New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-25
Massey.

Mr. Nasty Attempts to etumD the State
o. Dclaware-The ObstacIes Thrown
In His Way by One Obed Peasley, q
Connecticut Man, New q Resident Of
that State.
| MAsrRs's CoRxsRs, MlsPrLroS Hug }
/ Ored IN the State Nv Delaware,
| September II, 1870.
1t seems to me ez though whenever l
thought he'd a pecoolyler good thing, that
some Onmitigated cuss WIS destined to be
raised up agin me to bust it, At Confedrit
\ Roads in Kentucky, that sneekin whelp,
POLLOCK, and furOshus brOOt, Joe Bigler,
wuz aliuz In my way, a OvertrOwin my hap
pest skeems and blastin my most cherisht
purpOses Here, in Masten's Corners. Obded
Peasly, who drifted into Delaware four
years ago, and who runs q tin shop
at this place. The people hev to en-
door him and support him, for ez
they never buy new tin ware its u reel az
c0mmodashun for em to hev u man capable
OF sodderin holes in pans, when the oritices
become too big to be stuffed up with rags.
But ne IL nevertheless q disturber and an
incubus: He hez made friends with all the
nlg2ers IN this part Nv the state; hez helped
the Methods and Baptist preachers to start
sunday SkOOls among EN-, and is in all re-
specks cOnduktin hisself like q man Nv low,
CROWN lnstinks, who feels call to tear
down ancient landmarks, and root out
everything that the well regulated Della
warlan most desires to perpetuate. He is
an innOvatOr Nv the most dangerous de-
| scripshun. He hez bin bawling for years
1or the destruckshin Nv the whippin-pOst,
and the establishin Nv free skOOls here, hez
Tried to interdOOse factries and stop the
sale NV hker, and hev q meetin house put
up, and so on. In short he hcz bin doin his
level best to redOOs Delaware to the level
OF Moo England.
The Democratic Central Committee nv
the State he'd arranged matters wisely and
well; that is, it wood hev bin well he'd it
not bin for this cussed Peasly. They de-
sired to hold all the white vote, and hoped
to gain large share Nv the negro vote. We
knew we shOOd hev no trouble with the
white vote, fur abuse Nv the niger wood do
that, but how to abOOse him and capcher his
vote ut the same time WIZ the problem. 1t
WIZ decided not to hold public meetins
among the niggers at all, or to hev EN- at
tend meetings, but to do the work among
EN- by private conversation. This wood
make clear sailin for our speakers, who wuz
al notified by cirkler Nv wOt wuz to be sed.
They wuz to bear with all the force possible
onto taxes, witch the Delaware man hez allus
natlu to pay, for any purpus, and pertike-
lerly the danger OF niger ekality, wich is
mOvln topic tor Democratic speakers every
where.
opened the campane in Nasten's Corners
two weeks age with the same speech hev
BIN yOOsln for twelve yeers. In the begin
min | arrane the Republican party for cor
rupshen, onto witch dwell for perhaps ten
minutes. when l launch off into my favrit
argument, wich is that the niger is a beast,
and physically and morally OMIT to be any
thing but the property Nv the proud eau
c;sshen, witch is by nacher the master race.
The meetin passed OF splendidly-indecd
more enthusiastic aujenee l never had.
Obed Peaseley wuz in, and at the cOncloo-
sion he told me that lie never he'd bin SO
staggered in his life.
asked.
told him at a village some sixteen miles
from here
Il will be Their to heer it agin," he sed,
land ez them trOOths Nv your ought to hev
wide circulashen, shell bring all my fIiends
in that nabOrhood."
never wuz SO elated in my life. Here |
wuz froots! Here wuz Moo highland dis
turber converted by one speech-a perse- |
cooter converted into an adherent. I re-
tired to led that mite in rather high estimate |
of my ability.
The next mite I had delitef,ll aujence |
The barn in wich l WIZ to speak WIZ nearly |
full NV the residents Nv the seckshun. and |
from remarks l heered EN- drop. and their
appearance and other indicashens, felt |
ashoored that everything shood say on the
niger wood meet with ready and enthOos
aStic response from EN-.
opened elOkently, and reeled orr the first
ten minutes Nv my remarks with more
Sperit than l ever throwd into it, The
people were enthusiastic in their applause.
and he'd workt myself up into IA fever NV
aggscitement. At last l got to the second
heak NV my remarks-thc Niger question.
MY brethern.' sed l, Il approach this
question reluctantly. The subick isn't Il
.ich these fanatics are strivin to force onto
Is eZ an ekal Is not "a man. The niger.
with his long heels, his horrible odor. his"
l didn't cOncloOd the sentence. At this
,int, while the words wuz egoin through
he assemblase, that ommtigatid moo
ancc, Obed Peasley. marched into the barn
It the head Nv percession Nv male niggcrs,
wenty in number, all Nv wich took seets
lite i'll front OF me, where they cOodent help
,earin every word shood utter
My tongue WIZ glued to the roof Ov my
mouth. saw the danger l WIZ in towunst.
Them niggers he'd votes. and with the white |
tepublikins in the vicinity kin carry it. Our
'eople he'd bin to work among EN- with
lOpes of holding at least porshing NV en-
Il perceeded with my speech ez he'd it
they WIZ hOpelessly lost. Eff
+, |
Disguised my white friends afOre me. who
My he'd one political creed which wuz to
ate SIGH. l undertook to switch OFF and
ay suthin else, hut couldn't. | hev only
ed one speech for twelve years and must
oliver that or hold my peace.
Pcasley nodded at me approvingly !
My brethren" l commenct again. when
eeing themniggers my knees trembled. l /
)st cOnshusnis and fell faintin off the bar ,
ell onto which stood.
l perceeded the next mite to my next ap-
ointment. thankin Heaven that tainted ,
'hcn did, for it let me out ov a most
wizard posishen. l opened ez before, got ,
D the precise pint where l change to the ,
iscussion Nv the niger, when Peasley 8
gin made his appearance with his escort !
V niggers, twenty III number. Agin l T
led to switch off. agin stumbled and :
and agin sunk down unable to q
Nv a word. q
Need continyoo the hart-rendin nara :
We! Need say for two weeks that feend q
with twenty niggers allZ with =
i'm, made his appearance at my meetins, | q
very time jest ez | WIZ sayin "my breth-
III. the niger wich these Radicals is forcin s
lto us es an ekal is not man. He is not
morally or physically to be associated I
18th us. He is
Need say that am at Bill Sapp's. sick.
ter hevin miscarried with that same speech
teen times! And need l say that it has
aked out that a lot Nv Radicals in Wilm.
gton. onto whose heads cusses tllrnisilt
lis Peasley with means to follow me up
,orin the campane, and that he proposes to
till the mite NV eleckshin!
l applied to the Central COmmitty to fur
sh me a new speech-One wich wood SCOT j
r IL mixed aujence-but they can't do it.
icy say Dimocrisy wOOdn't bear SIGH a
rain ez to kiver both ideas tO-wunst.
And so in conscience NV this Connecticut