Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-04-05
NASBY SPEAKS IN CONNECTICUT.
He is SOrely Embarrassed by the New DE
parture.

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this reason:
| Durin the late unpleasantnis, wich re
suited so disastrOusly to the South, th
| Dimocrisy Nv that State never wavere(
in their support Nv the cause Nv Southern
rites, and after the struggle wuz trans
ferred from the field to the politikl
arena, nowhere did we find more sted
fast friends. Nowhere wuz there sich gen
uine, deliteful hatred NV the nigger-nO
where wuz there a more earnest Oppo
sishen to all the measures proposed by
| the Infamous Abilishinists, wich hev ST
| long held us under their iron heels
Then agin, the likker wich the Dimoc
risy Nv Connecticut drink is the most ser
| chin Nv any ever tasted. There is griI
| in it-it takes hold NV the centre NV life
with more vishusness than / ever got
llYold Nv.
He expected to deliver his same old
speech used in the good days of pure
Democracy. He describes his progress as
follows:
"After alludin breefiy to the grandjer NV
the country, dwellin more fully on the
grandier NV the pertickler State into wich
| happen to be in (Which assertane afore-
handJ, l perceed to wunst to a vigerus
denunsiashon of the Niger"
The Chairman begged me to pause.
son general principles" sed he, land
ez a rule, sympathize with our friend in
damnin the Niger. But it 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 Mig
gers in Connecticut, and they vote ! DIM
ocrasy can't afford to damn any class
which votes. Give Mr.. Nasby drink"
This staggered him, but he renewed and
proceeded in this way:
"But while I am willin not to abuze him
on general prinsiples, ez matter of course
l shall oppose with all the power l have,
the unhOly and unconstitutional amend
ments which emancipated him, and"
-"Will Mr.. Nasby pardon me?" sed the
Chairman blandly: sin the platform
adoptid by the Dimocrisy ny Connec-
ticut, emansipashen is accepted ez a
fixed fact, and-but give Mr.. Nasty
drink"
l took drink-a very large one, for
in my furry it wuz necessary and went
on.
II spose," sed 1, "that ez you have done
this, / shel hev to sWaller emansipasheh-
a leetle drop more Nv that whisky eff
you please-but it don't matter. kin at
leest yOose that poshen Nv my speech
which denies to EN- civil rites and the
ballot. / kin do this consistently, fur,
after all, what does emancipation amount
to without ekal rites and the ballot, and
wat
MAY | interrupt you wunst more ?n
the Chairman, blander than
ever. 1.-THE platform adopted by the DIM
Ocrisy NV Connecticut accepts not only the
Nv the Niger but ekal rites
and the ballot for him-give Mr.. Nasty
drink, or, by the way, set bottle and
glass by his elbow that he may help
hisself"
| wuz SO staggered by this that | volun-
tarily put the bottle to my lips instead NV
going thrO the fOrmality of pOurin it into
a glass, and in my dazed condishen held |
it there till it wuz neerly exhausted.
"Gentlem," ;" I remarked, after a mint |
Nv profound thought, "fur Nashinel |
you are askin' a great deal, but |
-but-Tm ekal to it. l accept emansipa- |
jhen, civil rites and the ballots. You |
nave clipt my rite wing and amputatid |
ny left, and 1 have only the tail to sup
,ort me. The way 700 hev the thing |
ixed my speech must ez a matter Nv
;ourse, be confined to finanshel topics.
Thank Heaven, the repOOdiashen Nv the
lebt is still left me, and on that L shell
Iwelln
'"Take another bottle, Mr.. Nasby," sed
he Chairman, more blander than ever,
and permit me to sejest that the platform
w the Democrisy Nv Connecticut repoodi-
tes the prOpOsishen to repOOdiate the
lashinel debt with loathing and skorn,
randin the charge ez a slander and in
lists upon its payment, principal and in
crest Take another drink, beg, Mr..
Jasby."
"Good Lord!n gasped I, in astonish-
nent. Emansipashen, Ekal Rites, I'M
arshal Suffrage, and the Payment NV
he Debt Why, gentle sirs, [ mite ez
veil put OH a clean shirt and be Re-
ublikin to wunst, for eZ near ez 1
lin see, the matter Nv clean linen is all
hat we shell differ in. L can't do it
eely ] can't. Think NV Kentucky
hink Nv Southern Ingeany and Illinoy-
hink Nv the Irish in Moo York-think
" me!
The Speaker apologized for the embar-
assment the New Departure gave Mr..
Jasby, and expounded the Democratic
as follows:
He then remarked that in the present
tate NV affairs, Democrisy coodent be eX-
ected to be one and the same everywhere.
o reach success, wich is postOffises, it was
ompelled to cultivate an elastisslty Nv
erfesshen wich allows adaptin itself to
ny kind Nv circumstances. 1t wuz of ne
essity one thing in one place and another
4 another-jest ez the peekooliar pekooli-
rites NV the people manifested them ,
elves. Eff the people NV certain locality
wants one pertikeler line Nv polisy, it is !
ne biznis Nv the Dimocrisy to promise 1t
-ef another seckshen desires line NV
olisy precisely the opposite, why the
'imocrisy must promise that also. Sich
rocedins will, [ know, make combina-
hlns OF rather startling karacter.
1t Is staggerer to see our friend Nasby ,
efendin nigger votin, but I hev hopes Nv
elm Tweed, and Sweeney, and Schurz,
M Greeley all workin together on a
Ii IaCIorm Nv opposishen to corrupshun.
Nhen success hez crowned our efforts
men there is Dimocrat in the place Nv t
he butcher Grant, Dimocratick Leggis-
asher and sich, then-well, let the fucher
are for herself The pint now is success.
The poet of the Boston advertiser thus ,
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