The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-03
LETTER FROM NASBY.
The New Movement In kentucky.A Faithful
Account of Two Meetings Called To Organ
ice the same-What Happened ia Pollock,
Bigier, CT al.
CONFKDRir y ROADS,
witch is in the State NV kentucky :
Anril II 1870

ing my sublunary matters ez to be
tollably fhoor NV reglar subsistence, till
the triumph Nv the bolten Republicans
and the Democrisy give me back the
Post Office Nv witch the butcher Grant
deprived me. Ba,com and hev come
TO an understandin. He agrees to say
nothin more about wat i owe him till
after | git my place back agin, when
agree to pay it in full j and in the
meantime | agree 10 stand reglerly al
his bar, from seven in the mornin 10
twelve at mite, and accept invitashens
TO drink he payin me two cents on each
invitashen for witch each is paid, and one
cent where the party tells him TO ".jest
mark il down" The amount | shell
IN Ike will depend, Nv course, on the
! power Nv endoorance NY my bowels.
Yesterday | made enuff TO pay for wat
| likker | needed in the slack times NV
the day, and also to buy one square
meal, wlch satisfies me.
We determined two weeks ago to cast
our lot with the liberal reform move
ment inoggerated in the Republican
party by those great good men Horrls
Greeley, Carl Schurz and Trumbull.
Tn. Dimocrisy NV the Corners feel
kceply the need NY a thorough
sweepin, radical reform in the admins.
trashen NV the government. We feel
that corrupshen, violence, brootalty
and tyranny hev held sway too long
and we hail gladly any prospeck NV
relief. Here, in the heart Nv Kentucky,
Niger is Postmaster while | am
pickin up precarious subsistence Ell
best may, depending on chance invita-
.hens to drink for livelihood. Pollock,
an lllinoy interloper, sells goods and
collects the revenoo IN perfect sekoority,
with that disturber Bigler, ez his deputy,
while a Niger assesses onto US uncon-
stooshnel taxes. Two hunred Niger
families up toards Garrettstown are
Twin on land witch waz wrestid from the
arstocracy NV this seckshen, mockin us
by wearin clot' es SIGH ez wich we can't
afford, and endangerin our instooshens
with schools and meetin houses in wich
heresies NV the most alarmin nacher is
taught and preeched. Troo, that land
wuz bought, and paid for, but for its
sale the tyranical Government is
nevertheless responsible. He'd it not
bin for the unconstooshnel war waged
nto us, there never wood hev bin no
necessity for sellin it, and there wood
hev bin no free niggers 10 buy it.
| received from Tweed NV Moo York,
a account NV the great Liberal Repub.
likin meetin held in Cooper Instoot in
that city on the 18th inst, wich Greeley
got up for Schurz and Trumbull, with
the Napoleonic injunction at the bot
tom, - do likewise" TO wunst called
together the faithful and instructed
them in the new deparcher, and ez to
the methods Nv Citing at 1t.
Ez matter Nv course the first step
wuz to hev meetin Nv the Liberal Re-
form Republicans, that noble army who
is opposed to the corrupsheus now per-
vadin all the departments NV the Gov
eminent, ez well ez to the centraliza-
shen Nv power aimed at by those now
in power, and we determined at that
meetin to not only enunciate our prin-
ciples but TO nominate a county ticket.
The call wuz circulated by Deekin Pao-
gram an Kernel McPelter, and wuz
signed by all Nv the citizens NV the
corners who kin write, except Pollock,
the Illinoy store-keeper, Joe Blgler,
Watkins the Niger Assessor
The meetin wuz one Nv the most en-
thoosiastic | ever presided over. The
meetin house wuz decorated with SIGH
banners ez we hev. 1t wuz, Nv course,
a Republican meetin, but the fact that
they were Confedrit flags and the Sey-
more and Blair banners, Nv the last
campane, didn't seem singler or strange.
In addishun to these, we he'd hung
about the walls in conspicuous places,
portrates witch he'd implanted for Lee,
Boregard and Breckenridge, but we
simply changed the names under EN- to
Greeley, Schurz and Trumbull, and they
answered the purpose jist ez well.
| presided Nv course, and the rest Nv
the citizens present wuz made Vice
Presidents and Secretaries. The pre-
liminaries hevin ben gone thro with,
reported the following declarashun Nv
principles
Resolved, That any attempt to convert
this Republic into an absloot monarchy,
with hereditary Emperor and titled
nobility, shood be severely frowned
down by the Republicans NV Kentucky, |
and is hereby frowned down.
ReSoIUed, That public offices are, or
should be created for public convenience
and not ez rewards for partisan service,
and that, therefore, the ackshen NV the
in removin the Assessor,
Collector and Postmaster of Contedrit |
X Roads, who wanted the places and |
who he'd them, and appintin in their
stead men who hed'nt the places, but
who did vote for the present President, |
wuz an act which can't be too severely |
frowned upon.
ReSoived, That the triumph Nv Re.
publikin' principles is of paramount inn
portance to the country, and that there
fore we pledge to Messrs. Greeley,
Schurz and Trumbull our corjel CO.
operashun in their laudable effort to |
bust Grant and the Republican party. |
Stipulatin, Nv course, that in the new |
deal there shell be fair divide of the |
plumber among all concerned.
Resolved, That the prosperity Nv the
country demands thorough, radical and |
imejit change in all departments Nv the |
public service-specifyin pertikelerly
the posshens NV Assessor, Collector and |
Postmaster at the Corners, witch places