The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-12-31
NISBI.

: Mr.. Nasby gives a brief account OF his
, New Establishment. and also Of some
/ OF his PatPOnS.-He visits Sing-Sing,
and is compelled TO witness an out
rage which he is unable 10 prevent.
9TH WARD, Moo YORK,
Dec. -, 1863.
= ann perfectly and entirely happy;
. for ! hev formed number NV delite-
. ful acquaimtances in this trOOk CRATE
2 city, which makes my pathway pleas
- ami and cheerful. hey added Ia the
T decnr;tshuns NV my liar, portrates NV
{ S:smnun T. Chase, Fernandy Wood,
and Pendletun, one Nv wich is shure
tu 10. our Siandar,l-beaTer iIethe next
, contest, wich coll.ckshun sheI keep
o. ad,iin to II / git the means. / hey a
sti,idy FuH Nv trade, and am seldom
alone, which scots me exactly. But
/ few men like la be alone \ man is
bad company for hisself, for he alone
| i the only one who knows Dercisely
. how cUssed mean he Is. The two Al
) dermen who paternizes me pay eZ
they drink, wich paternage alone il
/ almost sufiishent 10 support me. eZ
/. they are conscienshusly industrious
drinkers. They pay, not bec0z they
hcV any particular prejOOdis i'm that
+ direckshun, but becOZ money costs EN-
uuthin, and becOZ, likin my face,
they hev desire to keep ME among
en-. One Of EN- was pleased to COM
= pliment Inc yesterday. "Nasby," sed
lac, ''that nose Nv yOors indicates more
. certenly your pOliticks than wat you
say. The heart is deceetful, and the
. tongue Ofttimes speeks what the heart
doth not prompt; lhe nose kin never
lie. Its alluZ safe to approach sich a
nose with cash offer TO do dOOty eZ
4 repeeter. Two more hot whiskeys
and one for yOOrself while yOO are
at it.''
Isn't it pleasure to mix drinks for
one who combines shrewd knowledge
NV human nacher, ,whiskey, and ready
pay, i'll sich correct proportions? Wv!
course it is. But my buzzum friend
is Terrence O'Sullivan, who is perhaps
the most regular customer / hev. Mr..
O'Sullivan is one NV the oldest Demo-
crats in Moo York, it hevin been three
years sence he left Cork. 1t il not
known wat he wuZ before he left Irez
land. Their wuZ pOckitbOOk and a
watch mixed up in it, the pertickelers
NV wich j never got. On his relees,
Mr.. OSullivan perceeded to wunst to
Moo York, and cOmmenst life eZ la
bOrer on an eXcavashun on Broadway.
Forchunitly six weeks after he landed
an eleckshun took place, and he i'm
mejietly got employment ez a repeet-
er. DoOrin the war he was engaged
in enlistin hisself under Yarius names
fur the bounty, the mOnOtony of wich
Ockkupashun he varied by occasional
burglaries and operations in the street
on intoxicated Western men. He heZ
bin second and bOttle-hOlder in MANY
prize-fights, and hez an interest in |
two unpretendin faro banks and one
lottery shop.
Wv course Mr.. O'Sullivan holds Of |
flee. Hevin one hundred and sixty |
three votes at his control he is a skool |
direcktOr, inspeckter NV Boa COnstric- !
tors in Central Park, clerk te three |
boards, and in addishen, hez a Sub |
contract for street cleanin. Az ther |
aint no Boa Constructors and no |
Boards, and as the streets are never |
cleaned, why Mr.. O'S. hez tolerabIe |
soft thing NV it, or wood hev were it |
not that he has to divide his salaries |
up among so many. But, neverthe- |
less, he lives comfortably and happy. |
Mr.. OSullivan heZ brother who is |
at this time an inmate NV the State |
prison at Sing Sing, for highway rob
! berry, and last Monday we went up to |
! Sing Sing to see him. We arrived list |
ez the cOnvicts was a marchin in to |
| dinner, and took pOsishen where We |
Good see EN-, so that Mr.. O'S. Good
/ point out his unfOrchunit relative To |
me ez they passed.
