Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-11-14
NaSby on the Result.

Petroleum '. Nasty says he 'wuZ called
in haste to Washington to be present at
a Cabinet meetin called to consider the
causes Nv the unparalleled loosin' Nv the
Nashinal Union johnson Dimokratic party
which held eleckshuns on the 9th Nv Ok
tober" After the President, Randall,
Welles and Seward had given their views,
Nasty was ''rekwested' to express his.
My lords" said Nasty, None Nv you
lett the landmarks-that' wat allied us
wuz the anshent landmarks. Wat he'd We
to 90 into this canvass with Democracy?
Not any, for that wur squelshed at Phila
delphia. Wat then? Why the orfhses.
Orfises in the abstract is good. That little
one which | hold in Kentucky coodent be
indooSed to part with on no account, but
you can I run party on EN- because thare
aint enough Nv EN-.
MY lieg, on my return from the Phila-
delphia Convention, | tarried a while IN
Berks county, which is in Pennsylvania, and
is distinguished for the unanimity which
they vote Democracy. They learned down
thare mo IN six weeks ago that the war wuz
/ over, and therefore you coodent stir em up
on drafts. Taxes they had got used to, and
| that didn' move em, and SO the speaker
wuz emptyeG school houses bv taken of the
results of glorious war, which they all OPP
| posed and prasln our mutual friend Sew
| ard, wich they had alters hated as Abo-
/ lishenist. and hedn' heered yet that he bed
| jined the Dimokrisy. Wuz 1t eny wonder
that we went under? Their aint but wun
thing left TO US, and that We strangely neg
lected. Ny lord, why wuz the Niger not
made the central fgger this year ez hereto
! fore2 He Is the captul Nv the Dimocrasy-
its refuge-its tower of strength. | spoke
| in Berks county meself, folierin' wun Nv
them ewtangled Dimmycrats who he'd set
EN- all asleep taken stuff to EN- that they
dident understand Mountin, the rostrum,
calculated
MEN and Brethren, do you want to mar
ray nigeerY'
No! Mol" they answered, straighten
ing up to wunst.
''Do you want niggers for sons-in-laws p
"Ncl No"
"Do you want laws to prevent you from
marryin niggers
| YES Yes
''Do you want to be marched up to tht
polls, by those who tell you how to vote, be
side niger
No! NoI'
Then vote for the Dimokratic ticket,
and they all replied;
I'VE will we will - and they did.
You see, your Exsency, the Dimokratl
mind isn't hefty enough to comprehent
them fine arguments ez to conconstooShnall
tv, ct setary, and when a speaker deals IL
them they suspect his Dimocrisy and fgh
shy NV HIM But niger they kin all un
ders.and. It's s0othin to the Dimerkrati
mind to be continyooally told there is some
body lower down in the skal-they despls
inferior race, & therefore hev bin pulll
the niger down toward EN- for years. Dlt
! yoo not notis whenever we went 1t on tn
niger we succeeded in awakenin an enthOu
| sism which, when we neglected or selecte
other issues. we failed to git
, Its based upon philosofical truths. Ih
, poorer and meaner a man is the more anX
r ious he is to hev it und 3rstood that there
somebody still poorer and meaner than him
: Hence Won notis that them individuoolS VIII
, sees a 5 cent peese so seldom ez to not kno'
e its nacher, and who keep the flag of distres
wavin from the seat of their pants, who {
niggers was sellin at a cent apeese, cooden
. raise enough to buy the toe nail NV one,
3 the most ardent friends of slavery.
t Il pity 700, my lord, but cant hel
a yoo. Ez fer meself | ken save euuf out
nv Post Orfs to start small grocery at tn
5 expiration Nv my term, and then tarewe
I. politics. In that pleasant calen IL tiot
down the streem Nv Time until Deth clost
the poals and ends the struggle. hev set
i The Conference ended with this, fur the
IS wuz all too much affeckted to say enythlnI
Seward murmured sunthen about it wou
e be all rite in sixty days-that there wuz
:, denyen that the people wuz happy, but T
+ wun pade eny attention to him. L wei
e hoam leaven em all in tears.
t. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, Z. Nj.
% witch is Postmaster.)
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