The Cecil Whig., 1869-08-21
NASBY.

Mr.. NasJy ReceiceM a Letter from tile Dem-
0crottc National Conanittee Hariting Him
to Take tile Stump in Various .States-He
accepts, Tries His Hand and Retires-
HIS Letter to tie Comn.ittee THrouinq up
tile job.
PEPPERS TAVERN, Holmes Co., o.
Jooly 9th, 1869.
Paul, the 'possel in his epistle to the
Second Corinthians remarks as follows:
"Thrice was beaten with rods, wunst
wuz l stoned. In ,journeyins often,
in perils of water, in perils among false
brethern,"
Paul wuz doubtless devoted man, and
suffered much, but kin give Paul fifty in
hundred on the skore NV suffrin fora coz,
and beat him. hevnt bin in any peril NV
water for never let that element get near
me in any shape, but hev bin beaten with
rods; hev bin stoned ez wuz Paul, and I
hev bin pelted with rotten eggs, ez Paul
wuz not, at least there amt no akkount Nv
it in the scriptoors. Indeed, don't re-
member that eggs ez evidences NV poplar
disapprobashen Nv publik speakers wuz
menshend i'll the Bible. The Jews he'd
either not diskivered their effishency, or the
price was too high in Joodee to make their
yoose common for sich purposes.
Two weeks ago received letter from
the Chairman Nv the Nashnel Dimocratic
Committee, requestin me to take the stump
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Inieany and Tennes-
see. alluz go wher dooty calls, pervidin
expenses is paid, and that bein sekoored l
started to wunst. That I didn't succeed,
and that I am back here agin in ten days,
hevin in that breef time completed the toor
Nv four States, is no fault Nv mine. 1t
yoost to be the boast Nv Democrisy that it
wuz l and the same everywhere. It's one
ond good menny now, and that my intel
leck aint hefty enough to hold comprehend
the whole NV it, is no fault NV mine. Rath-
er set it down to the account Nv them which
made these differences, wich are too far
apart for any one man to straddle. feel
sensitive on this question. I write these
lines with my face kivered with plasters and
my left arm in sling.
1 commenced my labors in Ohio in this
county of Holmes, wich gave more patriots
to that noble force wich resisted drafts and
shot provo-marshals than any one in the
State. Feelin NV coorse, that | must sup
port the nominees NV the party, launched
out boldly into a vigorous eulogy Nv Rose
Grams. spoke in that style of fervid ora
tory wich learned Nv Henry Clay Dean,
wich is of the sky rocket order, ez tho the
speaker he'd bid born half way betwi1t
camp-meetin and torchlight percession.-
The sturdy Dimocrisy NV Holmes are ez
troo Democrats ez the State kin boast, but
they don't think ez rapidly ez they act
They learned some years ago that Rose
cranz wuz Fedral Ginral, and that his
men wuz the cheef actors IN huntin NV 'em
down in 1923; but they hevent got to the
pint yit NV lookin ut him ez a Dimocratic
candidate. Therefore, the moment spoke
NV Rosecranz, the gallant sojer, wich is
now candidate for Govner," they yelled
in outbust NV rage: ''Down with the alb
lishin emissary wich praises bloo-bellied
butcher" and bombarded me with stones,
rotten eggs, and sich.
1t wuz yooseless to attempt to continyoo
to speak, and I succambed. Troo, the
leaders got EN- rite ON the Govner that mite,
but coodent speak to EN- agin, ez my in
joories wuz too severe.
The next pint wuz advertised for WIZ
in close county, wher the Dimocrisy he'd
bin parshly under blood thirsty intlooences
durin the late onpleasantness, and where
ther show NV success in capcherin the coun-
ty offices consists in ther goblin hundred
or so Republican votes. Sposin from the
eggsperience l he'd he'd that praisn solgers
wasn't the dodge in Ohio, opened out with
a viggrus denunciashun NV the Linkin hire
Inns wich brot onto the country the woes
wich we wuz now suffrin under, gettin off
flooently the speech l yoosed in the Vallan-
dygum campane in 1863 Immejitly there
wuz another uprore. The candidates chokt
me orr, and their friends in the auience
polted me with sticks and stones, and ez l
WIZ bein carried away 1 he'd the satisfac-
shen Nv hecr;n speeker dammin the COM
mittee for sci,lin NV an escaped loonatic to
speek to ell.
My eggspcrience in Onion wuz not NV
nacher calculated to please me, and moved
to wunst to Pennsylvany.
felt good cz I struck that sakrid SOIL
Here, thet ! to myself, is State of labor
ers. Here i, a State into which shel only
meet the brawny-armed and horney hand
ed sons of toll. Here, for wunst, my path
is cleer.
opened out at my first meeting furious
ly agin bonds, agin monopoles, agin bloat-
ed bond-holders, agin the aristocratic men
NV welth, wich, by ackumilatin bonds, hev
managed to get into their hands enuff to
subsist onto, thus wringing gorjus luxuries
out Nv the sweat of the laborin man, and
then rememberin my last Ohio eggsperience,
he'd just commenced to branch out eulogis-
tic NV the noble men who opposed copper
headism doOrin the wat, when the most un-
earthly yell ther ever wuz heerd assailed
me.
"Who brot you here to aboose our can
didat" for Govner ?" shouted the infooria-
ted mob, and stones and sticks began to fly
like hail about me. stood this till two
enthusiastic admirers NV Packer rusht to
grocery handy by, and returned in a mint
with baskit NV eggs. Them never Good
stand, and demoralized and bewildered /
left Pennsylvany.
l made my way Immejitly to Tennessee,
where l WIZ taken charge Nv by the DIM
ocrisy wch is supportin Senter. l wuz
sumwat in doubt as to wat perticiler kind
NV Dimocrisy to go for, but at my first
meetin notist perhaps thousand DISCUS
tin niggers mixin in the crowd. To wunst
my line NV ackshun WIZ decided ento.-
is reality, thought l, in the repugnance
the material Caucashun feels toward the
material Afrikin; and here, where the Mig