and jiud with our anshent enemis
Jest afterward the Anti Nebraskv
excitement, cuppled with MOI Moth
inism, whald us, AMI it wuz only bv
sooperhooman eggsershens that we
electid Bookannon. Sence it hez bin
nothin but disaster. Beokannon and
Duglis got by the eers, Duglis refoos
ed to cave to his suthrin brethrin, Lin
kin wuz electid, war ensood, and now
wat do these old ize beholdP Cass,
and Ben Butler, and Logan, and Dix,
and Dickson, and Dave Tod, strikin
hands with Josh Giddins, and Horis
Graely! 1t is singler fact, that ev-
ry leader we used to trust, is now
agin US. And wuss. Abolishn pa.
pers is beln publisht in South Karli
ny, in Tennisee, Kentucky and Loo.
zeeaner, and millyun NV men, led
by the ghosts and gLostesses NV them
hung skoolmasters and skoolmarms
aforesaid, assisted by John Browns
soul, wich is littrally a marchin on,
is enforcin proclamashen freein all
the niggers at wun stroak, and the
Dimocrisy bein sum hundreds Nv
thowsends in the minority, is power
less to pervent it.
Trooly, the world moves. 1t hez
moved the Democrisy from the Pc
destal NV Power it wunst okepide.
and laid it prostrait. 1t hez elevatid
men we despisd, and adoptid ices
we skoft at. Yunger men may shift
and git in2 the tide agin, but ez fer
me l cant. I shell maik wun moar
effort, and if we fail-why then II
shel withdraw frum public life, and
start grosery, and in that umble cal
lin will fote peacefully down the
streem NV time, until my wether beet
en- bark strikes On the rox NV deth,
gittin my likker in the menetime, (uv
wich l consume menny, at wholesale