The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-09
LANCAsTER, OHIO, MAY 8, 1867.
NAsBY.

fHHIH OAfJR - ..a
The Radical Ctange---A Sigh
Alteration I'm the Name and
Politics Of Mr.. Nasby's elm
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Written fof the Toledo Blads.1
Posr OFFS, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS. !
(Wich Is in the Sisit Of Keulncky,) !
siis'a April 20, 1867.
Times change, and men chang,
jist eE fast ez times. ] sbood Iik,
TO seethe times wich kin chang,
faster than I kin; but this las
shift / hey bin forced 10 make
ruther tookmy breth. ItwuE sud
den. The Connecticut elekshur
didnig do Us much good after all
We ielt well over il for perhaps {
day, but as we begun to get otbel
indicashens from tho North, VIZ
didn't jist see how that little spirt
wuz going to help us. Cinciunat
went Ablishen stronger than cvel
Chicago ditto, and most every
where tho Dimocratic rooster wul
fiattened. The Cabinet, when tbey
heard Of Dekin Pogram's assault
urpon the Niger, on the receet Nv
the intelligence NV the elckshen
news, notified me of6shelly that a
repctishen Nv sich loonacy wood
be equivalent to a roceet Nv my
resignation, even the the post offs
shood be discontinyood. ''The Mig
ger vote must be capcherd. It's
essenshcl. Wade Hampton sez So. =
wrote Randall TO me, and l repri.
manded the Deekin for his reck-
lessDiss and borrowed four dollars
Nv Bascom, who is the only man
in the vicinity who hez any ready
money, to make it all right with
him.
We held q meetin Nv the Dreck-
tors und Faculty Nv the Southern
Military and Classicle Institoot,
last evening, to decide wat course
that instooshin wuz " take in the
CRATE work Nv surroundin the Ethi-
opian and attachin Nv him to us..
In sich a time ez this, ez I men,
shened to Captain McPelter, il wont
do for our instooshen NV learning
to stand back. These CRATE levers,
the molders NV public opinion,
must be ez progressive ez the pro.
gressiVeist, and must change like
other things 10 meet tho require.
monts Nv the times. We have
commenst our march into Afrika,
and thus far hev We gono into the
bow els NV the land without impodi-
ment, TO speak uv-let us perse-
we're. Let US capcher the Ethiopi.
an, stink and all. =
The meetin wuz held in the back
room NV Bascom's owing to the
fac; that it wuz rainin and the roof
Nv the post offs leaks. 1 he'd an
appropriashen some time since
from the Department, for repairs !;
but bein in doubt whether il wuz
intended for repairs on the Post
Offs or the Postmaster, gave the
primer the benefit NV the doubt
and got anew pair Nv boots. l
Good better endoor the slight in
convenience Nv occasional rain.
than to go barefoot.
made a statement Nv the case,
and sejisted a radicle change in the
Institoot.
Captain McPclter agreed with
me- He felt that there hetn't bin
that complete, hearty recognition
Nv our Afrikin brethren wich they
ought to be. He he'd on several
occasions allowed his material vivac.
ity to git the better Nv his proc.
dence, and he'd waded into EN-
alarmin: Tho old ijeo NV Ham
and Hagar and Oncsimus he'd been
so drilled into him in his youth
that he he'd to wrassel with it TO
keep it in control, and in spite NV
himself it frekently got the better
Nv him. lie sejested that the
name Nv the Institoot be changed
from
"The Southern Military and CLASH
Gle Institoot,"
TO
"The Ham and Jnpheth Free Acad-
envy, for the development NV
the intellek Nv all races,
irrespective Of color"
That he thot wood anser the re-
quired end. The colored gentle
men who choose to avale their
selves Nv the privligis afforded by
this institooshun, when it is finish
cd. kin find in this no cause Nv
complaint. They are recognized.
They are given the precedence.
They stand first in the matter and
foremost. Wat more kin they ask?
Bascom he'd series Nv rcsoloo.
shuns wich no desired to present.
He sed it mite be looked upon ez
strange that he shood favor the
concentrashen Nv free niggers at
the Corners, but be he'd good and
suffishent reasons. First he he'd
faith that constant contact with the
Board wood bring ON to the pint
Nv vpatronizin his bar, but ifit didn't
he knowd perfectly well that the
Board and Faculty wood manage
togit all they had, for board and
toAition, wich he wuz perfectly