New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-12-28
The Nasty Letters.
Mr.. Nasty and Hts People Accept the Pas
sive Poliey"-The Amendments OF Gayitt
bascom, Penntbacker, and Deacon Po-
gram, and the Terrible Result.


sivs Poliey"-The Amendments OF Gavitt
Bascom, Pennibacker, and Deacon Po.
gram, and the Terrible Result.
CoNFEDRIT - ROADS. (wich is in the Stat,
NV Kentucky, Nov. "a, lS7l.-We hev hearc
Nv Ohio, Pennsylvany, Moo York, and a mum
Der Nv other States, at the Corners and are
satisfied that nuthin hez got to be done for the
Dimocrasy. The entire yoonanimity with wicl
the country hez pernounst sgin us, is one NV
the most remarkable things wich ever occurred
to me. i endoored Ohio, stood firm under
Pennsylvany, but when Moo York went agu
US felt than all wuz lost When the Dino
crisy Nv Noe York lost confidence in Tweed
to the extent nv jining hands with the Adolf
tionists, L felt that it wuz NV little difference
wat happened thereafter, and took my drink
mechanically, like one stunned. So dazed wuz
that for week after the elections | didn't
accept invitashuns to drink over half the
time.
notice that the Moo Y ork World and other
Dimocratic papers are urging the policy NV
not nominatin Dimocratic candidate for Presi.
dent in 1872, but NV allowin the Dimocrasy
and all the elements witch don't like Grant to
yoonite and run Independent candidate.
agree with the World. L am satisfied that the
Dimocrasy kin never elect Dimocrat in 1872.
1t seems clear to me that the ndicashens are
y
the posshen, and am content to bow to the
will Nv the people. The Dimocrasy alluz how
cheerfully to the will NV the people when thew
can't possibly rebel, aud that appears to be
our situashen now. | therefore accept the
passive policy, and | am convinst that the
Dimocrasy shood not, as party, nominate a
candidate for the Presidency, but shell, to save
the country from impending room, relinquish
their party organizashen, and cooperate with
such Nv the Bepublikins ez are dissatisfied
with the administrator, to overthrow the
present tyranical administrator and inor-
gerate reign Of purity. My noshen wuz emf
nently strategcal 1t wuz to make platform
wich sed nothing in pertikeler, and put onto it
a man nobody ever heard NV, and depend for
the fucher upon the fact that he he'd bin elected
by Dimosrats and would hev to take his tone
from them.
/ communicated this idea to the Dimocrisy
Nv the Corners, and meetin wuz held TO give
shape to our thoughts on this subject. | opened
the ball by introducin the folerin resolooshen ::
Whereas it seems to be tollably certain that
if We, the Dimocrisy, should nominate a can
didate, he wood, in all human probability, be
whaled out Nv his boots, and
Whereas, while we ought to be somewhat
yo~.oA 60 she '~hAllin Prooooo by chi, time, we
hev never yet got to likin it; therefore,
Resolved, By the Dimocrisy NV the Con-
federit y Roads, that in their opinion, the
Dimocrisy Nv the Yoonited States, in spirit
Nv Gberality, and actooated solely by a desire
to rescue the country from impendin danger,
shOOd decline to make nominashens for the
offices of President and Vice President, but
shell jine hands with dissatisfied Republicans,
labor retermers, temperance men, civil service
refOrmers, and SIGH other people ez object to
radicalism, on the basis, solely, Nv opposishen
to radcalsm.
Here the thing shood hev ended This reso-
looshen shood hev passed. and the meetin'
shOod hev djourned. But Deekin Pogram he'd
got maggot in his he'd, and he wanted reso-
luton added ez follows
Resolved, That the Dimocrisy will not ask
for the nomination Nv a Dimocrat, but they
must insist that the nominee pledge hisself to
undyin' hostility to the l4th and 18th amend.
amendments, and to all the measures NV re-
construckshen, invented and enforced by the
Republican party, and in short the entire Radi-
cal policy concernin' the Niger from the
emancipation proclamashen down to date
And the idiots passed it yoonanimously
and before the deekin he'd sunk into his seat
Bascom, to my horror, moved the adopshen NV
this resolooshen:
Resolved, That the Dimocrisy will not ask the
nominashen Nv a Dimocrat, but the nominee Nv
the jint allies must pledge hisself to the re-
pudeashen NV the unholy nashnel debt, and to
all the fnanshel measures Nv this adminstra
tion and that Nv the late A. Linkin. Ef it is
considered advisable not to 20 the whole fgger
Of repoodeashen, the nominee shell pledge his
self to at least make the debt worthless by
adoptin' PendletOn's greenback dodge or some
thin equivalent.
This wuz adopted with loud cheers despite all
l Good do and -immejitly Capt. McPelter arose
He sed he wuz pleased with the perceedins
The liberality of the Democracy in surrenderr
their organizashen, Nv layin it, he mite say
on the alter Nv their country, could not ! 9 toe
highly commended. He would seiest, tho tina,
the nominee whoever be might be, shood be
required to pledge hisself to, prokoor the re
peal NV the Kuklux legislashen, to never tC
interfere with the whites Nv the South in what
they might desire to do, and pertickelerly tC
hev to wunst the tax on whisky and tobacco
repealed.
There wuz no use of tryn TO stop it and
didn't. Elder Pennibacker wuz satisfied to
nominate some one not a Democrat, but the
convenshen which nominated him should put
him on platform in which free trade, opposi
tion to national banks and State rites shOod be
the principal plenks 1t wood be a severe
trial to him to vote for a men who wuzn't a
Democrat but on these condshens he wuz willin
to make a sacrifice.
Issaker Gavitt then sprung to his feet and
remarks that he had word to add we had
been in the valley and shadder so long that he
wuz willin to make sacrifice NV his feelins
He wood vote for man who wuz not q Demo
crat, but-on this pint he wuz infexible-the
post-offices must be in the hands of Democrats
and not only the pOst-offces but the other Off
ces. e." Hear hear !" from every man in the
room who had lent me money. Bascoms voice
bein heard abov the others.) This wuz his
ultimatum. IL the nominee NV the allied forces
will accept the condishuns laid down tonight,
and pledge himself fully and unreservedly on
this pint, he wuz his man, but not otherwise.
He wuz not too proud to say that he wanted
his collectorship back, ez McPelter wants his
assessorship, and our beloved parson his post
office. Without them Nv wat avail is triumphs ?
Paul may plant and Appollos may water, but
NV wat avail is the plantin and waterin unless
we get the increase
The resolooshens, Davis, and all, will, sup
pose, be publish all over the North, witch, NV
course, ends my hopes Nv independent party
movement.
Itwuz no use to abuse anybody, and didn't.
Wat does Bascom, Gavitt, Deekin Pogram, aud
McPeter nv the country outside nv the Cor
ners wat do they know Nv poltikle strategy 7
/ did intimate to Joe Bigler wat business he
had in Dimocratic meetin, to which he re-
piled, Bless you, parson, / thought it wuz q
msetin nv dissatisfied Republicans ez we'll ez
Dimocrats.
PRrsoLEUN V. NAsBY,
witch wuz postmaster.)