The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-03-13
IFrom the Toledo Blade.l
The Nasty Letters.

The Nasby Letters.
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A Tempe rance Lecturer at the Corners
How Me-. Raseom Attempted to Kin His
ss-@ CoxFEDRIr < ROADS,
(Wich In in-the State uvrKentucky).
Feb. 20, 1873.
The Corners is waggin on ez yoosual.
Deekin Pogrann, bless biz old SOUL is the
same kind, genial, old man that he alluz
wuz But time hez plowed deep furrers
in hiz cheeks, and the fetch NV hiz frosty
fingers hez whitened hiz halr, and chilled
the warm currents nv biz blood. But the
Deekin izFesined. A more philossifical
nacher never knowd. He SEE that age
her its advantages, ez we'll ez it's disad-
vantages Troo, hiz blood is colder than
in youth, but ez a compensashen he hez
to drink more Hkker. The pleasure NV
talxin the warmin foods more than COM
pensates for the disadvantages NV age.
But, sed /, 'sposin yoor finances and
Bascom's crooelty wont permit yoo yoor
regler supplies"
. There il the silent toomb for me- sed
he, there IL death"
after wich," replied Joe Bigler, ''yoo
viii d6uhtless be kept varmsenoughw with
out Hkker.
That Joe Bigler alluz puts in unpTeas-
ant remarks at the wrong time.
The Corners hev bin threatened with
serious disasters for some weeks back.
Pollock and Joe Bigler, fur the express
purpose NV worryin the saints, hev bin
tryin to organize a temperance society
and Sunday school, and that sort NV
things at the Corners, Wich We steadfast-
" opposed They wanted series Nv
temperance lectures, at this place, by a
temprance missionary sent out by the
Nashnel Society, and when they adver-
tiaed him,swe sent q note to 'em that We
never could permit an innovashen that
wuz intended to sweep away all the an
shent landmarks, and reVolutionize the
Corners, and that while we believed in
free apeechs sez the inalienable right NV
Amerikiu citizens, eff thatman attempted
to speak at the Corners, we'd hang him
to the first tree-sure.
That afternoon, Joe Bigler came to me
and took me to one side.
"Parsen. sed he, 1--WE are agoin to hey
at least one temperance lecture in the Cor
ners"
at will be our painful dooty to hang
the lectrer," sed l, "for Bascom desires
il. It's a inteFfTin "ithshiz trade and
our rites"
"Parson,' sed Joe, with q wink and a
= : ne sed IEoez ss@sTk
"Isn't it difficult to git all 700 want 2"
sed he.
at is sed l.
2 fsWEaE wood 700 give for rastrate week
Nv all yoo Good lay to-free likker IN
short p
Il shood be willin to die the next day. .
I replied, die with neetnis and despatch.
Bat why torment me with sich visions OF
EIysian bliss, wich are simply unattaina-
bic u
"Parson, spose Deekin Pogram wuz to
sayto Bascen, that these meetinscoodent
be stopped, and that the only way to
nootralize their effect, wuz to keep the
Corners from attendin by maxim his bar
free doorln their continyooance. Spose,
eff he didn't bite at the beginin, that 8
dozen NV 700 go to the meetin one mite
and not go near his place. 1 don't want
700 to do this, for ez yoo never pay moth
in, yoor absence wood please him,-but
McPelter, Issacher Gavitt and sum Nv
that kind. who hevzland yet to mort
him"
/ seed lite. Visions of unlimited
drinks rose before me, and sed to him
."Josephsit shell be done. Announce
yoor lectrer in safety. / hate hiz senti
mence, Joseph, but free speech is the
heritage and boast Nv every freeman
andl%it asiIel not be violated at the Cor
mejitly went to the Deelin, McPelte
and Gavitt, and opened to them the idea
and they fell iptoit to Wunsts 1t wuZ re
fresIin toaee the look uy expectancy Oh
their bloc lips and their wan faces
deppytized to make the sejestion to Bas
com, wich l imejitlv did. ~
laid before G.. w. the impossibility o
checkin the movement now bein- inoe
gerated by Bigler and Pollock, and TIN
danger that wuz conceded in it. ! tolt
him that only by keepin the people u
the Corners away from the accused ia
maties, Good their work be made frnitless
and that only by THROWN open his hous
and by putin up a notice, "Likker j
free here, could they be kept. away.
Bascom larfed out and refoosed. Where
upon sed very we'll, and left
Tmnejitly got the party together.
.iBascom hez refoosed," remarkt "e
/ sposed he wood Now fur severe meas
ures. You must all 60 to the tempranc
nleetin tosnite and must stop in afte
it's over, and refoose to drink, on tn
score that you've bin impressed,
"Go without lilxker one whole evenin
Parson, we can't do it,"
Here wuz an impediment wich / he
overlooked By course they couldn' t. 2
without Iikker hull evenin. But gen
us is ekal to all emergencies-bein eka
to al emergencies is what constitoot
genius. We he'd farmer go to Bascom'
and bry gallon.
Then Deelxin PogPan remarked tina
probably he had better not go to tn
meetin, but wood stay and take keer u
that Jug, but they all sed mo" unan
noualy, and each made the same prope
sishen wich wuz to wunst rejected by tn
others Finally the Jug wuz put Il