Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-16
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MR.. MASSEY VISITS fuI CONNECTICUT
DEMOCRACY.
Hartford, Conn, !
March 6, 1872.

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HARTFORD, Conn.,,
March 6, 1872.
From Connecticut come to me the Mas.
| sedonian cry, "Come over and help us. :"
Ez the committee, in private, ashoored
me Nv supplies, l acceptid with alacrity.
Couple Massedonian cries with likker ad
libitum, and it Is not in my poor, weak.
human nachur to resist. shood respond
even were stretched on bed nv sicknis.
But go to Connecticut willingly. fur ike
her Dlmocrisy. Durin the late unpleastnis
which resultid so disastrously to the South
the dimocrisy Nv that State never wayered
in the support of the cause nv Southern
rites, and after the struggle wuz transfer
red from the field to the political arena,
nowhere wuz ther sich genuine, deliteful
hatrid nv the niger nwhere wuz there
more earnest opposishon to all the meas
ures proposed by the infamous Ablishipists,
| wich hev SO long held us under their iron
heels. Then, agin, the likker wich the
dimocrasy Nv Connecticut drink Isl the most
sarchin Nv any ever tastid. There is a
grip in tit takes hold NV the center nv
life with more yishusnis than any ever got
hold nv.
wuz received with enthusiasm, for help
wuz very much needed ther. They depend
ed on me to infoose somethin like enthusi.
asm into the campane. I wuz rekested
immejetly to attend q meetin nv the CEN
tral committee, that might be instructed
in the little detail wich it wood be neces-
sary to know, that l lnite adapt myself to
the pecooliarities of Connecticut politiks.
81 spose, gentlemen" said l, in my easy
fiowin style. "that the speeches wich, ez
dimocrat, hev been delivin fur the past
four or five years in all seckshuns Nv our
wunst happy but now distractit country.
will answer fur this State without material
alterashen. Dimocrasy, gentlemen, is .
eternal prinsipple wich, like the everlastin
hills, kin never change. Ex some NV you
may never hev he'd the pleashure of heer-
in that celebrated speech, will give you
a synopsis Nv it. After alludin breeny to
the GRANDEUR Nv the country, dwellin more
fully on the grandjer NV the pertikeler
State into wich happen to be In (wich
to viggerus denunsiashen Nv the Niger
The chairman begged me to pause.
''On general prinsipples," said he "and
damnin the nigger. But 1t will hardly do
in this State at this time, to indulge in that
most natural damnin. The fact is, Mr..
Nasby, there is several thousand niggers
in Connecticut, and they vote! Dimmoc-
risy can't afford to damn any class which
votes. Give Mr.. Nasby drink
took the drink, and continued.
II protest agin the nigger-a nashnell
dimocrat, pertikerly Kentucky dimocrat,
must perpetually protest agin the niger;
but recognize the sitooashen here, and
will struggle to adapt myself to it. Twill
do violence to my dimmocrisy and my
feelins, and let the nigger alone. But
while am willin not to abuze him on
general principles. ez matter NV course,
| shall oppose with all the power hev.
the unhOly and nnconstitooshnel amend
ments which emancipated him, and So"
''Will Mr.. Nasby pardon me, " said the
Chairman, blandly; sin the platform
adopted by the democrisy NV Connecticut.
emansipashen is accepted ez u fixed fact.
and,-but give AIR. Nasby drink
l took the drink-a very large one. fur
in my furry it wuz necessary, and went
on.
II spose," said l, "that ez you hev done
this, shell hey to swaller emansipashen-
leetle drop more Nv that whiskey ef you
please-but it don't matter. kin at least
yoose that portion Nv my speech witch de-
MES to EN- civil rites and the ballot.
kin do this consistently, fur after all, what
does emansipashen amount to without
ekal rites and the ballot. and wat
"May Interrupt you wunst more ?' IN
terrupted the Chairman, blander than ever
1.-The platform adopted by the dimocrisy
Nv Connecticut accepts not only the eman-
cipashen NV the niger, but excl rites and
the ballot. for him-give Mr.. Nasby .
drink, or by the way, set bottle and glass
by him, so that he may help hisself."
l wuz so staggered by this that invol-
untary put the bottle to my lips instid NV
gOin thrO the fOrmality Nv pourin it into
glass, and in my dazed eondishen held it
there till it wuz neerly exhausted.
Gentlemen" remarked after a minnit
NV profound thought, "fnr nashnel dim
ocrat you are askin great deal, but-but,
I'm ekal to it. / accept emancipashen.
civil rites and the ballot. But my speech
es will necessarily be short. You hev clipt
my rite wing and amputated my left. and
l hev only the tail to support me. TIE
way yoo hev the thing fixed my speech
must, ez matter Nv course, be confined
to finanshel topics. Thank Heaven the
repoodiashen NV the debt is still left me,
and on that shell dwell" 4la
Take another bottle, Mr.. Nasby." sed
the Chairman, more blanderer than ever,
land permit me to sejest that the platform
NV the Dimocrisy NV Connecticut repoodi-
! ate the proposishen to repoodiate the Ma
shnel debt with loathin and skorn, brannin
the charge ez a SANDER. and insists upon
its payment, principal and interest. Take
another drink, beg, Mr.. Nasty"
''Good Lord!" gasped |, in astonish-
ment. Emancipation. Ekal Rites. Inn
parshel suffrage, and the Payment Of the
Debt! Why, gentle sirs, mite q wen
put on clean shirt and be Republkin
to wunst, for ez near ez l kin re, ne
matter NV clean linen is al thas ws shei
differ in. can't do it-reely, \ Cant.
Think Nv Kentucky-think nv southern
Injeany and Ilinoy-tbink NV the Irish In
Moo York-think NV me r
The Chairman. with . smile the bland
ness NV wich ! never saw exalted. preased
me to take one more drink. which did.
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