The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-03-02
Mistellaneons.
NASBY.
Mr.. Nnsby Tniscth IIcari...IIc Secs F"-
turc for the Democracy.

Jan. u, lSOO.
sees a lite. Democracy is not that dead
karkis its enemies hoped for and its friends
feared. Ny noomerious friends here insisted
that ez wuz CROWN into tho seer and yallcr
leaf should abandon Dimocrisy, and hotc
with tho current. cant. Ez troo ez the
needle to the pole, so am | to Dimocrisy.
Young wimmin flock to marryins-mddlca aged
ones to bornins, and old ones to buryins, wich
shows couc!oosiycly to the most limited intel
leck wat the the mind NV each class runs up.
on. So it is with me. To me Dimocrisy is
wife, mother and chile.
hey discovered many things scnce ! hev bin
in Kca,ucky-things wich elevated my deprest
heart ez yeast does dough, wich filled my
shrunkcn soul cz wind does u bladder.
The people NV Kentucky wus all loyal. Doc.
rim the horrible fratrasidlo war wich has rent
the proud temple nv liberty in2 twain, they
preserved a strict MORTALITY. l he'd a conver
sation with one old patriarch who assured me
that he he'd never taken sides.
Upon his honor, ho assured me that after
battles he riacd the corpscs NV both armies, i'm.
partially. Good emmy body be more nootraller
than that? he asked. My sons, said he was in
the confederit army. This fact would hcv
turned the affections Of meek minded man in
that direction, but when thot nv the boys, |
alluz thot also NV that gcllorious star-spangled
banner under witch he'd Wiped my niggers
and sold their children. under whose shadder
he'd men servants and maid servants and home
made servants, born unto Dc. That banner
he'd been my shield. Ell my nigs ran oil who
so prompt in their pursooit us the Demoratic
marshals, wich alus returned them to me et 1t
wus possible. The institooshun was guaran-
tced to INC by soem compromises wch we Good
hcv cz often US we desired. Compromises wuz
our best holt. Whenever we wanted anything
all we he'd to do was to ask for it. The Abli
shnists wood objce.-,hc democrsy would draw
up compromise wich inkloodcd, as rool,
twice or 3 times wat we asked, and pass 1t to
save the Union. Sich Union wus worth hav.
iu, and opposed all efforts to dissolutc it, he'd
the South succeeded, shood hcv gone with
en-, for kentucky alone-the only niger Ssa't
in the North-wood hev bin helpless. Scalding
teers hev shed wen contemplatin the horrcrs
NV war, but Good do nothing to prevent it,
Kentucky was loyal but nootral.
find down here that the loyal citizens Nv
Kentucky who hev returned from the contedrit
service arc not at all discouraged, on the con-
trary they are hopefulc.. Sed one to me- u
beliey, no WAS n Kernel under Gen. Forrest
indeed, think he told me that no participa'
tho glorious victory at Fort Piller) "Why art
thou cast down? Things is wOrkin cggsackly
to our hand"
In a morniool tone retorted thatl failed to
perscvc it. :,
kin, ses he. Lookye, my venerable friend
Is the Northern Democracy still troo?
They is. l replied, wat few remains. But
alas! war. cruel war, has decimated our ranks
Eve times.
How so? ses he, none Of your kind Nv demo-
Gratis jinci in this unholy croosadc and fell
aforc our dcath-dcalinS swords, did thcy?'
Not any, scs I, but Kancdy and Montana
took EN-, aioIc each draft. That wuz why we
wuz so bcset at the elecshuns. For one week.
kneed Ablishnst we scared in2 our ranks VIC
los, too by emigration, and unfortinity wun
half that cmigrated starved to death, and the
other half is distributed in the various Stats
prisons in them lands Nv refuge.
Still. says he, II matters not. You hcv dees.
tricks you kin carry IN most NV the Stats The
Five Points decstrick in Moo York 10 ours.
Moo derscy will 90 back to her allegiance.
The new Gold States, where 80 many Of our
friends fed, will eend up democrats to Con.
gres. Ohio has devoted to US, Pennsylvania
has several, and the most Of tho Northern
States will send one or two, and them from the
North kin DO depended upon to 60 any mea.
sure We say. Then, and he slapped mo on tho
back highlariously, "ths nigsss is free!"
Well! ses I, not scciu wat cause for high
lsrity there was. .....r