The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-05-09
From the Toledo Blade.
MASSEY.
Nar. Nasby takes "A Retrospective
View-sssHe Considers the Situa.
tiOn and is NOT Sa tis1ied.
PosT-oFFIs, CoNFEpEIT Y ROADS,
(wich is in the Stait NV KT.)
February 20 1867

ACoiN"ls ~ Aoy''
"Backard, turn BACKYARD, oh time in yoor fllte,
is the iust line Nv song wich hecrd not long
since Wood that time Good perform that back
ackshen feat and git us all back wher we wuz six
years ago. But Time can't Time is perpetOOal
mushen, wich must 90 on, and on, and wich cant
never relrace her steps.
The situashen amt pertckery agreeable jist
now. lthezn't a jOocy look nor does it promise
an improvement in the future. The confidence Nv
the Dmocrsy nv Kentucky is shaken to the eX-
tent that it lost its equilibrium and tOters to its
centre. When it falls shel be found under the
ru0ins. The passage OF the Military Law may be
sed to be the last feather wch reely ought to break
the Kentucky camels back. Its the deepest and
tinishnest stab at constosslinel liberty and ekal
rites, inCzmuch W il not only blasts forever the
hopes nv re-esmblishln slavery but gives the mig
ger all the rites and privileges enjOyed by white
men. We who are chiefly interested, are not to
be consulted in the matter. Fedml hirelins
whose very presence is pizen to the people NV
these States are to be quarlercd onto us to see
that 'iusts, wat holer mockry lis done to
em--the governments established by AndrOp
johnson overturned cf they don't play I'd fiddle
to the satrups and accept the CUustUUshnel
Amendment wch perhibiLs them who wuz our
champions in the lale effort to destroy a govern
ment wich We hatid, from takin hold NV il agin
and runnn it. Muz ther ever sch mixter NV
a ack NV maguannlLF? And all thi, time where
is johnson? lie vetoed these bills, but where
fore! lie knoW'd that the Rump Congress he'd u
majority NV two thirds and Good pass em over his
veto; why then, when they set his authority at
defiance, didn't he rise IN his might and dsperce
en-? Where, too, Wuz tile DlmOcrlsv Nv the
North? " here are they in this crisis when our
dearest rites-ther greatest careis bein shipreclS
ed on the irOu-bOuud rOX NV despotsm? Where
are they | say? Why don't they rally ez they
threatened and demand that johnson shel hur
them Jewelers. from their usurped seats and restore
DeeCe on SCh terms eZ we shel consider ekitabe,
TO this wunst happy but now distracted country.
Alas they heNn time. l sCe them who breath
ed so much yengence and slawIrins aIore johnson
he'd offices to dispose NV, a neglectln us and q
ruunin about gtIin signatoors 10 Il applicashen
for POstotlis, and hOllelin to US ez lhey ketch
their BREATH Accept the condishens-git back
into the YOOniUn that we may elect the President
In 1868 who will give lis all the palrOnage;" their
noose-paprrs ali shreek, Accept ana get back
into the YoUnion that we may elect the next
President who'll give us all the patronage, and
that ant the worst NV It, Them wieh we bought
up with appointments diskivered on sudden that
Abolition SENT he'd to confirm en-, and TO Sc
koOr that they hey gone back onto US. Custer Is
n shinin example, " ilCOX is another and might
meushun hundreds Nv others who hey slid back
in the same manner.
Troy wuz taken by the strategy Nv the Greeks,
who exposed wooden horse, in the bowels Of
wich wul concealed armed men, Wich the yerdant
! TrOys pulled inside the gates. AndrOo Johnson
wuZ the wooden horse Wlch Wuz sent INTO our
camp by the Ablishnsts aud the offices Wuz the
armed men in his bowels. They hev bin our roo
ill., So long cz they wuz in the dim distance The
Dmocrisy Wuz hungry and ieroshus and capable
Nv almost NnyLhin--sO soon ez they got em they
Ue. como quiet ez lambs The Postmaster who
holds commishn sez to himself, wherefore shel
| bust the Government under wch | hev place !?
Kin git another under the new one Z and he
yells To us, Accept the terms. we capchered
the camp NV the enemy but are demorallzed by
the pluuder we found. It's the same trick over
agin, those offices, wch the white men yoost to
play onto tho lnjuns. TO Wit :--eyaeuaJin a pO-
sishen and leaym barrel NV whlskey behind,
KNOWN tuat The Inun's instincts, like them Nv
Kentucky DimOklaJs, would lead him to get
blind drunk and make him easy prey TO the ske-
pin knile. The oisis Wuz the wAiskey wiCh in
GOXiCatCd our braves and our skelpS, So to spcek
hang ut the belts NV our enemies. Sumner hez
! many, Thad. Stevens hez many and Butler Is
gathcrin Nv en- with rapidly wonderful to be-
| mold
But wat marks the demoralizashen Nv the DIM
OCrsy the most Is the tOllerin extract. .wch cut
! from the Moo York World, wunst our trusted or
gn. hev not the heart to rewrte it. Ipaste
the slip onto the paper, hence l am not RESPONSE
/ BILE for sich errors NV orthography and gralnmer
! es may be diskivered into it. Here it is;
'As regards the popular notion of the odor of
the negro it may be positively stated that he, in
this respect is like the white-a clean one being
! free from it, and foul one cursed by il"
Ef this be troo--ef the nigger don't stink then
| Noah got tite and Ham wuz Gust in vane-then
! Paul sent back Onesmus for nOthin and Hagar is
of no more interest to the Dimocrlsy than any
other female who hez bin ded several thousand
years. The Dimocratie party was built upon this
stink, and ef that corner-stun is knocked out the
temple falls and buries all beneath its rooms who
are sheltered under it, nv whom am the cheetest
and lovellest among ten thousand.
| At ono fell swoop the wind is knockt out of the
sales NV the Northern Dmocrlsy. Wat is the
| nigger now to EN- eft he does not stink A? "Popler
noshen, indeed Trooy it wuz popler noshen.
| That stink led hundreds NV thousands NV Dino
| Gratis by the nose. That "odor'--ez the writer
| styles it--wuz our best holt, and one wich wuz
everything to u.s. That stink wuZ all that eleya-
ted the Dimokrat over the nigger--that wuz our
mark nv sooperiority. We, at times, wuz not NV
the precise odor NV Nite-bloomin serious. A
DimOcratic mass conyenshun, when in 4 tite