Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-02-07
Nasby Does the Y Aoads q Ser.
vlce--Tho Peace that Refgns
There ana the Cause OF 1t.

Posr OTFIs, CoNrEDRIT X ROADS,
(Wich is in the Stait NV Kentucky
January 20, 1867.
There is peace in the Cornersl Il reigns
here, il does, with sweetDis unparalleled
sence the Nsshun launched out onto the sea
nv troubles, wich very near engulfed her. 1t
come about thro me. Biznis in the Post
Orfs, don't engross all my time. 1t don't
take me very long to distribbit the paper
wich Deekin Pogram takes, nor the circk-
lers Nv the gift enterprises wich come here;
neither does it consoom much NV my val
yooable time directin the letters epclosin
dollars back to EN-, besides with O. good
many Nv EN- are insuficiently sealed and the
money drops out, and bein conscientious to
fault, ez can't get EN- back into the right
letters, why NV course don't send sich at
all. The only trouble hev is in explsinin
why letters containin sich remittancis don't
reach their destinashen, but that hex its re-
wards. Invariably tell EN- that the man
ayers Nv the enterprises are ablishn Yam
KEGS, and, nv course they'd be swindled, wich
allus intensifies their rage. A batch Nv en-
sent for tickets to Crosby's Opera House.
wich didn't reach Chicago, ez wuz behind
with my board, and after givin em the
regler explanashen, they wuz SO enraged at
the tbeevin abIishnists at Chicago, that they
sailed out and made it lively for wat mig
gers they met. / forget now, but eff / re-
member 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 caracteris-
tiks Nv human nscher, ez developed in men
and niggers. While contemplatin passel
Nv niggers one day, l follered EN-, and over.
heard their conversashen. wuz astonish-
ed They wuz notifying one another nv a
meetin to be held that mite in Pennibacker's s
barn, to wich all wuz expected to be present.
Here, thot 1 to myself, is Guy Fawkes !
Here is conspiracy Meetin! Wat rite
hev niggers to meet And 1 FASTENED to
Deekin Pogram and told him wat / he'd
heerd.
"Nasby." sed he, wringing my hand, "ef
I ever doubted the eternel fitnis NV things
the complete and entire adaptability Nv one
class to another--that doubt is removed
Here am niger owner-here are yoe, a
Northern Dimocrat-a blooman eggsotic, ez
1 may say, which hez took root in Southern
sile. never wood hev overhead them mig
gers mo Southerner wood hev thct Nv
sneakin after em-for all sich work the
Northern Dimocrat is precisely fitted. It's
wat they've alluz done for us; alluz! alluz!
alluzr'
And he wrung my hand agin, and thank.
ed me. wuz too much overcome with
emosheD at the compliment he paid me to
reply. But we arranged the programme.
We went to the barn, and overturned q
wagon so ez we coed git under it and heel
all that wuz sed without bein seen, and jis
at mite fall the Deekin and me ensconsed
ourselves in our hidin place.
The niggers gathered, praps thirty on EN-
and opened the meetin with prayer, in wict
exercise they he'd the profanity to pray fol
the Government Nv the Yoouited STATES and
sich, and then the bizness commenst. Il
appeered that they'd sent a, man North t.
find locashen for 'em ez they he'd made
up their minds to run away from the bles
sins Nv slavery, wich we are preparin to re
open for EN-, and this niger he'd arrived
and they wuz assembled to hear his report
Brother Lee," sed the ring-leader to the
returned nigger, wich I knewd; he wui
nearly white and wuz raised in Virginia, ant
he'd bin four years in the army, on the Fed
raj side Nv course, ''are yoo ready o report
Hev you found the promised land?"
Brother Lee replied, that eft he under
stood wat wuz the Ethiopian idee Nv tn,
"promised land," he Good safely and Gel tin
" say that he hedn't. He landed first il
Phiadelphy, and bein somewhat wearied b.
the long ride, he took a seat in q street ca
wich wuz empty. The condukter ordere,
him out, but sposin he wuz in State wher
ther wuz ekal rites, he insisted on stayin
when the condukter and the driver bundle,
him out by force. His coat, he observed
shown wher the bloc house he'd bin onskil
fully mendid, wuz sumwat fraktered in tn
skuf1e.
AT this narrashen the niggers groaned
and it wuz all [ Good do to keep the Deekil
from hollerin halleloogy!
In Moo York State be didn't fare so well
He diskivered that decent Digger ther
isn't quite ez good ez very ornry whit
man. He happened there on 'leckshen day
and narrated that he saw white men CARRIE
up to the poles so eggstremely drunk tha
them ez he'd EN- in charge he'd to put tn
ticket atween ther fingers and anser to the
names, while spectacle niger he'd I
show that he wuz worth some property afor
he wuz allowed to vote, and then numbe
Nv gentlemen with red faces and clubs mad
it 80 unpleasant that but few attempted i.
The Deekin punched me in the ribs vocl
feriously.
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
Aein he wuz disappointed. 1t wuz wors
than it wuz in Moo York, for the Ablishnist
wuz goin on the principle. he rather gue'
sed NV doin justis without runnin agin any
body's prejudises, or rather Nv lettin JUST
do herself for they don't make any NOV
towards helpin her. There the Niger u
no grade, no matter how much he pad
taxes onto, or how long he served in tn
army, wuz allowed to vote. The Ablishnists
ez he understood. tho praps he wuz wrong
carried the State on the Niger question
but wuz now afrade to tetch it for fes
they'd lose it agin. They've he'd it, he rt
marked, IL years, but hedn't ez yit, got q
the people edjicated up to the pint Nv dol
wat all the people knowd wuz rite.
His experience In the West wuz yer
similar. The Ablishnists wuz everywher
very strongly in the majority, and ever
wun of 'em he talked with wuE in favor Q
givin the niger his rites, but they wuz .
afraid ef they took hold Nv it they be lai
out by the Democracy. which wuznt in th
msjority at al. In Washington, wher Con
gress hez give the niggcrs vote. he WI
we'll treated. and it wux the only. place. 4