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NASBY
THE CONDITION OF FEELING AT THE CROSS
EoADs-MR, NAsBYs INTENSE DISGUST.
CONFIDENT y ROADS,
(WIcH Is IN THE STATE w kENTUCKY)


Dec. 10. 1877.
| suppose the sun will continyoo to shine,
and tine Iains fall, ez before. | presume
autum will foller summer, winter autum, and
spring winter Jest the same eZ tho Tilden
he'd bin elected, and the Yooserper Hayes
wuz still lawyer in Fremont which is in the
once ablishn, but now redeemed, State NV
Ohio. / hev observed that nacher don't
take much notis Nv evence which is NV vital
importance to nacher's cheef and noblest pro-
dur-men. 1t is NV importance to me
wheather hev the Postofiis at the Corners
or not, and when the tyrant Grant removed
me. the face NV everything wuz dark. | wuz
disappintid when the sun riz the next day with
more than yoosual brtenis. and the birds
sang and the grasshopper chirpsd merrily, for
IT didn't seem TO me that 1t wuz in akkordance
with the eternal fitnes nv things.
wuz more disgusted. Yesterday than
wuz then. | WIZ stawkin down the street
towards Rascom's in the faint hope Nv meet
in Moo York drummer there, and passin
my self orr onto him ez a store-keeper in an
adjoinin village, to the extent nv refresher
or two, wich is my sole dependence now.
when | met Issaker Gvitt and Deck in Po-
gram. l stopped them in the hope that one
NV them mite hev bottle concealed about
his person, and that they wood be too thirsty
TO put of takin suthen. when the Deekin
chirped up.
"Parson." sed he cheerfully. Il feel good
Everything hez worked to our entire salts
fackshen. President Hayes
president Hayes" Iqueried. "You mean
the yooserper Hayes"
''Hev 1t yoor own way. The yooserper. ef
that term pleases yoo, hez withdrawal the
troops and relieved us here in Kentucky
from the grindin oppfeshn NV bloo-kotid
monsters in Moo Orleens, which permits
us to go on with our enterprises here in II
free and unfettered manner Then the Dep
itty Narshel wich hez been appintid here
Is II Dinocrat-e, good Il Dimocrat ez yoo or
|, and there seems to be a era NV good
feelin inoggeratid, which
Idiot :" sed sternly, pause. ZOO are
prasin the yooserper. Every Dimocrat in the
loonitid States hez coz to curse him with
forty hoss power. He hez taken away every
grievance wich we hedever he'd. He'd Tilien
and Reform bin electid. he wood hev re-
moved the troops. Radikels WOOD hev op-
posed it, and then wood hev come IL fite. We
Good hey he'd suthin to fite over. Their
wood hev bin u c,Irs,tS htui, and every Dino
cratic orator and writer in the country wood
hcv suthm to defend We wood hev suthin
to go on. Their wood hev bin burnins and
hangins. and riots sch. the same eZ before.
We Good cOntinyOo TO intiame the Southern
hart, by appeein to. en- to stand up again
their wOod-be oppressors. and the DimOcrisy
NV the North Good hev thrown themselves
into the breech ez the defenders NV constoo-
shnal liberty, and agin military oppreshen.
and -"
But Hayes heL stopped all this, D." ehirpcd
the poor dekin.
"Certinly he hez and he hel ronined the
Dimocrisy Deekn, wat Is Dimocrat
without grievance 700 speek NV his up-
piutln II BimocrHt q deputy marshal ez a
consilitory measure. Deekin. yoo are an ijeut
Nv the first water Ez long el radikel wuy
hunting uur friends in the hills wich wuz do
IN illicit distilhn. they felt tho way up-
prest hy II radical administrator, and they
wuz willin to do any variety NV dimocrisy,
from shOotiu nlgger OF iedrnl otliser.
down to votin twice at eleckshun. ZOO
Good nlluZ count on en-. But now Bill
Simpson, II coniednt soller and n Dmocrat
NV undoubtd pedigree, is appinted marshel,
and wat happens lie will raid the stills list
the same cz his EepuhlIkin predecessor did,
and We, the Dlmocrisy, will hev to bear
the oium nv It, Wat kin We say to the
stIller which comes to our convenshun,
bllin over with indignashen at hevin his
mash seczcd when he hez to sit cz a delegate
beside the Dlmocrat which seezed it 1t ~
crood That grievance, wich wuZ II healthy
wun. is gone.
"Dekin, the yooserpeT is eoriller and |
want none nv him. lnstid of approyin him
yoo want to cuss him. He hez disembowel-
ed US, and we are hereft. Kin We scratch ef
we heyen't got no itch scrathin is Il neses-
sity to us. and shel we applaud the man
which removes the coz for scratchin He hez
taken the bred out Nv my mouth Dekin, 70
TO-"
"But, parson wat lntrest hez Issaker and
| wlch don't want no offs, nor coodent lit one
ct we did in these
"Dckin. wu2my quick reply, seem wat
he wus driyin ut, 1t may be OF no intrest to
you, but it ii to MI. Tho Dimocratic party
wul made Tor sich e2 me-
There is goin to he trouble in tie Corners
The apathy that preya les the public mind is
suthIn feeriul. lnstid NV talkin NV oppresh
un and other deliteiul pOlitikle themes, yoo
heer the stoopid as es discussiu the ways and
means to git in a big corn crop next spring,