Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-12-11
From the Toledo Blade. -
NaSby.

From the Toledo Blade.
Nasby.
MR.. NAsBY FROM HIS QUIET RETREAT AT
THE CORNERS, ADDRESSES AN EPISTLE !
TO GEN. GRANT IN WHICH HE SUGGESTS !
MANY THINGS.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDERIT X ROADS J |
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,
Nov. 10, 1868. J |
To ULYSSES S. GRANT, GENERAL, AND
PRESIDENT ELECT =
SIR: The elecshun is oer The die
is cast, Nv wich die the Dimocricy hev
the most NV it. Frankly we admit that
we are beaten. / studied the eleckshun
returns carefully, and l lev come to that
conclusion. He'd we carried Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Injiany, nlinoiy, Connecticut,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and
Californy, and he'd Virginny, Texas and
Mississippi bin allowed to vote, the re-
suit would hev bin different But we
didn't, therefore we submit. We mite
resist, but ez we havn't the strength to
do it, we bow cheerfy to the will Nv the
people, and recognize you ez our Chief
Magistrate, in the place of A. johnson,
decest.
Now the question wich agitates us is
wat 700 intend to do? That's wat l
want to know, and that's wat Deekin Po-
gram, Capt. McPelter and Issaker Cav
lit is demandin in thunder tones. Wat
do yoo intend to do? Are yoo goin to
adopt the merciless policy Nv the extreme
Radlkels, or are you goin to adopt con-
silitory policy? ...
| presoom that yoo don't understand
the sitoooshen in the South. Ialluz pre-
SOON that shood 700 visit the Corners,
VOC wood find here two classes of peo-
pie, whose tastes, habits, inclinashens
and interests vary widely. On the one
hand are the original Kentuckians, Nv
wich Bascom, Deekin Pogram, Capt.
McPelter and Issaker Gavitt are brite
and shinin specimens, and on the other
there is Pollock, the Illinoy storekeeper,
Joe Bigler, who was confederit solJer,
but who has back-slid into Ablishnism
ten or twenty families NV Northerns who
have bought land hereabouts, and the
niggers which were freed by Linkin and
the Constooshnel Amendment.
These two antagonistic elements are
perpetually at war, and the result is
chronic onpleasantnis wich hez seriously
retarded the growth Nv this seckshun.-
The fault is of course with Pollock, Big
Ter, the Northern farmers, and the mig
gers The original Kentucksans desire
peace-they long and hunger and thirs
for it. But these other eusses won't lie
us hev it. The Northern farmers wooC
come here and buy land and continyoolly
n irritate us with their presence; they won
10 adopt our habits and customs, but per
sist in keepin up their own, and ez W
J. know 'em to be Republicans the site u
l. one on on our streets perdooses a specie
S. NV frenzy on our citizens wich hez a
,e times resulted seriously to them. The
ID hold prayer-meetins at each other
te houses they take Northern noosepapel
o wich would pizen the minds NV our pee
It pie but for the blessed fact that our pee
H. ple don't read to any alarmin exten
#. and they hev established skools anon
bit the niger children, and are teachi
fe them to be above the speer to wich n;
at cher and our theology assined 'em. Ba
m com told me that they he'd never spel
or four dollars all told at his bar. Ho
err kin he live in peece with SIGH? III
cd niggers won't work for us onless we ps
nd 'em. and the result is our farms are ru
re- min down. But little is perdoosed by U
n and the original Kentucky stock is &C
nv tin to be as seedy set ez your eyes ev
nd rested onto.
he Now, in regard to US wat are 700
or goin to do? Are you goin to perte
at us, or them2 Are you goin TO bring yo
nd power to bear ON their side or ourn?
wn Deekin Pogram's niggers to be perfect
mt in their insolent refoosal to submit to
he guidance and direction, or are they to
he dealt with as he chooses? Is the citize
bo nv the Corners to hev the rite, wich
,en theirs, to chastise these beins in theiro'
the way-to redoose EN- to ther material lt
NV el as they see fit, or are they to be ha
ay pered by soIers and sich, and be fore
wi to the hoomiliashen NV seein EN- ekul
,ar- all respects? In short, shell we unc
ind voor administrator hev the rite to ha
9th niggers and tar and feather northern
tor tiers ez we hev bin doin, or not? Tn;
hat the question wich our people ask, and
the YOUR anser depends the support Nv y