The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-01-30
NUMBER 1873.
NASBY.
Mr. Nasby Having Attended aU
Eighth of January Convention
Decides that the Democracy Want
War.

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CoxrrDRrr X RoApD,
(Wich il in the State NV Kent'y)f
January Is, 1877 "a
Hallsloegy /! The Dimocricy hey fin-
ely got thirselves neryed up to the
pint NV demandin Tilden or blood, and
am happy.
wuz at Columbus. Ohio. the 9Th Nv
Janooary, and I left ther feeling better
than hev since eleckshun. found
| ther rampant war sperit that more
than did me good. IL wnz trooly O
! Representative convenshun. There
,wuz present in that body every man In
the Stale who wants q Fedral appint-
ment--evry man who would like to be
postmaster. collector, wuz there, and
in the matter NV patriots who wanted
furrin mishns the Convenshun WIZ re-
markably strong and inteliectooal.
They wuz all thirstin for gore, onless
Tilden could be inoggerrted peeceably.
and the feelin increased ez time wore
ON. Them ez wuz in the bar-rooms at
the Neil and the Amerikin hotels, ez
wuz for blood only ez last resort, at
six o'clock, became aggressive at eight.
buuRuluhfy Nv tcus hth W a"oA'o
wuz more than racin for somebody's
blood. Every drink they took made
EN- sanguinarier, and about one car
ried up to bed dozen nv the most
blood-thirsty Democracy You ever see.
1 do love TO assist patriots who are IN
that pekooler condishn 10 bed, at
about twelve at night. They never can
tell the next msrnin wher they left
ther Observation-Disclosures, and gloves.
and wat loose change they hev about
em. / alluz found the good samaritan
biznis profitable.
Ef these same men he'd only gonein
to the Confedrit army in 1861, and talk
fite half ez dangerous ez they say
they are goin to now, there never
wood hev bin no Hayes elected this
year.
It's singler how many ablishnists are
alive and with good appetites, wich
these bold men mite hev killed twelve
years ago. But we are alluz missin
our best opportunities.
rejoist at the feolin in Columbus.
for hev decided that want war, in
any event. We hev had peece long
enuff, and we must hev commoshep.
notist wunst wen wuz engaged in
earnin my livin by lyin on my back and
seein my mother bile soap, that when
the kittle boiled the scum cum TO the
surfis. Wat we need now Is TO hev 1t
bile, and hence oil sich convenshuns ez
that mt Columbus meets my harty ap-
prevail
II don't cost nothin to resolve, and
where three or four Dimocrats are
gathered together they kin resolve jist
as we'll ez tho they wuz hundred or o
thousand. I want EN- TO git together
and resolve TO wunst. They must re-
solve. first, that they know Tilden is
electid. and second, of IL is declared by
the SENT or Soopreme Ceurt, or any
other power on the face Nv the earth,
that he amt, they will inoggerate him
by force. That is what We want, and
the work OF resolvin must be commenst
10 wunst.
I hev made an akkerit calkelashun,
and am convinst that gore is the most
profitable thing for the Dimocracy,
take them ez they run.
The Dimoeracy in the lowe wards nv
Moo York haint got anything to loose
by a war, or anything else. nor hev we
nv the cross roads. But the rich
stores nv the Republican merchants nv
| Moo York, the rich factries nv the mill
men and manufacturers of Moo Eng
| land. the rich farmers NV the Republi-
kins nv Ohio, and the furnaces and
manufactures nv the Republicans Nv
Pennsilyany, aud the banks NV the Re
publikin bankers nv the whole conn
! try. they would make sich pickin ez
the armies which Tilden and reform
wood send forth never saw. My very
mouth waters when think uv 1t.
Ez a matter nv course there are DIM
ocratio merchants, manufacturers,
bankers and farms, who wood come
| in for an ekal distribution nv their
effects among the sturdy defenders OF
the Reform idee. and they mite mnr-
mur. but they ought not TO. The DIM
ocratic masses, wich hev bin waitin Tor
| fifteen yeers, must hev their innins,
| and them innins must be made ez good
az possible. Cleerly the bizness Dim
ocrisy must not complane when we let
| loose the dogs OF war. War must DO
made that in the disorder follerin 1t,
there kin be that redistribution Nv
property wich men ez hev bin selnshly,
iabrin all ther lives hev inikitusiy ac-
coomulated.
In fact. I he'd ruther Tilden wood sale
into tho Presidency thro bloody seas.
than to hoy him walk to it peecably:
We sbood then hey a solid South, and
the North wood be divided so that
| il coodnt do nothin but pay the taxes:
Then we shood repoodiate the Neshnei
debt ishoo greenbax till every one NV
nv. wood hey all We Good carry, aud We
abel hey flush times. / think, with the
axperience he'd in the last war, Good
! make enuff out NV good, healthy war
10 keep me comfortable doorin the Few
days 1 am in this vale nv teers. III IL
an opportooniiy wieh We can't let shp.
We don't pay 40 taxes, 80 that burden
don't fall on us, and we GIT all the ben-
efits. The ilee w livin on the enemy
is delitefnl.
Let us hev more convenshun-. Let
us meet eyeryN here and resolve. Let
the Dimocrisy everywhere come togetn-
er and resolve for Tilden or blood.
There amt no community, however
small. that hezn't got in II ct least nve
patriots wich want places, and whore
there can't be any more, i've IL ennn.
By hollerin' very loud few men KIN
make considerable noise.
We hold our Convcnshnn at the
Crossroads tomorrow. We hev the
arrangements all made. Pollock and
Bigleris in Louisville, buyin goods.
the uiggers darsent come near when
they are away, aud there won't be no
trouble. We shell hev the Corners to
ourselves, and we shel pass sich. resoln'
tions ez will make Moo England quail.
The prospect is cheerin, and am
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Ex-Reformer.
p. Sea soon ez war Is declared,
thre hundred Nv the solid Dimocrisv
nv the Corners will rush to the 'front.',
ef the Dimocratic Nashnei Community
will send money enuf TO pay thor iares
10 the scene OF conflict, aud glt EN-
each pare nv pants and shoes, SO tnas
they may rush in some comfort. Ibis
/ z II NnnfFInn.