The Leavenworth weekly times., 1877-11-15
NASBY.
Mr. Nasby Details the Condition Of
the southern Democracy since the
Adoption of the President. Policy
and NOurns.
Toledo Blaie.l

CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS (Wich is in The
State OF Kentucky October %, lS77.-Des-
rite the Dimocratic triumph in Ohio, and
the prospective success in Pennsylvania, my
hart Is sad.
The Dimocrisy OF the South l. crushed,
and there amt no lie into EN-. For the
fust time sence the beginnin of the uncon-
stooshuel war, the Corners haint got a
grievance with wich it can inilame the pub
lie mind, or fire the public hart.
The infamus eight TO seven President
Hayes, hez taken away all our capitie,
and did it in such crooel manner tibet l
hevn't words to express my determination
Nv the man, or my hatred Nv his AK.
For fifteen years or ihereaboUt-I can't
GIT fax down TO fine pint in my present
demoraiized condishn-we he'd soft thing
on the Radikels. | he'd it in my pewer AT
any time to infiame the Corners to a pitch
NV frenzy, which enabled me to do any
thing under Heaven with EN-. All he'd
to do wuz to leen on the bar at Bascom's.
an sigh, and demand NV the people wat
wuN the voose NV startin a wooden factory,
or develpin piantashen or bilden a cotton
mill, or anything Nv the sort, so long as the
South was overrun with bloo-cosed miny
uns, and all our energies paralvzed -
Then lssaker Gavitt, after tryin in vane
to borrer quarter NV Deekin Pogrnm,
wood Jine In at Is the yoose, he wood
say, NV capitalists investin ther means in
developin the country, when they were
groanin under military despotism? For
one, III never put my means into nothin,
till We are relieved.
Then the entire bilin Nv them ez wuz
lean;n on the counter, waitin for some
stranger TO come in and treet EN-, wood
swear that so long ez they wuz a-groanin
under the oppression Nv military rool, that
they'd be id ef they advance anything
for any enterprise Nv any kind. 1t wuz no
time TO put ont money, when capitle wuz
liable TO be rooled by the iron heel Nv mill
tary power.
And after this ebullishn they'd look
wearily around to see wich Good hold out
the longest, and tinelly jlne agin Bascom,
and so worry him that he'd give EN- eech
credit for a bowel-warmer, rather than be
annoyed with EN-, after which they'd 60
home and brood over the oppression they
wuz suffrin under, while their wives wuz
splittin wood with wich to fry the bacon
they he'd borrerred.
Now this is all over. We never did hey
any military at the Corners, but thsr wuz
about 500 scattered thro the South. Them
is all Withdrawal, and our capitle is gone.
We can't enthuse any more. That with
drawl OF the military sealed up the foun-
tain nv teers which we he'd bin IN the habit
NV sheddin over the oppreshn we he'd bin
sufferin undr, and choked off our lamenta-
shens. FL | say military ohkepashen,"
immejitely some Radikel remarks that the
toops is all Withdrawn, and ther amt bloo
kote in the South.
Then my sole smiles.
Wat good wood reformer be in world
wich hez no sin in ity Wat good is ther in |
bein a agitator when ther amt nothin' to
beller agin? Fl the yooserper he'd left a
hundred soljers in the South-ef he he'd left |
tenet he he'd left one or the ghost Nv one |
-ef he he'd put up a bloo-kote in korn
feeld, it wood hey bin enuff, but to send the
entire 500 off to fite lnjins, wuz crooelty to |
me and sich ez me, for which l shel never
forgiv him.
The idee Nv Dimecratic Convenshuns be-
in obleeged to endorse the acts NV Repub-
likin President! The idee Nv hevin moth
in to howl about.
hev had nothing but trouble and dis
since this policy wuz adopted
When wuz in Moo York last week l tried
TO raise fund to organize the Dimocrisy
tcr the next campane in the South. Not a
dollar Good ! git, for the merchants all re-