The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-30
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HrAter for the Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Nasty Does the Y Roads n Ser
vIce---The Peace that ReIs ms There
and the Cause of IL.

Mr.. Nasty Does the y Roads n Ser
vIce---Ehe Peace that ReIs ms There
and the Cause of Ii.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIr X RoADs,O
(Which is in the Stait NY Kentucky,)
Jan. 20, 1867.
reigns here, it does, with sweetnis
unparalleled sence the Nashun launch
ed out onto the sea NV troubles, witch
very near engulfed her. 1t come
about thro me. Biznis in the Post Orfis
don't engross all my time. 1t don't
take me very long to distribbit the pa
per witch Deekin Pogram takes, nor the
cirklers NV the gift enterprises witch
come here; neither does it consoom
much NV my valyooable time directin
the letters enclosin dollars back to EN-,
besides witch Il good many NV EN- are
insntficiently sealed and the money
drops out, and bein conscientious to n
fault, ez L can't git EN- back into the
right letters, why NV course l don't
send SIGH at all. The only trouble /
hev is in explainin why letters con-
tainin SIGH remittancis don't reach their
destinashen, but that hez its rewards.
L invariably tell EN- that the managers
NV the enterprises are abIishn Yankees,
and, NV course they'd be swindled, WITCH
ailuz intensitieS their rage. a batch NV
EN- sent for tickets to Crosby's Opera
House, witch didn't reach Chicago, ez I
wuz behind with my board, and after
givin EN- the reglar eXplanashen, they
wuz so enraged at the theevin ablishn-
lists at Chicago, that they sailed out
and mad it lively for wat niggers they
met. / forget now, but eff l remember
right, they hung two, or wnz IL three?
My memry is failin.
But eZ L wuZ sayin, I hev plenty NV
time, and put it in mostly studyin the
characteristics nv hnman nacher, ez de-
veloPed in men and niggers. While
contemplation parsel NV niggers one
day, follered EN-, and overheard their
conversation. / wuZ astonished! They
wuZ notifyin one another NV n MEETIS
TO be held that mite in PENNIBACKER's
barn, to witch all wuZ expected to be
present. Here, thot to myself, is GUY
FAwKEs! Here is conspiracy. Meetin
Wat rite hev niggers to meet! And 1
hastened to Deekin PoGRAM and told
him wat he'd heerd.
Nasty" sed he, wringin nv hand
"ef ever doubted the eternel fitnis nv
things-the complete and entire adap-
liability NV one class to another-that
doubt is removed. Here am niger
owner-here are you, a Northern Dim
ocrat-a bloomin eggsotic eZ NAV saw.
wlch heZ took root in Southern siIe. i
never wood hev overhead them niggersI
no Southrner wood hev thot nv
sneakin after em-for all SIGH work the
Northern Dimocrat is precisely fitted.
It's wat they've alluz done for us
alluz! alluZi alluzw
And he wrung my hand agin, and
thanked me. l wuZ too much over
come with emoshen at the compliment
he paid me to reply. But we arranged
the programme. We went to the Barn.
and overturned a wagon so ez we Good
git under it and heer all that wuz sed
without bein seen, and jist at nite-falI
the Deekln and me ensconsed ourselves
in our hidin place.
The niggers gathered, praps thirty on
EN-, and opened the meetin with pray-
er, In wich exercise they he'd the pro-
family to pray for the Government NV
the 1oonited States and SIGH, and then
the biznis commenst. 1t appeerd that
they'd sent man North to ind a loca-
shen for EN-, ez they he'd made up their
minds to run away from the biessins
NV slavery witch we are preparin to re-
open to EN-, and this Niger he'd arrived.
and they wuZ assembled to hear his re-
port.
Brother Lee" sed the ring-leeder to
the returned Niger, witch knowd; he
Virginia, and he'd bin four wears in the
army, on the Fedral side NV course,
ARE you ready to report? Hey VOC
found the promised land?r
Brother Lee replied, that eft he I'M
derstood the Ethiopian idee NV the
RAOAAAoG4 ue COOu SaIeEV and
certinly say he hedn't. He landed first
in Philadelphy, and bein sumwat wea-
RED by the long ride, he took a seat in
4 street car witch wuz in State where
Their wuz ekal rites, he insisted on STAY
in, when the condukJer and the driver
bundled him out by force. His coat,
he observed, shown where the blno
blouse he'd bin Onskiltully mendid, |
wuz sumwat frakterd in the skuffie. =
At this narrashen the niger groaned, |
and it wuz all 1 Good do to Keep the
Deekin from hollerin halleloogy!
In Moo York state he didn't fare so |
well. He diskivered that a decent mig |
ger there isn't quite ez good ez a very |
oTnry White man. He happened Their |
on Iec6shen day, and narrated that he !
saw white men carried up to the poles |
so eggstremely drunk that them ez !
he'd EN- in charge he'd to put the ticket |
atween Their fingers and anser to Their |
while spectacle Niger he'd |
to show that he waz worth some nron- /
erty afore he wuZ allowed to vote. and
then number NV gentlemen with red /
faces and clubs made it so unpleasant I
that but few attempted it.
The Deekin punched me in the ribs
vociferously.
Next he wet to Ohio, sposin nv
course, that State so extremely oppos-
ed to bondage, wood be tine place he
Wuz IN search NV. Agin he wuz Ciisap-
plnted. 1t wuz worse than it wuz in
Moo York, for the Ablishnfs wuz a
going on the principle, he rather guess
ed, NV doin justis without runnin aSin
anybody's prejudises or rather, NV let
tin justice do herself, for they don't
make any move towards heIpin her,
here the niger NV no grade, no mat
Ter how much he pade taxes Onto or
how long he served in the army. wuz
allowed a vote. The Ablishnists. ez he
understood, tho Praps he wuz wrong.
carried the State on the Niger cues,
ion, but wuz now affrade TO tech il for
ear they'd lose it agin. They've he'd
[, he remarked, ID years. but hedn't.
q ylt got all the people ediicated mp to
he pint nv dom wat ali the people
<nowd wuz rite.
His experience in the West wuz yerv
imlar, The Ablishnists Wuz eyery-