New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-20
Nasty.

NASBY.
| MIR. Nasty Has an Argument in the Cours
of Which He Convinces an Ex.Confed
crate that He Should Vote for Tfldeu
CoNPKpRrr ROADS
| WITCH is in the State Nv Kentucky,
| Jooly 20, 1876.
| hev wished thousand times that he,
the foOlkiller's mallet, for iist yeer.
shOod redOose the Dimecratic majority yer,
much, eff l yoosed it, but shood hev tn
satisfaction of hevin better breed of mel
for the next generashun. Death don't NOR,
than half do it's dooty in this visinity, o.
rather it amt half discriminatin enuff E.
death wuz ez discriminatin ez it ia indus
trious, there wood be easier work here fol
me.
l he'd set to with . venerable old moss
back here, who never voted anything but
his wooden head that wat the people ought
to hev wuz more greenbax; and who, in
conscience, he'd made up his mind to op
pose Tilden. He didn't want no offs, and
so l coOdent bring any argooments that
| were satisfactory to me to bear onto him;
| and ez he was simply agoin for what he
bleeved to be the interest Nv himself and
the country he'd tuff time with him.
He wuz bound to vote agin 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 aristo-
Gratis" and wuz Organizin q movement Nv
Dimecrats agin him, and nv course he'd
to 60 for him. won't hev any insubordi-
nashen in the Cross Rodes.
he'd some trouble with him, but finelly
brought him to his milk.
why do you oppose Tilden,,I asked
him, heven first got him into q corner where
there WAS no escaOo
"Becoz," said he, Il want more green.
bax. Bec0Z l want to be emancipated
from the dOminyum nv the bloated arieto.
Gratis Of Wall street, and want to keep up
the era nv prosperity wich we hev enjoyed
ever since q mule wood bring 5000, and
sich.'
lis them the only questions witch is in
volved in this campane ?" asked him.
"They is enuff fer me-" was his reply.
"My friend" l retorted, "wuz 700 a
suffrer by the unholy war prosekootid agin
US nv the South by the goriller, Linkin9''
II wuz, d-n him. Ny plantashen wuz
overrun by his hOrdes four times, two hun
dred likely nlggers WIZ stolen from me by
his unconstoOshnel proclamashen, and all
dozen or 80 Nv federal pickets, at mite, while
they wuz encamped neer me. Wuz 1
suffrer! You bet
Every good. 700 hate the Ablishnists!"
''Hate 'em? shood say 80"
''Oh my venerable trend, gushed. fallin
onto his neck, "Martered ez 700 hev bin by
the enemies Nv the South-sutfrer that 700
are by the unholy persecooshens of Linkin's
minyuns-how kin 700 vote to put power
into the hands Nv them men! How kin VOC
let SIGH q little matter ez currency, or any
thing else, stand in the way Nv yOor ven
geance? How kin 700 let SIGH matters ez
greenbax or gold stand in the way Nv yoor
gittin pay for them niggers Nv wich 700
were bereftid!"
"Oh. Ije0t! do 700 know who Saml Til.
din isl Don't 700 know that doorin' the
late fratrisidle war he wuz the best friend
700 he'd Don't yOO know that he stood
by yoO-by us-and did watever he Good
to give us the success we go ardently de-
sired! Wuznt he and John MOrrissey, and
HOrasho Semore, and the other Dimecratic
statesmen Nv Moo York our constant and
close allies!
ITO 60 back on TiIdin now is the rank
est ingratitude. The Southern man wat
let's hisself forget hisself to the extent Nv
oastin a vote agin Tildin forgits the Clio.
ries NV Bull Run and Charlottesville. Yoo
he'd son in the glorious victory of Fort
Piller. Kin 700 cast discredit on his SER
vices in the COZ Nv the South? While he
wuz slawtrin niggers there, Tildin, our
friend, wuz backin them ez wuz KILN NV
EN- in Moo York. Every man who kvered
hisselt with glory in destroyin the niger
day THROWN up his haiti he hez one
for Tildin, and every one nv EN- will vote
ez many times for him ez he is paid for.
"In breef, my friend, Saml Tildin is q
Dimecrat, and only in the Dimecratic
party kin we Nv the South hev any hope.
They are our natural allies, and any South |
ern man wat goes agin that party don't |
know his interests.
"Besides, how do you know that Tildin |
wat he is? He hezn't writ his letter vet, |
but l will vencher to say when he does |
send it out, it will satisfy 700, ez we'll ez |
every other member NV the party. no mat |
ter wat his belief may be. SamI Tildin
amt agoin to write any letter that 700, or
any one else, no matter wat his views, kin
find any fault with it. For Kentucky it
vii 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 around9"
MY talk had the proper effect. My old
trend wuz 80 affected by it that he not only
promised to vote for Tildin hisself, but he
'Ot down and he'd me write letter to his
ION. Calhoon, who lives in Ipjeany. urgin
lim to do the same. He sed of Calhoon
'ood get somebody to reed that letter to
l
ho he wuz terribly sot for more greenbax.
He he'd an idea that if the greenbax theory
vuz adopted, there would be q million or
wo nv nashnel money distributed in Posey
county pro rata.
The only thing that worries me now is,
he susplshus conduct Nv a niger, who
leerd the cohversashun, and whipped ont
'ensil and took notes nv wat l sed. Gus.
es on the niger skools. l kin talk wat
7ant to ameng the white Dimocrisy NV the
'orners without any danger nv it's bein
ook down, but the niggers is diffrent. The
aferior race mostly reed and write, and
ome NV EN- talk dooidly. Oh for the good
Id days we held EN- ez our own, and Good
ontrOl EN-!
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
tWich wood like to be Postmaster).
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