Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-02-13
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NAsBY.
Mr.. Nasby Does the I Reads q Service
The Peace that Reigns There and
the Cauen of IL.

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+ here, it does, with sweetnis onparaIlele,
!. sence the Nashun launched out onto th
sea NV troubles, witch very near engulfe'
her. 1t come about thro me. Biznis il
the Post Orfs don't engross all my time
1t don't take me very long to distribbit tn
paper which Deekin Pogram takes, nor th'
circklers nv the gift enterprises wich cons
here; neither does it consoom much NV my
valyooble time Girectin the letters enclesiI
dollars back to EN-, besides witch a goot
many Nv EN- are insuficiently sealed ane
the money drops out, and being conscien
tious to fault, ez l cant get EN- back into
the right letters, why Nv course don't send
SIGH at all. The only trouble hev is in
explainin why letters containin sich remit
tancis don't reach their destinashen, but
that hez its rewards l invariably tell EN-
that the managers NV the enterprises are
ablishn Yankees, and, nv course they d be
swindled witch allus intensifes 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 Civ
in EN- the regular explanashen, they wuz so
enI'aged at the theevin ablishnists at Chica-
go, that they sailed out and made it lively
for wat niggers they met. forget now,
but eff remember right, they hung two, or
wuz it three? My memry is failin
But ez wuz sayin, hev plenty NV time,
and l put it in mostly studyin the caracter-
istilks nv human nacher, ez developed in
men and niggers While contemplated a
parsel nv niggers one day, follered EN-, and
overheard their Conversation. wus as
tonished They wuz notifying one anoth-
er Nv a meetin to be hold that mite in Pen
nibacker's barn, to witch all wus expected to
be present. Here, thot to myself, is Guy
Fawkes? Here is conspiracy Mjsetin -
Wat rite hev niggers to meet And I has
tened to Deekin Pogram and told him wat
he'd heerd.
"Nasby," sed he, wringin my hand, 'sef l
ever doubted the eternel fitnis NV things
the complete and entire adaptability NV one
class to another--that doubt is removed
Here am / a niarar cyzner--slaere are WOO, q.
AIe.tl4s zn Dinaeeratr . bloomin eggsotic, ez
| may say, which hez took root in Southern
sile. / never wood hev overhead them
niggers mo Southerner wood hev thot NV
sneakin after em-for all SIGH work the
Northern Dimocrat is precisely fitted. It's
wat they've alluz done for us alluz alluz
alluz ~
And he wrung my hand agin, and thank
ed me. l wuz too much overcome with
emoshen at the compliment he paid me to
reply. But we arranged the programme.
We went to the barn, and overturned
wagon so ez we Good git under it and heer
all that wuz sed without bein seen, and jist
at nite-fall the Deekin and me ensconsd
ourselves in our hidin place
The niggers gathered, praps thirty on
'em, and opened the meetin with prayer, in
witch exercise they he'd the profanity to pray
for the Government NV the Yoonited States
and SIGH, and then the bizness commenst.-
1t appeared that they'd sent man North
to find a locashen for EN- ez they he'd made
up their minds to run away from the bles-
sins nv slavery, which we are preparin to
reopen for EN-, and this niger he'd arrived,
and they wus assembled to hear his report.
"Brother Lee, sed the ring-leeder to the
returned niger, which l lxnowd he wuz
nearly white and wuz raised in Virginia,
and he'd been four years in the army, on the
Fedral side NV course, 'are 700 ready to
report2 Hev you found tho promised
land?"
Brother Lee replied, that eff he under
stood wat WIZ the Ethiopian idee NV the
the "promised land, he Good safely and
certainly say that be hedn't. He landed
first in Philadelphia, and bein sumwhat
wearied by the long ride, he took seat in
street car witch wuz empty. The conduk-
ter ordered him out, but sposin he wuz in
State where ther wuz ekal rites, he insisted
on stayin, when the condukter and the dri-
ver bundled him out by force. His coat,
he observed, shown wher the bloc blouse
he'd bin onskilfuny mended, wuz sumwhat
fraktered in the SHUTTLE
At this narrashen the niggers groaned,
and it wuz all / Good do to keep the Deel1in
from hollerin halleloogy
In Moo York State he didn't fare so well.
He diskivered that decent niger there
isn't quite ez good OF very ornry white
man. He happend there on ieckshen day,
and narrated that he saw white men carri-
cd up to the poles so eggshremely drunk
that them eE he'd en- in charge he'd to put
the ticket atween ther fingers and anser TO
Their names, while spectacle niger he'd
TO show that he wuz worth some property
afore he wus allowed to vote, and then O
number nv gentlemen with red faces and
clubs made it so unpleasant that few at
tempted it.
The Deekin punched me in the ribs vo-
ciferously.
Next he went to Ohio, sposin, NV course.
that State so extremely opposed to bond
age wood be the place he wuz in search NV.
Agin he wuz disappointed. 1t wuz worse
than il WIZ il Moo York, for the Ablishn-
lists wus goin on the principle, he rather
guessed, nv dom iustis without runnin agin
anybody's preiudises, CT rather Nv lettin
iustis do herself for they don't make any
move toward helpin her. There the nigyer
NV no grade, no matter how much he pade
taxes onto, or how long he served in The
army, wuz allowed to vote. TIE Ablilsh
nists, ca he understood, tho praps ne wnz
wrong, carried the State on the nigger ques
.,oh, put wuz now afrade TO fetch i. for fear
tney lose 1t agin They've he'd it, he re-
.La 4 years, but hedn't ez yit, got al
tne people educated up to the pint NV dom
wat all the people known WIZ r;te ''0
Eis experience IN the West ,sr,,,,,-
similar. The Ablishnists wug eye,-v,y 49,
very strongly ia the majority. All s s..,.'.
wun NV en- he talked with wuz ii favor ros.1 u.
given the nigser his rites, bat they wug All
affade eff they took hold NV it they'd be-
laid ont BIZ tho Democracy, which wuznt in
the majority ST all Ii Washington, wher
Congress ltsz give the niggers vote, he
WIZ web sfsatld, and it wuz the only place
A gentleman who WAITS to run for Mayer
next spring, give him lis dinner, and quite