Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1866-01-05
NAspY.
Mr.. Nasby Conyerses with General
McSlinger, or South Carolina.

bin fpfndin the heft Nv my time ~
NAsIing,on. | fad melancholy pleas,
nee IN lingfln around the scene Nv go
many Demokratio lfIumphs, Hero u
wuk that Brooks. tho heroic bludgeoned
hummer, here II WE that Calhoun x
Yancy 4 Breekinrldge achieved lheIf
afiory and renown. Besides. its the
tiasioef place 10 duiRo board bill In the
poonlted statee. There's 80 many Con.
jfrossmen here who resemble me, that
hev no difficulty In passln for one, two
thirds Nv the time.
Yesterday met In the readIn.room
nv Willards Gihral MaeSlnger, Nv
South Kariny. The Ginral II here on
tho same blzness most Nv tho Southern
men hev In this classic city, that Nv pro
koorin pardon, wieh 10 had prohoored,
and wuz giliIn ready TO 60 homo and
accept the nomnashen for Congress In
'his deestrick.
The Ginral wuz gloomy. Things did
not SCOT him, he observed, and he wuz
Altered that tho country was on a high
road Ia. rooin lie he'd bin absent from
the yoonited States sumthin over four
yeers, witch time ho he'd spent In the
southern Confederacy. When he went
out Of the Constooshncl Dimocrisy he'd
some rites wich wuz respected. On his
return what did he see? The power in
tho hands Of Rsdikals, Ab!ishnsm in
the majority Everywhere, an ex.tailor
Prosident--a state NV affairs disgustin
In the extreme to the highly sensitive
Southern mind lie he'd accepted par.
don only bccoz he felt hisself constran-
I'D TO put hisself iL2 position to 90 TO
Congress, that the country might be
reskood from it's impendin peril. Io
shood 20 10 Congress, and then he
should ask tho despois who now hov
control. whether
/ They aposod tho South wood sub
NIT To hoomiliation condishnf?
2. Wha, Androo Johnson means by
dciatin to The. .Convenshuns Nv sovereign
StatesY
why, says he, hut few days ago
this boor he'd the nshoorence TO write to
tho Georgy Conyenshun that IL must
NOT - marx the ierm--'MUsT NOT HlsOom
the confcdrit war ccbt.' L. tailor TO
SAY must not TO shivelrus GeorgyY Good
God i-where are We driitih2 For one.
/ nsver will be consolidated on them
ferIns-ncverl never WIZ used TO that
stile Nv talk in Dlmckrafiu ron venshuns,
sEz soon ca feako ny seat IN Con.
erir, resumed he. Il shell delivers speech
~ich | writ tho dny lfer Lee surreo.
deted. 30 cz TO hev u ready, In which |
shel take The iolorin ground, to.wit;
Tint the South hey buried tbe hutehit
and hev diskiverod that they love the
old Yoonion above eny thing on earth.
But,
The North must meet Us half way,
or we won't bo answerable for the con
eskcrces. Ez n basis for a settlement, |
shell insis, in the iollcrin condishens:
The Federal debt must bo repoodia.
It'd, principal and interest, or eli paid,
The Southern war debt muse bc paid
Iikewse-ez peece olierin. The doe.
irine nv State Rites must bc made the
eoopreme law Nv the land, that the South
may withdraw whenever they feel
thelrseIves Dissatisfied with Mneeachu-
setts. Nv coarse tbs il u olive branch.
'JclfsrsOn Davis must be 10. wuntst set
at liberty and Sumner hung, oz proof
that the North ia really consllliatory.-
On this pint | am ndexlblo, and On
the others immovable.
An old man who he'd bin listinin to
our talk, murmured hat there wuz "a
parallel 10 this last propo-ishen.
Where? demanded the Ginral.
The jews, / remember, replied he,
demanded that Barrabes be released
unto them, who WIZ thief, | believe,
and the Savior be crucfcd, but | iorgit
jist how il wuz.'
The Ginral withered him with a liten-
in glance and resoomed:
Il shel, nv course, offer the North
sulhin in tho way NV compensation. for
the troo theory nv q Republican Gov
ernment " compermise. On our part
wc pledge ourselves to KUN back, and
give the North the benefit Nv our kumn
back, so long as Massacb usetts condux
herself akordin TO our ijecr NV what is
rito. But ct his ekitable adjustment is
rejected, all hev to say then is, L shel
resign, and the Government may sink
without wun effort from me to save il.
l wnz about to give in my experience,
when the old man, who wuz sittin near
US, broke in agin:
MY name, sed he, 'is Maginnis, and
live in Alabama. l want to say n
word to the gentleman from karliny,
and to the wun from Moo Gersey'
How, rotorted l, do 700 know am
from Moo Gersey, not heven spoken u
word in yoor hearenY
by instnk | bev. Whenever see
Sutherner layin it down heavy to a
indivijouli whose phisynogamy is NV
sich a cast that upon bebolded it 700
instinktivcly feel to see that yoor pocket
Handkerchief is safe, a face that wood be
dangerous ii il had courage into it, al
Juz know the latter to be Northern
Copperhead. The Moo Gerscy part
guessed at, becoz, my friend, that State
furnished the lowest order nv copper
heads Nv any Nv EN-. PardeD mo eff |
flatter 700. But what wanted to say
wuz, that spose suthin hez happened
dooren the past years. was II origi-
nal sccessionist. Sum years ago bed
hundred niggers, and wuz doin well
with EN-. But, UNFORTUNATELY, my broth
er died and left me ez much more land
but no niggers. l wanted niggers enuff
20 work that land, and spozed ef cut off
from the North, and the slave trade
wuz reopened, Good git em cheaper
Hentz | sechesbed. Sich men ez Ginral
MeStipger told me the North woOdn' Z