New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-28

customs, but persist in keepin up their
SWni aud ez we know EN- to be Repubii-
cans, the site Nv one on our streets perdoo-
ses species Nv frenzy in our citizens wich
nee at times resulted seriously to them.
Iney mold prayer-meetins at each others
houses, they take Northern noosepapers
wieh wood pizen the minds NV our people
but for the blessed fact that our. people
don't read to any alarmin extent, and they
hev established sksols among the nigger
children, and are teaching them to be
above the speer to wich nacher and the
ology assined EN-. Bascom told me that
they he'd never spent four dollars all told
| at bis bar. How kin he live in peece with
SIGH! The niggers wont work for US onless
we pay EN-, and the result is our farms are
runnin down. But little is perdoosed by
us, and the old original Kentucky stock is
gettin to be as ssedy set ez yoor eyes
! ever rested onto. Nv
Now, in regard to us, wat are 700 goin
to do! Are yoo going to perfect us or
them? Are yoo going to bring yoor pow
er to bear on their side or ourn ? Is Deekin
Pogram' niggers to be perfected in their
insolent refoosal to submit to his guidance
and direction, or are they to be left to him
to be dealt with as he chooses! Is the Cit
/ izens OF the corners to have the rite, wich
is theirs, TO chastise these beings in their
own way--to redoose EN- to ther material
level ez they zee fit, or are they TO be
hampered by soldiers and sich, and be
forced to the hoomiliashen Nv seein EN-
ekul in all respects? In short, shel we, un-
| der your administrator. hev the rite to
/ hang niggrrs and tar and feather Northern
! settlers, ez we hev bin doin, OF not! That's
I the question wich our people ask, and or
! yoor answer depends the support NV you.
The corners is open TO proposals. The
corners can be sekoored to your admins
trashen or it kin be driven into an attitood
Nv defiance -.---
1t hez bin sed that yoo are sphinx.
Wat sphinx is l don't know, ner is ther
any one in the corners who does. But it
must be suthin oius or 700 woodent hev
bin so called. The great question is, care
700 agoin to continyoo to play sphinx "
Are you agoin to centinyoo in the groove
into wich yoo hev sot iyoorself, or are VOC
| agoin to flop out, and fling yoorself into
our arms? That's the question that's agi-
tatin me and the corners ez well.
Et remember ar1ght, the conloodin sem
tence Nv your letter nv acceptance WIZ,
"let us hev peece" want peece and so
duz the corners. iHow, is this peece to be
attained. Easy enuff. Let Deekin Po-
gram hev' his niggers to manage and con-
troll in his own way, and he'll be at peece-
| Contlnyoo Elder Pennibacker-who hez
a distlleTy-in the offises Nv Whisky
Inspector, Assessor and Collector NV
Internal Revenoo, wich be now
holds, and he'll continyoo at peece. Yoo
kin thus pacify these classes. Don't say
that perhaps the other classes mite object
Possibly they wood. It's ther objection
that hez made all the trouble thus far
Had they not objected all wood hev bin at
peece now. The niggers like the eel, hev
bin yoost to bein skinned, and more Nv it
wont hurt EN-. But think Nv that old man,
Deekin Program! Look at his gray hair,
his turrowed cheeks, and his tottrin steps
Is be to be forced in his old age to stane
bis hands with laber for the nessary sus-
tenance wich, sence Bascom quit trustin,
kin only be got with cash Is uiggers to
wear better clothes than me2 Shel Issaker
Gavitt, who wuz never yoost to work, be
brot to it in the flower Nv his yoothf
We don't ask you to interfere in our be-
haif-we only ask you to be at peece yoor-
self, and keep hands of. Sheathe the
sword, and let us hev peece. Withdraw
everything in the shape of soliery-stick to
the Presidency and nothing else, and we
will take care NV the rest.
Their are other things wich you must do
to restore happiness and peace to ther dis
tracted country. There can be no peace
so long az the Blairs are out Nv offs. The
Blairs must hev places. A Government
without Blair into it is not legal. Linkin
failed TO command the respect NV the
Blairs, and where is Linkin? John
son let the Blairs go, and what an
Awful Example is he! Don't be-,
afraid that they won't take offs under
yoo. They amt pertikeler-they' d as soon
run your anministrashen ez anybody's. Yoo
can git the support Nv the Blairsi That
Boon is within yoor reach. And likewise
yoo kin git others wich is just ez necsary.
Steedman is waitin. Ross, NV Kansas and
Doolittle fact all that noble army Nv
marters wich follered the political forehoons
NV A. johnson stand ready to support 700,
on condishun that yoo support them. Take
them, U. 5. Grant-take them. Don't des-l
pise my advice. Think NV havin the Blair
family knockin at yoor door for four years
End it now and forever. .. -. t4
For myself it isn't necessary to speak,
| am almost at the end Nv evnntlul life-
Disappointment hez done its work, and in
a little time shell go hence. 1 am victim
NV irregular habits-wunst when in Ablis-
en- basteel | wuz deprived Nv liker fer
ten days, and wnnst by mistake l swal-
lowed camphene for whisky. My consti-
toeshen wuz thus undermined. | hev
but few years more at best, and it
don't matter where l drag them out. But
If my pathway to the tomb Good be
smoothed by continyooance in the Post
Obs at the Corners it wood be favor wieh
shood appresbiater. shood then be at
peeee. Likewise wood Bascom, at whose
bar hey an unliquidated account, and the
citizens, all NV whom hold my notes wv.
hand for small amounts, be at peeee in the
soothin hope NV gettin suthin at some
tucher day. Iekko yoor sentiment--Iet us
hev peeee. hev indikated how it kin be-
done-will yoo follow that path or net? 1t
is for 700 to choose. aH 4fIl ~ s. q
/ PETROLEUM v. NASBY, p. NJ.
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