Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-02-15
Massey.
Mr. Nasty Does the x Roads asrvice
The Peace that Reigns There, and
the Cause of IT,
Posr OirIs, CcNfEpEIr y RoAps, J
wich is III the Staff OF kentuck~,l
January 20, lSG...

There Is peace in the Corners 1t reign
herc, it does, with a swee,nis onparallelc,
sence the Nashun launched out onto the sea II,
troubles, witch very near engulfedhcr 1t CONE
abou, thro me. Bizns in the Post Offs don
engross all my time. 1t don't take me very Ions
o al ,tribhit the paper wich Deekin Pogran
takes, nor the cirklcrs NV the gift enterprises
sicll come here neither does il cansoom niue.
NV my valyooable time directn the letters Ell
closin dollars, back to en-, besides wich goot
many NV EN- are insufiicicntly sealed and tht
money drops out, and hcin conscientious to Z
tcrs. why Nv course dent send sicil at all
The only trouble | hcv is in exp'ainin Why
letters containin sich remi,tancis don reach
their destinnshen hui that he. its rewards. l
invAribly tell EN- that the managers nv the
enterprises are abishn Yankees, and, NV
course they Il be swinlld, wich alluz intensl-
lies their rage batch NV EN- sent for tiekc,
70 Croshy's Opera House. wich didn't reach
Chicago ez wu2 behind with my board, and
after given en- the reglar eyplanashen they
wuz so enraged at the ablishnisis at chicago,
that they sailed out and made il lively Tor
wat niggers they met forget now, but ef
remember right, they hungtwo, or wuz it three {?
Ny mcmry is fai!in.
Blu; ez wnz savin, | hcv plenty NV time.
and put il in mostly stu,lyn the raractcrls-
tiks NV human nather, c1 developed in men
and niggc While eonteinpla,in rarsel NY
nigycrS one day. fo!erca eln, and overheard
their conversation. | WIZ astomishcd They
wuz notiin one another nv n'eeGn TO be held
that mite ii Penuibacher's barn. TO which all
WIZ expected TO he present Here, thot to
myself, is Guy fawks Here is conspiracy.
Mcc.in W;st rite lev nilscrs TO nnc,. Mud
| ha s,enad to neckin pogram ard told him
vat he'd heed
Nasty god he, ringin ny hnni, ef ever
doubted the eternal titnis ny things tho conf
reie and entrc ada ability nv one class to
anntler--that doubt is removed Here am I a
niger n--hcrc are 700, Northern Dim
ocrat--a blooiain eegso,c CT may say. wich
her took root in Soutier. slc. never would
hey overhead them niggors no Southcrncr
wood hev ihot sneakin after cm---for all
SIGH work the Northern Dimocrat is precisely
fitted. It's wa. they VIC aluz done for us allu7,
allnz allns =
And he wrung my hand agin. and thanked
me- | wuz too mich overcome with cmoshcn
at the compliment lie paid me to reply. But
re Arrngel the progra mme. We went 10 the
barn, and overturned q wagon 50 CT We Good
git under it and hcer all that wuz scd without
bcin seen, and fist at nic-f.!l The peckin and
me cnsconscJ ourselves in orr hlin pace.
The niggers gathered, praps thirty on EN-
and opened tho ncetin with praycs, in which
exercise they had the profanity to pray 70, the
Government of the Yoontcd States and SIGH
and then the biznis commons. 1t appeared
that they'd sent man North to find y locashcn
for en,, ez they he'd made up their minds TO run
away from the bessins Nv slavery wich we arc
lreparin TO reopen to en-, and this Niger he'd
arrived, and they WIZ assembled TO hear his
report.
".ro,hcr Lee sel the ing-leader to the
returned Niger wich knowed he wuz nearly
white and wuz raised in Virginia, and he'd
been four years in tie army, N the federal
side Nv course, 'iare you ready 70 report liev
you found the promised land"
Brother Lee replied that eff he understood
wat wuz the Ethiopian idce NV the ..promis I'd
land, he could safely and certainly say that
M aaJ, Ia, .Jnl ~, ~
and ben somewat wcared by the long ride, he
took seat in street Car wich wuz empty
The conductor ordered him ont, but sposin he
wuz in a State where Their wuz ekal rites, lie
insisted on s,ayin, when the conductor and
the driver bundled him out by force. His coat
he observed, shown where the bloc blouse he'd
hin onski!tully mcnaid wuz snmwat fraktered
in The skufflc.
At this narashcn The nggcrs groaned, and
il wuz all Good 10 to keep the Deekin from
hollern halleoogy
In Moo York State he didn't fare 50 well. He
diskiverel that a decent Niger there isntqute
1t good a. very onry white man. He hap
pened ther on 'leckshun day, and narrated that
lie saw men carried up TO tho poles so eggs
,remely DRUM, that those ez he'd EN- in charge
he'd TO put the tickle: atwcen Their fingers and
answer to thcr names, while n spectacle mig
ger he'd TO show that no WIZ worth some prop
eity afore he VIM allowed 10 vote, and then a
number o. gentlemen with red faces and
clubs made il unpleasant that but few at
tempted IT,
The Deekin punched me- in tic ribs vocifer-
onsly
Next he went to Ohio, sposin NV course thai
State 50 extremely opposed To bondage wood
he the place he WIZ in search NV. Agin he WIZ
disappointed. 1t wuz worse than it waz il
400 York, for the Ablishnist wuz a goin or
:he principle, he rather guessed NV doing Jus
iice without rnnnin as in anybody's prcjudices
or rather, lei,in justice do herself, for the,
don make any move towards he!pin lcr
There the myers w 10 grade no matter how
much he paid taxes onto, or how long lie scry
ei the army, wuz allowed Il vote. The Ablish
nists, CT he understood, tho praps he VII
nrong, carried the State Oh the Niger question
but wuz now afrade to tech it, for fear they
lose it agin. They We he'd it, he remarked l:
wears but hedn ez yet, got edjicated up to th'
pint nv doing wat all the people knowd WI