Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-02-22
NASBY.
Ir. Nasty Gives His Idea of the
Present Stat us of Affairs.

TJledo Blade
CoSFEDpTT Y ROADS, |
NIca IS IN TIE STATE Uv kESTUCKY, : |
February 2, 1877.
wuZ wunst in favor of the JoiL
Commishn, and wuz eager to hev il |
When il WIZ eZ good eZ sure that
majority NV the Judges wond be DiT-
Ocralic, givin us In; jcrity Nv one IL
the lot, bleevd ii to ue conSt Ooshnel.
When il looks as tho we Good get I'll
den and Reform in that Way, and
make shOor Nv my postoffis. l preferre',
il TO blood. / am not, eZ general
thing, a thirster for gore. i he'd much
rather hev Tiluen buy his way into
the Presidency than to hev to hte foi
it. When | think Nv his barls Nv
money, and remember his skill in dis
tributin Nv il, say with the poet:
''Ther is weepin frmer set,
And surer than the uayonet."
Tilden and Reform hez better show
with dollars than they ever did with
bayoRets, though really bieeve that a
DiDOcrat who heZ been hungerin for
an otis sixteen yeers, wood fite for IT,
ruther than not git il. Shood We eSeI
come TO the aTbitrashen Nv arms, l
sheI, IF hev command Nv the Tilden
and Reform forces, mass them all in
front NV The capitle, and hang Orto the
other the side, 50 that they kin all see
it, banner with this inscriptions:
! '.Commishns tor postOfiiSes made out
here!"
Their wood be sich a rush eZ all the
troops that Good ~ uncs.n> tooshnellS
concentrated ir W tisg n eoodent
Withstand. ArAI,Is ,o~dcut keep
the PATRIOTS back.
But this liz digresbin. Wat l want
id to say wuz, Providence takes better
keer Nv the hepublkin party than il
does Nv itself. For Jest eZ We he'd il
all fixed TO hev the Commission ap-
/ piuted, and he'd dedWood on hevin Dd-
Sis for the filth Judge, givin US ma
ijOrity, that self seekin man ned TO 60
and be electid TO the SENT IRON Illinoy,
max n il necessary 10 hev Bradley la
his place, wien IL plZen. And when
Tiiden and RefuIm begged Davis Il
decline the Senit snd gIt into the
Commission that selfish IIan remarkI
he II see hun "a rther lust. aud leaves
tune hun lred thous md Dim Dcrats wich
wants appointments on tIo anXshus
sect.
With Bradley on the c inmission,
the Corners is CLEARLY Nv ,ne opinyui
that il Is uncunstUusIntl. SIch thing
wuz never cUn!tnii lated By The iaihers
IL wuZ never dUUe aiore, and The re aiii,
no precedeut IOr il. lie iGee Nv bev
IN ii c0inpernIise III vicb The DImocri'
sy dl'in't git more than twice what
they claimed, is euthin new IN AmerI'
kin history. don't mprehend 1t.
+ this CoInnishn wuZ tu give Hayes
a cnauce, Wat uiJ he waIt II fur? lie
hed 1856 votes, and Wat ~ the yuoSe NV
goin thro all this !ormaliiy, onless the
objick is 10 hist him? When play
want the keerds property put up-el
/ want 10 make livIn by work there
faint no use III playin it at all. Il
wTencht my moral back to acksede Il
"a viulashen Nv the cJnstooShen when
we wuz to make suthin by il, but to viO-
late that sacred instroOment, and tnen
loose the postoffiSes by it's TOO terrible
The DlmOcrasy night eZ well pre-
| pare Tor war To wunst and be doue wItE
llt. i see nuthin ei-e. lt ~ imp0SSlUie
| that should live iOur yeers lOn- er ,and
see all the offises filled by Ablishnists,
and We out NV place, and hev Ell
II aunt their cominishnS IN our faces
and taunt US with holding Nv em BY
virchou Nv cummishu wien we urged.
l am equal tu great deal Nv greel-
| hev philosophy enutf for almost any
thing. 1 hev dropt h bottle aiOr l he'd
moistened my lips at its strength-given
mouth, and hev seen its golden con.
tents flow sadly away on the Sidewalk,
lost forever. l hev Dustid a jug Satur-
day mite, after all the groseries wuz
shut up and bev failed to borrow d
dollar Wher thot he'd u ded sho0r
thing onto it. All these woes / hev
survived, but this one / cannut. The
agony is too long draw n out. / will not
stay IN the Corners tour years and see
Radikel nigger dlstribit the papers
that Comes here, and stand and read
lOttry circlers 10 our citizens. And
then when think that that man lets
the money wich our cOntidin citizens
| send TO lottrie5 go direct to their desti
nashen, swellin the Golfers NV pack
Nv swindiers in Moo York, instid uV
| takin Nv ii out and speEdin it at Bds-
com 5, Il am driven almost to madni5.
is il to be eXpt cted that l am 10 sup
port Com mlshn wich is shOOr to con-
tInyoo sich outrsges eZ THESE? l will
fife fust, and the Corners 5ustains me.
Ga receet NV money enuf 10 buy
sufficient cloth to haff sole tie trOwais
NV our citizens 50 that our NIB e-heariid
Wimmen won't hev to stand in front
NV EN- all The time " hen they drill, L
VIII organize company 40 wunst.
New trowsis wood encurridge the
Corners j.st now, mitily. Ez comman
der NV the ioisis Iougnt to hev u moo
par NV boots.
L feel more like fitin for the Consti-
stooshen now, that hev sence l en-
listed III the louisiana PelcanS in 1861
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
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