The Portland daily press., 1867-02-27
Nasty.
From the Toledo Blade.

ItrOm the lcicuo oiduo-l
Mr. Nasbu ASSISTS Friend IN Georgetown
in Obtaining Possession of has Property.
Posr OFFICE, Confederate Y ROADS,
(wich is in the Staff NV Kentucky,
February 2, 1867.
1 hev jist returned from a campaign WITCH
hez proved eminently successful, and for my
services in witch, ii had my just dooze, His
Eggslency, the President, wood raise the sala-
ry NV the offs witch 1 now hold. The circum-
stances is suthin like these:
Their wuz in Washinton young gentleman
NV the old skool, whose name his innate mod
esty torbids me to menshun 1t wuz his mod
esty, his Ietirin disposition wich procoored fer
me the proud distinkshun of assisting at the
biznis. Ez he remarked to me when l arriv-
ed in Washinton IN response to his inyitashun
'Nasby, i've a id mean thing to do and
I'm a Vireinian, | must hev a Northern Dem
ocrat to take the heft ont orr my shoulders
They've aIuz done it and they're used to it,"
This friend Tor such l am proud to call him,
wuz origlnelley clerk in the Paymaster's De
partment under the Sainted Bookanan, and
he held on, tor reasons NV his own, under the
gorier Linkin, until the proper time arrived,
then throwd off all disguise, and few to Lee at
Richmond and served the balance of the war
ez major, onto his staff. My friend he'd farm
near Washington, witch, OWN to the facilities
OF for money maxim under the rain NV Bookan-
an, he he'd saved out Nv ITO years salary
This property the Linkin government, with
the digustin coopidity Characteristic NV Them
declared abandoned, becoz a unconstooshen-
ally raised army wuz between it and its own
er; and seezed it for Government yoose; and
to add insult to injury turned it over to
parcel OF wlmmin, mostly the wives of Sena-
tors OF the unconstitooshunal Congress, who
had organized therselves into Assosiashun
to reverse the decree of nacher and edlkate
the naturally degraded children NV the accuss-
ed sons OF Ham, witch is and must be alluz SER
vance unto Their brethren. Senator Trumbuil's
wife and the wife OF that hory headed skotier
at our Institooshun, Ben Wade, woz the ledin
sperlts NV ibis mpious movement, and they
ned aDslootly gathered together suthin like 81
oflans' ez they called them, Nv niggers who
dled at Arlnton Hites, and put EN- onto the
farm NV my friend, and employed teachers.
and slch, ana wuz actilly tryin to ram
learnln into EN-! Wuz ther ever sucb
nonsense? Learnin for nipoers =
How meny Demokrats is ther who hev good
appetites without it? Time rolled on, Ia biz
ness time hez tolered with distinguished sue
cess for great meny years. and the war end
ed The stars and bars went down. and our
kos was lost kos. My phrend surrendered
with Lee, and cum back to Washington He
wus reconstructed and wus in a angelik and
lam-like temper. lie he'd failed, but he for
gave them as he'd bin the kos of his failure.
lie cherished no hard leeimg agin ANYBODY,
lie wuz IN Washington the night of the I'D
OF February, 1866, and was the loudest ap-
plauder Nv the Presidents speech. The next
morning he went to the President. LET u.s.
says he, bury the Ratchet. Let the era
OF good feeling be ushered in. l wus Con-
fedrit. L am yet, but we tailed. am willing
h, tod Lat x,sr l. L
tive me back my position in the paymasters
department., which 1 used to hold, and let
things be normal again."
President johnson grasped his hands and
burst into tiers. He Good not give him back
his poslsnun bekos, and he wept bekos il was
SO. 1t was okkupide by Northern supporter
OF his poilisy, which lad just returned from a
protrackted residence in Kannidy. Wash
ngton," sed johnson, lis the troo golden
meen: Here extreems meet. hev support
ers who want offices from the extreme North
and the extreme South Wood. oh wood
Good git 'em from che middle. Is tier any,
thing else kin do for yoo?"
othlng," said he, nothing" and he turn
Ell sadly away.
lime continyued to role ReSonstruksbun
by means of consiliashun wuz PROGRESSING
PRESIDENT Jonson wuz pardnin the supporters
NV the lost kause, d wher that woodent kon-
sliiate he Wuz elvin back ther konfistikated
properly and okkashnnally, in eXtream kases,
sumbody else's. My friend heard OF this and
KUN up from richmond. Sed he to ,Jonson.
