Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-04-13
NasbY.

-afs ? Written for the Toledo Rlade.
MIR. Nasby TaIkesa Respective vIew-He
Considers the Situation and is not Satisfi-
- nPosF OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Wich is in the Stalt NV Kentucky,
-2Ez1 },1h March 25, 1857. J
s'Backerd, turn backerd, oh time in yoor
f1ite," is the first line ug song wich l
heerd not long since. Wood that time
Good purform that back ackshen feet, and
get us al back where we wuz six years
ago. But time can't. Time is a perpeto-
al moshen, wich must go on, and on, and
wich. can't never retrace her step.
The situashen amt pertikelerly agreea-
bic jist now. 1t hezn't joosy look, nor
does it promise an improvement in the fu-
ter. The knofdepce NV the Dimokraey
NV Kentucky is shaken to the extent that
its lost its equilibrium and totters to its
center. When it falls ! shell be found un-
der the rooins. The passage Nv the Mill
tary law may be sed to be the last fether
witch RELY ought to break the Kentucky
camels back. It's the deepest and finish
inest stab at Constitushenel liberty and
ekal rights. inezmuch ez it not only blasts
forever the hope NV re-establishin slavery,
but gives the nigger all the rights and
privileges enjoyed by white men. We,
who are chiefly interested, are not to be
consulted in the natter Fedral hirelins,
whose very presence IL pizin to the peo-
pie NV these States, reto be quartered
onto. us to see that '.justis" s"-what holler
mockry-is dun to em-the government
established by sAndroo Johnson is over
termed eff they don't play I'd fiddle to the
satraps, and accept the Constooshnel
Amenment, which .perhibits them, who
wuz our champions in the late effert to
distroy a government wich he had hatid
frum takin hold omit again and runnin it.
lWuz there ever sicha mixter of injustis
and perscripshen? Wuz ther ever sich
severity ?-Wuz ther ever sich lax
magnanmity And all this time where
johnson? He vetoed these bills, but
wherefore? He knowd that the Rump
Congress he'd a majority NV two-thirds,
and Good pass EN- over his veto why then
when they set his authority at defiance,
didn't he rise his mite and disperse em?
Where too, was the Dimokrisy NV the
North? Where are they in this crisis
when our dearest rites-their greatest
care-is bein shipreked on the iron-bound
roks of despotism? Where are they, /
say? Why don't they rally ez they
threatened and demand that johnson
shell hurl them Jewelers. from their usurp-
ed seats, and restore peace, on slch terms
as we sbel. consider ekitable, to this onct
happy but now distracted country. Alas,
they hev'nt time l see them who breath
ed so much vengeance and slawtring
afore johnson he'd offices to dispose NV,
a neglectin us and runnin about glttin
signatoors to applicashen for a postoffis,
and hollrrin to MS ez he ketches his breath
-"Accept the condishens-gi git back into
the Yoonion that we may elect the Pres
ident in 1868 who'll give us all the pat
ronage - their moose papers all shreek,
"Accept and git back into the Yoonion,
that we4may elect the next President
who'll give us all the, patronage" and
that amt the worst NV it. Them wich we
bought up with appointments diskivered
on sudden that Abolition senlt had
to confirm EN-, and to sekoor that, they
| hev gone back onto u.s., Custar is shin
in example, Wilcox is annother, and l
mite menshun hundreds IF others who
hev slid back in the same manner.
Troy wuz taken by the strategy Nv the
Greeks, who exposed wooden horse, in
the bowels NV wich wuz conceded armed
men. wich the yerdant Troys pulled IN
side their gates. Androo johnson wuz
the wooden horse which wuz sent into
our camp by the Ablishnist, and the offis-
es wuz the armed men in his bowels
They hev been our room. So long ez
they wulzzin the dim distance, the Democ-
rasy was hungry and ferushus and capa-
Bile of almost anything-so soon ez they
got EN- they became ez qnlet ez lambs
The postmaster who holds a commishun
seq to HIMSELF awherefore shell | bust the
government under which | hev place
i Kin / git another under the new one z
and he yells to us, ssAccept the terms
/ We capchered the camp nv the enemy,
butsare demoralized by the plunder we
found It's the old trick over again
1ithese offices-which the white men yoost
tosplay onto theihjins, to-wit-eya
o posishin and leavin barrel Nv whiskey