Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-02-19
NO. AZ.
Mr.. Nasby takes a Retrospective View.
Church Nv the SlaWtered Innocents, !
Late st. Valandigum,)
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Yesterday / heered an AhoIitionis remark ,
" The world moves" The observashan which
! Il have heered frequently Of lait,) set me into
trane Nv refeckshnn. Ny comprehensive
mind sPrang back into the misty dase Of the
past, and l was boy agin Tweuty-six
years ago l was splittin my smmstrikle
thTete hollern for Van Booren. Them wuz
the pammy dase OF Dimocrisy. AndroO Ja1n
left as to do businis on; while he Wuz out Of
the way, and couldn't interfere with our steel-'
10, which wuz comfortable. We wus beetihs
but was still strong and vigorous knoin thsts
we nanij to live doorin Harysons rane on wat
We had stole doorin Van Booren %; the fassiIi-
ties havin been unliAited. Oh, them times
There was Oass and Davis, and Dickinson
and Calhoon, and Tooms, aud Bill Allen, and
Duglis, (who vas just comm in.) aand Croz-
well, and Richly, and Benton and aImer Ryn- |
ders, and Wise. and Yankee Sullivan, q CELLO !
reous galaxy Nv intellectOoal1 and muskeler /
Dimocrisy, sech ez the world never seed be- /
fore and never will agaiu.oi Wus aboliShnism |
tOlratid in them happy dase Not tienHy.L Oh, |
with what arder DIN Luvgoy wuz shot at Al |
ton, how vigorously the Dimocrisy laborsd to |
throw his press in2 the turbid waters uV the
Mississippi. Wood, o wood that We could I
have sunk his doctrins with his press Did l.
we allow abolishin talk MARY. These stall |
wart arm hev hurled baskit fuls nv unsavPy /
eggs at the peders Nv politikle heresy and
my skill in eggin sbolishn lecturers Wusnt
maid me gusts Nv the peace in my native
township. -a3 bio eai lo sasii5a7
In the South evry hillside wuE dottid with
tta l.lze
masters. who hevin bin suspected Nv teechin
niggers to rede, wus justly hung, and the ples4
ent crack OF the whip WIS heerd all over the
land. Oh Areadian dase, wen it only took
20 minits to arrest, try, sentence, hasg and
divide the close Nv Yankee skOolnasterl
But alas! heresis crept in2 our ranks, and
ther wus confoozhun. Van Booren bolted /
and bette Cass, and Notwithstanding he repent
ed, afterward, the abolishn PIN he interdoots
on2 the Democratic body pOllytik. remained.
1t broke ou in ugly sores in Ohio, in lS4S in
the shsip Nv the feendish Free Sile party
Then Chais and BrinkerhoOf stuffed orf and
iined with our ashent enemies. Jest after |
ward the Anti-Nebrasky xcitement, curpled |
with No-NortbiniSm, wEald us. and it wuz
only by sooperhooman egsers hens that we
electd Boockannon. Sence it hez bin Hothin
but disaster. Boockahnen and Duglis got by |.
the eers, Duglis refoosed to cave to his suth-
rim brethrin, Hnkn wuz electid, war ensood
and now wat these ize behold? Cass, and /
Ben Butler, and Logan, and Dix, aud Dick
isen, and Dave Tod, stiskin hands with Josh
Giedins and Horris Greelyl ri a5t
1t is singular fact, that every leader we
usd to trust, is now agin us. And wuss- I
Abolishun papers is bein pubIisht in South
Karliny, in Tennissee, Kentucky and Loozea-
ner, and miyun nv men, led by the ghosts
and ghostesses nv them hung skoolmasters
and skoolmarms aforesaid, assisted by John
Browns soul, which is littraly narchin on, is
enforcin procamashun freein all the niggers
at wun stroak, and the Dimocrisy bein SUN
hundreds Nv thowsends in the minority, is
powerless to prevent it.
Trooy the worli moves. It hez moved /
the Democricy from the Pedestal nv Power
It unst okepide, and laid it prostrait. 1t
hez elevated men we despised and adoptid
ices we sl1oft at. Tuuger men may shift and
git in2 the tide agin, but ez fur me / can't
| shel maik wuu NOR ifort and il we fail
why then shell withdraw from public life,
and start a grosery, and in that humble calIin.
will fote pecefully down the streem Nv time,
until my wether beeten bark strikes the rox
Nv death, gitrin mo likl1er in the meantime,
(uv which L consume many,) at WHOLESALE pri-
ces, Sad and weary, go
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Faster Nv sed Church, in charge.