Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-02-21
Written for the Toledo Blade.l
NASBY.
MIR. Nasty suggests a plan for
the up-buiIdIng of the DemOc-
racy.

he had the utmost regard for my man,
virtues, but he diskivered that the on
he prized the most I hadn't so many Nv
to-Wit: that Nv payin for my Gkker.-
Therefore the account mite be considereC
closed. Then, for the first time in N,
life, 1 bleeved in total depravity.
While musin in a melancholy mood Of
this dark cloud which fell across M
pathway, and the fall Nv the Democrat
party, l came onto a party of men boril
for lie. Then the trooth flashed over m
their operations showed me the way Il
success-the shoor path to triumph.
"When," said 1 to myself, "when mel
seek gain they bore for it, They g,
down-never up. Even so with tn
Dimocrisy. We dug downward down
wardl downward through all the strat'
Nv society. We went through
the groceries-the next stratum was tbs
most ignorant Nv the furiners-then WI
struck the poor whites nv the South
then below them the heft Nv the peopl
Nv Moo ~Gersy-then Southern Illinol
and Indiana-then Pike county, Missouri
and so on We never went upward fo
converts cause 'twant no use-when
man wanted to jine US he alluz he'd 4
come down. We got lots Nv converts.
1AOIO was q ICRu1dT sllOln sCd16 WAACA
the heft Nv Democrats who wuznt borr
in the party hev slid down, to-wit:
Quarter dollar smiles.
Is cent nips.
10 cent drinks.
5 cent sucks.
A fat flask conceded.
A bottle openly.
Dimocrisy. ~
We lost our hold for two reasons. LIST,
q the poor hkker we hev now kills off oul
voters too fast, and the tax on Hhiskey
forced two thirds Nv our people to quit
sukin, and ez soon ez they begun to git
on their feet they jined the Ablishnists
Secondly, our leaders spozed there wuz
no lower stratum to dig into, and give up
in disgust.
But I hev deskivered that lower stra-
tum-I hev found it, and when the idea
flashed over my Websterian intelleck, /
shouted Hallelooga! The niger is the
lower stratum. and eff we bore down to it
and work it thoroughly, we heV at least q
twenty years lease Nv power.
We must cultivate the niger. He
MUST HKv THE SUFFRAGE! 1t is a BURN
shame that in this Nineteenth Sentry, in
the full blaze Nv intelligence, Twin un-
der a Deklarashun which declares all
men "free and ekal," that a large body
Nv men shood be denied the glorius priv
ilege Nv bein taken up to the polls and
voted. Is not the Afrikin a man? Is he
not taxed ez we are, and more than most
Nv the Democrisy, for many Nv EN- own
property: is he not amenable to all the
laws even ez we is? Then why, I tri-
umphantly ask, is he not entitled to a
vote? All why? indeed
"But this is AblishnismY ' methinks I
hear a obtoose Dimocrisy observe in hor-
ror-"and why give them votes, who will
use I'm agin us 2"
My gentle friend piH they use their bal
lot agin us Eff 1 know myself l think
not. Kin they read? Kin they rite p
Amt the bulk Nv EN- rather degraded
and low than otherwise? Methinks-
Amt that the kind Nv stock we want,
% and witch alluz sets US up. Readin haz
alluz been agin us-every skool master IL
a engin " AbEshunism-every noosepa-
IL a cuss. General Wize, Nv Virginia,
when he thanked God there wuz't q
noosepaper in hiz deestrick, he'd reason
to, for do 700 spoze a readin coustiteo-
ency wood heE ever kept SIGH a blather-
skfte in Congress, year after year.
4 Then sgin, the Constooshnal Amend
mendment will pass, given representa-
ton to voters alone. The Democratic
States will hev more members of Con-
gress and more electoral votes than s1ore
the war, and them States we kin depend
ON.
But my skeem IL still more comprehen-
siye. Them niggers, amt wanted in the
South. Well send EN- North. A few
thousand will over balance the Ablishun
poos1wfkr =, NJ Garzo-. Gfk- 4Io,,zo-I |
will bring Ohio back to the fold, the
same number will do for New York and
1PennsylYany, and the country IL saved
we will be able to elect the President.-l
Thus the pit the Ablishnist dug for US
he'll fall into hisself-the club he cut for
us will break his own head.
Honey hez kun out Nv the karkas,
good has preceded from Nazareth. The
niger smells sweeter to me than Mite
ibloomin Serious-he is more precious to
me than gold or silver or preshus stones.
He is the way and l shell walk in it. He
shell lift me into a post orfs. We must
give our Afrikin brother-for Is he not a
man and a brother mot only the suf-
frage, but he must hev land, and the De-
mocrRcy must give it to him.
want Gsrrit Davis to instantly inter-
doose a bill into the SENT given each
family a quarter section oY land, a pair
ov mules and a cook stove, and each fe-
male Afrikin brother two farm calico
: dresses and AIRED bonnet. l want him
to advocate a bill in a speech oV not
more than two hours, so that it will stand
some chance oT passin. On second
thought guess some other man he'd bet
ter introdoose the bill, as the SENT hez
got into SIGH a habit oV voting down eV-
erything he proposes that they'd slather
this without considerin it, on iineral prin-
ciples. /
Then we've got EN-. Work ez hard ez
they may at if, it'll take twenty years
afore the Ablishinists can educate them
up to the standard Nv votin their ticket,
and even that time won't do it if we kin
git the tax taken off Nv whisky SO that
we kin afford to yoose it as in the days of
yore.
Goyusly 1 went home to lay the foun-
dashun Nv the new temple Nv Dimocrsy.
l slept that mite atWeen two uiggers, and
hey beeu shaking hands and ~enquirin
after the helth Nv all 1 hev met. It's
rather hard for an orthodox Democrat
sech sudden shifts are rather wrenchin
on the Conscience, but what Nv that?-I
The Democrat who hez followed the par
ty closely for thirty years ought not to
balk at SIGH a trifin change ez this, per-
tikerly when it promises SIGH glorious re-
suits. grE ere
J There is a light about to gleem,
y There's a fountain about to streem,
Wait a little longer
PETROLEUM v. Massey,
Lait Faster Nv the Church Nv the Moo
Dispensashun.