Litchfield enquirer., 1870-01-20
THE NAsBY LETTERS.


 MR. MASSEY GIVES A BRIEF AccouNNT or HS E NEW REIMBURSEMENT, AND ALSO OF soMn
 OF HIS PATRONS VISITS SMQ Sng0.
 AND IS COMPELLED TO WITNESS AN Oyr.
 RAGE WHICH HE IS UNABLE TO PREVENT. ,,e
 .7-. -ga3gs 9TH WARD, Moo YoRx,
 -f gaad f.e- Dec. 22d, 1869.
 I am perfectly and entirely happy; for I hev formed 8 number ov d0liteful acquain- tances in this trooly great city, wich make my pathway pleasant and cheerful. hev added to the decorashuE uv my bar, por- trates of Sammon F. Chase, Fernsndy
 Wood, and Pendleton, one of wich is sure to be our standard bearer in the next con- test, wich 'colleckshuny sheI keep on ad- din to ez git the means. hsv 8 stiddy run ov trade, and am seldom alone, wioh scots me exactly But few men like to be alone. A man is bad company for hissell, for he is ths only one who knows precisely how cussed mean he is. The two Alder men wich paternizeS me Pay ox they drink wich paternage alone IS almost sufishent to support me, ez they gre conscienshusly industrious drinkers, They pay, not be- coz they have any preioodis in that direc- tion, but becoz money costs 0m nothinsq and becoz, hkin my face, they hey Q desire j to keep me among rem. One7uvr em wu2 pleased to compliment me yesterday. 'Nas- by," said he, ''that nose uv yoors indikates yoor politiks more certenly than wat you say. The heart ia deceitful and the tongue oft-times speeks wat the heart doth not prompt; the nose kin never lie. It's alluH safe to approach such nose with cash offer to do dooty as rspester. Two more hot whiskeysJ and one for yersslf, while 700 are at it!'
 TsnTit a pleasure to mix drinks for one who combines shrewd knowledge uv hn- man nachur, whiskey, and prompt pay, in sich correct proporshuns? Uv course tt is. But my buzzum friend is Terence Of Sullivan, who is perhaps the most reglar customer I hev. MT. O'Snllivan IS one uv the oldest Dimocrats in Moo York, 1t hey- en been three years sence he left Cork. 4s is not known wat he wuz before leavin Ire land-there is mystery hangin over him, From what hey been able to gather from him when he is convivally loosened, there wuz conspiracy organi zed agin him in his native country, consisting uyJ a sharlns q four witnesses, a fudge sand twelve joory- men. wich resulted in his incarcerashen in Q basteel. There wuz apockit book and7a watch mixed up in it, the partlkelars Ny wich never got. On his releese MT. Sal: livan psrcedid to wunst to Moo York, and commenst life ez 8 laborer on an excava-" shen on Broadway: Forchunitly six Wesks' after he landid an eleckshun took place, ana he got employment ez repeater. Doorln the war he wuz engaged in enl1snng ms self under various names for the bounty the monotony of wich okupashun he yarl- | ed 'by occashunal burglaries and operations in inc streets on an intoxicated Western man. He hez been second and bottle hold CT in many prize fights, and hsz an 1ntar- est in two unprstendin faro banks and one
 Uv course, MT. O'Sullivan holds office. Hevin one hundred and sixty-three votes at his control, he iz a school direckter, 1n- 9 snector of Boa Constructors in the Mena- gerie at Central Park, clerk to the three boards and in addition heZ sub-contracs far street. .elsanin1 As there aint no boa [ Gonstrickte and no Boards, and ez tho streets are never cleaned, why, Mir. Us. has a tolerable soft thing uv it, or wood hav were it not that he hezl to divide his salaries up among so many. B1t never II theless he lives comfortably and IS happy. { MT. O'Sullivan hez brother, who IS, ,at tnls~ time al, inmate uv the State Prison af sung Sing, for highway robbery ana last MonG1 day we went up to Sing Sing to see nm. [ll We arrived jist az the convlcts WIZ mar chin in to dinner, and took poslsnen wnere1 we cood see em, so that Mr. OS. cooa pins ont his unforchnit relative to me ez they passed. S,grr:1av,,ea sr .t,,, E i9. What agitates you, my frisnd?" sed lu ' lssT,ooki" sed he, "The fourth, man in the sixth fleT 57e. ,t,.-s 5e.rrs.3 hrother was the fourth man In the sIxsn file. and side by side with thas brothera white man, wuz-a nigger! both dreSSsea eS M ] T " Hesyinsls eiackilated o'sullivan, ''isi this thing permitted ln the DSmocrano' State of Moo York?1 HeV,we fought snig1 oar eka,ity at the polls so many years to Sov. it nractised here, in a Dem0cFatlc Gtata nnder Democratic oHshalsl"o ohI sA
 And here too, where only Democrat is degraded by iti" I put in. U .d3. .9o aoil ] wa sought out the Warden and deman. dad that this infamous practis be changed" The Warden sympathizsd with uss bnt sedo if eoodn't be- There Wus no proylshnn m the laws goyernin the prisons ny the State for keepin niggers separate. tou sses ha remarked, I" it's only now and then that: any of the degradid race gIt eleres 4lao there's no provision made TOT eGM.s;..,;.s eM; can't be helped. 9as Lnen, seu v N1 sss.; . sy i nv Moo York city is toabe oantinooally' tRreatsned with niggsr ekality? laioas 10 '' ::They v are,nntil the. LsgislschsF oha1s: otnHs, ges it. rstortsd the Warden. .,.9 .. g,sls ,s4 We left the prison shortly af.era snae;' HAr' |OSnllivnn iils a most melancholy m0og.izgs
 : sNasby,a sed he finally. after silence uv lsalf ai, hour, doorin wich hme 1e MuA plunged into the deepest thoughs.5 5. xseaf ss1; by, iss all up with ne; If sheL M RevsE Dsesa a l into house. or plck P0cAgTSs Ts 9r T.ts., thf6uch < drunken man agin. Wat19e5 seen ssap' 5 today hex determined ne. | shs! never agin take chance uv go,n s to Si1s IFS Slne. Why, it mite be my torcnoonr = Ds 's put beside that niggerE an,,;.h
 Aud shudder uv ll-eonCsA.sn st.osr % man Ewept bitter teers. i.e, ss.s
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