Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
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NASBY.
Mr.. Nasby Attempts a Ku-Klux
= Enterprise--The Lamentable
Failure Of the ExpeditiOn. g

Entefprise---The fLamenfable |
Failure of the ExpellitionL 81
From the Toledo BlsdesS ~ Afsk 81
CONFEDRIT x ROADS, |
(wich is in the State of Kentucky,) |
April 10, 1871.
We hey our distinct elemence wich |
go to make up the sum total NV sosiety
in this immejit visinity, namely: Reg
Ter citizens. niggers, carpet-ba gers and
scalawags. The regler citizens are them
wich are white, native, and to the man.
ner born, and wich either served in or
howled for the confedrit army; thescal-
awags are white natives Nv the sacred
soil wich disgraced themselves sympa-
thizin' with the North doorin' the late
fratriside struggle; the niggers are mig
gers Nv all colors, and the carpet-bag-
gers are unsettled Northern men, wich
come here and buy property and inn
prove it and stay-who are not in ak
kord with the prevailin' sentiment
wich is to say who are not Democrats.
Joe Bigler is scalawar, Pollock is a
carpet-bagger, and Elijer Lubbock, the
postmaster, is Nv course nigger, and.
these are fair types Nv their class. = g.
The Corners hez alluz felt justly irrita-
ted against these last three classes, for
combine them and give them a chance,
and they RELY hev majority i'm the
township. 1t took the most vigorous
and vOciferiOus countin this Spring to
keep Issaker Gavitt from bein beet for
Assessor by a nigger named Joins, not
witiiStandin that our challengin COM
niittee all stood at the polls with clubs
and kept more than fifty uy EN- from
fvotin al all. The clOsenis NV this eleck-
shen and other causes Nv irritashen de-
termined us To clean out the entire
biiin NV EN-. We coodnt live with em.
They he'd got a Justis Nv the Peece and
a constable over at GarrettstOwn, and
the niggers wich workt for us wood sue
us when we ,refOozed to pay-they
woodent paternize Bascom, and stub.
bornly refOozed to vote the ticket we
igive em. We wanted no trouble. We
wanted EN- to go peaceable, and when,
after We give EN- warnin to leave the
country, and they Iefoozed to go, we
IimprOvized a temprary Ku klux klaH
tuv wich wuz yOonanimOusfy elected
Chief. With my accustomed iyigger
Icalled council and selected the ground
onto wich we wuZ to operate first. The
north road leadin to GarrettstOwn WI,
settled for five miles out with niggers
icarpet-baggers and scalawags exclOOsiv,
lily, and itiwuzSresoiyed to. clean tina
out, and l summoned the klan fo
activ dooty. .~lTrFt.l
We presented gorgus aspeck. w,
wuz clothed in long black robes witt
, white skulls and crOss-bOnes profOoSel,
stitched on all over em-our hats wu
NV the lConfedrit slouch style, with tn
same cheerful insignia onto EN-, am
our faces wuz kivered with masks ont
wich wuz the letters Nv the order TX
K. K" We wuz armed with rifles
shot guns and kniyes-cach man hevil
of course bottle. We wuz all mount
ed, and that crlssid idee NV mOunti
was the okkasionl Nv the failyoor u
: the expedition, so far ez / wuz cOnsern
led.
: am not a horseman-I ydespise
horse. am afai NV EN-, and tn
], broots, with sagacity. band to- accouil
] for, ktIow it, and take d. Vantage uytit
l wanted Bascom's mule, which is
I stiddy goin animal, but he'wuz a goi
\ to, ride that hisself, and 1 wuz compel
L ed to go Pollock and hire hOss Nv min
Cusses on that hOss! cusses or Pollock
+ and espeshly hot cusses on Joe Bigier
NWhen Joe Offishusly offered to saddl
$ that hosS and bring him out for me,
t instinctively felt that there wuz troubl
ahead. as f" ,zis az sf}dhl'. p
i SHe brought her out, saddled. Sh
d lwuz a tall, gaunt animal, seventee
hands high, hard-bitted, hard-trottir
= and with no more idea Nv a gentl
9 amble or gallop then a hog hez Of SUI
day. She trOts-a hard, ugly trot-
u with the bit atween her teeth, and yo
T kin no more stop her when she gifts
6 lgoin than you Good a crowd of Cros
Readers when somebody seq 'sIset
!. take suthin." sziiJ @ -iqali- - li bus
b H4I mounted her, however, and struc
U out the head of the company. l., he
on Confedrit sabre, and notwithStanS
yiinsthe fact that I he'd to hold on to til
q name of my warlike steed with on
II hand, to keep on, I managed to rid
{, out with tOllable marshel air.
M "Pride goeth before fall.n We he
81 ridden four miles when l observed
y restlessniss ON the part Nv my. stee
Which l didn't like. She wuZ Shyi
St-she was histin up her hind legs an
t~uOI liu dStAOuSi IL Silo MAS, pUSStSctd.-
e At this mint 1ssaker Gavitt sejeste
i the proprietyof haltfDr refreshment
"Certin," sez I, ''ef kin ever G
s this cussed mare to stand still loT
: enuff. Whoa, yOo brootw '9i.a .'i-
81 he'd jist got my bottle out ind he
gIgot it uneorked, when that infOoriaty
lanimal cOmmenst a series Nv gyShel
yIsich as the world never witnessed afor
IShe wood elevate her hind legs-the
r1paw the air with her fore legs-then II
. to lay down, and all this with runni
Accompaniment NV the most feendis
fshortin. / wuZ compelled to relinq
lef ish my holt on the bride, and seeze b,
- name to hold myself on, but she kicke
le more than ever. 20. - - =
q Here wuZ dilemma! 1 coodent hol
IT on by grippen the name with one han
J. any longer and my spare hand WI
- employed in holdin the bottle! / cOo
astent cork the bottle and put it in IL
81 pocket, for in the melee L he'd lost tt
le cork and to put it in my pocket VI
q lcorked wuz to lose all its preshus CO..
III tents. Never wuz in sich stra
q tafere. Ef held to the bottle shoe
be throwed TTef l stayed on, the fnf0ol
ated animals back I'd lose my LIKE
1.-The hoss decided the matter for me.
ITakin the bit in her mouth she starte
q, down the road on the keenet kind NV
,,SStrud.' She made a mile in. about tfl
= minutes, leavin' my command far
nSlfha rooy A.,a ba, ~, ia 49,