Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-11-04
How Nasby became a Democrat

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How Nasby became a Democrat.
l wuz born a Wing My parents wuz mem
Der of that party, leastways my mother was, and
she alleZ did the voting. course allowing my
father to go through the manual laber of castin
the ballot, in Difference to the laws ov the ken
try, which does not permit females or niggers to
vote no matter how much inteleck they may
have in2 them In all probability should hev
cast my lot with that party he'd not incident oc
Cured, in my boyhood days, which satisfied me
that Dimocrisy wuz mi most approprit and natter
al abidin place 1t wuz in this WISE
In playful mood, one hite, I busted open a
grocery, and appropriated, jest, what loose
change there wuz in the drawers, (alas in these
degencrit days of paper kerrency, the enterprz-
en- theef hez to steel at 10 per sent discount),
end such other notions ez he'd struck my boyish
| fancy.
| indoost a niger boy, sumwhat yunger than
myself to aid me, and when he had bagged the
game, |, feelin in my PRIDE as havin the
proud Anglo Sacsun blood coursn toomulchus-
! ly thru his vanes, what Cheef Justis Taney hez
since made law to wit T.: that the nigger hez no
rites which the white man is bound to respeck,
whaled him til he resined the entire proceeds of
the speculashun to me. The degraded wretch,
devoid of every prinsiple ov honor, blowed en-
me, and accordnly arrested.
The Justis of the Peas wuz a Whig, and after
| a hurrid eggSaminashun he sentenced me one
oy his own race one or his own blud ! ov his
own parentage to imprisonment Tor thirty dase
on bred and water, and the nigger to only ten,
on the ground that I the chief offender.
Ny mother begged and prayed, with teers run
min down her venrable checks faster than she
could wipe EN- with her gingum apern, that the
angement might be reversed-the nigger for
the 80 and for the 10, but no. Cold ez stun,
infexible ez iron, bludless a turnip. wuz in
carcerated and stayed mi time.
Sulenly l emerged from them there prizen
walls on the evenin of the 30th day, changed
indovdoel. Liften UP mi hands to Heven VOW
cd three vows. to wit
l.-That would devote my life to the work of
redoosin the African to his normal speer.
2.-That would adopt perfeshn in2 which
could steel without being hauld up for it.
3.-That the water he'd conseemed while in
durenz vile wuz the last that wood find its wa,
undilooted in2 mi stummick.
Hence iued the Dimocrisy and whoever egg
samines mi record will find that hev KEEP mi
oaths. PETROLEUM V. Massey.
DEMOCRACY AID REpUDIArIox.-The Placerville
Democrat says sc 1t should be borne in mind
that no Democratic paper or Convention has sug-
gested reputation" If the following extract
does not - suggest" it very plainly, then the
NllIel vi IL ats Oil IiCOiY; tha1
words were made to conceal ideas. We quote
from the San Francisco Examiner:
If there is one thing that will cause the blood
of the Puritanical disorganzers and spectators
to rush with quickened motion to the heart. it is
the idea of reputation. Like pale ghost
howl they ever so loudly, it stalks before their
visions, and Will not down at their bidding
Whisper that ominous word in their and they
involuntarily clutch their money bags, and turn
a suspicious eye to their fre-proofs. These, they
know not proof against reputation. Let
the tax-ridden millions but say it. and those finely
executed engravings. in whose figures prom
ises of untold wealth and luxuries that wealth
procures, become worthless waste paper
that hutters along the streets
PoLTIcAL SEVERITY The Carson Appeal has
the following notice of the change of the Virginia
Union to Copperhead sheet
Grovel in your utter baseness if you will, Jones
Il Co.. but for Gods sake change the name of
your paper. Write Copperheadism for pay,
plumber or patronage, if you will, but don't do
it under the name Of the Union. Call your COM
modify the q Huckster," !" or the q Hreling," if
You will, but do show that you have not got so
far down in the scale of wretchedness and shame
as to be willing to disgrace the only good name
that you claimed. Crawl on your bellies in
Democratic slum. if you WILL but do it in your
new suit of butternut, and save from that dis
grace the borrowed suit of blue in which you
have been pretending to serve the Lord and your
country. Go to h, if you will, but in the name
of all that is sacred, reaounce your name as you
have your religion, before you get there.
MoNTAyA.-We learn from the Montana Post OF
recent date that great many of the farmers
there were leaving for their old homes. or more
genial climate of California. They had settled
on the rich river bottoms of the many forks OF
the Missouri and after raising very tine crops,
had their fortunes and prospects npped IN the
bud by the total destruction of their grain by the
grasshoppers This has added discouragement
to ruin, and accounts for their migration.
STOPPED RUsSIsG-The great % Homestead"
we'll at Pithole Greek, has ceased to flow, though
it recently Welded FIVE hundred barrels per day.
The Philadelphia Herald says - 1t was the we'll
in which Wilkes Booth owned thirtieth interest,
and it is barely possible that he tapped it at the
other end" Or it may be that since the assas-
sin advent there Satan thought hotter fire was
needed for his benefit, and SO turned the lower
faucet-Bee.