Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-16
Massey.

NAsBY.
Mr.. Nasty Has an Argument il
the Course Of which He Con
vinces an Ex-Confederate that
He Should Vote for Tilden.
CONFEDERATE X RoADs,l
WHICH is IN THE STATE OF K'Y.y
Jooly %, 1876. }
l hev wished thousand times tina
l he'd the fool-killer's mallet, for .jis
a year. / shood redoose the demo.
cratic majority very much, eff yoOs
ed ii, but I shood hev the satisfaction
of hevin better breed of men fel
the next gcnerashun. Death dom
more than half do its dooty in this
visinity, or rather it ant discriminate
enufH. Ef deth wuz ez discriminate
ez it is industrious, there wood bt
easier work here for me.
he'd a set to with venerable old
moss-back here, who never voted any.
thing but the democratic ticket, and
who got into his wooden he'd that wal
the people ought to hev wuz more
green-bax and who, in conscience
he'd made up his mind to oppose Til.
den. He didut want no offs, and SO
coodn't bring any argooments that
were satisfactory to me TO bear onto
him; and ez he wuz simply agoin for
wat he believed to be the interests
NV hisself and the country, he'd a
tuff time with him.
He wuz bound to vote agin Tilden
eny how, and he'd put up banner on
to his house ON which he he'd in nscrib
cd, "Deth to Tilden and the bloated
muney aristocrat," and wuz organi-
zin a muyement NV dimocrats agin
MIN, and NV course he'd tn go fur
him. l won't hev any insnbordina-
shun in the Cross-Roades.
he'd some trouble with him. but |
finally brought him to his milk.
"Why do you oppose Tilden? q
asked him, hevin first got him into a
corner where there was no escape.
"BecOz," sed he, ~ want more
greenbax. Becoz want to be eman-
cipated frum the dominion NV the
bloated aristocrats NV Wall street and
want to keep up the era NV prosperi-
ty which we hev enjoyed ever sence
mule wood bring $500, and sicb.
"ls them the only questions which
is involved in this campane y ask
ed him.
"They is enuff for me-" wuz the re-
ply,
"My friend" retorted, "wuz yoo
suffrer by the unholy war prosekoo-
ted agin lis nv the south by the goril-
Ter, Linkin?"
II wuz, d-n him. My plantashen
wuz over, run by hiz hOrdes four
times, too hundred likely niggers wuz
stolen from me by his nnconstitoosh-
mel proclamashen, and all the satisfac-
shen got wuz the killen NV a dozen
or more NV federal pickets, at mite.
while they wuz encamped neer me-
Wuz sufferer? You bet"
"Very good. Yoo hate the abilish-
nists ?"
"Hate EN-? shood say so.''
ooh, my venerable friend" gush-
ed, fallin onto his neck, chartered
ez yoO hev been by the enemies NV
the south-suffrer that yoo are by the
unhOly persekooshen, NV Linkin's
minyuns-how kin yoo vote too put
power into the hands NV them men |?
How kin yoo lei sich little matter
eZ currency, or anything else stand i'm
the way NV yoOr vengence! How
kin yOo let sich matters ez greenbax
or gold stand in the way NV yoor
gittin pay fur them niggers NV which
yOO were bereftid?
"Oh, ijeot do yoo know who Saml
Tilden is? Don't yoo know that doo-
rim the late fratrisidle war he wuz
the best friend yoo he'd? Don't yoo
know that he stood by yoo-by us
and did watever he Good to give us
the success We so ardently desired
Wuzn't he and John Morrissey. and
Horaseo Seemore, and the other Dim
Ocratic statesmen NV Moo York, our
constant and close allies?
$40 go back on Tilden now is the
rankest ingratitude. The southern
man wat lets hisself forgit hisself to
the extent NV castin vote a.in Til
den, forgits the glories NV Bull Run
and Chancelorville. Yoo he'd son
in the glorious victory of Fort Piller.
Kin yoO cast discredit on hiz services
in the coz NV the south! While he
wuz slawterin niggers there, Tilden,
our friend wnz backin them ez wuz a
KILN NV EN- in Moo York. Every
man who kivered hisself with glory
destroyin the niger orphan asylums
in Moo York, in 1863, 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.
''ln breef my frend, Sam1 Tilden is
a dimocrat, and only in the democrat
lc party kin We NV the south hev any
hope. They are our natural allies.
and any southern man wat goes agin
that party don't know his interests.
Ny talk he'd the proper effect. My
old frend wuz so effected by ii that he
not only promised to vote for Tilden
hisself, but he sot down and he'd me
to write letter to his son, Calhoon,
who lives in Injeany, urgin him TO do
the same. He sed eff Calhoon Good
git somebody tn reed that letter to
him, that it wood doutless convince
him, tho he wuz terribly sot for more
greenbax. He he'd an idee that eff the
greenbax theory wuz adopted, there
would be million or two NV nashnel
money distributed in Posey county.
pro rata.
The only thing that worries me now
Is, the suspishus conduct nv nigger,
who hecred the cOnversashen, and
whipped out pencil and TUX notes
Nv wat | sed. Cusses on the nigger
skOols. | kin talk what | want TO
among the white dimocrisy NV the
corners without any danger NV its
6ein took down, but the niggers is
diffrent. The inferior race mostly
read and rite, and sum NV EN- talk
fooidly. oh for the good old days
when we held EN- ez our own, and
Good control EN-!
PETRoLEUM Y. NAssy,
Which wood like to be Postmaster.