The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-02-20
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty Gives his Idea of
the Present Status Of Affairs.
CosPEDRIr X. ROADS
witch is in the State of Kentucky)l !

CoSFEDRIr X. ROADS
witch is in the State Of Kentucky
February, 3, 1877
wuz wunst in favor OF the Joint
Commishn, and wuz eager TO hev il.
When il wuz ez good ez shoor that a
majority NV judges wood be Dimocrat-
ic, giyin us a majority NV one in the
lot, bleevd il to be constooshnel.
When il looks ez tho We Good get Til,
den and Reform in that way, and make
me shoor nv my post offs, i preferd il
to blood. am not, ez n general thing,
a thirster for gore. he'd much ruth
er hev Tilden buy his way into the
Presidency than TO hev TO fte for it.
When think NV his barls NV money,
and remember his skill in distributin
NV it, say with the poet
'Thcr is a wcepin 1rmer set
Aud surer than the bayonet"
Tilden and Reform hes better show
with dollars than they ever did with
bayonets, tho 1 really bleeve that n
Dimecrat that hez bin hungerin for
offs sixteen years, wood fite for it,
ruther than not git it. Shood We ever
come to the arbitrashen NV arms, I
shell, ef hev command Nv the Tilden
and Reform forces. mass them all in
front NV the captile, and hang onto the
other side, so that they kin MI see it,
banner with this inscriptions:
'Commishns for post offises made
out here -
Their wood be sich rush ez all the
troops that Good oe unconstooshnelly
concentrated in Washinton coodnt
withstand Artillery coodnt keep the
patriots back.
But this is digreshn. Wat want
id to say wuz, Providence takes better
keer nv the Republican party than it
does NV itself. For jest ez we bed it
all fixed to hev the Commishn appintid,
and he'd dedwood on hevin Davis for
the fifth Judge, givin us a majority,
that self-seekin man he'd to go and be
electid to the SENT from Illinoy, maxim
it nessary to hey Bradley in his place,
wich is pizen. And when Tilden and
Reform begged Davis to decline the
SENT and get into the Commishn that
selfish man remarkt he'd see him fur
ther fust, and leaves one hundred
thousand Dimocrats which wants APP
pintments on the anxshus sect.
With Bradley on the Commisshn, the
Corners is cleerly nv the opinyon that
it is unconstooshnel Sich thing wuz
never contemplated by the fathers. it
wuz never done afore, and ther amt
no precepent for it. The idee nv hev-
in more than twice what they claimed,
is suthin new in Amerikin history. !
don't comprehend IL.
Ef this commisshn wuZ to give Haze
n chance, wat did he want it fur? He
he'd lS5 votes, and wat is the yoose NV
goin thro oil this formality, onless the
objick is to hist him When play 1
want the keerds properly put up-ef /
want to make livin by work ther amt
no yoose in playin at all. Ii wrencht
my moral back to acksede to a viola
shen NV the constooshn when We wuZ
to make suthin by it-but to violate
that sacred instrooment, and then
lose the post-oiiises by it, Is too terri
BILE.
The Dimocrisy mite ez well prepare
for war at wunst and be done with it.
/ see nothin else. 1t is impossible
that I shood live four years longer and
see all the offises filed with ablsbnists
and we out NV place, and hev EN- faunt
ther commishns in our faces and taunt
us with holden NV EN- by virchoo nv a
commishn wich we urged.
am eqal to a grea. deal nv grief
/ hev philosophy enuff for almost any
thing hev dropt a bottle afore 1
he'd moistened my lips at its strength
givin mouth, and hev seen its golden
contents flow sadly away on the side
walk, lost forever. / hev busted n ing
Saturdy mite, after ali the groseries
wuz shut up, and hev failed to bor-
row dollar wher thot l he'd a ded-
shoor thing onto it. All these woes /
hev survived, but this one cannot.
The agony is too long drawn out. i
will not stay in the Corners four years
and see Rndikel nigger distri5it the
papers that cooms here, and stand and
read lottry circlers to our citizens.
And then when l think that that man
lets the money wich our confiden citi-
zens send to lottries, go direct to their
destinashen. swellin the Golfers nv
pack NV swindlers in Moo York, instid
nv takin NV it out, and spendin it at
Bascom's l am driven almost to mad
Miss.
Is il to be expectid that / am 10 sup
port a Commishn wich is shoor to con-
tiuyoo sich outrages ez these2 1 will
fite fust, and the Corners sustains me.
On receipt nv money enuff to buy
sufficient cloth TO haf sole the trowsis
nv our citizens so that our noble-heart-
ed wimmin won't hev to stand in front
NV EN- all the time when they drill, i
will organize company to wunst. New
trowsis wood encurridge the Corners
jist now, mitily, Ez commander nv
the forsis ought to hev a moo pare NV
boots.
feel more like fitin for the Consti-
tooshen now, than hev senee enlist
ed in the Loosiana Pelikens in 1861.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Ex,Reformer.