Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-06
Written for the Toledo Blade.

~ Therefore sing the chsery song
Let IL asst
Let 1t pisa.
Written for the Toledo Blade
Mr.. Nasty Suggests Plan for th
Rebuilding or the democracy.
s CosFEr4IT x ROADS, (which is
in the Staff NV kentucky
January 81, 1866.
n Halleloogyl Hallsloogyl Halleloogy
/ see litel 1t beams onto mel It pen
etrates mel It flls mel Coy to tn
wurldf - AIS st ~+fttTG
hev diskivered the canse of the de
cline of the Dimocrisy. seed it yister
day. was wonderin on the neighborinl
hills, mnsin on the deprsvity Of hu
.manity ez exemplifed in the purson u
the grocery keeper al the Corner. Wit
unanimously refoosed to give me furthel
credit for corn whisky, wich is the article
they use in this country to pizsn them
selves with He assoored me that b,
had the utmost regard for my many vir
tues, but he diskivered that the one hG
priced the most hedn't so many Nv, to
witt: that for the payin for my likker
Therefore the account might be consid-
cred closed. Then, for the fust time in
my life, / believed in total depravity.
While masin On q melankoly mood on
the dark cloud wich fell across my path
way, and the fall of the DImocratie party,
Icame onto party of men BORN for lie
Then the .trooth flashed over me--theiI
Operations showed me the way 70 sue
cess, the shoor path to triumph
"When," said l to myself, " when
men seek gain, they bore for it. They
go down-never up. Even 30 with the
Dimocrisy. We dug downward, down.
ward, downward, through all the strata
nv society. We went through the gro
ceries-the. next stratum was the most
ignorant Nv the flrriners-then we
struck the poor whites nv the South
then below them the helft nv the people
of Moo Garsy--then Southern Illinoy
and Indiana--then Pike County, Mis-
souri--and 80, On. We never went up
ward for converts, cause 'twant no uss
when man wanted to fue us, he
alluz had to come down. We got lots
av converts. a
There was regular sliding scale
which the heft of DEMOCRATS who wuzuI
born in the party hey slid down, to-wit;
Quarter dollar smiles. e n
= 10 cent Anfps.
10 cent drinks.
cent sucks. e
A fat flask concealed.
aaA bottle openly. rEE aF8tA A-A
Dimocrisy.
W. l1nk Ii r.
First the poor likker we hev now kill:
'o6 our voters too fast, and the tax on
whisky forced two-thirds Nv our people
to quit suckin, and ez soon ez they be
gun to git on their feet they jined
the Ablishnists. Secundly, our leaders
spoze Their wuz no lower stratum 10 dig
into, and Civ mp in disgust
But hev diekivered that lower STRAIT
UNI hev found it, and when the idee
flashed over my Websterian intelleck
shouted HaIleloogy I The niger 10 tbs
lower stratum, and eff We bore down to
1t, and work it thoroughly, we bey a.
least O twenty years. lease nv power.
We must cultivate the Niger He
must hev the suffrage I 1t is burnin
shame that this Nineteenth Sentry, il
Ahefull blaze nv Intelligence, livin IN,
der a. Deklarashnn which declares ell
men " free and ekal," that large BODY
NV men, shood be denied the glorious
privilege Nv bein taken up to the polel
and voted. Is not the Afrikin man
is he not taxed es we are, and more
than most Nv the Democrisy, for man,
uVum own property; is be not amenabl'
TO all the laws even ez we are Their
whySl triumphantly ask, is he not emit
tied to vote ? Ahi why 2 indeedl
- !" But this is Ablishinism" methink
hear obtoose Dimocrisy observe in
horror" and why give them votes, VIII
viii use them agin us ?''
Ny gentle friend will they use thei
ballot agin us2 Eff know myself
think not Kin they read2 Kin the
writer Amt the bulk nv EN- rather de
graded and low than otherwise Me
thinks. Amt thatthe kind nv stock W,
want, and the kind wich hez alluz set u
up. Reading hez alluz bin agin us
every skool, master isa engine Nv Alb
lishuism-every noospaper is cuss
General Wise nv Virginis, when b
thanked God there wuzn't a noospape
in his deestrick he'd reason to, for
VOC spoze readin constituency WOO
hev. ever kept sicb blatherskite ez hin
in Congress, year after year. 0Es
Then agin, the Constooshnaf Amend
ment will pass, givin representashen
voters alone. The Democratic State
will heV more members Nv Congress an
more electoral votes than afore the wa
aud them States we kin depend on.
But my skeem is still more compre
hensiye. Them niggers amt needed j
the South. Well send 'em North.
few thousand will overbalance the AL
ln'hun majority in Moo Gersey; 6ft
thousand will bring Ohio back to th
fold, tae same number will do for Ne
York and Pennsylvany, and the countr
is saved-we will be able to elect fh
President Thus the pit the Ablishnis
dug for US he'll fall into hisself-the cIu
he cut for us will break his own head.
Honey hez KUN out nv the carcas
good has perceded from Nazareth. I'll
bigger smells sweeter to me now tha
Nile bloemin Serious; he is moro pr
ahus to me thar gold our silver or pr
.shua stones. He is the way, and Sd
walk In il. He shell lift me into Pc
orfs. We must give or Afrikin BROTH
for 10 he not a man and q brother7-
not only the suffrage, but he must be
land. and the Democracy must give il
him. I want Gaarit Davis to instant
interdoose a bill into the SENT givir
each family quarter section Nv land,
pair nv mules and q cook stove, a.
each female Afrikin sister two far
calico dresses and red bonnet. | wa
him to advocate the bill in speech
not more than two hours, SO that 1t
stand some chance nv passin. On 81
-nnd-thought. guesa some other m