Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-01-26
From the Toledo Blade. 81. g.
Mr.. Nasby Taketh Neart.-.Ilc Sees = Eu-
ture for the Democracy. ...
CoNfEDRlT y ROADS (which }
Is In the Stait NV kentuckyl,

CoNFEDRlT X ROADS (which)
Is la the Stait NV Kentucky.
January 0, isdd.
l sec lite. Dimocrisy is not that
dead karkis Its enemies hoped for and
its friends feared My noomerous
friends here insisted that ez wuz gro
in in the seer and yallcr leaf, shood
abandon Dimocrisy, and tiote with the
current. | cant. Ey trnp ez the needle
to the pole, so am / Ia Dimocrisy.-
Young wimmin flock to omarryins-mid-
dle-aged ones to bornins, and old ones
to huryins which shows concloosively
to the most limited intelleck what the
mind NV each class runs upon. So ii il
with me. To me Dimocrisy is wife,
mcther and child. .-.
hcv diskevered many things since
hev bin in Kentucky--things wich ele-
waited my deprest heart ez yeast does do,
which filed my shrunkcn soul cz wind
does a bladder.
The people Nv Kentucky wuz all 10y
al. D0orin the horrible fratrisidle war
which hez rent the proud temple NV
liberty in2 twain, they preserved q
strict MORTALITY. | he'd a conversation
with wun old patriarch, who asshnoreti
me that he he'd never taken sides.
Upon his honor, he asshocred me that
Hc Tic cOrISpS Y
both armies, impartially. "Cood any
boldly be more n0otraller than that ?''
he asked. My sons,' sed he, "w,lz i'm
the Confedrit army. This fact wood
hcv turned the affections NV a week
mindeA man i'm that direction, but when
thot Nv the boys, | alluz thot also NV
that gellorious star-spangled banner,
under which ! he'd whipped my niggers
and sold their children, under whose
shaddcr he'd men servants, and made
servants and homemade servants, born
unto me. That banner he'd bin my
shield. Ef my niggers run off, who So
prompt in their pursoOt ca the Demo-
cratic marshals, which alluz returned
en- to me ef II wuz possible. The in
stooshun wuz guaranteed to me by SOL
emn compromises which we Good hev
cz often ez we deserted. Compermises
wuz our best holt. Whenever we want
ed anything all we had to do wuz to ask
for it. The Ablishnists wood object
the Dimocrisy would draw up COM
permise which inkloodcd, ez n rool,
twice or 3 times wat we asked, and pass
it to save the Union. Such Union
wuz worth havin, and opposed all Of
forts TO dissolutc IL. He'd the South
succeeded | shood licv gone with en-, for
in the n orth, wood hev bin helpless. -
Scaldin tears hcv | shed when contcm.
platin the horrors Nv war, but | Good d0
nothin to avert it. Kentucky was loyal
but nootral.'
find down here that the loyal citi.
zcns Nv Kentucky who hev returned
from the Confcdrit service, are not ut al
discouraged, on the contrary they are
hopeful. Scd one to mel believe he
wuz Il Kernel under General Forrest
indeed think he told me he participa-
ted in the glorious victory at Fort Pill
lcr).
"Why art thou east down? Things
Is workin eggsaclsly to our hand"
In n mournfui tone ] rctortcd that |
failed TO perseeve it.
=" / kin" sez he. Lookyc, my ven
cradle friend. Is the Northern Domoc-
risy still troo?"
"They is 1 replied, "wat few re-
mains. But alas war. crooel war hcz
dccinatnd our ranks five times -
- How SOP" seZ he, "none nv your
kind NV Dimorcrats jined in this unho-
ly croosade, and fell aforc our death
doelin swords, did they"
Not any" seq | "but kanady and
Montana took en-, afore each draft -
That wuz why we wuz so beet at the
oiekshuns. For one week -kuecd Alb.
lishinist we scared into our ranks We
lost two by emigration, and unforitl-
To death, and tother half Is distributed
in the various States prisons ia them
lands Nv refuge"
Still,n sez he "it matters not. Yoo
hev districks 700 kin carry in most NV
the States. The Five Points decstrick
In New York is ours. Moo Gerscy will
go back to her allegiance. The new
gold states, where SO mcEy NV our
friends fled, will send up Democrats to
Congress. Ohio hez 2 devoted to us,
Pennsylvania has several and the most
Nv the Northern States will send one or
two, and them from the North kin be
depended on to go any measure we say.
Then," and he slapped me Oh the back
highlariously, 'tbe niggcr IL frce!r
Well ?" SCI |, not seain what cause
for highlarity thet wu2.
now other persons! We alIuz counted
five Nv EN- for three, in making up the
COngrcssers we Wuz entitled to, now
they count as white men, which inc-cas-
es our delsgashun to sich aH extent
that ef 700 Nothern men do half your
dooty we'll hev Il majority i'm Congress.
Then, good Lord The pleasant crack
NV the whip sliel again be heard Oh the
plains NV the sunny South. The mig
gers wont be re-enslaved, but our Leg
islaters will spec lily rcdoos EN- to their
normal condishun. We shell observe
the Constitushenel amendment strictly
and i'm good faith. The Afrikin shell be
free, but the good NV society demands
that he shel be under proper guardian
ship. He wont be allowed to chang
his location, and the laws Of the State
will define his dooties, and give us the
power of cnforcin EN-. He won't he
allowed TO hev arms, so he can't resist.
En- he can't leave a plantation, he will
hev to submit quietly to such roofs ez he
highminded planter makes for him, or
be shot OH the spot, or turned out to die
NV starvashun, akordin to circumstan-
ces, Eff the planter is unrejencrated
child uy damnashun, he will shoot him
--cf he is n saint who hez Il southren
hope NV blessed immortality beyond
the grave, he'll rcstrane his andger and
turn him out to die NV hunger, oniess
he repents and comes back humble
Then, they bein free and responsible
for themselves, we amt obliged to take
care NV the sick, the aged or the infirm,
so it will he really better than it wuz
before. / see gellorious future afore
us. Thro the thick clouds Nv gloom
the britesun NV hope cheeingly breaks
Say to the Northern Dimocrisy bt
Nv good cheer. Again they shell
lick our llands--again they shall eat the
crumbs that fall from the National Ia
BILE.
"Thank God for the Northern Dim,
ocrisy, with the other blessings He ha.
given the South. With niggers to dc
our manual labor for nothin, with
Northern Dimocrats 70 do our votin ai
almost the same price, we are trooly (
favored people. Bless the Lord for thu
nigger and the Dimocrat, which is b0tl
useful to US, each in his speer."
| drew encouragement fiom his re
marks. The deep vane Nv pious thank
fulncss which run through his discours,
was material To him. He Ia n trooly pi
ous man, and wuz just back frun Tia,
meetin Nv the Synod NV one NV tn
Southern churches, which still persist
in quotin Onesimus and Haygor. I fee
encouraged. o, Dimmycrats NV Tia
North, let us
our vi1or rcDoO
And our journey pursoo."