My property sed this friend of mine.
who was reconstructed, SIS in the hands of a
Assosyashun Nv wimmin, who permit its sa-
krea SOIL 10 be contaminated by free Niger
Daoies. There Is 81 or 1U0 Nv en- from the
lender pickaninny who hez jest entered the
vale NV teers, up to the gurl of II, who in 2 |
years more, wood, eff things wuz normal he |
ola enuH ior market Good hey that prom |
erty agin, l."
100 smell" sed johnson, "yoo shell Here
Is pardln and here is an order tor the restors-
shlln OF yoor property. Shell so or 100 MIG gers
stan in the way OF konsliatin erin brof5erS
Heayin forbid" And my friend went ont
with a lite hart. Wv
But alas. he WIZ sumwat troubled In off
posseshuh, SO ne cent Tor me, and kum-
ner WIZ 9sihsntys ip our parth. The VIM
WIN ned posSeShuD of the place x wood not
CO. lney WIZ Gostinet. They KEEP the doors
locked but wuz excl to the emereensje.-
GlLrln III stable l hollered stre!' NV mend
Was at the door, and when the aliiited teecb.
ers, kno- komprehendin the strategy, rushed
OUT ne silpt IN, and dared EN- TO assault him.
l mmeJlty Jined him, aud possesshm was Sc
koored.
OH lney refused to vacate, but nv friend
displayed great presence NV mind
Its cold. SEE he.
"You betv' Says |.
"Dost Lhink ef we shood take the winders
out, and Inc doors orr their hinges, that these
wimen wood care ABOUT stayin, with the mer-
curry cockettin win zero?'
my dear sir" sed L, struck with the bold
nez NV the consepshun, "yoo he'd a asty lob
on hand, but RELY wat need he'd you for
mep
"Grate need. The very presence Nv a North.
em Dimocrat inspires me, But, to bizpis.v
And we did il, and shoor enuff, the wimen |
after stickin it out two mites, moved Their |
traps and the niger children to quarters per- |
vlded ior EN- by that man NV Belial, General
Howard, and we he'd won. The property
wuz ourn, and another step wuz taken in |
the great work NV consultation.
But my friend wuz not satisfied. He re
memDered that Tor mouths his property he'd
bin dehled by the presence NV these n;poers
that his house he'd sheltered EN-, and from he
land they had subsisted and he felt that rena-
rashen must be dun. The stigma must he
washed OFT, and akkordinly he sood the man |
lgers of the instooshen for yOose NV his place. |
ayin the damages at $4,000. Troo, the |
wimen he'd fixed up the property, and it wuz |
n better shape than when he left it, but he |
wanted reparashen for injoory dun his feel |
u 5, ana the opportunity oil persekoOtin the |
wives OF two SIGH Amelektes ez Trumbull |
and Wade, wuz too good to be lost How the |
'oot wuz desided know not, ez left afore it |
come orr.
FOR my trouble took five of the niger
IN wich picked up at the Asylum, one |
S S nearly white, ID years old, and four bows.
~ they amt wutb much in Kentuckv on onr
labor laws amt yet perfected, So sbai taIo ON,
10 Mississippi, and as soon as the h;,1 ra ssas
levyln taxes onto Niger orfuns thap p"1 ,s,;n
bring good price, eff the citizens DOM raey VIII
trayaSant KILN NV matoor niggers MY 10y eA-
many ortuns and overstock the mark;t t''Ne 700
ever there amt much danjer NV that % low Nv,
labor laws hev bin SO skiifullv dra a,1 90 eile
make the lives OF SIGH OF EN- ez amt to % 70
elmost as valyoobe as the Uo , uo
when they wuz actilly slaves, and don't kn mun
out more so. Under this arrangement wa |
don't hev to take keer OF EN- when thew are
sick, and aint got no capital invested in EN-
and their wagis amount TO jest about the
same as it used to-their keepin. Altogether
things has good and sInilin aspect. The
Lord NV Japheth is favorin us.
PETROLEUM Y. Nasty, p. NJ.