Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-03
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The Nasby Letters.

Mr.. Nasty makes n Tour of the North to sec
how many disgustcd Republicans would be
willing to join The Passive Democracy.
CoNFEDERIT Y ROADS, (which is in the
Stait NV Kentucky,) Dec. 20, 1S7l.--The
hopelisniss NV electin Dmekratic Presi-
dent by Dimekrats alone, wuz apparent to
all the gigantic intellck NV the party over
year ago. a conference wuz held in Moo
York eighteen months ago Twede Hail.
Connolly and Swccuy representa- Moo
York, me and Garrett Davis representa-
Kentucky, the Blairs representa- Missouri,
and so on. We decided then that the Di-
mocrisy should appeal directly to the pee
pei to younite with us to beet Grant Gen.
John &. Breckenridge desired that the is
sue be made fairly between Grant and des-
potism on the one hand, and the people
and IoOnyun on the tOther. Tweed liked
that idea, but he desired to add to it. lie
wanted the issue 20 be Grant, DespOtism
and corruption on the one hand, and the
People, Yoonyun and Furity on the other.
That wuz wat Tweed wanted. With sch
a ishoo ez that he felt that he Good go aiore
the peepel aud make sich lite ez he never
made aGore. Gen. breckenridge accepted
this amendment gladly. lie felt that the
corrupshun of the present administrator,
ez well cz its attacks upon constitutional
| liberty, he'd been stencil in the nostrils
NV the people, in witch opinion Mr.. Tweed
coincided. 1t wuz resolved then and there
to make the tite in this way and upon this
| basis, and the mcetn adjourned.
Some months after the conference, Mr..
| Tweed, for obvious reasons, dropped out
NV the management Nv affairs, and the Di-
mOcrasy wuz left, rcely without Il head.
| But | felt that the programme laid down
wuz proper one, aud | determined to
make tour thro the Northern States to
ascertaine how much strength we Good de-
pend upon gittin from the Republicans. |
jist got home from that trip yesterday, and
the following eXtraX from the diary will
show how successful the raid wuz
Smthville, n. Y.-FOund one man, j.
c., who wuz strongly in favor NV reorgau-
iZen the parties Oh new basis. Had
groancd over the corrupshun nv the Re
publiken party for years. Had been q
member Nv the party from IFS organisishun,
but owing to the prejudisses NV the MEM
bers thereof in this county he'd ailuz bin
debarred from holdn offs up to the year
1866. In March NV that year. President
johnson made him collector Nv revenOo,
which oils he held with profit to hisselt
till that oius military tyeranJ, Grant WIZ
elected There wuz some triln Irregular.
ties in his accounts, and he wuz dismissed
and supple tool NV tyranny appointed in
his place. His bail wuz outrageOusly sood
for his defalcashin, and he'd bin cooley per-
sekutad ever since, Wuz an earnest be-
lever in civil service reform, and would
line heart and sole in this movement. Wv
course he would want his old place back
again, in the event of success and when he
gets it, shOOd favor a law making il perpet-
GOAL. Shel want money from the general
committee to yoose among shaky Republic
kins.
JonesborG, Ohio.-Found Mr.. NJ. D., IN
q grocery, with his feet cooked up onto n
counter. Wuz disguised and heartsick at
the prohi9cy Nv the present adminstra-
shen, and saw no hope NV any change fur
the better 0ntil the present party lines wuz
bustid. Hoped the new organization wood
not overlook the claims NV men NV talent
and genus ez completely eZ the party now
in power heZ done. His friends he'd urged
him time and agn 20 the present tyranni-
cal administration, for various posishens,
from Minister to Venezuela TO the post OF
flee in his native village, all Nv wich the
military tyrant now at the head NV the
government he'd persistently 6isregarded.
Felt there must be a change, or that Ieoin
wuz inevitable wuz in favor NV the new
movement, stlpulating NV course, that he
shood hey his choice Nv the otfices In That
locality.
Brownstown, Illinois. - Il. Is. contest
that the post offs in his native village he'd
bin the highth Nv his ambition for IL years,
and eZ he had never been able to git it un-
der Republican rool, he was willin TO line
the new muyement ifthat was pronlst him.