Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-02-01
MR. NASBY TAKETH HEART
HE SEES A FUTURE FOR THE
DEMOCRACY.
CoNFEDEIT y ROADS, (Which is !
in the State of Kentucky,)
January 6. lSG6.

January o, 1866
see lite Democracy is not that
ded ken Sas its enemies hoped fur
and its friends feared My noomer-
Gus trends here insisted that ez wuz
GROWN later the seer and yeller leef,
/ should abandon Democracy and
flote with the current / can't. Az
troo az the needle Is to the pole, so
am | too DeU0crasy.
find down here that the loval
citizens NV KENTUCKY who hav re-
turned from the Confedrit service,
are not discouraged; on the contrary
they are hopeful. Sed enc to me-
{ l believ he wuz q Kurnel under
Genral Forest Indeed / think he
told me he participated in the gloIius
vietry at Fort Pillow;
"Why art thou cast down. Things
Is workin egsaztly to our hand?"
In a mornful tone Irstorted that I
-ifasl.fE 10 f.erssveit. ~-----ss
Il kin" scr he. "LooEye, my
venerable friend Is the Northern
Dimocrisy still troo?"
They Is" replied, "wat few re-
mains. But alas! war, cruel war, has
decimated our ranks five times"
How sot'' sez he, ''none NV your
kind nv Dimccrats jined in this un-
holy crusade and fell afore our death
dealin swords, did tAcy?'
Not any," sez 1, but Kanady
and Montana took em, afore each
draft. That was why We wuz so
beet at the elcckshuns. For one
week kueed AblishiEist we scared
into our ranks we lost two by emi-
grafton, and unfortunately Hun half
that emigrated starved to deth, and
totder half is Distributed in the vari
GUS State prisons in them lands nv
refuge"
Still scz he, cit matters not
You hev deeslricks 700 kin carry in
most NV the States. The Five Points
Geeslrick in Moo York is ours. Moo
Jersey will 90 back to her allegiance.
TT e new gold States, where so men
ny Nv our friends fed, will send mp
Democrats to Congress. Ohio has
= devoted to us, Pennsylvany hez
several and three Nv the Northern
States will send one or two, and
shem from the North kin be depend
ed on 70 90 any measure We SAY,
Then" and he slapped me on the
back higLlariousiy, the niggers is
fre-r.'
w clip sez !, can : seen wat cause
for highlarity that was.
"WellE" sez he, "them niggers is
not now other persons. We slluz
counted five NV en- for three, IN max
Ing up the Congressers, we wuz en-.
titled to. now they count IS while
men. which increases our delegashuns
to sich an extent cf 700 Northern
men DO half your dooty well have a
majority in Congress. Then good
Lordl The pleasant crack nv the
whip sbod again he herd on the
plains NV the sunny South. The
niggers won t be re enslaved, but cur
Legislature will speedy redoose EN-
to their. Eormal condishin. We shall
observe the Constitutional Amend |
ment strickly and in good faith
The Afrikin shell be free, but the
good Nv society demands that he
shall be under proper guardianship.
He won't be allowed to change his
location and the laws NV the State
will define his dooties, and give US
the power NV enfOrcin EN-. He won't
be allowed to hev arms, so he can't
resist. Ez he can't leave a planta-
tion, lie viii hev to submit quietly to
sich roofs ez the high-minded plan
ter makes for him, or be shot on the
spot, or turned out to die Nv starva-
ton, akordin to circumstances. Eff
the planter is q unrejenerated child /
of damnashun, he will shoot him-ef
he is q saint who hez suthren hope
nv blessed future beyond the gave,
he'll restrain his anger and turn him
out to die NV hunger unless he resents
and comes back humble. Then, they
bein free and responsible foI them
selves, we amt obleeged to take care
Nv the sick, and aged or inarm, so i'll