The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-01-23
From the Toledo Blade.
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Nasby.
| MIR. Nasby Addresses q Letter to
the Committee who have Called
Convention of those who were
Imprisoned for DisIOyalty dur-
ing the War.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, |
(Which is in the Stait NV kentucky !
January 8, 1868.
Noticin in the public prints that Val
landygum, and a passel NV others Nv
that kidney, he'd called convenshun Nv
those who he'd suffered imprisonment
for hSldin the opinion, doorin the war,
that the South wuz rite in secedin, and
for doom what they Good to further the
rite, to review their sufferins, l, Nv
corse, expected to be invited to attend.
Ez no invitashen came, l resolved to
spare EN- the stigma Nv havin gone
back onto fellow sufferer, and, hence
ly, | wrote the followin letter, wich l
shel have publisht in all the moose
papers. / feel it dooty to call the
attenshun Nv the party to my suffrins
jest now, it bein jist afore a new deal
takes place:
To C. L. Kalandygum, Edison B. 0lds,
Henry Clay Dean, and Others, Commit
tee:
Yoor movin note NV the 18th inst. ,
invitin me to be present at meetin NV
those wich he'd suffered for Conscience
sake doorin the late croosade, and to
mingle my teers with them is reserved.
Ez l reseved yoor note and red it, my
sufrins came back to my mind so vivid
ly that the fountins Nv the CRATE deep
wuz onseeled, and wept scaldin teerS.
l wept ez ! thought how suffered, how
| he'd wasted in Basteels the time so
much needed in futherin the CRATE coz
in wich we wuz all engaged; when l
thot how, for three long weeks, l
wasted away, pinin for the free air out.
side NV my prison walls; how, for all
that time, wuz exposed to the horror
nv seein around me feends in human
form, clad in the bloc alluz detested;
how wuz compelled to listen, perpet-
Ooally, to sich songs ez;
"WeIl rally round the flag, boys,
Wen rally wunst again,
Shoutin the battle cry NV Freedom"
And that other detestible air, wich l
never hear without thrill Nv horror
John Browns body lies molderin in the grave
But his sole is a marchin on"
Wich it is. And also how for three
long weeks wuz compelled to live
no, not live, but eggsist-with not a
drop Of anything stronger or more re-
vlvlfyng to drink than coffee endOor-
in the namelis horrors wich tollers the
sudden takin away NV that on wich we
live, and on wich our moral, ez well ez
physiciI, nachers depend But out NV
regard to my teelins, | close these har-
rowin rehecshens. Shood dwell onto
EN-, | shood be entirely unnamed -
When l think of them three weeks
without whisky, reason tOtters onto her
throne, aud wonAer that l am still
alive. Trooly / am a spared monu-
ment. .... ...
1t would not be out of place in this
connecshen for me to dwell for a mo-
ment upon the sacritis hev made and
torters to wich | hev bin subjected l
hev, may say it humbly, suffered prob
ably more than any Nv the glorious COM
pany NV martyrs, for righteOusnis' sake.
My first tast NV Federal tyranny wuz in
1862 Well do remember the day.
A draft was impendin. The tyrannical
Linkin, revelin in the gorgus halls Nv
despotic power at Washington, he'd is
shood his oppressive decree for "three
hundred thousand more" l went,
confidently, to the eggsaminer's offs for
my eggsempshsn, but in the face Nv
the most positive ashoorance on my
part that l he'd bronkeetis and liver
complaint at that time, and he'd he'd at
different times NV my life delrum tre-
mems, wuz laft to scorn, and pro-
nounct ez sound ez a brick. / deter
mined not to imbrue my hands in the
blood NV my brethren Nv the South.
l shuddered at two ijees. First, a be-
ing punctured myself, and, second, at
puncturin any Nv my friends NV the
Confederacy. Therefore, made my
way ez best | mite to that refuge from
the persecuter, Kanady. Need ! dilate
onto the terrOrs NV that passage7 Need
l state how l walked from my then
place of residence to Detroit, and how
l swan the river at that pint on log,
and how, when on strikin the sacred
soil, struck taboo, and shook my
fist at the stars and stripes, wich ] saw
wavin on the tother side? No. For
all NV yoo hev done it, eff not in Can
ada, somewhere else. The draft wuz
over, and returned, suppOsin it wuz
all rite. Scarcely he'd | reached my
humble home, when / wuz arrestid, and
dragged to a military camp. he'd bin
drawed, and | wuz taken ez deserter.
| did not serve tho. Ruther than carry
Fedral muskit, deserted in ernist,
and wat military life did see, saw
in the Confedrit ranks. But that wuz
short. The Kurnel NV my regiment,
appreciatin my style, ordered me to be
discharged, on the score that ! Good do
the Confedrisy more good operatin
with the Dimocrisy Nv the North than
Good carryin muskits in the ranks Nv
her brave defenders. He wuz pleased