The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-10-23
NASBY.
MIR. Nasby Gives his Views on the
Subject of the Coming Election
His Hopes and Fears.

MIR. Nasby Gives his Views on the
Subject of the Coming Election
His Hopes and Fears.
Post Offs, Confedrit X Roads,)
(Which is in the State uv KY
Oct. Is, 1868.
am sometimes gloomy and de-
spondent, and never more so than
now. To me the skies is dark TO
me the clouds is lowrin, and the
prospex gloomy First, the crops is
agin us. Wat we wantid to make
ashoorance doubly shoor wuz jolly
failyoor Nv crops. He'd the wheat
failed in Ohio, Injianny and Illinoy
he'd ther potatoes rotted in ther
fields, and the corn come to naught,
we Good hev carried them States easy
For it's the nacher NV men TO charge
up everything from a theevin post
master to the failyoor Nv corn-the
first the most triflin, and the latter
in view Nv its effeck on the price Nv
likker) the most stupenjus evils witch
kin sffeck mankind-they charge
everything NV this kind up to the
account Nv the party in power, and
they vote agin EN-. When misfor-
choon waves her red flag in ther
faces, they charge agin it like the
bull, never thinkin NV the drawd
steel wich is behind to receive EN-.
My offishel existence is drawd steal.
But Providence is agin us now, ez
in the past. Providence hez q most
aggravatin knack Nv comm in jest at
the proper time for the Republican
party. Here wuz presher in money
matters, in conscience Nv short crops
tor years-we slept in and offered a
cure in the shape Nv a unlimited ishoo
NV greenbax, but alas! just as the
dose wuz bein swallered the crops
inierfered, given everybody all the
greenbax they wantid, and maxim to
the intrest Nv everybody not to hev
any more afoot for feer twood depre-
shate them wich they he'd, and at one
stroke this plank wuz knockt out from
under us.
1t is my opinion that we'd better
drop our fnanshel policy. At all
events We had better let the Pendle-
ton lice die out in the west and sub
stitute Seymore's for it IN that sec
shun. 1t don't make much difference
wat we do in the east ez ther amt
none NV US ther anyhow, wich is for
chunit, ez it mite complicate matters.
Its my opinyun that Pendleton isn't
much OF statesman anyhow.
Another thing that's workin agin
US is Blare. His rednis Nv face and
cheerful conviviality does much for
us in Kentucky wher we don't want
help, but good Heyins how it tells
agin us in the close States wher we
do need help. His Brodhed letter
scots us Nv Kentucky; but in Moo
York wher our people hev business
and want peece it hez made them
akaary
1t is my opinion that we'd better
drop Blare.
Ez to reconst ruckshen, that
isn't jest ez good a keerd ez we
thought it wood be. Watts the yoose
NV howlin that the Radikels don't |
want q restorashen Nv the States,
when they've admitted all NV EN- but
two or three? Watts the yoose NV
whistlin in the face NV sich a North
wind?
1t is my opinion that we'd better
drop reconstruckshen.
The extravaganza Nv the Radikels
wuz keerd wich l he'd hopes NV, but
it didn't amount to nothing. Some /
how the people wood ask us wich NV
our leaders we proposed to put in
the places nv the Ablishinists, and
when We ansered Vallandigham.
Fernandy Wood, and his brother Ben, Ii
Dan Voorhees, and Jesse d. Brlte. 6
they'd laff derisively, and, say, "Lord, II
save us, eff these hungry and thirsty |
theeves get their jaws into the Nash. s
mel carkis. We'd ruther keep them t
wich we hev." I
It's my opinion we'd better drop 4
C
Taxes he'd a joocy look, but good /
Lord, the people answered us, sayin, O
'Ef the debt Is TO be paid, wont we
lev to be taxed pay it? It's pawn [
he taxes that hurts-not the politics IL
" the party wich taxes us-ana ez n
,ur people don't pay taxes ez q rool. Ii.
hey don't thrill much over taxes. 4
It's my opinion that we'd better Il
lrop taxes. b
"Ekal taxashun' wuz ruther her
{ the beginnin, till the poo .rl
nd farmers diskivered men
1ere payin scarcely that tbey
ouSe' "asoas -.othin on their
- - So.' -.nd cows, while the
|. ..uz carryin the load
~ ez they made this diskivery
concloodid they didn't want
taxashun so much, and they turned
agin us.
Its my opinion We had better drop
ekal taxashun.
Repudiashun looked well enuii,
but that want no go. We started
ont with it, but alars, we found
most everybody he'd bonds, and ey-
erybcdy he'd greenbacks. The
bondholders woodent consent to re-
noodiatin the bonds, and the green
hack holders sed: ''Ef we com
.+ honda why sloOd we not