Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-28
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty COnVerses with General
MacStinEer. of South Carolina.
Written for the Cincinnati Commercial,

Wizards, Ginral MacStinger, Of South
Karliny. The Ginral is here on the same
bizness most NV the Southern men hev in
this classic city, that Nv %prOkoorin a par
don, which he he'd p%rokoNred, and wuz
gittin ready to go home and accept the
nominashen Tor Congress, in his deestrick.
The Ginral wuz gloomy. Things didn't
SCOT him, he observed, and he wuz afeerd
that the country wuz on the high road to
room. lie he'd bin absent from the yoon-
tied States suthin over four yeers, witch
time be had spent in the southern COnfed-
eracy. When he went out the Constoo-
shuel Dimocrisy he'd some rites which wuz
respected. On his return wat did he see Z
The power in the hands of Radicals, Alb
Iishnism in the majority every where, a
ex-tailor President state NV affairs dis
gustin in the extreme to the highly sensi-
tive Southern mind. He had accepted a
pardon only becoz he felt hissef constrain-
ed to put hisself in 2 position to go to Con-
gress, that the country might be reskood
from its impendin peril. He shood go to
Congress. and then he should ask the des-
pots who now hev control, whether
L. They spOzed thu South wood sub
NIT to hoomiliatin condishien?
2. What Androo johnson means by
dictatin to the Convenshuns NV sovereign
States?
aWhy," SEE he, "but a few days ago this
boor he'd the ashoorence TO write to the
&c Jrgy Convention that it 1rHst not
mark the term-MUsT NOT assOom the
eonfedrit war debt Is a tailor to say
must not to shiverlrus Georgy? Good
God l-where are VIC driftin? For one,
[ never will be consolidated on them terms
-neverl l never wuz used to that style
NV talk in Dimekratic ~convenshuns.
'Ez soon ez L take my sect in Congris,"
resoomed he, 81 shell deliver a speech,
wich 1 writ the day after Lee surrender
ed, so ez to hev it ready, in which / shell
take the follerin ground, to-wit:
HThat the South hev buried the hatchit,
and hev diskivered that they love the old
Yoonion above enything on earth. But,
oThe North must meet us half way, or
we wont be answerable for the conse-
kences. Ez a basis for a settlement, l
shall insist on the follerin condishens:
"The Federal debt must be ~repoodiated,
principal and interest, or eff paid, the
Southern war debt must be paid likewise
-ez a peece offerin. The doctrine NV
State Rites must be made the soopreme
law NV the land, that the South may with
draw whenever they feel themselves dis
satisfied with Massachusetts. Wv coarse
this is a olive branch.
Jefferson Davis must be to-wunst set
at liberty and Sumner hung, ez proof that
the North is really consiliatory. On this
pint l am infexlble, and on the others
immovable."
An old men who he'd bin listnin to our
talk, murmured that there wuz a parallel
to this last proposishen.
"Where n demanded the Ginral.
aThe Jews, / remember, replied he,
demanded that. Barrabas be released unto
them, who wuz a thief, 1 believe, and the
Savior be ~crucifed, but l forgit jist how it
wuz."
The General withered him with a litenin
glance and resoomed:
Il shell, NV coorse, offer the North suthin
in the way of compensation, for the troo
theory of Republican Government COM
permise. On our part we pledge ourselves
to KUN back, and give the North the bene-
fit NV our kumin back, so long ez Massa-
chusetts condux herself akkording to our
ices Nv what is rite. But eff this ekitable
adjustment is rejected, all L hey to say
then is, 1 shellresign,a and the Government
NAV sink without wun effort from me to
save it."
1 wuz about to give in my experience
when the old man, who wuz sittin near us
broke in agin:
"My name" said he, "is Maginnis, and
l live in Alabama. 1 want to say a word
to the gentleman from Karliny, and to the
wun from Moo Gersey."
aHow,p retorted /, "do you know I'm
from Moo Gersey, not heven spoken a word
in your hearen ?"
By a instink 1 hev. Whenever l see a
Sut6erner lsyin it down heavy to a indi-
viiouIi whose phisynogamy is Nv SIGH a
cast that upon beholden it 700 instink-
lively feel to see that yoor p~ocket-hand-
kercher is safe, a face that wood be dan
gerous if it had courage into it, l alluz
know the latter to be q Northern copper
head. The Moo Gersey part l guessed at,
becoz, my friend, that State furnished the
lowest order of copperheads Nv anyuv EN-
Pardon me eff l fatter 700. But what
wanted to say wuz, that l suppose suthen
hez happened dooren the past 4 years.
was a original se~cessionist. Sum years age
1 he'd a hundred niggers, and wuz doIr
well with EN-. But unforchunltly, my
brother died and left me ez much more
land but no niggers. 1 wanted niggeri
enuff TO work that land, and spozed eff cut
off from the North, and the slave trade
was r~e-epened, 1 Good get EN- cheaper
Hentz l seceshed. Sich men as Genra
McStinger told me the North wooden
| fight or L woodent hev secesht, but l die
it. l went out for woel and cum bacl
| shorn. 1 secesht with a hundred niger
to get two hundred, and alas 1 find my
self back into the old government, witt
nary a Niger.
HBut all this is no excoOse for talkiI
bold noncents, 700 old ass sed he, ad
dressin Genral McStinger; 700 talk u
wat YOU will do, and wat you wont. Hev
ent VOC diskivered that 700 are whipped
Hevent VOC found out that VOC are subjoC
gated Are you back into the yoonyul
Nv your own free will and akkordf Hey
ent VOC got a pardon in your pockI
which dokyment is all that v you
neck from stretchin hemp? Why do yo
talk NV wat Southkarlyny will and Won
do? Good Lord l recollect about
wear since S~outhkarlyny would ReueT PEI
init her soil 2 be pollutid by Yankee hir'
Inns, Wit Sherman marched all over it wit
a few NV EN-, and skarcely a gun WI
fred at en-. So too 1 recollect that thu
sed State witch wuz agoin to whip the Ell
tire North, and witch wood, eff overpoweret
submit gracefully and with dignity, to al
Inhalation, and SIGH, wuz the first to 6
down on her marrowbones, and beg fl
peace like a dog. Eff 700 intend this tal
for the purpose Nv skarin the North, B
lieve me when 1 say that the North al
50 easy shared ez it Eff its intend
for home consumsion, consider me the pc
pie. I've heard it before, and Ill take I
more NV it until my stumick settles.
makes me puke.
The fact is we are whipped, and hey 6
tn do the best we kin. We are a goln
, paw the Federal debt, and amt goln
paw the Confederet debt. Davis will
hung, and serve him rite. States rites
dead, and slavery is abolished, and with
; shivelry and its my opinion the South
a id sight better off without either
EN-. 1 kin sware, now, alter Twin outsi
, NV the shadder NV the flag 4 yeres, that
love It'll You bet 1 do. l carry q smi
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