Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-09-19
NUMBER 81.
Nasby Conducts an Election.
PosT OFFICE, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
witch is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,)

POST OFFICE, CoNFEDRIT ROADS,
witch is in the Stait w Kentucky,) 7
Augoost 6, 1868.
If the American Eagle is in the hebt of
screening at Dimocrat victories she kin now
test her capacity to the fullest extent.
The election in Kentucky resulted more glori-
ousiy than ever we he'd anticipated. Eighty
thousand majority is a big thing, and we knowd
it, but We felt that the eye of Dimocrisy wuz
onto US, and we did our level best. We wantid
| to inspire the Dimocrisy Nv the North to set EN-
a example, in fact, wich wood awaken in en-
emulashun. The election at the Corners wuz
the same as the others in the Stait, so in wrtin
the history this wun l am wrtin the history
NV all.
We held a series meetins, all wich, with
the excepshun Elder Pennibackers obstnacy,
wuz harmonious and effective. Gov. Seymores
letter wuz great help to l he'd bin afraid
that he mite say suthin in it wich wood bother
US, but when got it / exclaimed halleloogy
He hedent sed thing He hedent fetched any
Nv the queshuns at ishoo, and consekertly
codent give no offense to nobody. Bascom took
it, and swore that he wuz satisfied from readin
it, in conneckshun with his Cooper Instoot
speech, he wuz in favor of payin the bonds in
gold, while Pennibacker quite we'll salts
fed with readin it, in conneckshun with the
platform and Pendletons speeches, that he wuz
in favor of payin the bonds in greenbax. They
got into dispootin over it and referred the mat
ter to me. Imitatin Seymore, l never sed q
word about bonds and greenbax, but went orf
into most eloquent derunsiashun Nv Joodjs
Iskarot. Its always safe to abooze Joodis, ez
there aint nobody nowhere to defend him.
I" But" sed they in korus, I" does he propose
to pay the bonds in gold or greenbax?"
Smilin benignantly on EN-, ez Seymore did at
the convenshun, replied in these words I" Ny
friends-for yoo are my friends-let US conine
ourselves to lvin ishoos Let me ask 700, ez
patriots, and men who hev the best interests Nv
hn at RI dO h.
tiers to marry niggers?'
"Never!' sed they, striking the table,
{" never! and they rushed out in the street,
hollerin, " Rah for Seymore.'
Sich porshens Nv the letter, however, ez fitted
our case l red to EN-. That paragralf into wich
be bewails the condishun men like at the
Corners, which he styles the intelligence of the
South Kernel McPelter and l red to every one
at the Corners, we bein all wich kin read; and
the paragraf in which he denounces the men
who assert that Union men aint permitted to
live in peace in the South red the first time to
twenty or thirty Nv our people wlch he'd Just re-
from raid onto the settlement Nv Ablishinists
over the Pike Run. Young Issaker Gaytt
was so affected that he shed tears wipin his eyes
with handkerchief he took from the body
Younyun man which he he'd jest shot in the
presence NV bis family, wich refoosed to leave
the settlement.
The elecshun went OFF magnifcently Never
did see in all my experience, wich hez bin very
great, slch extensive preparashuns made. Bas-
CONS bar wuz made free. Deekin Program,
Kurnel McPeter and myself, one of wich holds
Government offs, and the other two expects to,
he'd bar of new elecshun whisky purchist,
wich Elder Pennibacker, Notwithstanding his
disatfecshun, furnisht at cost, wich wuz % cents
per gallon, ez no tax hez ever bin pade in this
destrick.
opened the polls, Usn for the purpus hat,
and the votin eommenst lively. | put in two,
Racn o1i tl,raa d.,
the other faithful votid many times ez they
thot nessary. About 10 o'clock, Pollock came
up to vote, at wich l wuz surprised When l
say surprised, mean it,. The very presence Nv
the at sich time and place wuz startlin,
and it he'd terrible effech on the populis.
'' 'Watr' sed Issaker Gavitt, Indignantly
- shell a Illinoy Ablshnist-a man not born in
Kentucky-a man who holds views so totally
different from ours, persoom to vote at these ere
polls? Never p
And Issaker, bilin over with rage, went for
him, in wich he ASSISTED by the entire bal
ance the Corners. The wretched man paid
hevy penalty for his insolence. He wuz carried
orf by some sympathisin niggers mere wreck
Nv his former self.
! little later the " Yoonyun men, )" as they call
themselves, upon Pike Run, come down to vote,
but Issaker and McPeter reasoned with en-.
Kernel McPelter's remarks wuz pertickerly i'm
pressive. They ASSERTED that ez American citi-
they had a rite to vote, and should do so at
all hazards The kurne, in reply, statid to
that the Corners were 6tin for her liberties
| that matter wat their abstrack rite mite be,
the Corners Good not permit herself to be con-
tamnated with Ablshn votes 81 Should yoo at
tempt it, said he, impressively, " the blood Nv
the Corners will be up, and wont be answera-
BILE for the consekenses. Beware u
They pressed forred, when from among our
people a single shot wuz herd, and the head Nv
EN-, preacher, fell writhin in the dust
! pitied the poor wretch, but what kin we dof
Why will they come about us, irritating our peo-
pie with their ncenjary votes? That man had
family Wat reason will he give them, when
he's carrid home ded for his ontimely deceese!
Its thus. The Ablishnists will never let US
alone. And yet spose a hirein and subsidized
press in the North, in the face of the provoca-
shun we received, will accuse US nv murder'n
this n.
Our ambishun wuz to hev the vote clean DIM
ekratic. But it wuz not About one r M
Joe Bigler, who he'd heerd Nv the doins, coine ~
the polls. Issaker and McPeter "I] ,,: SI so,n
prevent him from votin, but tne W., ond thev
a revolver the mint they lookt at nlin, '"u ~
nartd maxim a lane for him to the nat; nat,
C Docs anv one challenge my vote r SEQ he,
cockin his weepon. " Ef SO, lct em speeN'
Bnt no one interfered, and took 1t. When
MO countid out there wuz surely one Abb
We. we rohn hniiot in the hat 1t wuz Biglers. But
,ro ,rere neer enuf yoonanmus, and propose to
,oon so The process is simple. 1t consists
naerelv in sbootin all who differ from US. Thus
we hev peece at nome.
Our politikle prospecks are mixed. The re-
duckshun Nv the tax whisky inclined many
nv our voters towards Republikanism, but ]
headed this orr by swearin that the Dimocrisy
wuz pledged to take it orf altogether. The
Northern papers assertn that Blare's letter don't
mean reyolushun is hurtin US son. but that is
more than balenced by the ease with wich we
kin orgunize. Yesterday entire regiment in
the Confedrit seryis organized as Seymore and
Blare club-retainin their officers ez doorin the
war, and yosn the identikle rolls, flags aud SIGH
1t aids wonderful.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey p N.
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