Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-28
NASBY.
from the Toledo Blade.1


AND LAST SPEECH.
HARTFORD, Conn, March 6, fsf2.
From Connecticut came to me the Mas
sedonian cry, "Come over and help u.s."
EZ the Committee, in a private note,
Inc Nv supplies, accepted with
alacrity. Couple Massedonian cries with
likker dd HbituR, and ii Is not in my poor,
weak, human nacher to resist. / shood
respond even were stretched on bed
NV sicknis. But go to Connecticut will
linly, fur like her Dimocrisy. Durin
the late unpleasantnis wich resultid so
to the South, the Dimocrisy
NV that State never wavered in their sup
port NV the cause NV Southern rites, and
after the struggle wuZ transferred from
the field to the politikle arena, nowhere
did we find more stedfast friends. No
where wuz ther sich genuine, deliteful
hatrid NV the nigger-nowhere wuz there
a more earnest opposishen to all the
measures proposed by the infamous Alb
lishnists, witch hev so long held us under
their iron heels. Then agin, the likker
wich the Dimocrisy Nv Connecticut drink
is the most sarchin Nv any ever tastid.
There is a grip in tit takes hold NV the
center NV life with more vishusnis than
any ever got hold Nv.
[ wuz received with enthusiasm, fur
help wuz very much needed ther. They
depended on me to infoose suthin like en-
thusiasm into the campane. l wuz re-
kested immeiitly to attend a meetin NV
the Central Committee, that l mite be in
structid in the little detail wich 1t wood
be nessary to know, that / mite adapt my
self to the pecoollarities NV Connecticut
politiks. 81 spose, gentlemen" sed, in
my easy, fiowin style, that the speeches
Il haan 1ptINnrin
fur the past four or five years in all seek
shuns NV our wunst happy. but now dis
tractid country, will anser fur this State
without material alterashen. Dimocrasy,
gentlemen, is a eternal prinsipple wich,
like the everlastin hills, kin never change.
EZ some NV you may never hev he'd the
pleasure NV heerin that celebrated speech,
i will give you synopsis Nv it After
alludin breefly to the granjer NV the coun-
try, dwellin more fully on the grandjer
NV the pertikeler State into wich happen
to be in (wich 1 ascertain aforehandl, l
perceed to wunst to viggerus denunsia-
shen NV the niger"
The Chairman begged me to pause.
"On general prinsipples," sed he, "and
ez rule, sympathize with our friend
in damnin the nigger. But it will hardly
do in this State at this time, to indulge in
tudl ulOSl hS AoNb Ao1
Mr. Nasby, there is several thousand mig
gers in Connecticut, and they votel
Dimocrisy can't afford to damn any class
wich votes. Give Mr.. Nasby drink"
took the drink and continyood.
81 protest agin the nigger-a Nashnel
Dimocrat, pertikerlerly Kentucky Dim
ocrat, must perpetually protest agin the
niger; but / recognize the sitooashen
here, and will struggle to adapt myself TO
it. will do violence to my Dimocrisy
and my feelins, and let the Niger alone.
But while am willin not to abuZe him
on general prinsiples, ez a matter ov
course / shel oppose with all the power
hev the unholy and unconstOoshnel
amendments wich emancipated him,
and"
''Win Mr.. Nasby pardon me-" sed the
Chairman, blandly; " in the platform
adoptid by the Dimocrisy ov Connecticut,
emancipashen is accepted ez a fixed fact
and-but give Mr.. Nasby a drink"
took the drink-a very large one, fuI
in furry it wuz nessessary and went on.
srose," sed /, that ez you hev done
this, shel hev to swaller emancipashen
"a leetle drop more NV that whisky et
you please-but it don't matter. / kin al
least yoose that porshen NV my speech
wich denies to en- civil rites and the bal
lot. / kin do this consistently, fur after
all, wat does emancipashen amount to
without excl rites and the ballot, and
wat"
May interrupt you wunst more? In
terruptid the Chairman, blander than
ever. THE platform adopted by the Di
mocrisy NV Connecticut accepts not only
the emancipashen Nv the niger, but eka
rites and the ballot for him-give MIR
Nasby drink, or by the way, set a bottle
and glass by his elbow that he may helr
hisself."
wuz so staggered by this that I invol
UNFAIRLY put the bottle to my lips, instit
Nv goin thro the formality Nv pourin i
into glass, and in my dazed condisher
held it there till it was neerly exhausted
Gentlemen" remarked, aftera mimi
Nv profound thought, for a Nashne
Dimocrat you are askin a great deal, but
-but-Im ekal to it. / accept emansi
pashen, civil rites and the ballot. But
my speeches will nessessarily be short
| You hev clipt my right wing, and ampu
tatid my left, and hev only the tail tC
support me. The way yoo hev the thing
fixed my speech must, ez a matter u,
course, be confined to finanshel topics
Thank Heaven, the repoodiashen NV the
debt is still left me, and on that 1 she
dwell"
"Take another bottle, Mr.. Nasty, sec
the Chairman, more blanderer than ever
land permit me to sejest that the plat
form NV the Dimocrisy Nv Connection
repoodiates the proposishen to repoodiat'
the Nashnel debt with loathin and skorn
brandin the charge ez a SANDER, and in
sists upon its payment, prinsiple and in
trest. Take another drink, beg, MIR
Nasty"
"Good Lordr' gasped 1, in astonish
ment. "Emansipashen, Ekal Rites, I'm
parshel Suffrage, and the Payment Nv tn,
Debit Why, gentle sirs, / mite eZ wei
put on a clean shirt and be Republican
to-wunst, for eZ near eZ / kin see, th'
matter NV clean linen is all that we she
differ in. / can't do it-reely l can't
Think NV Kentucky-think Nv Southern
Injeany and Illinoy-think NV the Irisl
in Moo York think Nv MEm
The Chairman with smile, the bland
ness NV wich l never saw exalted, presset
me to take one more drink, wich ] did
He then remarkt that in the present stat
Nv affairs, Dimocrisy coodn't be expected
to be one and the same everywhere. tt
reach success, wich is Post Offices. it WI
compelled to cultivate an elastissity NV per
fesshen wich allows adaptin itself to an,
sity one thing in one place and another il
aDother-Jest es the pekoolier pekooliari
ties Nv the people manifested themselves
Eff the people Nv certain locality want
one pertikeler line NV polisy, it is tn,
biznis NV the Dimocrisy to promise it-e
another seckshen desires a line NV polisl
precisely the opposite, why the Dimocrisl
must promise that also. Sich proceedin
will, know, make combinations NV
rather startlin character. 1t is a staggere
to see our friend Nasby defendin nigge
votin, but / hev hopes NV seein Tweed
and Sweeney, and Schurz, and Greeley
all a-workin together on a platform u,
opposishen to corrupshen. When success
heZ crowned our efforts-when there is
Dimocrat in the place NV the butche
Grant, Dimocratic Congress and Dino
cratic Legislachers, and sich, then-well
let the fucher care for herself The pin
now, is success. But" he resoomed
comm to things practikle, take anothe
drink"
took it, wich made nearly a gallon