Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-04
NASBY.

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Massey.
(From the Toledo Blade.)
Mr.. NAsBY FROM HIS QUIET RETREAT AT
| THE CORNERS, ADDRESSES AN EPIsTLE
TO GEN GRANT, IN WHICH HE SUGGESTS
MANY THINGS.
| PosT Offs, CoNFEDRIT ROADS,
| (Which is in the State nv Kentucky,)
| ~ ~ @ November 10, 1868.
| To Ulysses S. Grant, General, and President
| Elect
Sir:-The eleckshun is DER! The die is
cast, Nv wich die the Dimocrisy hev the
most Nv it. Frankly we admit that we
are beaten. l studied the eleckshun re-
turns carefully, and I hev come to that
conclusion. He'd we carried Ohio, Penn
sylyania, Injiany, Illinoiy, Connecticut,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and
Csliforny, and he'd Virginny, Texas and
Mississippi bin allowed to vote, the result
would hev bin diffrent. But we didn't,
therefore we submit. We mite resist, but,
ez we hevn't the strength to do it, we bow
cheerfiy to, the will Nv the people, and
recognize you ez our Cheef Magistrate, in
the place of A. Johnson deceest.
Now the question wich agitates us is
wat do 700 intend to do? That's wat I
want to know, and that's wat Deekin Po-
gram, Captain McPelter, and Issaker
Gavitt is demandin in thunder tones
Wat do 700 intend to do? Are 700 goin
to adopt the merciless policy Nv the ex-
treme Radikels, or are 700 goin to adopt
concilitory policy?
presoom that you n'tunderstand the
sitooashen in the South. alluz presoom
that shood 700 visit the corners, yoo wood
find here two classes of people, whose
tastes, habits, inclinashens and interests
vary widely. On the one hand are origi-
nal Kentuckians, Nv wich Bascom, Deekin
Pogranl, Capt McPelter, and Issaker Ga
witt, are brite and shinin specimens, and
on the other there is Pollock, the Illinoy
store-keeper, Joe Bigler, who wuz q con-
federit soljer, but who has backslid into
Ablishnism, ten Or twenty families Nv
Northeners who have bought land herea-
bouts, and the niggers wich were freed by
Linkin and the Constooshnel Amendment.
These two antagonistic elements are per-
petually at war, and the result is chronic
onpleasantnis wich hez seriously retarded
the growth Nv this seckshun The fault is
Nv course with Pollock, Bigler, the North
ern farmers, and the niggers. The original
Kentuckians desire peece-they long and
hunger and thirst for it. But these other
curses won't let us hev it. The Northern
farmers wood come here and buy land and
continyooaly irritate us with their pres
ence they won't adopt our habits and
customs, but persist in keepin up their
own, and ez we know EN- to be Republi-
kins the site NV one on our streets per-
dooses a species nv frenzy on
O,1r oifi1arc xUioh of firnac
suited seriously to them. They
hold prayer-meetins at each others
houses, they take Northern noospapers
wich 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 skools among the niger
children, and are teachin them to be above
the speer to witch nacher and our theology
assined 'em. Bascom told me that they
he'd never spent four dollars all told at
his bar. How kin he live in peece with
SIGH? The niggers won't work for us on
less we pay 'em, and the result is our
farms are runnin down. But little is per-
dooced by us, and the old original Ken
lucky stock is gettin to- be as seedy q set
as yoor eyes ever rested onto.
Now, in regard to as wat are 700 GO
in to do? Are voc goin to perfect us
or them? Are yO0 goin to bring yoor
power to bear on theil side or ourn Is
Deekin Pogram's 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 citizens Nv the Corners to hev the
rite, wich is theirs, to chastise these be-
ings in their own way-to reduce 'em to
their material level as they see fit, or are
they to be hampered by soljers and
sich, and be forced to the hoo
miliashen Nv seein 'em ekul in
all respects? In short, shell we, under
yoor administrator hev the rite to hang
niggers and tar and feather northern set
tiers ez we. hev bin doin or not? That's
| the question witch our people ask, and on
yoor anser depends the support Nv 700.
| The Corners is open to proposals. The
Corners can be sekoored to yoor admins
| trashen, or it kin be driven into an atti-
| tude Nv defiance.
It hez bin sed that 700 are sphinx.
| Wat sphinx is I don't know, nor is ther
any one in the Corners who does But it
must be suthin oils or 700 woodent hev
bin so called. The great question is " are
700 agoin to centinyoo to play sphinx?'
| Are you agoin to continyoo in the groove
into which you hev sot yourself, or are
you agoin to flop out and fling yourself in
! to our arms9 That's the question that's
aritatin me and the Corners ez well.
Ef I remember Alright, the concloodin
sentence Nv yoor letter Nv acceptance wus
"fes us hev peece p I want peece and SO
docs the Corners. How is this peece to be
attained? Easy enuff. Let Deekin Pc.
gram hev his niggers to manage and con.
troll in his own way, and he'll be at peece
Continyoo Elder Pennibacker-who hez
q distilleiry--in the ofises Nv whisky in
/ spector, Assessor and Collector Nv Interna'
Revenoo, which he now holds, and he'll
continyoo at peece Yoo kin thus pacify
these classes. Don't say that perhaps The
other classes might object? Possibly they
wood. It's ther objection that hez made
all the trouble thus far. He'd they no
objected, all wood hev bin at peece now
The niggers, like tho eel, hev bin yoost tt
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