The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-07-17
NASBY.

MIR. Nasby Goes as Delegate to
New York--He Gives an Account
of some of the Difficulties that be-
set him on the way, ard in the
Great City.
New YORK, lat cheep bordin)
house) July the 4, 1868.
EfIhed knowd just wat he'd to
go thro with, l never wood figgered
for the posishen l now okkepy. He'd
knowd the troubles wich was to be-
set me, the Corners mite hev gone
onrepresented, and the Democrisy
mite hev nominated candidate with
out my help. l am at acheep board
in house, witch is salubrusly sitOOa-
ted on an alley, the landlady bein one
nv the anshent Kings Nv Ireland,
wich her name is O'Shaughnessy.
coodent get rooms al the Aster, nor
the st. Nicholas, ez l coodent git o
clerk to look at me for an hour, and
when did succeed in rivitin the at
tenshen NV one, he flew into a-pasher
and ordered me to move on, with
the onfeelin remark that he he'd nc
room for sich! And that insult mite
be added to injoory, the unfeelin wo
man who presides over the mansher
l inhabit, peremptorlly refoozed to
reserve me ontil l paid in advance
l tried sevral places, but ez hedn't
no baggage, the pervailin opinyur
seemed to be that advance payment
wood be better, and l was forst tC
return to her.
My advenchers on the route were
noomerous, if not pleasant.
At some pint in Ingiany, wher We
changed cars, / found the trane VT
he'd to take full NV delegates. Ir
lookin around for a sect diskivered
but one that hadn't two in it, ahd
that one he'd in it disgustin niger
who he'd the impoodence to be well
drest and he'd carpet sack beside
him. My Demokratic blood riz to.
wunst. Feelin that in a car filled
with Demokratic delegates, anything
l shood do to a nigger wood be safe
1 stawkt proudly up to him, holdir
my nose.
"Good Lord!'' sed l swat SMELL
"Good Lordb' ekoed the delegates
wich got on at that stashen, swat a
terrible smell"
"My gentle Afrikin frend," sed l,
seezin him by the collar, 81 regret
the necessity NV sayin disagreeable
things and still more Nv doin EN-,
but the fact is yoor impudence in git
tin into a car NV white gentlemen
with the disgustin odOr inseparable
from and part Nv the Afrikin race, is
ruther too much. And more especl-
ally do / wonder at yoor keepir yoor
sect, while | and other white gentle
men are standin."
"Out with the nigger" yelled the
lately arrived delegates, "hustle the
stiukin cuss.''
"Merclful hevens wat a smell ~
sung ont others NV EN-, "hist him -
"hist him J"
Seein myself thus backed, and feel
i'm that a little zeal wood be safe, ez
niggers can't vote, / knockt his hat
out NV the winder and fOllered up
that demonstrashen with a serious
attempt at liftin him out NV the seat.
| wood hev succeeded, bat the mig
ger resisted, and resisted vigorously,
TO- wit he knock three NV my front
teeth down my throte, pulled out wat
little there wuz left Nv the hare that
Langs in scanty festoOns about my
venrable temples, and blackt both
my eyes. / wuz lyin on my back in
the passage, somewhat astonished,
the nigger a standin over me, with
his boot heel over my face, when
some gentlemen came in from anOth-
er car and restrained him. "Mr.
Williams sed they, "let him up
He's poor white trash, and not worth
wastin yoor indignashen onto. Let
him up, Mr.. Williams. let him up
"Sirs,' sed l, risin to my feet
tremulous with rage, sis this the
treatment l am TO expect all the way
to Moo York 2 Am ! to be pounded to
jelly by nigger-a stinkin niger,
sirs, whose odOr even now makes
the car ontenable to gentlemenuv re.
fined sensibilities-and to heer the
nigger addresst ez "Mister' after
that instid NV helm tored to pieces by
the infuriated spectators Oh shame,
where is thy blush 2"
"You mizable cuss," sed one NV
these gentlemen, "apologise to wun ST
to this gentleman for yoor insultin
roodnis, or we'll chuck yoo out NV
the cars. Apologize, sir to Mr.. Jo-
sef Williams, Delegate at Large tor
the State uv Isnnesseer'
almost tainted. This nigger,
then, wuz a delegate He wuz a reg
ler delegate, armed and equipped
with regler credenshels to Demo.
kratic Conyenshen, and l he'd been
guilty in my zeel NV assaultin Nv
him Gladly 1 apologyzed, and fur
ther, i humbly begged permission to
sit beside him; wich he ACCORDED
with a graciousnis never saw ekal
led.
1t Ruz astonishin the change that
srept over the Injeany delegates.
They crowded around us and shock
him by the hand-they didn't smell
any oder at all any more; on the
contrary they seemed to like him.
They addrest him ez "Mlster," and
sevral NV EN- introdoocin him to ther
friends who got on at various stash-
ems, yoosed the prefix ''Honorable.' D
It's wonderfuls wat difference it
makes with niger to have a vote,
and also how he votes! He'd that
williams bin infecred with Ablishinn
ism, / make to doubt that the stencil
wich reely fancied l smelt when I
fust undertook to subjoogale him,
wood hev continyood to the end NV
the trip. In olden time it wuz oh.
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