The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-11-01
MIR. Nasby's Address TO the Cabinet.
RATIONALE OF THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
4.lt. From the Toledo Blade.l

t+fs'I.8 lhAviii ono loieuo Didue.l 4rFt.ysEt
my lords" sed 1, none NV you hev got the
ljee.. We wuz beet because we left the land
marks-that's wat allied us-wuz the anshen1
landmarks. Wat he'd we to go into the can
vass with? Demoerisy? Not any, for thai
wuz squelched at Philadelphia. Wat them
Why the offises. Offices in the abstract i.
good. That little one which hold in Kentuch
I.coodent be indoOst to part with on no akount
but 700 can't run aiparty on, EN-, because thar
ain't enough NV 'em.
My .liege, ON my return from the Philadel-
phia conve2.~weAI tarried axhiLe IN Berks
county, whi5 rs in Pennsylvania, and is dis
tingulshed for the unanimity with which they
vote Democracy. They learned down there
NOR n six weeks ago that the war wuz over and
therefore you coodent stir EN- up on drafts
Taxes they had got used to, and that uidn,t
move EN-, and so the speaker wuz emptying
school houses by talking NV the results NV q
glorious war, which they all opposed and prais-
IN our mutual friend Seward, which they had
alluz hated as ablishnist, and hedn't heerd
yet that he had jined the Democracy. Wuz it
any wunder that we went under? Their Amt
but one thing left to us, and that we strangely
neglected. My lord, why wuz the Niger not
mAde the Genital figger this year ez heretofore?
He is the capital NV the Democrsy-its refuge
its tower of strength. l spoke in Berks coun-
ty myself, following one OF them new-fangled
Democrats who had set EN- all asleep talking
stuff to EN- that they didn't understand Mount
III the fOSCrunl, eJdculaGeu-- .tlt HE
MEN AND BRETHREN DO YOU WANT ToMAR-
RY NIGER?
No! nor they answered. straitenin UP to
wunst. s'if $500 -
DO you want niggers for sons-in law?'
No! nor -les... e;, . ..t
DO you want laws to prevent YOU from mar
rying niggers? 'i
Yes! yesp 7Eitfa 3s 5ttl M i1I8s5i
DO you want to be marched up to the powls
by those who tell you how to vote, beside a
niger?
NO! MOP fkIlleH
Then vote the Democratic ticket and they
all replied: a&
We will we willp and they did llaia4
You see, your eggslency, the Demokratic
mind isn't hefty enough to comprehend them
fine agreements es to constitushenality, ct set
ry, and when speaker deals i'm EN- thew sus-
pect his Dimocrisy and fight shy of him. But
nigger they kin all understand. It's soothing
to the Dimokratic mind to be continuously
told that there is somebody lower down in the
skale-they desire ninferior rase and there
fore hev been pullin the niger down towards
EN- for years. Did you motifs whenever we
went it on the Niger we succeeded in awak-
mid an enthusiasm witch, when we neglected
or selected other issues, we failed to get?
1t is based upon philosophical trooths. The
poorer and meaner q man is the more anxious
he is to hev it understood that there's some
body still poorer and meaner than him. Hence
700 motifs that them inaividjules who see a five
sent peese SO seldom as not to no its nacber.
and who keep the flag of distress wavin from
the seat of their pants, who, eff niggers were
selling at a sent peace, couldn't raise enough
to buy the toe nail of one, is the most ardent
friends OF slavery. 80 aE
my leege, hev spoke. You cant do moth
ing with new party, for you kin only cit
the Dimocrisy to jine it, and they won't do it
onless the offices is thrOwed in. You cant run
the Dimocrasy on only one isshOo and that a
the Niger, for it's all they kin understand.
That pitlful man which jest left the presence
was not to blalm for the result in his deestrick
He tried to urn his bread, but what Good he do ?
The ablishnists moved he was bot with a
price, and LATED at him-the Democracy, SIGH
es voted, we've got, anyhow. Them es didn't
vote nor do nothin, wus the upper class, witch
expected the offices themselves, and wus dis
gusted accordingly.
So long es the niggur exists, democracy en-
the race becomes extinct; the par
ty dies The two is indissolubly bound togeth-
er-one wus created for tOther, and tOther for
one. When Noah Gust Ham, he laid the foun-
dations NV Dimocricy. Ham wus turned into
Niger because Noah got intoxicated-his
misfortune originated with wine, and whiskey
witch is the modern substitoot therefor, being
the motive power of Dimocrisy, has bin perse-
KUHN him ever sinse. 1 attriboot the decline
OF the Dimocrisy to the bleachin out of the
tia,, and that's why oppose amalgama-
uon. 90 Kant hate mulatter half as much
~, t you Kih full-blood and it will be observed
,arao; snI iHtehsty NV Democrisy hes decreased
precisely IN proportion to the intensity of pure
Dlacks Thus Democrisy is committing sui
ton. vi i'' o"h uis'f uo-
~, 1 don't know as there is any yoose NV talkin
me congressman elected this fall continoo in
oms, my leege, jist es long es 700 do, to a dav
anu oy that time they'll hev it all fixed. New
M, rork may change in our favor, but think not.
Inc break cOmmenst in Maine, and it increas
ca ;lt as It progressed. We're gone in. The alb
u, 1; laugh in glee, and the niger shows
all MS worries. We shell hold our places two
years. and then farewell to our greatness.
l plly yoo' my lord, but l kant help 700 Ez
for myself Kin save enuff ont Of NV 1ostoffis
to start small grocery at the expiration of
my term, and then farewell to politics. In
of time until Death closes the powls and ends ,iI
the struggle. / hev said.'
The Conference ended with this. for tbav
was all tn much affekted to say anything Sew.
ard murmured suthin about it wood be anvil
right in 60 days-that there wus kno denying
that the people was happy, but no one paid any
attention to him. I went home leaving em