Litchfield enquirer., 1874-11-05
Masby Takes a New Departure.

ts to life again with tae democratic revival, addresses the following letter to the Iole- do Blade:
 CONFEDERATE X ROADS
 (wich is in the State uv Kentucky,
 October, 3, 1874.
 hev bin for long time convinst that the prinsiple trubble with the democrisy wuz sort of lack of progressiyenis, of adaptability, ef I may so speak, to changes in the requirements uv the times. Dim- ocrisy hex alluz bin in rut, and 1t never kin git on to glory, in my opinyun. till it gifts histed out nv it.
 determined that the oss-Roads, at leest, should be progressive, and should take the lead in makin dimocrisy all that it ought to be. In short, proposed to inoggerate Q new deparcher, and bring the old party up abreast with the live is- hoos uv the day.
 To this end consulted with Deekin Program, Issaker Gavett and Captain Nc Pelter, and they agreed with me that that wuz wat ought to be done, and that no time shood be lost doin nv it. Ever prompt, I segestid that we git together that very night, in the back room at Bas- com's, and draw up progressive plat form, which shood go forth to the world as the prinsiples uv the progressive. dimocrisy uv the Cross-Roads, which we shood live by.
 But the ill-luck wich hez followed me all my life, and hez well-nigh brot my gray hairs ill sorrow to the grave, wuv close behind me on this occashun. At 5 that afternoon I wuv sent for to go to Se- cessionville to serve on joory to try a &@~. Il, oe cOOd not be put off. told Issaker, the Deekin and McPelter to git together and draw up the resolooshens and send em to the county paper to insert.
 ''Make em strong and peppery," sed. Avoid the musty noshens uv the dead past, and strike ont suthin new and start lin. Make em progressive, and put your selves Tn accord with to-day. Remember that all old things must be done away with and all old things must become new. Head of the Abilishinists and Changers and sich by goin back onto the old and being Wore progressive than even they are"
 With this advice I left em and went to Secessionville and tired the nigger. We didn't waste any time on evidence or any thing uv that sort. Nor did We leave. the box. We brought him in guilty, and to save the county costs hung him at once.
 got home the next mornin, and went to Issaker's immeiit, to see wat they he'd done.
 "Did you draw up them resolooshens2" askt.
 We did," sed he, ''and sent them off, and they are in print afore this time"
 "Are they progressive?" askt I.
 "Yoo bet! sed he.
 ''Did 700 ignore old ishoos? did you draw 2 sponge over the past, and are they full of live, new ideas?"
 'They are, sed he; "here is a copy uv 'em."
 took the paper and red:
 Whereas, It seems ez tho the Corners he'd call to step in the front rank uv the progressive men nv to-day, and,
 Whereas, The Corners believes in pro- gress, turns its back onto the dead past, and ignors the dead ishoos wich hez here tofore okkepied the public mind; there fore be it.
 Resolved, That the democrisy nv the Corners believe the war nv 1912 WHY iust- itiable. and hereby return their thanks to the heroic soljers and salers who so nob- ly sustained the honor uv the country's flag m that desprit struggle.
 Resolved, That the resolooshens nv '98 meet our harty approval, tho we aint jest certain wat they wuv.
 Resolved, That the late war aein the South wuz conserved in sin, and wuz blow aimed at tho only chivarly this coun- try ever he'd, and that the results thereof wuz ali brot forth in inikity.
 Resolved, That Afrikin slavery is not only justified by the holy skripters, but is the normal thing for this or any other country. Resolved, That we brand the Emansipa- shen Proclamashen ez emanatin from q go- rilla, and the Constltushnel Amendment abolishen slavery ez fraud which we are not called upon to recognise. Resolved, That nigger is a inferior bein, and that whoever asserts his rte to any ekality with the proud, sooperior Caucashen race isia fan atic and:agitator, and ought not to be allowed to live in free country. Resolved, That we deny the rite uv the nigger to vote, and brand them ez urge it ez enemies uv their country.
 Resolved, That we hold stedfastly to the doctrine of states rites, the rite nv secession and the rite of each state to gov ern itself as it dam pleascs.
 Resolved, That the laws again marryin niggers should, for the perteckshin uv our young men, be more rigidly enforced than ever.
 Resolved, That all legislashen agin the hkker interest is uv-
 Tcood read no longer. I dropt the paper and mashed my teeth.
 ''Is this yoor idee nv suthin proges- sive? asked. ''Is this yoor noshen uv IAr1p ioh0 T., q gettin into the van nv public opinyum and hevin sum advanced noshens?''
 Its all the democrisy we knew any, thing about" sed Issaker, and Deekin Program cOmmin up remarkt that he he'd stood onto sich platform ez that ever since he he'd voted, and it wuz good enuff for him.
 It wuz no use to argue with them, for they are iron-clads. merely remarkt to em that while they wuz about it they ought to hev resolved suthin about the stamp act, HamPden's opposition to ship money. the Punic wars, Alexander's in- vashen nv Asia, and above all things they should hev protested agin the imposishen nv the Egypshens in requiren the Israel ties to make brix without straw.
 ''The trouble with them resolooshens if. sed ], with witherIn look at em, ''the subiex is too recent"
 And strode hastily away. The reso- looshens wuz in print, and will go North. Yoo cant git them old noshens out ov the head uv an old line democrit any more that 700 kin keep em from drinklin corn whiskey. It hez alluz been my misfor- choon to hev asses to deal with. Heaven help me, how much l hev to endoor at their hands.
 PETROLEUM V. NAsBx,
 (Which wuz Postmaster)
 At a school at Wallsend, near New cast !e, England, the master asked class of