The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-02-16
From the Toledo
MASSEY.
Mr.. NasJy Does the Y Roads a Service
Tile Ieace that Rcigns there. and the
Cause of it,

Tile Peace that Rcigns there. md II
Cause Of it.
Posi- OFFS, CoNrEDEHIr X RoArS,
(Which is in the Siait ny kentuckv.)
January 20, 1861.
l. There is peace in the Corners 1t reign
here, 1t does, with Il swcetnis onparallclc,
sencc the Nashun launched out onto the SCI
nv troubles, which very near engulfcd her
1t come about thro me. Bizns in the Pos
Orfs don't cngross all my time. 1t don
take me very long to distribhit the papc
wich Dcckin pegram takes. nor the cirkIcr,
OF the gift enterprises wich come here
neither does it consoom much ny my yalyoo
able time dircctin the letters cnclosin dol
lars back to en-, besides witch IL good many
nv 'cm are insuilicicntly sealed and the
money drops out, and, bein conscientious to
fault, ez | can t get en- back into the right
letters, why Of course don't send SIGH at
all. The only trCnbIc hey is in cxplaniu
why letters containin such remittanccs don
reach their destinashcn, but that hcz It's re.
wards. invariably tell EN- that the man.
ayers are ablishn Yankees, and NY course,
they d be swindled, which aluz intensilics
their rage. "A batch NV EN- sent for tickets
to Crosby's Opera House, witch didn't reach
Chicago, ez | wuz behind with my board,
and after givin GIN the regler expanashcn
they wuz so cnragcd at the thcevin ablish
nists at Chicago that they sailed out and
made it lively for wat niggcrs they met. |
forget now, but eff remember right, they
hung two, OF WIZ it three? My mcmry is
tailn.
But, ez wuz sayin, hcv plenty NV time,
and put it in mostly studyin the character
istiks NV human nachcr, ez developed in
men and niggers. While contemplatin II
parsel NV nigsers one day, | follered EN-, and
overheard their convcrsashen. | wuz as
tonished! They wuz notfyin one another of
u mcctn to be held that night in Penniback
er's barn, to wich>all WIZ expected to be
present Here, thot | to myself, is Guy
Fawkes Here is conspiracy Meetin! =
Wat rite hev niggcrs to meet. And hast
cned to Deekin Pogram and told him wat
he'd hecrd.
I" Nasty" scd he, wringin my hand "ef
| ever doubted the eternal litnis nv things
the complete and entire adaptability Nv one
class to anothcr-that doubt is removed
Here am | niger owner-here are 700, a
Northern Dimocrat-a bloomin eggsotc cZ
may say, wich hez took root in Southern
sile. never wood hey overhead them Mig
gers no Southrner wood hev thot of sneak.
in after em-tor all sick work the Northern
Dmocrats is precisely fitted. It's wat they
have aluz done for US alluz! aluz aluz"
And he wrung my hand agin, and thanked
me. | wuz too much overcome with emo.
shen at the compliment he paid me to reply.
But we arranged the programme. We went
10 the barn, and overturned q wagon SO ez
we Good git under it and heer all that wuz
Sed without bcin seen, and jist at night fall
the Deekin and me cnsconsd ourselves in
our hidin place.
The niggers gathered, praps thirty on en-,
and opened the mcetn with prayer, in witch
exercise they he'd the profanity to pray for
the Government Of the Ioonited States and
SIGH, and then the biznis commenst. 1t APP
peered that they'd sent Il man North to find
II locashcn for en-, eZ they he'd made up
their minds to run away from the blessins Of
slavery wich we are preparn TO reopen to
en-, and this niger he'd arrived, and they
WIZ assembled to hear his report.
g Brother Lce,' said the ringlccdcr 10 the
returned niger, wich | knowd: he WIZ
nearly white, and wuz raised in Virginia,
and he'd bin four years in the army, on the
Fedora side, of course, ''are 700 ready to
report" Hey 700 found the promised
land?'
Brother Lee replied, that cr he understood
wat wuz the Ethiopian idcc uy the ''prom.
iscd land, he Good safely and ccrtiuly say
that he hcdnt. He landed first in Phila.
ply, and bcin suDwat wcaricl by the long
ride, he took u scat in IL strcct-car witch WIZ
empty. The conduktcr ordered him oui.
but spozcn he WIZ in State where ,hcr WIZ
ekal rites, he insisted OF stayin when the
conduktcr and driver bundled him ont by
force. His coat, he observed, shown whcr
The bloc blouse had bin onskllillly mcndid.
WIZ sumwat lraktcrcd in the skufllc.
At Thu, narrashcn the nggcrs groancd, and
it WIZ all Good do to keep the pcckn from
hollcrin halleloogy!
In Moo York State he didn't fare so we'll.
He diskivcrcd that Il decent Niger there
isn't quite ca good cz a very orncry white
man. lie happened there on lcckshcn day,
and narrated that he saw white men carried
up to the poles so cggstrcmcly drunk that
them cz he'd en- in charge had to put the
ticket atwccn their fingers and anscr to their
names, while IL spectacle niger he'd to
show that he wuz worth some property alorc
he wuz allowed to vote, and tkcn II number
of gentlemen with red faces and clubs made
it so unpleasant that but few attempted it,
The Dcckin punched me in the ribs yocil.
crously
Next he went TO Ohio, sposin NY course
that a State so extremely opposed to bon
dagc, wood be the place he wuz in search
NV. Agin he wuz disappointed. 1t wuz worse
than it wuz in Moo York, for the Ablishnists
wuz u going on the principle, he rather
guessed, NV doinjusts without running agin
anybody's prejadises; or rather, NV lettin
justice do herself, for they don't make any