The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-12-27
From the Toledo Blade
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Gives his Ideas the Elections
in the Southern States.

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS Which is in the State
nv Kentucky, December, 1S7S.-The Radikels
nv the North are gittin excited over the "Solid
South" and are agin commencin to persekoot
US Nv the former slave States, witch made a
struggle for our rites, but wuz crushed out by
the iron heel Nv despotism under the trent
Linkin.
Wat does the North want? That's the ques.
ton. Wat does it demand Nv us?
Suppose the South hez sent up rolid Demo-
kratic Congressional delegashun. Suppose
Their ain't mizzable Radikel from any nv the
Southern States in Congris. Suppose-but
watts the yoose Nv supposin? Does the North
know how we are fixed? Does the North know
that we nv the South are Twin among people
witch yoosed to furnish us with bred and butter.
and summers at Sarytogy? Does the North
know tibet the TRENT Linkin emancipated them
people, and put EN- out from under our control,
and tibet they are in condishen to do ez they
please? Nay, more. Does the North know
tibet them people kin vote, and hev jest ez much
to say about polisies and things ez we hev?
These things shood be considered. The
North shood remember that we Nv the South
Il mean the white men-are sensitive peo-
pie, and we hev feelins. We can't git down to
the level of common man to wunst. We hev
bin Graded in the lap Nv luxury. We hev bin
yoosed to hevin our work done Coz -us, aud hev
bin accustomed to Twin by the SWEET nv other
peoples brows. 1t is not to be supposed that
we kin accept SO radikel change ez bein COM
PEELED to 60 to work ourselves, without pro-
test.
We make our protest in our own way.
By the result Nv the war the niger wuz
given the ballot. ALI rite. He hez the ballot
We don't believe he ought to hev it, but ez the
fifteenth amendment gives it to him. we accede
We hate the amendment, but ez it is law we
yeeld. We are law-abdin citizens And so
we give to the Afrikin his rites and lay down
quietly to him. He kin vote ez he pleeses and
ez freely ez anybody. Kin the North ask any
thing more?
Still we hev our way of regulatin wat we
consider evils. Here in the Gross Roads our
method is very simple
Joe Bigler and Pollock wuz off byin car
lode OF mules. They WIZ not here on elecA-
shun day, and consistently we wuz not in terror
NV Bigler's revolver or Pollock's tung. We
knowd they Good not get back in time to vote
or even to marshel the 500 niggers that hev the
franchise at these poles. There we perposed to
send up complete and eileen Dimokratic off,
shary from this precinct, and at the same time
obey this law. We respect the law.
The niger hez the rite to vote. We under
6GAuu tHat auu F66p6Cb ". DuL GO0r6 must De
limitashuns. He may vote-the law SEE that
but the law don't say ho,o he shel vote. That
Is for ne. We determine that We are the
roolin class, and the inferior class must be
guided by the sooperior intelleck that don't like
{ to work. Eff we Good hev trusted the niger
we wood hev done it, but we coodent. We
knowd he he'd predeleckshuns for radikelism,
and wuZ, ez r0ol, opposed to appropriateness
He Good not be trusted with the ballot without
gidanse.
Wat did we do? Joe Bigler and Pollock waz
away buying mules, and the niggers were with
ont Their feeders. Then we organized. We no.
titled EN- that they sh0od vote-that we dian't
want to interfere with their rites, but they must
vote according to our noshens. We sed to EN-
as follows:
"You are entitled to the ballot under the
laws. We don't approve nv the laws, but they
Is laws and we shell respect EN-. Far be it from
us to break laws, or in any way interfere in
Their proper execooshen. Yoo shell vote. Yoo
shell vote. Yoo shel exercise the rites nv citi-
szens. Every one nv 700 who wants to vote
step up. We will give ypo Dimocratic ticket
and 700 shell vote it, Eff 700 refooZs to v0ts
that ticket we shall Immediately perceed to
blow the top Nv yoor he'd off, We want the
utmost freedom nv opinyun, and the ballot box
she! be inviolate, pervided 700 vote rite. We
shell say wat is rite Now don't go and CON-
plane that 700 hev bin refoosed the privileges
nv an American citizen"
The niggers, come down and attempted to
and stood at the poles Ez they filed up we
demanded site Nv the tikkets they perposed
to vote, and eff it wuz our tkkit it went in all
rite. Eff 1t wuz any other tikkit the presump-
shus reich witch offered it he'd the top NV his
he'd blowd off inmeiitly. ez warnin to the
others. We coodent stay foolin about wen our
rites WIZ involved.
Nv course the result wuz a clean DEMOCRATIC
vote. There wuz no Radical tkkits in the box,
which shows that the South hez but one senti-
ment. Watever our views is they are yoonsni-
NOUS, and that is all ther is about it. Let the
North look at our poll lists, and the North will
git cleer idee ez to wat the South RELY
desires.
suppose there will be howl about the fact
that there wuz yooanimus Dimicratic vote at
the Crossroads, when it is we'll known that
there are 500 niggers in the precinct witch wood
vote the Abolishp, Radikel tikkit. I suppose
that it will be made the excoose for another
raid and another demand for violent measures
agin the sufferin South. Let it be so. Eff the
North supposes that we shell lay still and let
the nlggers offset our votes, when we want the
Southern war debt paid, and a system of South
ern internal Improvements inoggeratd, the
North is mistaken. The Southern Dimokrat
knows how to perfect himself He obeys laws,
pervided the laws run his way
PETROLEUM V. Nasty
Gtotosmon