Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-06
NASBY.
The Corners, I'm the Absence OF MT
Nasby, Meet and IndOrse the PresI-
dent-Mr. Nasty Returns In Time 90
Prevent the Action OF His Friends,

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS
(wIcH Is IN THE STATE OF KENTUoKr),
| MARCH 25 1871.
Important business called me to a
ncighborin village, and ! wuz absent
from the Corners two days. The biznis
wuz, / may say, not altogether uncon-
nected with a supply Nv shirts. Dooring
the campanc for Tildcn and Reform,
which hcz endid so unhappily, my linen
wuz worn out, and went out to seek
shun wher they hev sicb things to borrow
three or four, wich Idid-offuv lines, with.
out hevin any preliminary conversashun
with them Nv whom l borrowed EN-.
shood hev preferred to hev em dun up,
but shirts dryin amt bad. l ain'l
proud-the troo Dimecrat skorns starch
Wood that We Good go back to state Nv
nacher, in which shirts is onnessary. II
we didn't hev to hev shirts and sich,
there wood be more for likker.
When the cats away the mice will
play. Smite the sheperd and the sheep
will be shattered. Scasely had | turned
and Bigler got at the people, and they
capchered Bascom. Capcherin Bascom
they he'd the rest Nv EN-.
They red to the Corners the iDoggeral
of the Yooserper Hayes, and explained
to en- wat the polisy NV that arch con-
| spirator wuz agoin to be. They red
over a list NV his Cabinet, dwellin es-
pcshly on his appointment Nv that run
nygade, Key, and tole EN- that he wuz
agoin to run the Government in the in.
terest NV the whole country, and not NV
any seckshun, and that the time he'd
come for the lion and lam to lie down to-
gether, and that the little child wuz in
trainin to Iced EN-.
And blest eff they didn't git EN- i'm.
prest, and they showd Bascom that it
wood be better for the Corners ef the
old feelin wuz done away with entirely,
that the two parties shood dwell in
yoonlty, and lnstid NV wastin their
strength contendin with each other
shood eXpend it maxim suthin Nv the
place. ......
arrived at about seven O'Clock in the
even and went, ez wuz material, strate to
Bascom's. l felt well. My expedishen
he'd proved success, for got not only
more shirts than any Reform leeder in
Kentucky ought to hev, but he'd also
prokoored sum sox and pare Nv boots
wich wuz standin convenient outside a
door. .
"Wher is G. W." l asked NV Mrs.
Bascom, who wuz in the bar.
"There is a meetin at the church, and
Bascom is there" .......... ..
A meetin at the church? Who dores
to call meetin in my absence?"
And feerin evil fastened over to the
meetin-house.
1t wuz harrowin site my eyes restid
onto. There on the platform sot Pol.
lock, the niger Postmaster, McPeltcr,
Issaker Gavitt, sevrel more niggers, Bas-
com, another niger, and--the Deckin.
Joe Bigler WIZ standin up and reedin
from paper.
swat is this?" / shreeked. Bas-
com, MpPelter, Issaker, and ct tu Br0Ot-
the Deekin with them Radikelsl Wat
does this meen?"
1.-THE gentleman will take his seat,
and keep quiet while reed these reso.
looshens," returned Joe, and he red EN-;
WAREAs, The country hez bin kept in hot
water for about fifteen years; and
WABEAs, Hot water amt the most com.
Portable thing in the world for the fish that
is in it, CT they have bin accustomed to cold;
and
WAREAs, Ez President Hayes appears to
be tTyn the best he knows how to settle
things on a proper basis, and in sich way
cz to do jcstis to every one, and injestis To
none; therefore, be 1t
RESOLVED, That the Corners, recogniZin the
good intenshuns NV the President and his
advisers, pledges itself to stand by him, with.
out regard to former party aflilashens, and
to do wat we kin to bring about the era OF
good feeling.
M.
bitternis NV the past shel be buried in the Cor.
ners; that every man will recognize every
other man eZ a citizen, all hcYin Ckal rites
in life, liberty and the pursoot of suthin to
eat
"And drink" sejested Bascom
And that all the divisions or politikle
questions shell Geese ontil things hev settled
and suthin occurs to divide us more material
way.
RESOLVED, That
Good stand this no longer, and
sprung to my feet.
Deekinl Bascomi McPelter Issaker!
My Friends! are 700 going to set there,
and let them infamus incenjary resoloo.
shens go forth ez the voice NV the Cor
nersG Are yoo agoin to be led by your
enemies into such trapg"
"Why not'" askt Bascom. "Ain't
we he'd trouble enuff here, Hez enybody
made enything by all the worry and
trouble NV the last ten yearsY"
Bascom, eff them resolooshens pass,
and eff they are carried out in the spirit
wich seems to pervadc this onconstitoo-
shenel assemblage, wat, let me ask, Is A
COIN TO BEGUN wv ME2 Eff there is a
goin to be peace and harmony, Nv WAT
USE AM l? Eff ther amt agoin to be no
more niggers to kill, ef everybody hez
their rites, Of ther amt no yooserper ia
struggle agin, in Bascom's bar.rOOm, ef
| ther amt no occasion for elOquence and
defiance, WAT AM TO DO? Wat do you
want to throw me out NV bizniz for1 Ef
700 acknowledge the yoosurper Hayes,
wat need hev yoo NV defenderI Why,
yoo leeve me, stranded and helplis, and
might jist ez we'll leave the Corners to
wunstl Deekin, Bascom, Issaker, kin
700 do this2
81 don't sec" commenst Bascom,
but woOdn't let him go on.
"But see. Ef this cry NV good feelin
sets in, may eXclame with the nigger
in the play; 'Othello's okkepashen's
gone.' My trends, before you commit
9uOISCll W tulS nCISsyJ iSt US COuSull'
FINELY got these misguided men out
NV the house and into Bascom's, and
ther l appeeled to EN- more at an ad.
vantage. l held up before EN- the hor.
rors Nv niger rool; l showd em that ef
they past them resolooshuns they was
Republicans, and that the Democratic
party wuz gone forever, and that the
dooty Nv every Dimocrat wuz to fite on,
fite ever, till he he'd restored peace to
our bleedin country. ....
" But peece is wat Hayes wants, ain'l
itS" sed the Deeken.
"S'pose he does. Admit it. That
amt the pint. Deeken, ther never kin
be peece. never kin be satisfied oI
soothed, nor kin any one Nv the noble
army NV Reformers wich follered the
banner of Tilden and Reform, so long e1
Ablishnists hold the postoffices and tho
Radikels the collectorships. YoO may
cry 'peecel peeceP but ther amt nc
peece. We want peece, but zoe want tC
make it, and we want to make II in oul
way, or we don't want it at ALL"
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