The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-02
NASBY.
Mr. Nnsby Gees into Indiana on u Polite
nj Mission--He Takes Issaker Gavitt
with Him-The Mistakes ihat they Made
md the Dire Result.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,


WITCH IS IN THE STATE wv KENTUCKY, \
Jooy 10, 1876.
Man is Nv but few days and full Nv truble
1 kant understand why life should be such
conundrum-I can't understa nd why things
shoodn't go on with a more perfect looseness,
and an easier gait. In short, why shoodn't
everybody except the black Republicans, hev
precisely wat they want without all this truble
and perplexty to git it.
Feeln it to be my doOty to do suthin in the
the interest Nv ''Tilden and Reform" 1 con
clooded to spend porshn Nv the money that
John Morri.ey left with me, to infooence vo-
ters in lower county in Injeeany, and to do
it effectooally. made perfect preparashen be-
forehand, and made sich arrangements eziwood
result in proper demonstrashen nv the scope
riority nv "Tilden and Reform" over Hayes
and Wheeler.
Ez he'd to do the speekin intended it to be
effective. l wantid that my work shood count
for the coz and be seed that sbood result i n
glorious harvest in November.
| hev alluz notised that eff speaker kin be
interrupted at the rite time, and eff the fellar
wat interrupts happens to ask question on
wyich the speaker is perfectly postid, his
prompt anser alluz put the questioner or inter
rupter to tiite, and wins for the speaker the
sympathy of the people, parposed to inter-
doose new ijee in stumpin, by takin with me
my own interrupter, so that l Good be sure
that the queries he shood put wood be sich that
Good properly anser, and aHsers with effeck.
selected ez the questions l wanted asked
me, these
Wat is the amount Nv the nasheuel debt?
Eff Linkn he'd been detected wood that debt
hev bin incurred?
Was not the incurrn Nv the debt a blessin,
pertikerlerly ez it was incurred to give freedom
to 40, 600 niggers?
Is it not the wisest thing We kin do to git
down to gold basis to wunst?
Hadn't the western farmer ought to SWEET
and scald to pay the debt nv the eastern capi-
talist?
writ these questions all down and arranged
for the ansers. You see they give me chance
eff Good hev EN- asked in order, to give the
Republicans sich hidin ez they never he'd.
1t give me an opportunity to show that the
debt wuz made in the interest Nv abolishunlsn,
that eff the Republican party he'd never sue
ceeded there never wood hev bin no debt that
to git back to gold wood ruin everybody. and
that the Eastern bondholder wanted the West
ern farmer to pay the debt anyway.
decided to take Issaker Gavitt with me to
act ez Republican interrupter, and l he'd to git
him up ez Republican. 1t waz hard Job
| the hardest ever undertook. To change
Cross Roads Democrat into Republican is a
task that requires genius, but L undertook it
and succeeded to some extent; l powdered bis
nose, he'd him shaved, and 1 put on him a
clean shirt. made him black his boots, hevin
HlsI iuIIleueu nin win pair, and then put
on him decent SCOT of clothes, and made him
wear EN- about the Corners a while till he got
yoosed to EN-, and Good appeer easy in EN-.
Then took him and coached him in the ques-
tions wantid him to ask. L he'd him repeat
EN- over and over agin till he he'd em by hart,
and told him exactly where in my speech L
wantid him to git in with each one nv EN-. l
repeetid my speech to him dozen times, and
he'd him interrupt me, with his questions, or
rather the questions l he'd prepared for him,
and then made the ansers, and instructed him
in all the minuta, even to his blushn when he
sot down discomftid.
| got him so well instructed that l isttered
myself L shood go through with wet sheet
and fowin sale, and 'shood accomplish big
work for the ,party. L laffed to think wat
good thing it wood be to hev Issaker dressed up
ez q Republican, with his nose powdered, and
to hev him ask me sich questions ez Good an
ser-askin em ez Republican, and me putin
him to utter shamei
The fust mite L spoke he'd it all arranged.
1ssaker wuz to set in the awjence, and at the
proper time, in all Nv wich he was instructed,
he wuz TO commence. 1t wuz a big meetiD,
the skool house wuz FULL and l hoped for great
things.
Alass for human expectashunsl he'd bin so
Dizzy drummin up the meetin thro the day thet
didn't watch Issaker, and knew nothin nv
wat he wuz don till saw him IN his place in
the aWjence l commenced my speech, and
hedn't got decently into the ihtroducshen-I
think l wuz dwellIn onto the horrors NV misse-
genashun-when up he got. Great Heavensl
He wuz ez drunk ez billed owl, and he6n't
emmy more idee Nv wat he wuz DOOM than