The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-10-01

WRITTEN BY PETROLEUM v. NAsBr, 1R

lers here think that we abollshunists can
carry Cambria county. Sez /, eyer mite as
well try tew carry this county literally as
politically, but if we hold all our camp meet
ins we can skeer all the democrats out to the
eleckshun, which will be doin' a good thing" F"
The clerk of the "Inner circle" who rites
all the kongresshunal speeches, congratula-
ted me heartily. Sez he, ''Nasby, you are
a pointed writer, and if we don't carry this
county it's not your fault" Sez he, 81 wrote
hui book of poetry, and there's not as many
idees in it all as there is in your little notis
of Gov. Geary." This tickled my vanity.
and sez 1, 81 can make speeches tew." AS
soon as the ''niggers" and "diggers" heard
this they all hollered simultaneously at once
for "Nasby! Nasbyi" till the wigwam rung
with applaws. Then / riz and sed, "Fellow
Digsers and Niggers-You don't understand
the policy of the party you belong tew.-
Pve belonged tew the party for forty years,
and my father belonged. tew it for forty years
before that" Sez |, s'We might be called
the Never -mean-what we-say' party. We
hollers peace when we mean tcdr. We al
ways preach one thing and practice another.
This we have done for hundred years.
Bosting used to be the center Of the slave
trade, and all Eastern men who are now rich
got their money by selling slaves. Our Pill
piggers and filled their ships with them, and
then fetched them here and sold them tew
Southern planters who were Just beginnin'
tew raise cotton. have seed gangs of mig
gers, bound two by two, goin' South, quar-
ter NV a mile long, drove by Bostonians and
other saints of Massachusetts, till Congress
passed law against tradin' in slaves, and
then they sold their ships, abolished the slave
trafick, got religion. and began tew preach
that slavery was crime. Beecher, and
Greeley, and Sumner, are now livin' on the
money that their forefathers made by stealin'
and seilin' niggers. Then was the times
that tried men 8 SOULS Bymby we got cot
ton manufactures built, and when we want
ed cotton the South made US pay good
price fur it, so the Lord put it into our minds
to get possesshun nv the cotton lands our
selves. But we couldn't do this without
preachin' abOliShnn. Then the war com
menced, and it was us commenced it. We
got to sendin' irse1adary pamphlets and
schule masters and marms down South to
preach treason and Higher LaU. We got
underground railroads to Canada, to run mig
ger slaves away on-the same niggers we
sold year or two beforehand we got such
fellows as Passmore Williamson for conduc-
tors. We stole sixty thousand niggers in
one year. Then we got up 'Emigrant Aid
Societies. and sent tnSenddry men to Kan
sas with Bibles n one hand and Sharp's RI
fles in the other, crying Peace Peace ! -
when there was no peace, just as we are doin'
now. Lincoln sed there was nobody hurt
when Chandler was sayin' there must be
little blood lettin'' We got John Brown to
take Harper's Ferry with spears and prunin'
hooks, and we called it peace In Congress
we called the Southern membe liars, thieves,
chivalry, cut throats, and called it peace.
Thus we fit on, CALM for peace and maxim
war, till we got war-the bloodiest war on
record-all for peace. Thousands of sol
diers 6led and died to satiate the ambshun
Nv few Dantons, and RobespierTes, and
Marats, in the North, who wanted the South
ern peoples spoons, pianos and cotton. Now
the war 's over, but we are tryin' to get up
another, and, to deceive the people, we must
practisin' another. We cried Union = when
'Peacel' when we mean war. Do you sup
pose all this stir of lamps and Grant ,ctiskev
means peace2 No. it means war, 'and, 1
repeat it, let it conae!' Better that we all
die for the Union than that the Union dies
fo- us! !" (Cheers.) Sez |, 1--WE got up all
kinds of cock and bull stories about nigger
wcnches Lein' stuck in hollor trees, and
roasted with fire till the trees busted and the
poor wenches flew away into pine grove
and travelled seventy-fve miles on a rail
fence, over q swamp, till they came onto
neighborin' town. and was taken in for the
purpose of carryin' the eleckshun by appeal
To- to sympathy; but while we are preachin'
this we are prdctisin' cruelty ourselves onto
the poor white trash deown South This is
our policy. We must preach one thing and
prdctise another till we carry the eleckshun,
if it can 6e carried. Them'S our principles,
and uf any mans got any kon shunce he can't
belong tew our party" When l sat down
"Nasby" by vote of thanks, which was
done by tremenjus cheerin' This was on
Saturday evenin' just before we started for
Wilmore. We then lit our tin lamps and
started for Wilmore town, singin' John
Brown Some feller sed we looked for all
the world like a string of lightnin' bugs, and
when our coat-tails would fly up phosphO
resent light was emitted, just like that wich
cones off nv decayin' vegetable matter
This might have been true.
Well, we went to Wilmore town and held
a meetin' for the bones and sinetos of Sum
merhill township, the same immortal three
hundred, or all that was sober enuf. "Into
the jaws of death went the three hundred"
Well, goln> up along, we was taikln' about
the war that's comin' Sez I, 1--WE must
preach peace at Wilmore, but war IS good
thing 1t kills off the bad boys and purifies
society, and Lord knows eff the hui creashun
is as bad as our tanners society it needs pu-
ri6cashun." When we got out Nv the ac-
commodashun car, which accommodated us
for one hundred dollars, paid in advance,
Mr.. Miller, from the committee on ways and
means, presented us with punkin, which,
he said, was mathematical of our growth
That punkin, he sed, had growed since
Grant was nominated, and SO did our society.
The Fifth Lieutenant was goiu' to receive
the punkin, when Mr.. Boggs rose to point
of order He said he didn't think it was
proper for one pu'akin to receiUe another. and
left it for the head centre tew decide. Sez 1.
"Mr. Boggs is right as tew the punkin, but
it would be no violation of the rule for a
squash to receive punkin, and 1 suggest
Mir. Boggs himself as a fit parsonage to re-
ceive it. This gentleman then arose and
said. my friends, 1 can't do justice to this
subject till the punkin is cooked" This
made the boys laff tremenjusly. We then
had some Grant WhiSkey a ''nigoer'' song