Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-06
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Mr.. Nasby C0nverses with General
MaCEtingcP, OF South Carolina

linprin' around the scene nv so many
Demokratic triumphs. Here it wuz that
Brooks, the heroic, bludgeoned Sumner;
here il wuz that Calhoun & Yancey and
Breckenridge achieved their glory and
renown. Besides, It's the easiest place
to dodge board bill, in the Yoonited
States There's so many Congressman
here who resemble me, that 1 .hev no
difficulty in passin' for one, two-thirds
nv the time.
Yesterday met in the readin-room
NV Willerd's Gineral MacStinger, of
South Karliny The Gineral is here on
the same bizness most nv the Southern
men hev in this classic city, that nv pro- |
koorin pardon, witch be had prokoored, |
ready to go home and accept the nomi- |
nsshen for Congress, in his deeslrict,
The Ginral auz gloomy. Things |
didn't SCOT him, he observed, and he wuZ
Altered the country wuz on the high road |
to room He he'd bin absent from the |
Yoonited States sunthin over four years, |
which time he he'd spent in the southern |
Confederacy. When he went out the |
Constooshnel Dimocrisy he'd some rites
witch wuz respected. On his return |
what did he see2-The power in the hads
of Radicals, Ablishnism, in the majority |
every Huefe, t8 1TeSlQenb-a |
state NV affairs disgustin in the extreme
to the highly sensitive Southern mind.
BE bed accepted pardon only, becoz he |
felt hiseelf constrained to put hisself in I
position to go to Congress, that the
country might be reskood from its i'm |
pendin peril Hesshood 90 to Congress,
and then he should ask the despots who |
now hev control, whether:
/. They spozed the South would sub
init to hoomiliatin condishens2
2. What Androo johnson means by
dictatin to the Convenshuns nv sovereign |
States2
Why" says he, but few dsys ego |
this boor he'd the abooreDce to write 10 |
the Georgy Convenshun that it must not |
make the term-'MUsT NOT assoom the |
>confedrit war debt Is tailor to say |
must not to shivelrus Georgy2 Good |
God where are we driftin, For one, / |
never will be consolidated on them terms |
-neverl / never WIZ used to that stile |
nv talkin in Dimikratic convenshnns.
"EE soon ez l take my seat in Con- |
girls" resumed he, Il shell deliver q
speech, wieh l wait the day after Lee |
surrendered, so ez to hev it ready, in |
which shell take the follerin ground, to-
wit:
: "That the South hev buried the |
Ratchet, and hev diskivered that they love |
the old Yoonion above eny thing on
earth. But, LEI
"The North must meet rs half way,
br ws wont be answerable for the conse-
kences. Ez basis for settlement, l
she'll insist on the follerin condishens:
"The Federal debt must be repoodia-
rrsuas0o1 ~ II
the Southern var debt mnst be paid
likewise; ez peace offerin The doc
trim Nv State Rites must be the supreme
law of the land, that the South may
withdraw whenever they feel themselves
dissatisfied with Massachusetts,. Ov
coarse this ia a olive branch
Jefferson Davis must be to-wunst set
at liberty and Sumner hung, ez proof
that the North is really epensilhatory.
On this pint am inhexible, and ON the
others immovable. m Nisof
An old man who he been lstnin to
our talk, murmured that there wuz a
parallel to this last proposishen.
WhereY demanded the General.
"The jews, / remember" replied he,
demanded that BARBADOS be released
unto them who wuz thief, | believe.
W. Il /
jist how it wnz" -
The General withered him with q lite.
min glance and resoomed:
ST shell NV course, offer the North
soothin in the wey nv compensation, for
the troo theory nv Republican Gov
eminent is compromise. On our part
we pledge ourselves to KUN back, and
give the North the benefit NV our kumin
back, so long as Massachusetts condux
herself akkordin to our ices nv what is
rite. But eff this ekitable adjustment is
rejected, all hev to say then is, / she'll
resign, and the Government may sink
without wun effort from me to save it."
wuz about to give in my experience
when the old man, who wuz sittin near
as broke in again:
any name," said he, sis Maginnis,
and / live in Alabama. want to say
word to the gentleman from Karliny,
and to the wun from Moo Gersey."
GLOW" retorted l, do 700 know I'm
from Moo Gersey, not hevin spoken a
word in yoor hearenl"
"By instink / hev. Whenever see
Sutherner layin it down heavy to a
indivijoull whose physnogamy is Nv SIGH
a cast that upon beholden it 700 instink-
lively feel to see that your pocket-hand-
kercher is safe, face that wood be dan
gerous if it had courage into ii, / alluz
know the latter to be a Northern copper
head The Moo Gersey part guessed
at, becoz, my friend, that State furnish
ed the lowest order Nv copperheads of
any nv 'em. Pardon me eff / fatter I
700. But wat l wanted to say wuz, that
/ spose suthen hez happened doorin the
past 4 yeas. was a original secession
ist Sum yearsag he'd q hundred mig
gers, and wuz doin well with EN-. But,
UNFORTUNATELY, my brother died and left
me ez much more land bat no niggers. |
I wanted niggers enuff to work that
land, and sposen eff cut off from the |
North, and the slave-trade wuz reopen
d, Good get EN- cheaper. Hentz i |
echeshed. Sich men ez General Mac |
singer told me the North woodent fight |
n woodent hev secesht, but did it. / |
'ent out for wool and come back shorn. |
seceshed with LOG niggers to git 200, |
and alasl l find myself back into the old |
government with nary niger.
I" But all this is excoose for talkin |
Jold concents, you old ass, sed he ad-
Iressin General McStin ger, you talk |
sv wat 700 will do, and wat 700 won't. !
Haven't 700 diskivered that 700 are whip |
ped7 Haven't 700 found out that 700 |
are subjoogated2 Are 700 back into the
yoonyun nv your own free viii and |
akord2 Haven't 700 got a pardon in !
your pocket, which dockyment is all that |
saves your neck from stretchin hemp? |
Why do 700 talk nv what SouthkarIyny |
will and wont do? Good Lordl recol- |
lect about year since Southkarlyny
would neUer permit her soil be polluted |
by Yankee hirelins, yit Sherman march |
ed all over it with few of them, and |
scarcely gun was fred at en- SO too |
I recollect that that sed State which was |
agoin to whip the entire North, and |
which wood eff overpowered, submit |
gracefully and with dignity, to annihila-
ton, and SIGH, wuz the first to git down |
on her marrow bones and beg for peace
like dorg. Fez.s
Eff 700 intend this talk for the pur-
pose nv skarin the North, beliey me
when say that the North amt so easy
shared ez it wuz Eff it's intended for |
home consumption, consider me the
people. I've heard it before, and I'll
take no more of it until my stummick
settles 1t makes me puke. The fact
is, we are whipped, and hev got to do
the best we kin. We are a-goin to pay
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