New Orleans Republican., 1868-08-23
NASH n.
The Election in Kentucky-The Glorious |
DemOcra'Ic VictOry-Mr. NHsby's Ac- |
count Thereof

Posr OTIS, CoNFEpRrT X RoADs
| August 6. 1853.
Ef the Amerikin EAgle-is in the habit Nv
screemin at Democrat victories she kin now
test her capacity 10 the fullest extent,
The election in Kentucky resulted more
gloriouser than ever we he'd anticipated.
Eighty-thousand majority is big thing,
and we knowd it, but we felt that the eve
of the Dimocrisy was onto US, and we did
our level best. We wanted to inspire the
Dimocrisy of the North; to set EN- a exam
pie, in fact wich would awaken in EN- emu
lashun. The election at the Corners wuz
the same as the others in the State, so in
writin the history of this wun I aw wrtiu
the history Nv all.
We he'd held a series nv meetins, all
wich. with the exception NV Elder Penni-
backer's obstinacy. wuz harmonious and
effective. Governor Seymor's letter wuz
a great help to us. he'd been afraid that
he mite say suthin in it wich wood bother
US, but when got it exclaimed halleloo-
gy. He hedn't sed thing He hedn't
teched any of the questions at ishoo and
consekently couldn't give no offence to
nobody. Bascom took it, and swore that
he wuz satisfied from readin it in connec-
tion with his Cooper Instoot speech, be
was in favor of payin the bonds in gold
while Pennibacker swuz quite as well salts
fed from readin it in cOnneckshun with
the platform and Pendleton's speeches,
that he wuz in favor Ov payin the bonds in
greenbax. They got to dispootin over it,
and referred the matter to me. Imitatin
Seymore, | never sed word about bonds
and greenbaX, but went OFF into q most
eloquent denunsiashun Nv Joodis Iskariot
Its always safe to abooze Judis, ez there
amt nobody nowhere to defend him.
Butt" sed they in korus, does he per-
pose to pay the bonds in gold or green
! bax?2
Smilin benignantIy onto EN-, ez Seymore
did at the convenshun, replied in these
words: MY friends-for you are my
friends-let us confne ourselves to llvin
ishoos. Let me ask 700 ez patriots, and
men who hev the best interests NV the
country at heart, do you want your daugh-
ters to marry niggers p
Never" sed they, strikin tables, "never!''
and they rushed out in the street, hollerin
"'Rah for Seymore"
Slch porshens NV the letter, however, ez
fitted our case l red to EN-. That psragraff
into which he bewails the condishun NV
men lika us at the Corners, wich he STYLES
the intelligence Nv the South, Kernel Nc
Pelter and | read to every one at the Cor
ners, we bein all wich kin read; and the
paragraf in which he denounces the men
who assert that Union men amt permitted
to live in peece in the South read the first
time to twenty or thirty nv our people
wich he'd jst returned from a raid onto the
settlement nv Abolitionists over on the
Pike Run. Young Issaker Gavitt was so
Affected that he shed tears wipin his eyes
with a hankercher he took from the body
of a Yoonyun man wich he he'd Jest shot in
the presence Nv his family wich reioozed
TO leave the settlement.
The elecshun went off magniiicently.
Never did | see in all my experience,
which hez bin very great, sich extensive
preparations made. Bascom's bar wuz
made free. Deekin POgram, Kurnel Nc
Pelter, and myself, one NV wich holds a
government offs, and the other two ex-
poets to, he'd bari Nv new elecshun whis-
key purchst, wich Elder Pennibacker, not
withstanding his disaffeckshun, furnisht at
cost wich wuz % cents per gallon, ez no
tax hez ever bin pade in this districk,
Iopened the pclls, usin for the purpus a
hat, and the votin commenst lively. / put
in two, Bascom slipt in three under differ
ent names, and the other faithful ones voted
ez many times ez they thot nessary. About
10 o'clock Pollock came up to vote, at wich
l wuz surprised. When / say surprised
mean it. The very presence Nv the man at
sich time and place wuz startlin, and it
he'd a terrible effeck on the populis.
"Watw sed Issaker Gavitt, Indignantly,
''shel Illnoy Ablishnist--a man not born
in Kentucky-a man who holds vews so
totally different from ours, persoom to vote
at these ere poles Never %
Aud Issaker, bilin over with rage, went
fur him, in wich he wuz assisted by the en-
tire balance Nv the Corners. The wretched
man paid a heavy penalty fur his inso-
lence He wuz carried off by some sym
pathizin niggers, mere wreck Nv his for
mer self.
A little later the "Yoonyun men," as
they call themselves, upon Pike Run, come
down to vote. But Issaker aud McPelter
reasoned with EN-. Kernel McPelter's re-
marks wuz partikerlarly impressive. They
asserted that as American citizens they he'd
a rite to vote, and shood do so at all haz-
ards. The Kernel in reply stated to EN-
| that the Corners was ftin for her liber-
ties-that no matter wat their abstrack
rites mite be the Corners Good not permit
herself to be contaminated by Ablishun
votes. "Shood yOo attempt it," said he
|
| be up, and wont be answerable for the
consekences. Bewarem
They pressed forerd, when from among
cur people a single shot wuz heard, and the
head one Nv EN-, a preacher, fell writhin in
the dust
| pitied the poor wretch, but wat kin we
do? Why will they come about us, irri-
tatin our people with their inceDjary votes
That man he'd family. Wat reason will
be give them when he's carried home ded,
for his ontimely decease? It's ever thus.
The Abolishnists will never let lis alone.
And yet spose that hireling and subsi-
died press in the North, in the face Of the
provocashen we received, will accuse us Nv
murdrin this man!
Our ambishea wuz 10 hev the vote clean
Dimecratic. But it wuz not SO. At about
p. NJ. Joe Bigler, who he'd heerd 'uv the
doins, come to the polls. Issaker and Nc
Pelter wuz goin to pervent him from
votin, but the villain drawd a revolver the
mint they lookt at him, and they partid,
maxim a lane for him to the hat.
Does any one challenge my vote ?" sed
be, eockin his weepon. IF so, let en-
speek,n sas
But nc one interfered, and I took #.