Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-11-04
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MR.. NAsBY ATTEMPTS TO sTUMPTHE STATE
OF FDELAWARE-THE OBSTACLES THROWN
IN HIS WAY BY ONE 0BED PEASLEY. A
CONNECTICUT MAN NOW RESIDENT OF
THAT STATE
asten's Corners. Mhpilion Hundred, in the
State NV Delaware,
Septembe H. 1870

1t seems to me ez though whenever !
tho'tI he'd pecoolyerly good thing, that
some unmitigated cuss wuz destined to
be raised up again me to bust It. At
Coniedrit X Roads in Kentucky, that
sneaking whelp, Pollock, and furoshus
broot, Joe Bigler, wuz alluz in my way
overthrewin my happiest skeems and
blastn my most cherisht purposes. Here
IN Masten's Corners my evil genyus is a
cuss from Connecticut named Obed
Peasley, who drifted into Delaware four
years ago, and who now runs tin shop
at this place. The people have to en-
door him and support him, for ez they
never buy new tin ware its reel ac-
commodashum for EN- to hev a man cap
able of sodderin holes in pans, when the
orif es become to big to be stuffed up
with rags. But he is nevertheless a dis
turber and an inkebus.
He hez made friends with all the Mig
gers in this part of the State; hez help
ed the Methods and Baptis preachers to
start Sunday Skools among EN-, and IL
in all respecks conduktin hisself like
man of low grovelin instinks, who feels
call to tear down ancient land marks,
and root out everything that the we'll
regulated Delewarin most desires to per-
petuate. He IL an inventor OF the most
dangerous descripshun. He hez bin
bawling fer years for the destruckshuen
Nv the whippen-post, and the establshin
Nv free skools here, hes tried to inter-
doose factries, and stop the sale of likker
and hev meet;n house put up, and so
on. In short he hez bin doing his level
best to redoos Delaware TO the level of
Moo Ingland.
The Democratic Central Committee
up the State he'd arranged matters wise
ly and well /; that is, it wood bin well
he'd it not bin for this cussed Peasley.-
They desired to hold all the white vote,
and gain large share Nv the nigger vote
We knew we shood hev no trouble with
the white vote, for abuse Nv the nigger
wood do that, but how to oboose him and
capcher his vote at the same time wuz
the problem. 1t wuz decided not to
hold public meetins among the niggers
at all, or to hev EN- attend meetins, but
to do the work among them by private
conversashen. This wood make clear
saiiin for our speakers, who wuz all no.
titled by cirkler Nv wot wuz to be sed.--
They wuz to bear with all the force pos
sible onto taxes, which the Delaware
man hez alluz hatid to pay, for any pur-
pus, and pertikelerly the danger nv mig
ger ekality, wich is movin topic for
Demokratic speakers everywhere.
| opened the campane in Masten's
Corners two weeks ago with the same
speech | hev been yoosin for twelve
years. In the beginin | arrane the Re-
publikin party for corrupshen, onto
which | dwell for perhaps ten minutes,
when lanch off in my favrit argument,
which is that the niger is beast. and
physically and morelly onft to be any
thing but the property Nv the proud
Circashon, which is by nacure the mas
ter race. The meetin passed off splen-
didly-indeed more enthusiastic au-
ience / never he'd. Obed Peasley wuz
in, and at the conclusiol he too me that
he never he'd bin so staggered in his life
Where do you speak to-morrer mite 2
he asked.
told him in a village some sixteen
miles from here.
g | will be there to heer it agin," he
sed, "and ez them trooths Nv yourn
ought to hev wide circulashen. / shell
bring all my friends in that naborhood.
/ never wuz SO elated in my life. Here
wuz froots! Here wuz Moo Ingland
disturber converted by one speech-a
persecooter converted into an adherent.
retired to bed that mite in ruther high
estimate NV my ability.
The next mite had deliteful au-
jence. The barn in wich Iwuz to speek
wuz nearly full Nv the residents NV the
seckshun, and from rem arks l heerd EN-
drop and ther appearance, and other in
dicashens, Ifelt ashoored that everything
shood say on the niger wood meet
wild ready and enthusia tic response from
EN-.
l opened elokently, and reeled orf the
first ten minits Nv my remarks with more
sperit than | ever throwed into it. The
people were enthusiastic in ther applause
and had workt myself up into fever
NV eggscitement. At last / got to the
Sc ond head of my remarks, the niger
question.
"My brethren" sed /, 81 approach
this question reluctantly. The subjick
isn't pleasant one. The niger, my
brethren, wieh these fanatics are strivin
tn force onto us ez an ekal. is not a man