Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-08
PETROLEUM v. NASBY ON THE
.rs POLITICAL SITUATION.

SAINTS Rest, facliich as the Stat gtv
Moo GerSy,) July -, 1865.
hey bin to Washington, and while thur
was interdoost to Gineral Marion Fitzhoo
Gusher, of Mississippy, / waz ankshus .
with repTysentatiy dimekrat Nv the South,
2 xchange Yews, hev soothin confidence,
unbuzzum, becos for the parst yeres the
dimekratic party's bin truly secksral. and
the seckshun it has okkerpied is not the
identical seckshun onto which the orfses is
lokatid, and only by perfeck union with our
wunst luved brethren NV the South kin we
ever git onto trouly Nashunal ground.
Gineral Gusher is a troo gentleman NV the
raal Southern skool. He puts G. S. A. arter
his name, onto the hotel register, and his
buzzum pins, rings, and the head of his
kane Is made Of the bones of miserable
Yanky sogers who fell at Bull Run-he ses
by his own hand, and it must be so, for who
ever knode SOutherner to boast vainglori-
ously? We met and embrast, weeping per-
foosly.
s'Alarsi. sobbed the Gineral, wut mite
mare has Obscured our 'respectiy visions for
the parst yeers / was allus Union man
allus, Allus, Allus, Allusi The old flag /
luved with more nor parental affekshun-2
me it was more nor life
Why, then, my ajacks, sobbedI, did you
raise your parryside hand agin it r.
''Why? my beloved Becos my stait Sc
secesht, and ] waz karid along bi torrunt
of public opinyun which kood not stem,
and | went with her. But it is all over.
Of my EeB Beo7ad co%hrJ dasf hEs in ns tie saRRaal GaRR
ov that glorious flag, which is the pride of
Americans and the terror of all week ma
shuns which has territoris contiguous, reddy
to take an oath, and resoom the citizenship
| lade orf, and agin run the government for
its honor and glory"
s'Hev you pardin?'' ses /. tMethinks
wunst paper recht my humble village,
which is anonymously dimekratic--lit kun
around apakage of goods from Moo York.
and in that paper / saw your name ez won
of the ossifers who killed the niggers at
Fort Piller. Am rite
You air. I'm gushin child of nachur
I'm enthoosiastik Labrin under the de-
lushun that secesht us, / believed at that
time that / waz doin a good thing KILN
them property ov ours that Linken he'd sho-
we'd blue kotes onto. / hev no apologys to
offar-I am now writin justification.
II, aud | speek for thousands Nv the shiv
elrous sons NV the South, who would like a
good square meal wunet more, am willing to
be consiliated. The opportunity is now of
fered the government to concillate US We
are returning prodygle suns-kill your fatid
veal and bring out your gold rings, and pur-
pie robes and sich. We ask condishins-- I'VE
shel insist on terms, but we are disposed to
be reasonable. We air willing to acknowl-
edge the soopremacy Nv the government, but
there must be humiliashen. A proud,
high-spirited people like us uns, won stand
it,-no sir, we cannot Their must be no
hangin, no eonfscashen, no disfranchisen.
We arr willen to step back just as we slept
out, resoomin our old status, trustin to engi-
neerin to get sech uther pints ez air not here
enoomerated. Without them condishuns
the union would not be wun NV hardwood
be holler mockery. Wat we air goin for is
union founded on luv, which is stronger and
more solder than muskits. Harts is trumps
let the platform be harts and all is well. y
"But Gineral,' sez |, in all this wat do
700 perposse for us northern dimocrats2p
Towards them our bowels melt with luy.
We forgive you IF 700 kin take the old
attitoode, well and good-ef not,
Hold, seq /, don't threat. A ginoo-
Inc northern dimekrat wants but little here
below, but wants that littlelong. Give him
a small post orfis, a niger driver to look up
to and niger to look down to, and he is
supremely happy. Eff a angle in glory wuz
two offer to trade places with him, harp,
golden crown and all, he would ask odds.
Wv course them positions you kin hey-
we don't want en- All we ask is to make
the platforms, and hev sich ofisis ez hawty,
high-toned men kin afford . take and you
uns kin hev the rest.
But wun thing must be understood. The
scenes of the Charleston convenshun must
never be re-enacted-there must be no more
Dugliss' S Under the new dispensashen you
dance when we fiddle, askin no questions,
The Suthern hart must never again be fired
lit would consume itself,
Ez soon ez hey took the oath, i shell i'm
mUitly go hum and run for congrls-see to
it that We hey enuff dimecrats there, that we
Unity kin control things Wv course, in
Union, by luv, there must be equality. Lin
kin's war debt must never be pade, onless
ourn is--his hirelins must never be penshun
ed unless our patriots is, Wat delightful
spetaelel Men who yesterday was goug
in each other into the field of battle, to-dey
a DRAWN penshuns amikably from the same
treasury The eagle would flop his wings
with JOY, and angles would exclaim, 'Bullyp
l am disabled from wounds received on the
field, and rejoice that our penshun laws is
so liberal
Go home, my friend, and marshal for the
conflict. Tell your central commits to col
lect expense mummy, and |, and General Fer
ris, and Kernal Moseby, and Champ Fergu-
son, and Dick Turner, and Boregard, and
that noble old hero (take orf your hat while
j pronounce his name1 General Robert K.
Lee, win cum up and stump the North fer
yer tickets. hey dun
''Noble man, !" thot /, ez he stalked majes-
tically away. talkin, IN an abstractin manner,
takm my new hat and umbreller, leaVin his
old wuns who coodent foller the, and sich