The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-04-10
NAsBY PREVENTS A CAL
AMlTY.
The Corners Meet in His Absence
and Proceed 60 Inaerse Prcst-
aeat Hayes.

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The Corners Meet in His Absence
and Proceed Co Inaerse Prcst-
asss Hayes.
The Toledo Blade publishes letter
from Easby in which he relates how
the Corners rebelled during his alb
sence. He returned in time TO avert q
calamity:
I arrived at about z O'Clock in the
evenin and went, ez wuz material, strate
TO Bascom's. felt well. Ny expedi-
shen he'd provd q success, for 1 got not
only moro shirts than any Reform Iced
er in Kentucky Ought 10 hev, but he'd
also prokoored sum sox and pare nv
boots which wuz standin convenient
outside door.
"Wher is q. W.p" I asked nv Mrs.
Bascom, who wuz in the bar.
"Ther is meetin at the church, and
Bascom is there.
"A meetin at the hurch? Who
dares TO call q meetin in my absence?"
And feerin evil, I hastened over to
the meetin-hous fs...
IL wuz harrowin site my eyes restid
onto. There on the platform sot Pol
lock, the nigger postmaster, MoPelter,
Issaker Gavitt, sevrel more niggers,
Bascom, another nigger. and the deck
in. Joe Bigler wuz q standin mp and
reedin from q paper.
"Wat is this?" shreeked. ''Bascom,
M'Pelter, Issaker, aud ct tn Broot--
the deekin with them Radikels! Wat
does this meeng"
"The gentleman will take his seat
and keep quiet while reed these reso-
looshens, returned Joe, and he red
EN-: %
wARRAs, The country hez bin KEEP
in hot water for about fifteen years,
and -a
WAREAs, Hot water amt the most
comfortable thing in the world for the
fish that is in il. IL they hev bin accus-
toned TO cold, and
WAREAs, Ez President Hayes APP
pears to be tryin the best he knows
how TO settle things on proper basis.
and in such a way eZ to do jestis TO
every one and injestis to none, there
fore be it
Resolved, That the Corners, recog-
Min the good intenshuns nv the Pres
ident and his advisers, pledges itself
TO stand by him, without regard TO
former party affilashens. and to do wat
We kin to bring about the era Of good
feelin.
Resoised, That from this time ont all
the bitternis nv the past shel be
buried in the Corners, that every man
will recognize every other man ez q
citizen, all hevin ekal rites, IN life,
liberty. aud the pursoot NV suthin TO
eat
"And drink, f" sejested Bascom.
And that all the divisions on polit-
| ikle questions shel Geese ontil things
hev settled, and suthin occurs to di-
vide us q more material way.
Resoired. That
/ Good stand this no longer, and /
sprung 10 my feet.
"Deekinl Bascomi MPelteri Issa-
kerl My Friends! are You agoin 10 set
there, and let them infamus incenjary
resolooshens 60 forth es the voice nv
the Corners? Are 700 agoin to be led
by your enemies into such trapy"
"Why not?" askt Bascom. ''Aint
we he'd hell enuff here: Hes anybody
made anything by all the worry and
trouble nv the last ten years."
"Bascom, Of them resolooshens pass,
and ef they are carried out in the spirit
wich seems to pervade this unconsti-
tooshnel assemblage, wat, let me ask,
is COIN TO BEGUN Wv NJ? Ef ther is
goin TO be peace and harmony. Nv WAT
YoosE AN j? Ell ther amt agoin TO be
no more niggers TO kill. ef everybody
hez ther rites. ef ther amt no yooser-
per TO struggle agin, in Bascom's bar
room, ef ther aint no occashen fer elo-
quence and defiance. WAT AM To DO!
Wat do you want TO throw me out NV
bizniz for? Ell yoo acknowledge the
yoosurper Hayes, wat need hev yoo NV
a defender2 Why yoo leeve me, stran.
did and helplis, and i mite iist ez well
leeve the Corners to wunstl Deekin,
accom-, Isaaker. kin 700 do this2
"I don't see"-commenst Bascom,
but woodent let him go on.
"But see. Ef this nv good feelir
sets in, i may exclame with the niggei
in the play, Othello's Okkepashen's
gone. My friends before yoo commit
yoorself TO this heresy, let us consult. '
6nelly got these misguided men
out nv the house, aud into Bascom's
and ther appealed TO EN- more at an
advantage. 4 held mp afore EN- the
horrors uv.nigger rool. showd EN- thai
ef they past them resolooshens they
wux Republicans, and that the old
Democratic party wuz gone forever,
aud that the dooty NV every Dimecral
wuz to fite ON, fite ever, till We he'd re
stored peace to our bleedin country.
"But peece is wat Hayes wants, aim
IL" sed the Deekin.
"5pos9 he does, admit ID, that aim
the pint: Deekin ther never kin b,
peece, I never can be satisfied or sooth
ed, nor kin auy one nv the noble army
nv reformers wich follored the banner
nv Tilden aud Reform, so long el
ablishnists bold the post-offices, an,
the radikels the collectorships. Yo,
may cry 'peece, peece, bnt ther ain
peece. We want peece, but we wan
to make 10, and we want TO make IL in
our way. or we don't want il at all.
Their amt no'hin like decision an,
promptnis. Before I he'd got thro will
em, / got em back 10 ther old moorns
and they didn't go back 10 the meetiI
at all, add Isaker wuz 40 enraged q
: bein almost cspcherd, that he shyed
! brick at one NV the niggers wich wu;
O goin home from the church, wich al
most perdoosed n good old-time riot
The Corners is now normal. Tn
] Dimocracy and the Radikels hate eacl
other ez hartily ez Der. Fites is e
common ez ever. and ani back in m
: old place at Bascom's.
Thus did 1 avert calamity rom th
3 Corners, and thwart the evil endeavor
: nv yoosurpin President. May dino
: cratic feeders everywhere act with exc
: firmness and promptnis. Wat is peac
!. 10 the continyood existence nv tb
Dimocratic party?
. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Ex.Reformer.