The Portland daily press., 1876-08-18
NASBY.
MIR. Nasty has an Argument i'm the Course
of Which He Convinces an Ex.COnfed.
crate that he Should Vote for Tilden.
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
WITCH IS IN THE STATE wv KENTUCKY,
Joolv % 1915

WlCH is IN IhE OIAIE wv KENTUCKY, ,
Jooly 20, 1876.
hev wished a thousand times that I he'd the
fool killers mallet, for iist yeer. shood re-
doose the D.mocratic majority very much, eff l
yoosed it, but l shood hev the satisfaction of
hevin better breed NV men for the next gener-
ashun. Death don't more than half do its
dooty in this visnity' or rather it amt dscrim-
mating enuff. If death wuz ez discriminating
ez it is industrious there wood be easier work
here for me.
l he'd set to with q venerable old mossback
here, who never voted anything but the Dino
cratic ticket, and who got into his wooden head
that wat the people ought to hev wus. more
greenbax; and who in consequence he'd made
up his mind to oppose Tilden. He didn't want
no offs, and so coodent bring any argooments
that were satisfactory to me to bear onto him;
and ez he wuz simply agoin for wat he bleeved
to be the interests nv hisself and the country |
he'd tuff time with him.
He wuz bound to vote asin Tilden any how,
and he'd put up banner onto his house on
WITCH he he'd inscribed, death to Tilden and
the bloated hard money aristocrats," and wuz
organizin movement Nv Dimocrats agin him,
and nv course he'd to 60 fur him. I wont hev
any insurbordinashen in the Cross. Rodes.
he'd some trouble with him but FINELY
brought him to his milk.
"Wby do you oppose Tilden?" asked him,
hevin first got him into a corner where there
wuz no escape.
"Becoz." sed he, 81 want more greenbax.
becoz want 10 De emanc1patd from tne DO
minyun Nv the bloated aristocrats Nv Wall
street. and want to keep up the era Nv pros
perty witch we hev enjoyed ever sence mule
wood bring two hundred dollars and sich."
sis them the only questions witch is involved
in this campane?" l asked him.
"They is ennff for me,'' wuz his reply.
"My FRIEND" I retorted. ''wuz 700 suffrer
by the unholy war prosecutid agin us nv the
south by the goriller, Linkin?"
II wuz, d-n him. My plantashen wuz over
L.: al Ito
ly niggers wuz stolen from me by his uneonsti-
tooshnel proclamashen, and all the satisfacshen
1 got wuz the KILN Nv dozen or SO Nv Fedral
pickets. at mite while they wuz encamped near
me: Wuz a suffrer? You bet
'"Very good. Yoo hate the Ablishnists?"
"Hate EN-? I shood say 500
ooh, my venerable friend" gushed, falling
onto his neck, "Martered ez 700 hev been by
the enemies NV the South-suffrer that 700 are
by the unholy persecushens Nv Linkin's min
hands Nv them men? How kin 700 let SIGH a
little matter ez currency, or anything else,
stand in the way Nv yoor vengeance? How kin
700 let SIGH matters ez greenbax or gold stand
In}the way Nv yoor gttin pay for them Hggers
Nv witch 700 were bereftd?"
"Oh, Iiit! do yeo know who Sam'l Tilden
is? Don't 700 know that doorin the late frat
risidle war he wuz the best friend 700 he'd?
Don't 700 know that he stood by yoo-by US
and did watever he Good to give us the success
we SO ardently desired? Wusn't he and John
Morrissey, and Horatio Seemore, and the other
Dimocratic statesmen NV Moo York, OR con-
slant and close alies?''
"To go back on Tilden now is the rankest in
gratitude. The Southern man wat lets hisself
forget hisself to the extent Nv castin vote
agin TildeD, forgets the glorIes Nv Bull Run
and Charlottesville. Yoo he'd son in the
glorious victory of Z ort Piller. Kin 700 cast
discredit on his services in the coz Nv the South?
While be wuz slaughterin niggers there, Tden
our friend, WIZ backin them ez wuz KILN
Nv EN- in Moo York. Every man who kvvered
hisself with glory destroyiH the niger orphan
asylums in Moo York, IN 1868, is to-day. a
THROWN up his hat-ef he hez one-for Tilden
and every one Nv en- will vote ez many times
for him ez he is paid for.
SIN breef, my frnd, Sam'i Tilden is Dino
Graf, and only in the Dimocrat party kin we of
the South hev eny hope. They are our natural
allies, and eny Southern man wat goes agin
that party don't know his interests.
Besides, how do you know that Tilden amt
soft money? He hezen't sed, hez he, wat he is
He hezn't writ his letter yet, but will vencher
well ez every other member nv the party
no matter wat his belief may be. Sam'l Til
den amt goin to write letter that you or eny
one else, no matter wat his views, kin Fl nd
eny fault with it, For Kentucky it will be
construed ez soft money, and for Moo York it
will be hard. Amt Hendrix on there with
him, and won't they come to some agreement
that will SCOT all around?''
MY talk had the proper effect. My old friend
wuz SO effected by it that he not only promised
to vote for Tilden hisself, but he sot down and
he'd me write letter to his son Calhoun, who
lives in Inieany, urgin him to do the same
He sed eff Calhoon Good git somebody to reed
that letter to him, that it wood doubtless con-
vince HIM, tho he wuz terribly sot for more
greenbax. He he'd an idee that ef the greenbax
theory wuz adopted, ther wood be million or
two Nv nashnel money distributed in Posey
County, pro rata.
The only thing that worries me now, is the
suspicious conduct Nv niger, who heerd the
e to notaS ana t whipped OUT pensl ana
want to among the white Dimocrisy Nv the
CURRIERS' without envy danger Nv its bein took
down, but the niggers is different. The inferior
rase mostly reed and write. and some NV them
talk fooidly. Oh for the good old days when
we held um ez our own, and Good control UNI,
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
witch wood like to be Postmaster,