Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-04-20
NASBY.
Writtne for the Toledo Blade.


Wade Hampton tries to Conciliate the At
ricdsa-Ite result Of the Vcaature.
Posr oFFls, coNrEpEIT ROADS.
(wich is in the State of Kentucky]
sE tV March 20, 1867.
l heY made many sudden and rather
'strordinary changes in politix-some so
very sudden that the movement perdoost
CONGESTION NV the Conscience. Lrekollect
wunst Nv advokatin free trade and high
protective tariff, all within twelve hoars,
Il madea speech in a agricultooral dee
strick Nv. Moo York in the forenoon alto
A. NJ, and in manufactrin town in Penn
sylyania in the eyenin, our platform bein
SO constructed that both sides Good find a
endorsement in it) and hev performed
many other feats Nv moral gymnastics +;
but this last change hev bin called up
on to make is probably the suddenist.-
Last week Toosdy, Deekin Pogram, Cap
tain Nc Pelter and / wuz engaged in rid
din the Corners NY niggers. We he'd en-
doored EN- ez long ez we thot possible, d
determined on standin it no longer. Sc
lectin three witch we wuz satisfied he'd too
mich Fpellin-book into EN- to be enslayed
agin, we wuz preparin notises to be serv-
ed onto EN-, orderin EN- to leave in "a
hours, when l received in the northern
mail letter marked ssF'ree-Alex w.
Randall, p. NJ. G." knowd it wuz Off
shell to once-that blessed signatoor is on
my commishun, and Pve contemplated it
too often to be mistaken in it. Its con-
tents wuz brief, and run thus:
81 ssTo- all Postmasters In the Southern
States: The niggers hev vvotes-consilia-
shen is our best holt. See to it"
"a This breef tho not hard to understand
order wuz sealed with the ofishel seal Nv
the Post Offs Department stampt into
putty instid Nv wax, to wit, loaf Nv
bread under a roll NV butter with ten
hands grabbin at it. / comprehended
the situation at site, and set about doin
my dooty with both Roman and Spartan
firmness. 'Deekin," sez /, tearin up the
notises, "these niggers we hev misunder-
stood. They are not inferior race
they are not decendents nv Ham and
Hagar-it wuzn't Paul's idea in sendin
back Onesimus to servitood--we hev
misunderstood the situashun and must
make amends. The niger is devoid Nv
smell, and is trooly man and brother
s"Watsn' sed the Deekin tippin back In
amazement.
jest watt I say sez /, read that and
flung him the letter. -.
The upshot Nv the conference wich fol.
Tered wuz the callin Nv meetin the next
mite at wich al the Ethiopeans NV the
Corners wuz invited and urged to be
present. - e.'ef - &
The truble wuz to git the niggers te
attend the meetin. The fust one spoke
to laft in my face, and asked me how
long it wuz sense / he'd helpt hang a cup
lie Nv niggers, by way of fnishin off a eel
ebrashen. Pollock, the Illinoy storekeep
er got hold NV it and told Joe Bigler and
Joe swore that eff the niggers hedn't any
more sense than we give EN- credit for
sposin we could bamboezle em so cheer
he should go back to the old beleef, te
wit that they were only sooperiol
race Nv monkeys, after all /; and by nitt
every nigger in the vicinity wuz postee
thoroughly, and out of all Nv EN- ! coco
only git four who would promiee to at
tend, and them the Deekin he'd to pay s.