Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-04-06
MIR. NASBY SUGGESTS APLAN FOR
THE UPBUILDENG OF THE
DEMOCRACY.
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS, which is in the
Stait Nv Kentucky JAN u, 1866.

musln onto the depravlty NV humanity eZ
exemplihed in the person NV the grocery
keeper at the Corners who unanimously re-
foosed to give me further credit for corn
whisky, wich is the article they yoose in this
country to Dizen themselves with. He as
scored me that he had the utmost regard
for my many virtues but he diskivered that
the one he priced the most hedn't so ma
ny Nv, to wit that NV payin for my Ticker.
Therefore the account mite be considered
closed Then for the first time in my life,
| believed in total deprayity.
While moosin in melankoly mood on
this dark cloud Wich fell across the Dim
ocratie party, | came onto party NV men
borin for lie. Then the trooth flashed over
me-thsir operations showed me the way to
sUccess-the shoor path to triumph
when, said | to myself, "when men
seek to gain lie they bore for it. They go
down-neYer up. Even so with the Dim
ocrasy. We dug downward downward
through all the strata NV society. We went
through all the groceries-the the stratum
was the most ignorant Nv furiners, then we
struck the poor whites NV the South, then
below them the heft of the poor NV Moo
Gersey-then Southern Illinois and Indiana
then Pike county, Missouri, and so on! We
never went upwards for converts cause
twant no use-had to come down. We got
lots of converts
There was a regular sliding scale with the
heft Nv Democrats who want born in the
party hev slid down, to wit
Quarter dollar smiles.
Is cent nlps.
10 cent drinks.
cent sucks.
A fiat flask conceded.
A bottle openly.
Dimocrlsy.
We lost our holds for two reasons First,
the poor Ticker we hey now kills off our Yo-
ters too fast, and the tax on whisky forced
two-thirds Of our people to quit suckin, and
ez soon ez they begin to git on their feet
they jined the Abilitionists. Secondly, our
leaders supposed there wuz no lower STRAIT
um to dig into, and they gave up In disgust
But have diskivered that lower stratum
Il have found it, and when the idea flashed
over my Websterian intellect shouted Hal
leloogy The niger is the lower stratum
and eff we bore down to it, and work it thor
oughly, we hev at least twenty year lease
Nv power.
We must cultivate the niger lie must
HeU the suffrage It is a burnish shame
that in this Nineteenth Sentry, in the full
blaze NV intelligence, living under Dekla-
rashun wich declares all men free and
ekal, that large body of men shood be
denied the glorious privilege Nv being taken
up to the poles and voted. Is not the Afri-
kin man? Is he not taxed ez we are and
most Nv the Dimocrisy, for many NV them
own property is he not amenable to all the
| laws even ez we is Then why, | trium-
phantly ask, is he not entitled TO a vote =?
An why not indeed
But this is Abolitioul' methinks | hear
an obtuse Dimocrasy observe In horror
and why give them votes, who will use
| them agin us n
BY gentle friend 1eiU they use their bal
| lots agin US ? Ef | know mysilf l think
not Kin they read? Kin they right
! Amt the bulk of them rather degraded and
/ low than otherwise? Methinks. Aint that
the kind of stock we want, and the kind
wich alluz set US up. Readin has alluz been
agin us-eyery skool master is an engine OF
| Ablishinisul-ever noOspaper Is a cuss,
| General Wise of Virginia, when he thanked
! God there wuZut a noospaper in his district
| had reason to, for do you spose a readln
constituency would have kept sich blath-
erskite ez him in Congress year after year.
Then agin, the Constitutional Amend
ment viii pass, given representashun to yo-
ters alone. Tie Democratic States viii have
more members NV Congress and more cleo
toral votes than afore the war, and them
States we depend on.
| But my skeem is sCll more comprehen-
sive. Them niggers amt needed In the
South Wen send them North. 4 few
thousand will oYerbalauce the Ablishuu ma
iority in Moo Gersey; fifty thousand will
bring Ohio back to the fold, the same num-
Der will do for Moo York and Pennsylvania,
and the country is saved-we viii be able to
elect the President Thus the pit the Ab-
lishnist dug for us he'll fall in hisself-the
club he cut for US will break his own head
Honey hez cum out vThe carcass The
nigger smells sWeetcr to me now than mite
bloomin Serious-he is more precious to me
than gold or silver or. precious stones. He
is the way and [ shall walk in it. He she
lift me into a Post oriis We must give
our Afrikin brother-for is he not a man
and brother? not only the suffrage, bat
he must hev land aud the Dimocrasy must
give it to him. | want Garret Davis to in
stantly interdoose bill to give him sec
ton of land, pair NV mules and cooE
stove, and each female African brother twt
farin calico dresses and a red bonnet
wantShim to advocate the bill in a speech
j NV not more than two hours, so that it vii
stand some chance Of passin. On seconc
thought | think some other man had better
interdoose the bill, as the Sennit hez got
sich habit NV yotin down everything he
proposes that they slater this without con
siderin it, on iineral principles
Then we've got EN-. Work ez hard e.
they may at it it Il take twenty years afore
i the Ablishnists ken edikate EN- up to tht
standard NV votin their tickit, and even tha
time won't do it, if we kin get the tax takcr
off NV whisky so that We Kin afford to use i
ez in the happy days nv yore.
Goyously [ went home to lay the founda.
ton NV the new temple of Dimocrasy.
slept that mite atWeen two niggers, and he'
bin shakin hands and enquirin after thu
health NV the families NV all hev met
That is hard for an orthodox Dimoerat-sucl
sudden shifts is rather wrenchin on the con
shence, but what NV that? The Dimoera
who hez follered the party closely. for thirty
years oughtn not to balk at sich a trltiiI
change ez this, particularly when it promise
such glorious results.
There's lite about to CLEAN,
There's fount about to streem,
Wait little longer
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY.