The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-08
From the ZSLedo Blade.
n A S B Y
Mr. Nasby Goes to ohio on "a ntsaiOn
OF MeFcy-.-A Terrible Mistake and
the Consequences.

Mr. Nasby Goes to Onto on "A missIOn
Of MeFcy-.-A Terrible Mistake and
abe Consequences.
PosT OFFS CoNFEDRTr X RoAps.O
(Which is in the State NV Kentuckv,G
December %, 1867.
When the Almighty made niggers he
ought to hev made em SO that mixin
with the sooperiOr roce wood have bin
an impOssibility. The cuss NV misseRe-
nashen, and the hatrid of the Democrisy
Nv Ohio for niggers, hez, between EN-,
LETT me in cOndishen wich I hardly
supposed shOod ever find myself in.
rite these lines, propped up in bed at
my boardin hOuS. my face beaten TO a
jelly, and perfeCklY kivered with stick
IN plaster; my nose, alluz the beauty
and glory nv my face, is enlarged to
tWtct its fair prOporshens; my few re-
matntn teeth hev bin knockt down nv
throat, my lips resemble saasages, my
lett ear Is forever no more, and wat lit
tie hair wuz hanging about my ven
era6le temples is gone, my head is ez
bald ez billyard ball, and twict its
normal size. 1t come about thus:
There wuz trouble in one Nv the
Southern counties Nv Ohio. In reli-
ably Democratic township in that coun-
" Is settlement Nv niggers, who, in
the old time, ran away from Kentucky,
and settlln here, where they Good .heY
wat they earned wich wuz list so much
SWlnuleu out Nv Kentuoky's accumu-
19ted wealth. Wv course comm from
kentucky, these niggers are many NV
em ez near white ez they can be. One
Nv EN- who carried with him the name
Nv his master, and ez he saws, father
Lett Is ez near white man ez NAV be.
ana ez ne married wench who wuz a
shade winter than he, their children are
tisL touch whittier than both NV EN-.
w these he he'd three daughters
ranging from sixteen TO twenty,
Now this Lett is disturber. He he'd
farm NV perhaps 200 akers, and wuz
taxed heavy for skOol purposes, but
MS cnlIdren wuzn't of course allowed
ger children were. But this Lett got
the Jee into his he'd that there wnsn't
no propriety in his payin taxes without
enjoyin some Nv the benefits arisin
from EN-, and aided and abetted bv the
other niggers, who were wicked enuff
10 complain Nv payin taxes 10 the SUP.
port NV white skoOhs, he sent his three
daughters to the skOOl, directin them
10 present themselves boldly, take their
seats quietly, and study perseverlnly.
They did SO. The skool marin, who
wuz young huzzy, with black eyes
ana material curls, from the State NV
MOO dampsheer, where they persekoot
the saints, not only assented to reseevin
EN-; put very jOyfully gave EN- seats
ana put EN- into Classes-think nv that
with white children.
There wuz trouble in that township.
l d %uz sent for to wuI:st, and gladly
life. Had small pox broken out in that
skool, there woodent hev bin half the
eggscltement in the township. Wuz
the subjeck of yOoniversal talk every
Where, and the Dimocrisy wuz a bilin
like pot. met the trustees NV the
township, and demanded eff they in
tended tamely to submit to this out
rage? L askt em whether they intend
ed to hev ther children set side by side
with the descendants Nv Ham, who
Wuz condemned TO position Nv infe-
riority forever? Kin 700, asked, so
degrade yourselves, and so blast the
self respeck NV yoor children?
And bilen up with indignashen thew
answered "neVer" and yoOnanimOuslV
requested me TO accompany EN- to the
skOol house that they mite peremptO-
rily expel these disgustin beins who
he'd Obtrooded themselves among those
OF soOperlOr race.
On the way to the skool house wich
wuz perhaps mile distant, 1 askt the
Board eff they knowd those girls by
site; No. they replide, they he'd never
seed EN-. 81 hev been told" sed l,
THAT they are nearly white"
white"
at matters not" sed T, teelin that
there wuz good Opppotoonity tor i'm
Provin the occashen, ait matters not.
Ihere IS suthin in the nigger at wich
the instink NV the white man absoloot.
~ rebels, and from wich 1t tinstinktive-
~ reco1ls. So much experience hev l
had with em that put me in a dark
room with one Nv EN-, no matter how
thnHn 10 d. 4 Al
erin tnstink would betraY EN- to me,
wlch, by the way, goes to prove that
the dislike we hev to em is not the re-
suit NV prejudes, but is part NV our
very nachers and one Nv the highest
and holiest attriboots."
Thus communin, we reached and en-
tered the skool house. The skool-
marin wuz there, ez brite and ez crisp
ez Janooary morning-the skolars
Wuz ranged on the seets a studVin eZ
rapidly eZ possible.
Miss" sed 1, 1--WE are informed that
three nigger wenches, daughters of one
Lett, nigger, is in this skool, a ming.
lin with our daughters as ekal, Is it
so ?"
THE Misses Lett are in this skool,"
said she rather mischeviously, land 1
am happy to s;ote that they are among
my best pupils.''
"Miss," sed 1 sternly, "pimt EN- out
Wherefore ] 'said she.
THAT we may bundle EN- out" sed l.
'Bless mew said sbe," Freely Good
ent do that. Why expel emp"
"BecoZ," said I, mo nigger;shell con-
taminate the white children NV this
deestrick. No sech disgrace shell be
put onto en-"
well, sed this aggravatin skool
marin, wich wuz from Moo Hampshire,
put EN- out"
But show me wich they are."
Cant you detect em sir? Don't
their color betray emf Eff they are so
neer white that yoo can't select EN- at a
glance, 1t strikes me that 1t can't hurt
very much to let em stay"
wuz sOrelY puzzled. There wuzn't
a girliu the room who looked at all
niggery. But my reputashun wuz at
stake. Notisin three girls settin to-
gether who wuZ somewat dark COM
plectid, and whose black hair waved, I
went for EN- and showed EN- out, the
cussid skOOl marm almost Dustin with
latter.
Here the tragedy okkerred. AT the
door met man who rode four miles
in his zeal to assist us. He he'd alluz
he'd an itchin to pitch into a nigger, and
ez he Good do it now safely he proposed
not to lose the chance. wuz putin on
EN- out, and he'd jist dragged em to the
door, when met him enteriu it.
"Wat Is this ?" sed he, with a sur
prised look.
"We're putin out these cussed
wenches, who is cOntaminatin yOor
child Pnn a nd T0ipo Uan6 GGRof0E 60I,1