The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1868-12-03
tFrom tho Toledo Blsdt.l
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasby Suggests Haven OF Rest
for the Distressed Souls who are In
Danger OF Losing their Places.

We he'd a mcetin in Washington
last uitc to consider things. There
are many th ngs to consider Jest now
aud It wuz deemed proper to eonsid-
or en-. 1t wus Il lodge NV sorrow
Thor wuz faint glimrins NV hope on
80 tho countenances NV few Nv thor
present, bat nothin NV certainty
pothin Nv ashoorance. Sekreiary
Randall remarkt that so far ez he
wuz concerned he he'd made up his
mind. lie shood not take offs under
the incomin administrator. Hol
mite yceld in other matters Cfor he
wuz NV yeoldin nachor), but on this
he wuz inAexible. McCuloch aud
Browning were also determined, but
Seward bad other idceS. lie chirpcd
in, that the oldest man coodent tell
wat sixty days wood bring forth.
"Wat shall we do2" said Post
master from Ohio.
"I sci for President Johnson"
scd Randall "that he apply for the
Spanish throne. lie wood be accept.
iblo to tho Spanish people, for he
hez ell his life been putin the Bour.
bon down !"
Randall bcz no longer any fear NV
the President.
"Gontlemon " romarkt | az hcv an
idea, wich il acted onto will pull us
out NV our sea NV troubles"
"SpeckW exclaimed they all, with
one breath, speak"
"My idea is Cuba. Cuba, the gem
Nv the Autilles-tbe britcst jewel in
tho crown NV Spyn n. Let Secretary
Seward, who lcz talent for reel es-
tate, buy it now before the new Gov.
ernment hez it's internal revenoo sys.
tenn establisht, aud while it is hard
up for money. Let Cuba be the po-
litiklo Botany Bay NV this country.
Let it be bought by Seward and then
let the President go to work to wuus
fillin oilisis for its government,
while he still hez the power NV op.
pointment. He must not wait to
hcv 'cm hold uleckshins, for we alus
succeed better in gettiu ollisos by ap.
piutmeut than by eleckshuns. Wata
Heaven see open before usl hov
been reodin Cuba up, and l find that
that Island pays the Home Govern
mcnt S25, 900, 900 per aunum. Ifthe
Spanish Government kin git s25,-
100000 out NV en-, We kin double it
with our experience. There's euufT
for ell NV us. Give Randall place
correspondent with that he now holds;
make Ben Wood superintendent Nv
tho lIavanna Lotteries; make Frank
Z. suthin else, wat it is don't matter,
cz he'll take anything make good
places for Ross, Fullerton, Biukley,
Mrs. Cobb, Vallandigham, Brito Mrs
Perry, John Quincy Adams, Jr, L. !
Peorco, Ginral Forrest, Jim Steed- |
man, Rosso, Doolittlc. Cowan, Dixon,
Sekretary Wclles, aud all uv that un
numbered throng NV hungry soles,
who hev lived on pap so long that
any other diet sours on their stun
micks. And then"
"But sposin Congress, whom it |
meets rcrooscs to ratiry the purchis
by maxim an appropriushen?' p asked
n doubtor
"Refoozc to make tho appropria.
shen - Rerooze ! lla! Put before
Giural Grant the prospock NV never
agin seeiu the Blair family-put
afore Congress and the Amerikin
peeplo the hope Nv never seein agiu |
the faces NV any NV the men | hev
cd, with tho thousands NV
others Nv similar tastes, habits, aud |
necessities, and wat wood twenty or
thirty millions, more or less, be to
emp Nothiu ! Congress wood vote
it instoutanoously and the people
wood all say "Ameu !" Lord, how
quick the bill wood go through, and
how quick Grant wood sign it.
But sposn Congress shood relooze,
wat then? just az well. The Blairs
wood hev their posishuus, aud the
Cuban officials, ef they are versed in
Amerikiu politikle history, know, eff |
they know anything, that when the
Blairs get into place, nothin but
death loosens EN-. We shood hist
the banner NV ndcpendenco-we
shood paint onto that banner tho in
scripshun; "0fisis for All, in a
Country whore Likkeris not Taxed"
and in weeks time an army NV
Dimokrats, big enuG, to capcher
Spain herself wood be on them shores. |
Aud who Good stand aforo om ? Whis-
per "Post Offs in their ears, and |
they'd wade knee deep in blud. Lord |
how the Spanish sOljory wood 30 |
down alore EN-. How Frank |
Blair wood so for Lersundi ~
How all the trained cohorts NV Di |
moerisy wIch hey bin abstainin from
oihs so many years, wood risk their
all for a taste NV the sweets NV posi-
sheul
Oh tho delishusuis of the pros
peck Think NV an Island with enufI |
niggcrs onto it to do our labor, and
enutf white Cubans who cant read to
vote for us Why, it wood recall
reeolloctions NV them happy days
before the war when the Dimocrisy
wuz thus oonstitooted. hunger aud
thirst for Sioh.
"Ron swinly round We wheels Of time
AMI bring the happy day"
"Thon Ginral Grant Good hoy
peece Then the niggors NV the
United States mite hev suffrage, for
it wood make no difference to us. We
wood have oftisis to live onto, aud
pure niggers to look down upon, aud
wat more Good We want? The only
difference wood be, we wood hey to
accuSlom our s.umieks to Santa
Cruz ram in place NV whi'key, but
that We Good do. The effect upon
the bowels is the saWe-it differs on.