New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-24

Tise Nasty Letters.
MIR. Nasty Goes Forward TO Arrest--Nts Az
pertenee-His Conclusions as 10 the PruRts
of The Tour.

MIR. Nasty Goes Forward to A,rsst-uts AK
perienee-Lis Conclusions as 20 the Prr ats
of the Tour.
CHAPPAQUA,
(wch is in the State NV Moo York;
Sept. 90, 1872.
| am here safe at Chappaqua, and | am
glad NV it. | don't live here ez high ez
did on the road, but to offset that, hewitt
here than at first. | wuz, at the first. ter
ribly afraid Nv Greeley's intense temperance
principles, and wuz ateerd to take drink in
his presence, but his posishen on lkker is
modified, the same ez it is on the tariff He
seq he is an inhcxible temperance man vet,
but he il willin that it shell be left to the
people Nv the Congressional distriks. "YoO
are Nv the people," sed he, land the ques-
ton hez not BIN passed upon" | drink.
therefore, with freedom.
AT the time left the party at Pittsburgh,
il WIZ decided that we shood visit the Indus
trel Exposishen at Cincinnati, the same at
Louisville, and return thence quietly and
mostentashusly by the way NV Nashville,
Memphis, st. Loois, Indianapolis, Cleveland,
and then thro Pennsylvany. Our toor bein
one NV obseryashen Nv industry, we proposed
to go quietly, and without regard to politikel
effect. The great and good Greeleyis opposed
to candidates goln about seeking oyashens,
and maxim speeches for votes, from pallis
cars, ez the tyrant and despot Grant does.
Ez our route lay thro the Cross Roads, |
felt it doOty L owed the party NV Peace
and Reconcliashen to go ahead and prepare
the way. fastened to Louisville and from
there struck south. notified the Dcmocrisv
NV every stashen wat to do, rcscrvn the
Cross Roads for my own hands.
| found nv little flock in con1;.hou 4, 10
anything wanted EN-. We raked over the
rooms Nv the niger skoOl house witch he'd bin
burnt one night, six weeks ago, and sodded
the place all over nicely. The post on wich
we he'd bin in the habit NV hangin niggcrs, we
sawed off, and white washed it, convertin it
into Il most bland, innocent, and conciiatory
hitchn post, and we positively forbid any NV
our people from offerin any indigntv to our
Northern tcllow-citizens till after the Presi-
dental cavalcadc he'd passed thro.
So much for the Cross Roads. Now the
pint wuz to git up proper conciliatory spec
tacle to greet the sage at the depot at Seces-
sionville, our railroad stashen. / he'd the
Contedrt flags all taken down and Union
flags put III their places. The depot hap
pened to be the place NV meetin NV our Ku
kluX, and he'd the masks and SIGH taken out
and put in safe place, so that eff we fail po-
| litikally they kin be where they kin be cot at
imegitly agin, and made SIGH other changes
ez sejested therselves to a muskelcr intellect
to put the place in shape for an impressive
scene when the Presidcnshel train shood
pass. he'd tablo arranged. l hired four
niggcrs, at s. specie, to stand on the plat
form in an atttood, with Isaaker Gavitt,
Kernel McPelter, Bascom, and Deekin Po-
gram claspn hands with en-, while l So
lemly waved the Star Spangled Banner over
| en-, smilin sweetly over the calm and peace
ful eondishen NV things.
| The day arrived, and the niggers and our
men were promptly on hand The toot NV
the engin wuz heard in the cut above the
stashen, and the tablo wuz organized.
he'd EN- in a semi-circle, standin Jest behind
EN-, with Melssy Pogram and several NV our
young ladies' jest back NV me on benches a
smliin approvinly. 1t wuz a tetchin table.
| The train come IN, and ez it stopped, |
yelled,
Three cheers foc Horris Greeley, the
great Paciiicator."
Wat in thunder is this all about ?" sed
the conductor.
"Where is Greeley" demanded. cold
sweat breaking out all over me.
"lIe changed his mind and went to In-
dianapOlis," sei the conductor.
"Aint he aboard the train ," demanded
Issaker.
"No!"
"Take that, You blacl, cuss,'' sed Issaker,
strkin his colored friend with whom he he'd
bin claspin hands, blow wch wood hev
felled mule. Take that d-n VOC. If
Greeley amt a comm things is precisely ez
they wuz."
And Deekin Pogram, seezn the hag out
NV my hands, knocked another Wv EN- over
with the staff, and ator l could prevent it,
them four untortunt colored brethren wrz
pummeled out NV all semblance to their nat
rel slaves. Their blood wuz up, and [ Good
ent control EN-. Immejitly the old Confedrit
flags wuz replaced, the Ku-Klux material
wuz put back in its place, and Bascom wrote
me that they made it warm that night for the
niggers up towards Garrettsville. 1t wuz a
most disastrous day for the coz.
! But | don't know that it wuz any worse
there than it WIZ all along the route We
| he'd half dozen Nv Moo DIRK importers on
board the train, and we dassent talk tariff in
Pennsylvany for fear NV ofendin them, tho
he druY them of the train before he got to
| Pttsburg by aboosin Their free trade ideas,
and holdin up the benefits NV proteckshen to
EN-. Comm into Pittsburgh, the Great Paci-
ficator wuz readin Nv the Convenshen NV
! soldiers then in session in that city, and the
resolooshens they passed to support Grant,
and he become cnraged and CONSISTENTLY
muddled. In that cOndishen he got off a
porshen NV a speech witch he he'd prepared to
yoozc in Kentucky, aboosin the soljery and
SIGH. In Cincinnati he denied wat he sed in
Pittsburg, witch wood hev bin we'll eff it
wuznt for the cussed telegraph and the short
hand reporters, on whose heads rest cusses.
In louisville he busted the entire North, and
in Jacksonville he went back on anti-slavery
noshens, witch is wat we took him up for, and
in Easton, Pennsylvany, he he'd the internal
indiscreshen to 90 back .his,asotaasl,e,,