The Portland daily press., 1879-03-21

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Mr. Nasby is now or flying visit to San
FrsnHisco, and writes as follows to the Toledo
Blade;
LIS long trip over the vast mountins and
stretched out plains that lay between Ken
tucky and the Pacific, but ez he'd three gal
IONS of Bascom's wust, wich with occasianel
foragin on the other passengers to exc out my
supply, managed to git thro tollable. Ez a
man hez to drink some water to wash the alkili
from bis throte, he kin git on with less likker
than ez tho he wuz in his old Kentucky home,
where the inhabitance hev never yit discoyere
eny partikeler yoose for water. Immeiitlg on
my arrival l went to the headquarters nv the
Anti-Chinese Assoshiashun Nv the Tenth
Ward. and making myself known, to-wunst
askt for iuformashun and demanded how
Good be Nv servis to EN-.
Dennis O'Shoughnessy sed thet he hailed me
ez sturdy helper in the great coz Nv main.
tainin the rites Nv the oppressed Amerikiu,
Wich wuz bein threatened by the hordes nv
leprus Chinese wich he'd ther hands already on
the throts of liberty. He
Just then the sentinel at the door sung out,
"Here comes Johnuy,' and a rush wuz made.
heathen wuz passin with two baskits nv cloze
on the two ends Nv pole, acrost his shoulder.
Ia a fifty that heather waz rolln ia the gutter
and the cloze wuz divided among the assosias-
hen. The Chibaman run off yellin. "Lii-h
man d-n smartee-got eileen shirtee first time
IN lifee."
Barney McGrath offered a reolooshen that
.1.f A n.
dy O'Brien moved TO amend by substituting
the word "Irishmen" for ''Ame rik MIS-" which
wuz votid down. Barney sed be he'd been
true Amerikin ever sence he landid eight
months ago, and be shood die one.
Mr.. OShaughnessy went on after this epi-
sode. He sed he kept nate and convaynient
likker grocery, which wuz near the Chinese
quarther. He he'd bin in it iver seuce he kim
over two years ago, and he had never seen
Chineman cross his durestep. They earned
great deel Nv money, but not clint Nv it goes
for likker and that was one reason why Aueri-
Kin liberties wuz threatened. Their wuz snoth-
er piece NV oppresbn. They Good wash and
cook ez we'll ez auy Oirish gurrl that ever kim
from the ould sod. They wuz low-minded beius
who wood sooner wash and cook than stsrve or
steal, and they had taken the places of more
than $4,000 Oirsh gurris in Frisco. These
girls he'd brothers to borry Nv em, there wuz
the Church to keep up, and Good it be done
With the Chinese in the material places that be-
lopged to the gurrls ?
"Another Nv em cOminr shouted the out
side sentinel, his face beamin with delight and
antssipasben, as he selected couple nv brick
bats and hurried out nv doors.
The approschin heather wuz a mean.spiritid
cuss, for the mint he see an able-bodied Ameri-
kin boy. with brick and heerd his warcry,
''Tare adj ounsr' he runs ez tho the aveDgin
demon wuz abind him. We sekoorea his bas-
Kit, however, but he he'd delivered his washiD,
and we got n0thin Else.
Victim his lips out Nv the assocashun bot
tie, Mr.. OShsughDessy went op. The heather
wnz demoralizln-Cbinese religion was demor-
ahzln. For wun, he'd never hev the temples
nv heather god set up 10 this Chrischen land.
Rutber than tolerate this, he'd bate brains out
nv livery dog Nv em that landed on this soil.
They wuz Dson on industry The Chimes witch
wood labor fifteen hours, wuz not conclusive
to inGustry-he wuz heather and wuz death
to religion, and be woodent adopt Amerikin
customs.
never got any more Nv Mr.. O'Shauehues-
sy's views, for he he'd bin pullin with crate
steadinis and precision at the associash un's
bottle, aud, overcome, he settled gradually oLt
of his chare. and went into that sleep which is
only perdoosed by an approvin conscience and
updiloOted lkker. The vice president, Mr..
o. Brien, took the bottle aud the chare, till mite,
| when he went to attend a meetin at wich Mr..
Diunis Karney wuz to speak, and afterwsrd we
made raid on number Nv Chinese laundry
men, KILN perhaps dozen, and confiscatin
| more eileen shirts than he'd ever seen ben in
| in the whole course Nv my life.
| The next evenin went to a meetin nv evan
| gelical Pacific Coast Chrischens. wich met to
protest agin the Presidents's veto nv the Chi
nese bill. The prinspal speaker wuz the Rev.
Melchisidek Barker, who sed that he objected
to the Chinese on purely religious grounds.
His ancestors came over in the Mayf1ower, and
wat did they come for? For wat did they
brave the dangers Nv the stormy deep, and set
| tie in Moo England climit with no Boston to
mitigate its terrors? 1t wuz to establish on
this virgin sile the eve,lastin prinsiple nv relg-
| ius equalty,sto permit every man to worship
God accordin to the dictates Nv his own con-
shense-
"'Ceptin the Chinesep sung out another
| brother
They come to establish the equality NV
man
"'Ceptln the Chinesep' sung out another
brother.
The Rev. Barker got into sich trubbe that he
| quit speekin abruptly. A Moo Highlander al
luz spes things when he gits to tslkin practi-
caly Them ez come over in the Mayfiower
| TO establish freedom Nv conshense don't want
| TO git Into this movement ontil they f0rgit wat
| their ancestors cone for In fact, they want
| 10 git snet Nv Plymouth ROCK altogether. An
| other brother sot things rite, however, dodgn
| feedom nv Conscience aud slch altogether, and
| opposin the Chinese simply on the grouod
hat they wuz heather aud entirely irrilig-
| ious
| The Presidents veto wuz condemned by a
standin vote, after wch the doxclogy
| wuz sung, and the meetin adjourned with
| prayer.
| called in little later at meetin nv Lib
| erals," ez they call themselves, wch wantid to
| expel the Chinese becos they wuz sech bigotid
| reiiguuists. The speaker remarkt tbet they
worshipped God, jlst the some ez the Presby-
| terians did, and observed religious forms. In
this free kentry he wantid no more Nv religun.
| The Presidents veto wuz condemned by vote
| Nv the aujsnce, and after singin song in hon.
or Nv Tom Pane, the meetis adjerned.
At the hall Nv an Assosiashun for the De.
| fence Nv Amerikin Liberties agin the Chime
| Mr.. Dn nnis Karoy made few rem arBs. He
ASSERTED that Ameriky wuz espeshly intendd
| ez the refooge Nv the opprest NV the earth, and
| thet he wood die on the platform ruther than
| hev it dssecratid by leprus, moon-eyed Mongo
lians. Mr.. McFinnegan fOllored, sayin that he
| didn't know Dothin about the MoDgolians bal
be iabers, ez an AmefklD, he would perish
sooner than be contaminated by the Chinese.
Afterward the Assosiashun raided few
lawndries and went to ther beds, happy in tht
conshusnis nv dooty dun, and in the posses
ehun Nv duzen clean shirts and few vim
mems skirts, go into the servs nv the organ
| iz4shln tomorrow, alternatin with Dennis
| Karny. The pay is good and l kin devote the
entire day to the bar-room, orgahizin. 1t is q
deliteful callin.