Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-09
NAsRY.

! Massey.
4M. Nasby Disconrses Of Mdns
| Ihings-He goes to Saratoga ana
| Sho,rs Why Neither ofthe Demo
cratic Nominees has acritten he's let
| ter Of acceptance-A acord Of Com
| plant.
/ CoNFEDRIT y ROADS,
| WIcH IS IN THE. STATE OF KEN
i TUeKy, Jooly Oath, 1876.
got home from Injeany disgustid
and discouraged. After the unfortu.
nit speech wich Issaker Gavitt spilled
went to two other appointments
afoot, but met no incurridgment.-
The Dimocrisy wuz cold and not inn.
pressible. / wuzn't invited to sim
gle mites lodgin, nor drop of eny.
thing to drink, and l got back ez dry
eza lime-kill. But there is some
som comfort in it after all, for in the
township Bible, which we keep to
swear witnesses onto, L found para
graph which comforted me; showin
ez it duz, that | am better man than
l thot wuz:
When the unclean spirit is gone out
NV man he walketh thro dry places g.
seekin rest and findeth hnonc.--Mathew W
12-43.
But there comes doubt after all.
Don't the words "unclean spirit" ap-
ply to the sod-corn whisky which |
] hey consOomed, an not to a purifyin
nv my moral system? And that
about seekin rest and findin none, to
my yooniform ill-success in beatin
| landlords 1t is is singler fact that
whenever Dimocrat flies to the BIZ
BILE for consolashen, he alluz rctires
with doubts OH his mind. He Good
git more comfort out NV it if it wuz'nt
made up so largely NV thretnins and
penalties. Heving voted strate
Dimocratic ticket alluz, the story NV
the thieves on the cross comforts me
some, and SO does the fact that | hev
alluz death bed repentance to fall
back onto.
| conserved it my dooty to deliver
an orashun on the 4th of July. to
commemorate the Centennyal NV
| Amerikin independence, but l wuz
subjected to a series NV insults from
the Abilishinists NV the Corners wich
nearly broke my heart. When an
nonnced it, Pollock, the Illinoy dis
tllrber remarked: See Job 39-5.
Who hath set out the wild ass free 2 Or who
hast loosed the bands Of the Wild ass?
And when wuz speakin, and lay
in it down ruther lively cz to the
strength NV free instooshens wich
Good survive hundred years. Eyes
replied that onmitigated cuss, Joe
Bigler, 'It's q strong government
1 Wen | think it hez lived a hundred
yeers, and is yet helthy, and remem-
4 Der that there heZ ben Dimocratic
party at the he'd most NV that time, 1
am lost in admirashun at its natural
vitality. Ez it hez survived yoo, and
. such ez yoo, don't know NV any,
thing that can hurt ii. l don't des-
pare NV the republic
The niggers all laft uproorusly and
ez we had decided not to kiln env
more NV 'em till after the eleckshun.
we he'd to stand their jeers in silence.
Its disgustin.
The Democrisey hev bin waitin fer
the letters NV the Reform candidates,
Tilden and Hendrix, acceptin the
nominashuns. They will wait sum
time yet l fancy.
felt it to be the proper thing to
do to accompany our noble reform
candidate for Vice President Hen
dirk, to Saratoga, to consult our no.
BILE Reform candidate for President
Tilden, that they might agree ez to
what they shood believe in till after
the eleckshun.
Tilden was sittin in his room smilin
surrounded by them eminent REFORM
ers, John Morrisy, Boss Mclaughlin,
Oakley Hall, when Hendrix entered
with his reform hackers, wich is-me,
Henry Clay Dean, Gov. Allen, of Ohio,
and sich.
My buzm swelled with emoshun
ez lookt over the crowd, "Now,'
thot ], ,"the country and the post offic
lis safe"
Then | was imejitly alarmed. The
mint the two great Reformers met,
their eyes glared and metatorically
speakin, they lowered ther heads at
each other like two enraged Buffalo
Bulls. We felt that it was impossible
for them two great intillecks to come
together.
We begged NV them to be modrit,
to each concede sumthin, and agree
upon sum kind NV letter, ,wich wood
pacify the party and keep it together
and yoonite it.
made the openin speech.
"Gentlemen," sed l regardin them
with a stern look, aforc wich thew
quailed, "neither nv yoo must under
take to throw the other out nv the
party. See Mathew, 1926:
"And eff Satan cast out Satan he is
dived agin hisself: how shell his king
dom stand -
"Ef we are divided agin ourselves,
and lose this eleckshun, wat becomes
NV us! Eff Hayes is elected kin my
muskeler friend, Morrisy, the pride
NV Moo York, be Secretary NV the
Treasury? Eff Hendrix goes down
kin my earthly friend, Dean, be Min
lister to England? Eff yoo both go
under, wat is to become of the suffer-
in repeeters NV Moo York, the down.
trodden Confederates NV the South,
and the host NV Dimokrats which
followed the lamented Bookanan out
Nv offs. and hev bin gittin their lik-
ker on tick ever since?
"And wat is to become NV me Am
l TO be defrauded out NV the Post
Otis at the Corners becoz yoo can't
agree on the currency question?
"Gentlemen," l continued, with
Post Offices filled with Republicans,
with the Custom Houses filled with
Republicans, with thousands NV Dim
ekrats wich won't average one shirt
apiece, an who hev been waitin for
places fifteen weary yeers-with sich
solid fact afore yoo, kin yoo | ask, let
sich mere abstrackshens ez currency,
tariff, Banks, manufakters and trade
generally, prevent yoonity NV ack.
shen! l can't believe it. In the in
terest NV these sufferin longers for
place, strike, ez one man for Reform
and Victry! Make yoor letters Hard
money or Soft money, or dodge it al.
together ez yoo choose-we who
want the places will take either gold
or paper for our salaries-but make
1t suthin we kin all agree onto, and
let us go in and win.
Tilden then remarkt that he wuz
anxshus for harmony, and Hendrix
remarkt that he was willin to make
concessions, and they sot down to
argoo the matter, and get to an agree.
ment.
But wat happened?
/ These men both know too much
They are both too gifted. After they
he'd talked an hour Tilden had con
WINGED Hendrix that Hard Money
wuz wat we must hev, and HendriN
he'd convinced Tilden that Soft Mon
ey wuz the only practicable idee, and
they fought wuss than ever, and were
wider apart than ever.
When left the room. Hendrix wa,