The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-02-08
From the Toledo Blade.l
Mr.. Nnsby Docs the " RORds II Service
-'C1e eRcc thut ISeignS There, and
the Ct.S1ac of at,
PosToFFIs, CoSrEDRIT Y RoADs,l
(Which is in the Stait of Kentucky
1897

PosroFFIs, CoSrEpRIT X RoADs,)
(Which is In the Stait of Kentucky
January 20, 1867.
There is peace in the Cornors! 1t reigns
here, it does, with a sweetnis unparalleled
selce the Nashun lanched out onto the sea
NV troubles, wich very near engulfed her.
1t come about thro mo. Bznis in the Post
0rhs don't engross all my time. Ii don't
take me very long to disiribbit the paper
wich Deekin Pogram takes, nor the crklers
nv the gift enterprises wich como here
neither does it consoom much NV my val
yooable time directin tue letters enclosin
dollars back to EN-, besides wich good
many nv en- are insuificicntly sealed and
the money drops cut, and beiu conscientious
to fault, ez can't get em back into the
right letters, why Nv course | don't send
sch at all, The only trouble hev is in
explainin why letters containin sich re-
mittancis don reach their destinashen, but
that hez it's rewards, invariably tell EN-
that the managers Nv the enterprise are
ablishn Yankees, and, nv course they'd be
swindld, wich aIlnz intensfes their rage
A batch Nv en- sent for tickets to Crosby's
Opera House, wich didn't reach Chicago,
ez wus behind with my board, and after
givin em the regular eXplanashen, they
wuz so enraged at the thoevin ablishnists Is
at Chicago, that they sailed out aud made
il lively tor wat niggers they met. for
got now, but of | remember right, they
hung two, or wuz it three? My memry ia
| failn.
But ez wuz sayin, hev plenty NV time
and put it in mostly studyin the caracter'
istiks NV human nacher, ez developed in
men and niggers. While contemplatin a
parsel NV niggers one day, follered en-
aud overheard their conveTsashun. | wuz
astonished! They wuz notifyin one another
NV meetin TO DO held that mite i'll Pen
r,ibaoker's barn, to wich all wuZ expected
to be present. Here thot | to myself, il
Guy Fawkes Here is conspiracy Meetin
Wat rite hev nggers to meet! And
fastened to Deokin IPogram and told him
wat he'd heerd.
"Nasby," sed he w.ingin my hand, ef
ever doubted the eternel fitnis NV things
tho complete and entire adaptability Nv
one class to another-that doabt is removed
| Here am nigger owner---here are 700, a
| Northern Dimocrat-a bloomin eggsOtlc e2
may say, wich hez took root in Southern
sile. | never wood hev overhead then
niggers mo Southerher wood hev thot Nv
sneakin after em-fOr all sich work the
Northern Dimocrat is precisely fitted. lt's
wat they've alluz done for us al!uz alluz
alluz
And he wrung my hand agin, and thanked
me. | wuZ too much overcome with emo
shen at the compliment he paid me to re
ply. But we arranged the programme. We
went to the Barn, and overturned wagon
so ez we co?d git under it aHd heer all thai
wuz sed W. lout bein seen, and jst at mite
fall the Deckin aud me enscons1 ourselves
in our hidin place.
The niggers gathered, praps thirty oh'em
aud opened tho meetin with prayer, in wicl
exercise they he'd the profanity to pray fol
the Government nv the Yoonited States
and sich, and then the biznis cOmmenst. II
appeerd that they'd sent man North tC
find locashen for EN-, ez they he'd made
up their minds 10 run away from the bless
ins w slavery wich we are preparln to re-
open TO em. and this nigger he'd arrived
and they wuz assembled 10 hear his report
Brother Lee" sed the ring -leeder to the
returned niger, wich | knowd he wu2
nearly white and wnz raised in Virginia
aud he'd bin fotir years in the army, on the
Fedral side Nv course, "are you ready tt
reportH Hsv yoo found the pronisee
land 2"
Brother Lee replied, that ef he under
stood wat wuz the Ethiopian ilee nv the
''promised land" he Good safely and Gel
tnly say that he hedn't. He landed frs
in Philadelphy, and bein snmwat wearied
by the long ride, he took seat in street
car wich wuz empty. The conduktel
ordered him out, but sposin lie wuz in &
State where ther wnz ekal rites, he insistet
on stayin. when the conduSter aud the
driver bundled him ont by force. His coat
he observed, shown wher the bioo blouse
81 fall xun "a n
frakterd Ia the skutile.
At this narrashen tho niggers groaned
and il wuz all Good do 10 keep the DeelIiu
from hollerin halleloogy
In Moo York Stale he didn't fare so well