The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-05-15
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.

Nix NAsBY's 'INsTIrooT,
Posr OFFls, CoNFEDRT X ROADS,
(Which is III the Stait Nv Ky) =
April %, 1867. }
Times change, and men change jlst
ez fast ez times. shood like to see the
times which kin change faster than l
kin, but this last shift | hev bin forced
to make ruther took my bretb. 1t wuz
sudden. The Connecticut eleckshun
didn't do us much good after all. We
felt well over it for perhaps day, but
ez we begun to git other indlcashens
from the North, we didn't jist see how
that little spirit wuz ago,n to help U.s.
Cincinnati went Ab,ishin stronger than
ever-Chicago ditto, and most every
where the Democratic rooster was fat
tened. The cabinet, when they heerd
NV Deekin Pogram's assault upon the
nigger, on the receet NV the intelligence
NV the election news, notified me Off
shelly that repetishen Nv sich loonacy
would be equivalent to receet Nv my
resignation, even tho the post offs shood
be discontinyood. The Niger vote
must be oapcherd It's essenshel -
Wade Hampton seq So wrote Randall
to me, and | reprimanded the Deekin
for his recklessniss and borrowed four
dollars Nv Bascom, who is the onl ly man
IN the vicinity who hez any ready money,
to make it all right with him
We held meetin Nv the Dgecktors
and Faculty NV the Southern Military
and Cia,sicle Instl:oot. last evenin. to
decide wat course that iustc oshn wuz to
take in the great work NV surrnundin
the Ethiopian. aud attachin Nv him to
US. In sich time ez this, ez men,
shehd to Capt, McPelter, it wont do for
our instooshuns Nv learning to stand
back. These great levers, the mollers
NY public opinion, mu It be ez progress
sive ez the progresslveist, and must
change like other things to meet the
requirements NV the times. We hev
comnenst our march into Afrika, and
thus far hev we gone into the bowels Nv
the lard without impedlment, to speak
uv--let us persevere. Let us capcher
the Ethiopian, stink and all,
The meetin wuz held IN the back
room NV Bascom's owing TO the fact
that 1t was rainin and the roof Nv the
Post Offs leaks I had an appropriashn
some time since from the Department,
for repairs but bein IN doubt whether
it wuz intended for repairs on the Post
Offs or the Postmaster, l gave the priz,
ner the benefit nv the doubt, and got a
new pair Nv boots. Good better endoor
the site inconvenience NV occasional
rain. than to go barefoot.
made statement Nv the case and
spiistid ra licle change in the lnstltoot.
Captin McPhelter agreed with me-
He felt that there hedn't bin that conn.,
plete, hearty recognition Nv our Atrikin
brethren which they ought to be He
had on several occasions allowed his
material vivacity to git the better Nv his
proodence, and he'd waded into EN-
alarmiu. The old ice NV Ham and
Hager and Onesimus he'd bin so drilled
into him in his yooth that he he'd to
wrassle with it to keep it in control, aud
in spite Nv himself it irekently got the
better Nv him. He sejested that the
name Nv the instltoot be changed from
The Southern Military and Classicle institoot,
to
The Ham and Japheth Free Academy, for the
development Nv the intelleck Nv all
races irrespective Nv COLOR
That, he thot, wood anser the required
end The colored gentlemen who choose
to oval themselves Nv the prlvllgis af
forded by this institooshun, when it Is
finished, 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 resolooshlns
wich he desired to present He sed il
mite be looked upon ez strange that he
shood favor the concentrashun NV free
niggers at the Corners, but he he'd good
ard suffishent reasons First he het
faith that constant contact with thu
Board wood bring EN- to the pint o
patronizin his bar, but if it didn't h,
kuowed perfectly we'll that the Boart
and Fakulty wood manage to GIT al
they he'd, for board and tooitiou, wblcl
he wuz perfectly certiu he'd git in tn
end. Wat he wanted swuz people her
Ito yoose an illustration borrered tron
his biznls-the otiishels Nv this Institoo
wuz the funnel through which the wealtl