Evansville daily journal., 1866-01-24
Dbe Daily 8uarnaG.
[From the Toledo Blade.
Mr.. NasbY Taketh Heart---He Sees q
Future for the Democracy.

seer and yaller leaf, .shood abandon
Democracy and fote with the current.
can't. Young wimmin hoch to marry
ins-middle aged ones to bornins, and
,ss aaa old ones to, buryins, which shows con-
soi cloosively to the most limited intelleck
wat the mind nv each class runs upon.
; So it is with me. To me Democrley IS
wife, mother and child
1 hev diskiVered many things sence L
hev bin In Kentucky-things wich eie-
waited my deprest heart ez yeast does
dough, whick filled my shrunken sole ez
wind does bladder
Tie people Of Kentucky were all loyal
Doorin the horrible fratrside war wich
hes rent the proud temple nv liberty lnz
twain thev preserved strict new tralty.
i he'd a conversation with one old patrl-
~, frss 4 arch who assured me he ned never taken
sides.
M Upon his honor he assoored me that
ss after battles he rihed the corpses Nv both
armies impartially. i" Good any boldly
be more nootral than that2 he asked.
= III any sons,' said he, wuz in the con-
fedrit army This fact would hev turned
the affections of week minded man ID
a that direction, but when thot nv the.
BOYS, alluz thot also nv that gellorioHs
.sfs e star-spangled banner, under which, L
3, had whipped my niggers and sold their
children, under whose shadder had men
made servants born unto me. That
~ G. banner he'd bin my shield Ef my mig
gers run off, who so prompt In their pur
suit as the Democratic marshals, which
g aluz returned EN- to me eff it wuz pos~
sible. The instooshun wuz guaranteed
to me by solemn compromise which we
Good hev ez often as we desired. Com-
f1l promises wus our best holt. Whenever
~ we wanted anything all we had to do wuz
to ask for it. The Ablishnests wood OBJ
iect--the Democrisy would draw up
COMPROMISE which inklooded, ez a rool,
twice or times what we asked, and
& pass it to save the Union. Sich Union
was worth havin, and opposed all eff
forts 10 dissolute it. Hell the South sue
ceeded shood hev gone with EN-, for
Kentucky alone-the only nigger State
in the North-wood heV bin helpless,
Scaldn tears hev / shed when contem>
pIatin the horror of war, but could do
nothin to avert it. Kentucky WIZ loyal
but nootraL
ind down here that the loyal citizens
nv Kentucky who hev returned from the
Confedrit service are not at all discour>
aged on the contrary they are hopeful.
Sed one to me Il bleeve he wuZ Kurnel
under Gen. Forest-indeed think he
told me he participated in the glorious
sf victory at Fort Piller) =
"Why art thou cast down? Things is
woflIin eggsakly to our hand"
In mournful tone retorted that
failed to perceived it.
fHF 81 kim ssz he. " Lookye, my VEN
erable friend. Is the Northern Demo-
crsy still trooT
"They is," / replied, wat few remains
But alas war, crooel war, hez decimated
our ranks FIVE times.
"How soT' sez he, "none of your kind
nv Demokrats jined in this unholy croo-
do md fall afnre nur dafh. daiin ou,ords
2r did they9' 4E
I" Not any" sez I, "but Kanady and
Montana took em, aiore each draft
That 10 why we wuz so beet at the eleck-
shuns For one week-kneed Ablishinist
we scared into our ranks we lost two
by emigration, and unfortunitly wun
half that emigration starved to deth, and
tother half is distributed in the various
States prisons in them lands NV refuge u
"Siill, " sez he, sit matters not Yoo
hev deestricks yoo kin carry in most NV
the States The Five Points deestrick in
Moo York is ours. Moo Gersey will go
back to her allegiance The new gold
States, where 30 many of our friends fed,
will send up Democrats to Congress.
Ohio haez 2 devoted to us, Pennsylvania
haez several and the most Nv the North
q ern States will send one or two, and them
go from the North kin be depended on to go
-, any measure we..say." Then, and he
\ slapped me on the back highlariousy
1.-THE nggers is freeP'
"WellR' sez /, not seeing what cause
ssr1 for highlarity there wuz. Tg
q sANS =" Well, sez he, them niggers is no
now OTHER PERsoNs2 We auz counted
five NV EN- for three, in making up the
Congressers we wuz entitled to; now they
sno count q white men, which increases oaI aI
az Northern men do half your dooty wei
srr;fx syG
Lordl The pleasant crack nv the whiI
shall be heard again on the plains of thu
sunny South. The niggers won't be re
ensaved, but our Legislators will speedi
redoose EN- to their normal condition
We shell observe the Constitutions
Amendment strictly and in good faith
The Afrikinsshel be Free but the good u
society demands that he shel be unde
proper guardianship He won't be al
lowed to change his location, and th
laws of the States will define dootei
and give us the power of enforcin EN-
He won't be allowed to hev arms, SO h
- can't resist. Ez he kant leave plants
ton, he will hev to submit quietly to sue
rools as the high-minded planter make
for him, or be shot on the spot or turne
out TO die nv starVashun, ,.akordin to Gil
ss cuInstances. Ell the planter is unrejeI
Grated child nv damnashen, he will shoe
him--ef he is O saint who hez southar
hope nv blessed Immortality beyon
the grave, he'll restrain his anger an
A*s turn him out to die nv hunger, onless
reponts and comes back humble. Thel
they bein free and responsible for thei
selves, we amt obleeged to take care
The sick, the aged, or the infrm, so
viii be really better than il wuz befor
I see GLORIOUS future afore us. Th
the thick clouds of gloom the brite ST
4 nv hope clearly breaks. Say to Il
Northern Dimocrisy be nv good chez
Agin they shell lick our hands-agin th
shell eat the crumbs that fall from q
national table.
"Thank God for the Northern Dim
crisy, with the other blessins He has q
en- the South. With niggers to do O
manuel labor for nothin, with Northe
Democrats to do all onr votin at almc
the same price, we are trooly faver
people Bless the Lord for the nigg
and the Democrat, which is both usel
to us, each in his speer."
/ drew encouragement from his
marks The deep yane nv pious than
fulness which run through his discour
was natural to him. He is trooly
ous man, and was just back from
meetin uu the Synod one NV
Northern churches which still persi
in ouotin Onesimus and Hayger. If
encouraged. %, Dimmycrats of