The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-12-13
NASBY.
TWritten for the Toledo Blade.l
Shall the Democratic Party Live
o. Die!"--Nlr. Nasby Gives IAIs
Views on lAe Subject.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(wich is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)
November 26. 1860

C0NFEDRlT ~ ROADS,
(wich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,) !
November 26, 1866 J
The papers NV the couu ry are very
generally discussin the questions: "Shel
the Democratic party live or die, witch
when we take INTO consideration the
iact.that The corpse is atOre us, seems
to me- holler mockery, and q heartess'
trlh,n with the foelins NV the f. lends
of the deceast Their aint no yoose
Nv la kin NV its fuchcr coz its in its
lucher now, and a tomb stun mites
well be put up, rrgardlis of eXpen .,
commemorate it's virchoos.
The Chicago Times and various 9TH
er papers are advocatin the ijee Nv flop
pin over to nlgger suffrage. / hev Ie,
my Wcbsterlan intelleck lie onto this
subjvk at various times, and the more
| hev considered it, the more | am
satisfied that it wont do A naber OF
mine wuns, he'd the stummik AXE, and
Applied to me tor remedy. In
spirit NV jockelarily ! told him that
s,riknine wood cure that ez well ez all
other physicle ills The p,or fellow
not seeln il wuz II joke, took an ounce
or two, an heed l state the result p
He sleeps in the valley. NIgger suf-
frage, wlch is rank pzen, wood end
the troubles Nv the Dlmocrisy, but
woolen't it end Dimocrisy also? We
mite die gracefully ez Dimorrals, but
wood our resurrection cz AbIishpists
be eeythiH2 Woodcn't The people
when we are wulst enlOmbed, forget
to awaken us3 4
Ny objections are these.
We cant gobble Ablisheh votes
with nigger suffrage, Tor the reason
that if the people desire 1t they'd
probably 90 to the inventors thereof,
that they might be ashoored of gettin
the genooine article.
2 We can't get the nigger after he
ia man apd brother. The Times
ice is, we'd ketch 'em on the score
that the trash naturally gravitates 10
US. We are too late for this. The
nigger jus now is lookin np-nOt down
and ct the tax wuz taken off Nv whis
ky, SO ez to bring that essenshel to
Dimocratie success wunst more with
our means, and we shOod devote cur
selves enthusiastically TO the work,
we wooden't be able to get 'em down
/ TO our level in twenty years
Afore that time l shel hev gone in
to that other world wher pollytix wont
trouble me, and ei the orthodox relUus
belceis Nv the day is correct, in the de
partment NV the tolher world in wich
I ! shell pull up, there will be strong
Democratic majority, Ez | lit up, my
} eyes from thence. it win do me no per.
tikeler good ez know Nv, to be told
that tho Dimocrisy bev elected ther
President by niger yOtes-that in
telllpepce woodn supply the place Nv
the water shOod be culln for.
It's instant releei we need, and Of
life is ever pumped into he carcass
alore us, il must be done TO wunst.
hev an ijeo for the salvation Nv the
party which, ct acted on will give us
Ia lease Nv power for years-MExIco.
Here is suthin feasible, Let the
South adoptthe Constitooshnel Amend.
I ment towun providin Congress- will
4 knock out the third section wich dis
4 franchises the heft Nv us who are tit
! for Congress, and also repeel the test
oath. and immejitly let johnson annex
Mexico. How will it stand then Z
We hev ten States out, wich we kin
depend upon. Kentucky, Delaware
and Maryland make thirteen. and
Mexico kin be cut up into, twenty
more, or thirty for that matter, givir
us q clean majority in the Senit, Honst
!, and ELECTORAL College. I hev let my
intellek out onto this subject, and ain
mistaken. In Mexico 10 the precise
populashen we kin best work upon =
aIhey can't understand our sPeeksrs,'