The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-04-30
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty, in Humble Imitation of
Other Persons, has a Converse
tiOn with the President.

pose nv takin advice of Attorney
General Binkley, ez to whether, ii
the event NV the impeachment II,
the present President, / Good bt
ousted out NV my Postoffis before the
4th NV March, 1869, when it okkuret
to me that l oukht to hev some con
vershun with his Eggslency, for the
purpose NV publishin the same in the
papers NV Kentucky. Ez l wuz
ushered into the presence, and made
known the fact that l desired to talk
with him, he direkted his sekretary
to furnish me with pens and paper
that l might take down what he sed
found him calm and hopeful
There wuz in his eagle eye suthin NV
tnat determinashen witch hez made
him to wunst the terror NV his
friends and the comfort NV his enc.
mics; his firm set lips betokened the
will that wuz behind EN-, and his
nose, like a beaconlite, CLEANED
defiance At the world.
Remark, casually" said he, that
the Radilike majority seem deter.
mined upon impeachment"
| | do so, when he replied in these
words.
eyes they do. And why cannot
understand. Never wuz there man
eggisted in this or any other world,
who wanted pcece more than hev.
/ hev sighed for it, and done every
thing in my power for it, but they
wood not hev peece. In the beginnin
they talked NV askin me to resine,
becoz Nv the triflin egsilerashsn
wuz laborin under on the occashun
nv my inaugerashcn, forgettin that
it wuz the man, not the Vice Presi-
dent, that wux drunk. Then, agin,
wantid the restorashen nv the South
accomplished akordin to my own
views NV wat wuz proper, and here
agin their onreasonableniss wuz
made painfully manifest. They Good
hev he'd peece-there wood hev bin
no trouble watever, he'd they yielded
to me, and accepted the policy l he'd
agreed upon. But they wood not.
The entire Congris nv the Yoonited
States, and the entire people NV the
so-called loyal States, wickidly set
themselves in opposition to me, after
he'd solemnly warned EN- NV the
consekenses that must inevitably
foller. They brought it on, and
theirs is the blame. 1t wood be well
to ask me here, how about the Mem
phis and Moo Orleans massacres, and
the Ku-Klux Klan."
did this, and the President went
on:
"The unfortunit okkurrences in
Memphis and Moo Orleans wuz the
result Nv the same spirit developed
in the people nv the South who
opposed the Confederacy. They
knew wat desired. For the sake
NV peece, to wipe out all traces NV
the late onpleasantnis, | decided that
everything shood be restored ez it
wuz before, ez near as might be. Ny
idea wuz to kiver things up. ! he'd
promised the friends NV the late lost
coz control NV their own States, and
he'd the misguided people which he'd
stood in opposishun to the Confeder>
acy, yielded this one pint for the
sake NV harmony, all wood hev bin
we'll. The process wuz at once sim
pie and sublime. In Moo Orleans
DR.. Dostie and his adherents had
only to turn over the control NV the
city to Mayor Monroe and Judge
Abel, and there would hev bin no
massacre. But they wood not. They
persisted in inflamin Wv their high
spirited opponents to the pint NV
risin agin EN-, and the massacre was
the result. Wat else Good they
expect? | warned em in in time,
but alars l wuz not heedcd. In
Memphis, too, IT wuz similar. The
niggers wood persist in hevin skool
houses and carryin spellinbooks
about with EN-, KNOWN that every
time they did it they was inflamin
the Southern heart and firin the
Southern sole. / had them warned,
too, but to 70 purpose. Instead NV
quietin things down by givin up
their obnoxsous pursoots, they per-
severed and the result is part nv
history. 1t the irritated condishen
NV the Southern mind, smartin ez it
wuz under the conshusnis NV defeat,
it Good not be expected that they
shood look on quietly and see nigger
children in nigger school houses,
learnin that which wood OMIT ON
from fillen the poseshen NV niggers,
ez they understood it. To the
infatooatid people NV the North, who
egged on the niggers NV Memphis
and Moo Orleans to this attempt to
raise themselves out NV the normal
speer into which they wuz left by
the constitooshsn must all the blame
for this lamentable okkurrence now
and forever attach. The ku Klux
Klan is another development NV the
same spirit prod0osed by similar
causes and eyentooatin in the same
results. The niggers instid NV hum
bly, pursooin the even tener NV their
former ways and bowin meekly to
tho sooperior power Nv them which
wuz formerly their masters, 10 in
flated to the pint Nv takin wat I sed
to EN- four years ago in dead earnest,
and bleevin themselves to be men.
They persist in votin and heldin
meetins and sich, and NV course the
Caucashsns NV the South cant toler-
ate it. The murder nv those inno.