The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-02-01
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasby Does tho X Roads
a Service--Tiic Peace that
tseigns There and, the Cause
Of IL.

(wich is in the Staituv Kentucky)I |
January 20th, 1867.
Their is q peace in the Corners!
II reigns here, itdoes, with a sweet
mis- onporallelled sehce the Nssbun
launched. out onto The sea NY trou ,
bles, wich very near engulfed her.
II come about thro me. Biznis in
the Post Orfs don't engross all my
time. 1t don't take me very long to
ditribit the paper wich Deckin Po
gram takes, nor the cirklers NV the
gift enterprises wicb come here; nei-
ther does IL consoom much Nv my
valyooable time directin the letters
enclosin dollars back to en-, besides
wich a good many Nv em are insult
0ciently sealed and the money drops
out, and being conscientious to a
fault, ez can't get en- back into the
right letters, why NV course don't
send sich at all. The only trouble j
hev is in explainin why letters con
tainin sich remittancis don't reach
their destinashen, but that hez its re-
wards. invariably tell EN- Chat the
managers Nv the enterprises are alb
lishn Yankees, and, nv course they
wood be swindled, wich alluz inten-
sified their rage. A batch NV em
sent for tickets to Crosby's Opera
House, wich didn't reach Chicago, ez
I wuz behind with my board, and af.
ter given EN- the regler explanashen,
they wuz so enraged at the theevin
ablishnists at Chicago, that they sal.
lied out and made 1t lively for wat
niggers they met. | forget now, but
ef remember right, they hung two,
or wuz it three2 My memry is fail
in. .''
But ez ! wuz sayin, l hev plenty
Nv time, and | put it in mostly study
in the caracteristiks NV human ma
cher, ez developed in men and mig.
gers. While contemplatin parsel
Nv niggers one day, 1 follered en-,
and overheard their conversashen.
wuz astonished! They wuz notifyin
one another nv meetin to be held
that mite in Pennibacker's barn, to
wich all wuz expected to be present
Here, thot l to myself, is Guy
Fawkes! Here is conspiracy! Meet.
inl Wat right hev niggers to meet
And fastened TO Deekin Pogram
and told him what he'd heerd.
"Nasby," sed he wringin my hand
"ef ever doubted the eternal fitni.
NV things--the complete and entir,
adaptability NV one class to another
that doubt is removed. Here an
niger owner--here are 700, :
Northern Dimocrat--a bloomin eggs
otto cz may say, wich hez tool
root in Southrn sile. / never Woo
hev overheard them niggers!--nt
Southrner wood hev thot Nv sneakiI
after em--for all sich work the North
ern Dimecrat is precisely fitted. IT
wat they've alluz done for US! alluz
alluz! alluzm
| And he wruug my hand agin, ant
thanked me. l wuz too much over
come with emoshen at the compli
mont he paid me To reply. But w
arranged the programme. We wen
to the barn, and overturned wagor
so ez we Good heer all that wuz sec
without bein seen, and jist at nete,fal
the Dcekin and me ensconsd our
selves in our hidin place.
The niggers gathered, praps thirty
on 'em, and opened the meetin with
prayer, in wich exercise they he'd the
profanity to pray for the Govern.
ment NV the Yoonited States and
sich, and then the biznis commenst
1t appeered that they'd sent a mar
North to find locashen for EN-, e7
they he'd made up their minds to run
away from the blessins NV slavery
wich We are preparin to reopen to
em, and this Niger he'd arrived, and
they wuz assembled to heer his re-
port.
"Brother Lee," sed the ring leeder
to the returned niger, wich l know
ed; he wuz nearly white and wuz
raised in Virginia, and he'd been -four
years in the army, on the Fedral side
NV course, "are 700 ready to report?
Hev 700 found the promised land2
Brother Lee replied, that eff he un
derstood wat wuz the Ethiopian idee
NV the "promised land" he Good
safely and certainly say that he he'd
not. He landed first in Philadelphy,
and bein sumwat wearied by the long
ride, he took seat in street car
wich wuz empty. The condukter
ordered him out, but, sposin he wuz
in State where ther wuz ekal rites,
he insisted on stnyin, when the con.
dukter and the driver bundled him
out by force. His coat, he observ-
ed, shown wher the bloc blouse he'd
been onskilliully mendid. wuz sum-
wat fraktered in the skuillc. rf
At this narrashen the nigsers
groaned, and it wuz all l Good DO to
keep the Deekin from hollerin halle
loogy! .............
In Moo York State he didn't fare
so well. He diskivered that de-
cent nigger there isn't quite ez good
ez very ornry white man. He hap
pened ther on 'leckshen day, and mar,
rated that he saw white men carried
up to.the poles so eggstremely drunk
that en- ez he'd EN- in charge he'd to
put the ticket atween ther fingers and
anser to ther names, while 'specta-
BILE niger he'd to show that he wuz
worth some property afor be wuz al
lowed to vote, and then a number NV
gentlemen with red faces and clubs