The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-06-13
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE Is.
From the Toledo Blade.l
Decoration at the Corners"
Nasby's Speech over the Graves of the
"sIane,n and the RESOLUTIONS Passed.

We found we he'd sperit enuff left to deco
rate the graves of our fallen heros s-the Con-
fedrit heroes NV course. Joe Bigler, Pollock
and the niggers over at Libertyville he'd ar.
ranged to decorate the graves of the Federal
soljers, and he'd fixed up the frunt of Pollock's
store, by hevin put up portrate Of Linkin
with flowers about it, but as Bigler he'd to 90
to Louisville. we he'd no hesitashun in tearing
down the likenis of the goriller, and notifyin
nv EN- not to 60 on in that direcshen, and ez
they hedn't anybody to Iced EN- they didn't
decorate
But we did. We went and strewed flowers
over the graves Nv our slaue heroes, and de.
lvered the orashen. 1t wuz good one, and
wuz loudly cheered, espeshly the sentences
which referred to the immediate possibility
nv my gittin the postoffis. l never saw sech
touchin affeckshun. 81 will get the 81 80 you
owe me" said one. 'sYoo will pay me for that
last pare of bootsp' sed another, and almost
every man in the assemblage testified to his
interest in me.
1 REMARKED that it wuz about ez plane ez
anything could be that the heroes we wuz
standing over he'd not died in vane. (They wuz
mostly at Fort Piller.) They he'd died tibet
government by white men, or white men,
and for white men, should not perish from the
face nv the earth, and it wuzn't agoin to. Troo,
they didn't succeed to any alarmin extent in
the field, but that made no difference. We
wuz whipt there, but what we didn't git by
arms we he'd won by statesmanship. Conkered
at Vicksburg. we are conkerers at Washington.
These men he'd not died in vane. They he'd
taught the South the important lesson that
while 1t is yooselis to attack the North in the
field, the South kin still govern so long ez there
Is Northern Dimocrat witch wants to be Pres
ident, and another wich wants postofice.
wich 700 kin own? Ez war-like help, the
Northern Dimocrat wuz Nv no value; to count
one in Congress he is invaluable.
Hev these men died In vape? Look at their
comrades in Washington, Where are they?
Is there fedrel soljer appinted to any place in
the House? Does Confedrit hold down his
head now 10 the capitol Nv our country?
Did they die in vane? Look at the appropri-
ashen bills now before the House. Look at the
long list Nv subsidies, nv wich the share that
will come to the Corners will be enuff to keep
us in likker for ten years. [''We wish more
hez ben perposed will be a drop in the bucket
when Potter hists the great fraud Hayes, and
that gileless patriot. Tilden, takes his place.
With Democratic House and Democratic
enuff carpet-bag Southern Republican Sena-
tors to give us majority there.
And then! My sole expands eZ l think nv
it. Our sojers will be penshund! The gray
will stand beside the bloc, and we shall be on a
common level henceforth. We shall make our
penshuns date back to the close Nv the war,
witch will give a middle-aged Southern man
enuM to live on comfortable all the rest nv his
days, with competency for his children.
And when you consider that we. witch git all
this money, don't pay none Nv the taxes, the
gorgeousnis NV the prospeck kin be appre-
shiatid.
Will the niger vote then? Will he be per-
mitted to live on the land witch he wrestid
from us and wien he hez since fenced and bilt
cabins on ready for our occupancy? My
friends, never agin doubt the control yeo hev.
So long ez there is Irish in Moo York, and dis
tilleries runnin twelve hours day, there will
be Dimocratic party. And so long ez there is
Dimocratic party, 700 kin bet yoor bottom
dollar that the South will control it, and con-
troll it jest as she yoosed to. Our misforchoons
hev bin turned into advantages, and halleloojy,
our sun is now shinip.
In the evenin we held the yoosual meetin
and passed the yoosual resolooshens We de-
mandid our full share nv the appropriateness
for internel improvements, and also the PEN
shunin nv Confedrit soljers We expressed
our desire to he just by not demandin that the
Fedrel solier be left out in the cold, for we
conceded that he mite hev thought he wuz rite
in making war upon As.
A tetchin insident okkurred A fedrel SOL
jer who lived neer Libertyville asked to be
allowed to say a word. He he'd gone into the
war from Illinoy and he'd fought as well as he
Good for what he supposed wuy the preservation
nv the yoonyun. He he'd bin at Washington,
and he'd heered speeches and seen things. He
coodn't quite make it out, but it seemed to him
that the time he'd come for q Northern sojer to
make some kind nv an apology for wat he did
doorin the war. and he wuz here fur that pur-
pus. he hoped the gallant Southerners wood
be generous to him and not make it impossible
for him to live in the South, for he preferred the
climit. But Nv corse, whatever we wantid he
shood do. Anyhow, he rendered his apology
for hevin served under Sherman, and wood
swear he wood never do it agin no matter how
loudly his country called
We acceptid his apology, for he made it
meekly enuff. BE sed eff the leedin Republi-
kns wuz willin to act ez eff they wuz ashamed
nv wat yoosed to be called loyal, he didn't see
no reeson why he, a lowy individjile shood
stand up for it. He Good stand it eff they Good