The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
From the Toledo Blade.
MIR. Nasby Gives the Reason for the
lackof Prosperity at the Corners.

Mr.. Nasby Gives the Reason for tn
lackof Prosperity at the Corners.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(Which is in the State of Kentucky,)
April 6, 1877. j
Their is no disputin the fact, tn,
Corners is not prosperous. The
amt no buildIn goin on, ther aim
no trade Nv any account, and ther il
a yooniversel dullness, witch is dis
couragin to the well wisher NV hi
kind. Not that it makes any espesh
difference to me, for all that l requir,
is my likker regler, and plenty Nv
the same, without labor; but enter
prism man wich hleeves that pro
gress is a good thing wood be dis.
hartened at the condishen NV thing,
at the Corners. Ez for Inc, l kin
sing
"When'er I walk TO take the air,
How many poor I see;
But kin say that don't care
Ell they all starve but me-"
l hevn't got ez many or ez exten-
sive bowels of compashen ez yoost
to hev. My sympathies is constipa-
It'd.
1t isn't at all difficult to determine
the reason for the depreshn that egg.
lists here. When Tilden and Reform
wuz cOuntid out s to Z, and the 700.
serper Hayes wuz inoggeratid, we
expected that the leest that he wood
do wood be to recall the troops from
the South, and make us free men
agin.
Hez he done it? He is, we under
stand, intendin' to do it in South
Kerliny, but how is it elsewhere
No troo Southerner kin be enterpri-
sin and progressive so long ez he is
ground down under the iron heel of
military power. Our citizens feel
ther condishen so keenly, they are
so deprest by the continyooance of
military rool that they hevn't dun a
stroke of any kind of work for yeers.
Their feelds are all left uncultivatid
except ez they kin endoose new mig
gers wich come here to work in EN-,
but ez they hevn't anything to pay
EN- with they never work a second
time, wich makes EN- anything but
shoor dependence.
1t is one of the most techi,n s;tas in
nacher to see the people Iayln on
% tI1Si %DacKs at BasCurii's and leanln on
his bar, deplorin the okkepancy of
the South by military, and their con-
sekent inability to hoe ther corn or
cut ther grass.
Only last week I heerd Issaker
Gavitt remark:
"Wat's the yoose of putin in a
crop this spring, eff the South is to be
over run by bloo-koted hlrelins, per-
petyooally ?"
And then when Bascom refoozed
to give him credit for another drink,
Issaker turned sadly to me, and sed,
with a voice choked with emotion :
"YOu see how it is? On the cussid
tyranny of an unconstosshnel adj
ministratiOn Oh the grindin effeck
of military okkepashen! Wat kin
men do under sich circumstances p
1t is troo that ther amt no soljers
at the Corners, and never hev bin
sence the village wuz okkepied by
the Federals in 1862, but that don't
make any difference. Also we hev
votid here jist ez we pleased, and we
hev kept the niggers and carpet bag
gers from votin, but that don't make
any difference nuther. Their is
troops in Loozeaner and South Ker.
liny, and Packard and Chamberlain
is de fdctO Governors of them States
How kin a troo Kentuckian put in a
crop or hoe his corn so long ez sich q
state of things eggist? How kin
ther be any enterprise or any devel.
opment of resources, or any progress
when we hev to spend all our time
clankin the chanes of our brother,
further South? All that kin be ex
pectid of us is to hang our harps or
the willers at BascOm's and drowr
our greet at his bar.
And sence it is settled that VIZ
amt goin to hev the Fedrel offises
Bascom hez refoosed us further credi
and the poor comfort of his like
Tor to speek more akkeritly the com
fort of his poor likkerl is denied us
When drouth is added to slavery tn,
sitooashen Is terrible indeed.
Wat the yooserper wants to do i
to withdraw the troops from tn
South. Take the grasp of nine hun
dred soljers from the throtes o
three millions Cf Southerners, ant
let us breethe. And this done, Civ
the offises, in sperit of conciliashen