The Portland daily press., 1879-02-06
Mr.. Nasby Despondent.
He Wales another Vale of Woe.

Everything appears to be going wrong at the
Corners, and Rev. Mr.. Nssby pours forth bis
SORROWS in the Toledo Blade as follows:
This world Is one of dsappointments, and
woe, and troubles, aud sich. Ef Adam when
ne ct the apple aud brot sin into the world in-
tended to make his descendants mizable, heIdid
a clean job, sure. He coodeut hev improved
upon il, so fur ez the Corners is concerned.
Resumpshun is O fixed fact, and before the
Corners recovered from the prostrashen that
event caused, there comes to as the terrible
nooze that Conklin has bin elected Senator of
Moo York, and Butcher Logan In Illiuoy.
That finishes IL. These men are both haters Of
the South, and both upholders nv the heresy
that a man wich believed In secession aud sech
amt precisely the man to be trusted with re-
organizing the country, and they are indelib-
ly fixed agin paving the Southern war debt and
penshunin the Southern soljers.
Why coodent the Republicans nv Illinoy and
Moo York consolidated us? Why coodent they
hev nominated men wich wood hev considered
the eondishn Nv the South and bin willin TO
do suthin toward extinguishin the flame that
is smodering all over the South, and is liable
at any mint to bust out into q conf1agrasben
the consekences Nv wich no one kin foresee?
Wat chance hez the South for restorin her
desprlt forchoons bJ leveein the Mississip, and
the tribootary streems with sich men In the
SENT? -
Wat chance hez the South for gittin back
the cost nv the property destroyed BY the fed
rel soljers, with Logan, fedrel geDrel, aud
Conklin. persekooter, in the upper House?
Wat chance hez our Suthern braves wich
served under johnson and Hood for penshuns
out nv the fedrel treasury with slch men ez
these in high position?
These two men are irritants. They are to the
Suthern heart wat mustard plaster Is to the
Suthern body. 1 hev red Conkling's speeches,
and never did like em. He wuz Ablish-
mist, war man and persekooter.
hev seed Logan. 1 saw him on hoss wen
/ wuz member nv the Louisiana Pelikins. I
saw him every time / looked back and don't
want no more nv him. Ef the North wants us
to be satisfied to RENAME quiet under our op-
preshuns, they don't want to send sich men to
the SENT. It's insult to the South, and will
prolong the btternis wich is not yit eradicatid.
Do the Republikins nv Illinoy and Moo York
comprehend how this affex the Corners?
Do they know thet Deekin Pogram he'd IL
hosses taken By John Morgan wich wuz 10 con-
sekence nv the Corners bein invaded By Fedral
troops, vile he (Deekin) wuz sutlerizin in O
Confedrit regiment, and co1ld not be at home
to protect his property? ~.
Do they know thet Colonel M'Pelter vile
riskin bis life with Forrest at Fort PIller. lost
his distillery, with its kontents, BY its occupan-
cy by a Fedral regiment? =,
Do they know thet the advance nv the Fed
rails upon the country about the Corners kon-
centrated lsfge force nv Confedrits here, wich
cleaned out every hencoop and pigpen for miles
around?
Do they know thet after the Confsdrit force
wnz here week thsre wuzn't rale within ten
m les nv the Corners?
Cant they understand thet ef the Fedrals
hedn't threa ened this seckshun thet the
Confedrits wouldn't hev bin sent up to protect
us, and thet our poultry, and mules and rales,
wood all hev remained with us?
Who is to pay rs for all this property? The
CoDfedrits? Alas! there Amt no sich. Then
who? Clearly, the Fedral government whose
unJustit1able movements brought destruckshun
upon as.
The rales went, and ez our labor wuz taken
from as by the emancipsshun proclamashun
thev hev never bin replaced, and our once
smilin fields are grown up to underbrush, ex-
cept wher nigger hez bought the land and
works 1t. 80
The hens wuz all killed, aud there hez never
bin chicken raised here sence. Whenever a
chicken pot-pie grAces the board NV an old
citizen 1t Is dead sure thing that that citizen
wuz out huntin the mite afore, in the niger
settlement at Libertyvile. 7as
NOthin but the inoggerashun nv a sistem Nv
Improvements by the Fsderel Government, and
the ishooin nv fiat money to pay for EN-, will
ever restore the Corners to her original PROS
perity. Our peple are paralyzed, and hev no
hope. sg
He'd Moo York and lllnoy electid Rspubli-
kins nv the consilitory stile we shood hev
plucked up courage and tried to Git throo till
they Good hev he'd chance to give us releef.
But with Conklin and Logan We feel that all is
lost, and we shell try to do nutnin. A sadder
congregashun than that we he'd in Bsscom's Q
last mite never seed. We wuz all speechlis,
and the few drinks that wuz ordered wuz done
by sines.