"There he is-good hevins"
"Wat agitates you, my friend?' /
asked.
"LOok" sed he, "the fourth man in
| the defile."
! saw at Onct wat agitated him.
/ His brother was the fourth man i'm
the sixth file, and side by side with
that brother, a white man, VIVA
NIGGER! both dressed exactly alike.
"Hevins ~ ejackilated O'Sullivan,
''is this thing permitted i'm the Demo
cratic State nv Moo York? Hev we
fought nigger ekality at the polls so
many years to hev it practised here,
i'll Democratic State under Demo
cratic ofiishls ~
"And here too, where only Demo-
Gratis is degradid by itw / put in.
We sought out the Warden and de-
mandid that this infamous practis be
changed. The Warden sympathizcd
with us, but sed it cOodn't be. There
wuZ no provision i'm the laws govern
in the prisons Nv the State for keepin
niggers separate. "YOu see," he re-
marked, cts only now and then that
any NV the degradid race git here, andrl
there's no provision made for em. I'll
can't be helped" ''Then," sed O'Sul-
Ivan, "do | understand that the De-
moorisy NV Moo York city is to be
cOntinyOoally threatened with nigger
ekality ?'
'They are till the Legislaeher
changes it," retorted the Warden.
We left theprisOn shortly after that,
Mr.. OSullivtn in a most melankolly
mood.
"Nashy," sed he finally, after a ST.
lence NV perhaps half an hour, dOOrin
| wich time he wuz plunged in the deep
est thought, "Nasby, it's all up with
me. | shel never break into a house,
or pick a pocket, or go through a
drunken man agin. Wat have seen
to-day hez determined me. l shel
never agin take a chance NV gOin to
Sing Sing. Why it mite be nv for
chOOn to be put beside that nigger ~
And shudder NV ill-cOncealed an
guish agitated his frame, and the
strong man wept bitter teers.
/ cOmfOrted him eZ best I Good. / L
told him that should he be arrested
for, say murder, be tried and con-
victed and sent to the penetenshary,
and be forced to march side by side
with a niger, "the disgrace" / sed,
"wOn't be yOOrs, twill be the infa-
nous retches who put 700 there. If
700 shOOd, of your own free will, put
yOorself on level with a nigger,-for
instance eff 700 shOOd buy of or sell to
an Ethiopian, then the degredashen
wood be yOOrs, for 700 mite have as
serted yOOr soOperiOrity. But in the
case NV States Prison | RELY think
yOy put too much stress onto it
In that case a sOoperior power cone
pclS yOO to this, and 700 amt respOn-
sible. Were / in yoOr place-hed /
sich prOmisin prOspecks eZ yOOm-I
don't think l shOOd permit this to
stop me-"
But Mr.. O'Sullivan wuz infiexible.
He shOOd quit all practices wich pint
ed in the direcksm NV a penetenshary,
for it would kill him to be compelled
for a mint to eat, work or walk beside
a nigger, even tho he WIZ compelled
to do it.
Then an idea struck mel Brilliant /
idees alluZ do come to me at precisely ,
the rite time. "Why 700 cussed jack :
asst" sed fallin onto his neck, why J
do we talk NV this. Now that the De- {
mOcracy hez the Legislacher and will
hev the control NV the city in all its {
departments, no Democrat who hez a
dozen votes hack NV him will go to the I
penitenshary. But few of EN- did ]
afore, when the Ablishnists he'd the I
pOleece, but now that we hev Judges /
pOleece and all-why my deer sir, the {
chances is eZ one to u million. Go OH
withyOOr burglary my sweet Terence, /
go in and win with no gaunt fear i
Stalkin like a SIectre hf.hinn WOO - Mr. !