Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-05-17

Nasby's last is good. His object is "a
show the demoralizing influence Of Northern
Democratic journals upon the negroes Of the
South in still harping on "nigger equality, y
while the patriotic rebels are endeavo,ing 70
secure their vote under the reconstruction
act. After describing the measures he had
adopted to conciliate the African, at the
regular Sunday meeting at the Corners y
Nasty says:
There wuz affectin scene after service
wux over. Deekin Pogram, Captain Nc.
Pelter and Elder Gavitt shook hands with
EN- with degree Nv cordality l didn't ex.
pect. Trooly them are great men. They
develop degree nv adaptability to circum
stances wich didn't look for. I really
bleeve il I'd told em that it wood hev q
good effeck to kiss the nigger babies al
around, that they'd done it. But spared
em this. There is such thing ez laying il
| on too thick.
But all this was spilled the next day.-
There wuz An extraordinarily heavy mail
that day. In addition to the paper Pollock,
the Illinois store keeper, takes, there wuz
eight others, and to my surprise they wuz all
directed to niggers. aWat is this thot
to myself Hev the Ablishnists Nv the
North determined upon proselytin these
men, and are they goir g to aood this coun.
try with their incendiary reading? Ez a
Federal officer its my dooty to look into the
matter. Jist imagine my delirous joy at
fndin that they wuz Democratic papers from
Moo York and Ohio! "Thank Heaven e
sed !, " Our people hev awakened to sense
Nv the necessity w doin suthin," and hands
ed the papers out to EN- with impressive
words, exhortin Nv EN- to read EN-, ez they
wuz trooth, and no.hin but the troosh.
ruther think they read EN-, for from that
time out they avoided me, ez though he'd
the plague. Ef wuz agoin' down the street
and one Nv EN- wuz comm up, he'd cross
the street. and the pecoolyer expression Nv
his countenance indicated that it wuzn't nv
maicstick presence which AVID him. They
he'd loathin depicted on their classick feech-
ers. Unable to endoor this, seezed one Nv
EN- and asked Why wuz treated thus.
Delibertly, be pulled out NV his pockit one
nv them cussid Northern papers, and open.
ing it pinted, Indignantly, to . editorial arti.
Gle. 1t wuz perfoesly headed in this wise
lSAelniggers rote Slid tie proud Caaca-
shen be redoost TO ekalitv ritA tie disgust.
IN Afrikins-ls this a wAite maa's governs
menf or not ts-Amerixy for scAite nssn,
Sed this Ethiopian, with bis fingers on
this heading, "'Pears like es ef dab wuzn's
just dat good feelin towards Us colored men
on de part oh the Dimoc's 'sy nv the Norf dat
dab ought 70 be. Pears like as dough up
dab wha de niggah ain't got no vote, dat dey
don't interd he shel hab it. Pears like, ef
Dimocf'sy's one ting all obcr the country,
dars cussid site oh humbug . goin on
down heahp
Wat Good I say? Wat Good do? There
it wux in black aud white, and from papers
whose Dimocrisy could not be questioned.
wuz dumb-founded. The nigger stalked
hawtily and proudly away in one direckshen,
while sneaked OF ruther snsakinly in
another.
hev one word to say to our brethren in
the North. Yoo'r doublin our troubles, and
maxim our burdens harder to bear. Why
can't you understand common sensef Wat
hurt wood nigger suffrage do 700 up there
wher sher Amt no niggers, and how much
wood It benefit ne down here, vher Tiers .
millions nv emf Can't 700 SEQ it1 We
cant play the same game on the niggers
that we used to play on the sturdy yeomanry
Nv Berks county, Pennsylvany. and other
localities. On al questions heretofore the
Dimocrisy hex allowed . liberal license.
We hev bin Free Trade in Moo York, and
Tar # in Pennsylvany the same year, and We
Good do it. Sich Dimocrats didn't git their
asshoorences from papers, OWN to their ina-
bility to perooxe EN- rapidly, il being 70 long
afore they got word spelled out that they
forgot the one precedin il wich destroyed
the connexion, the continuity Nv the nara.
tive, ef l may so speak, and wat we told EN-
waz gospel. That won't do With the nigger
down here. He reads, be does; and ef he
don't, there's slluz everywhere sum sich
sneakins cuss ez Pollock, who reads for him,
and they know what they know jist ez we'll
as anybody. Let en- stop hammerin the
nigger. Il won't do. Ell he's to be . man
and brother here, be must be man and a
brother there. Ef the Democrisy must hev
. race to look dlwn to let em turn their at.
tcnshan to the Chinese or tho Iniuns, hui
from this time ont the nirser j. sacred.