Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-08-17
NAsBY.
Mr. Nasty Deplorss the Conflict Of
Nature and the Democracy In q
Pite0us strain.
Toledo Blade.


CoNFEDR1T K ROADS (Wich is in the
State NV kentucky, July 27, 1879.
Il am disgusted and dishartened.
Everything under Heaven seems to
work agin the Democracy, and make
a coDtiDyood success impossible. We
succeeded in electin q Dimocratic
Congris, the people hevin tired Nv
Republican rool, and it did seem to
me that there wuz nuthin in the vay
Nv a continyooance thereof for an in
defnit period. I looked confident
ly forered to the post-ofice at the
Corners, and reely expected that |
shood end my days holdin that Com.'
mishn aud rpendin the salary pleas
antly and cheerfully at Bascom'f.
In the fust place, We wuz shoor
that Sherman's resumpshen wood
cause widespread disaster, wich the
people wood charge to the akkount
NV the Republikin party, and
wood bring the Nashnels over to us,
yoonites both parties agin the COM
mon foe, and that, after that every
thing wood be- plain sailin. We
could sweep the kentry like tor
nado, leevin nary green-spot Nv the
Radikelo behind us.
But, somehow, it didn't work.
Sherman rezoomed the fust Nv Jam
ooary without the slightest trouble,
and the kentry, instid Nv goin to
eyerlastin room, went on prosperin
at faster rate than ever. T To our
horror, failyoors begun to grow
lesser and lesser; and, when. I went
to Louisville and interviewed the
merchants and manufacturers, and
they all told me that biznis wuz bet
ter than it he'd bin for yeers, and
that it wuz constantly increasin, and
increasin, too, in healthy way, and
that they wuz payin their hands
promptly, and that the hands wuz a
gittin on fust rate, and @wuz com
Portable, then my hart sunk within
my buzzum, and [ went home dis
hartened and discurridged.
| g Bascom is more NV q Roman
than I am. This wuz early in the
season, and when I wuz weepin over
the prosperity NV the country he
remarkt: stBrace up, Parson, there
is yit hope for the Dimocrisy. The
crops may yet fail, and room may
yit ensoo !" -'@ @. ''s"7
Them words give me hope, and ]
watched the crop reports with in
tense anxiety, and I daily sighed
like Jeremiah, the great 1amenter
i 0 that the frost wood strike the
corn inthe blade, and the gcowcum-
| bers on the vine !a'l-'st1 =
/ @ that the fruit wood perish in
| the bud, and the scab wood git
among the sheep! IA
/ o that the murrain and the horn.
| all wood rage among the kinei
| 0 that the glanders wood spread
among the bosses, and cut them
down ~ the thousand, yea, by the
lten thousand - j
4 0 that the cholera would revel
among the hogs and destroy them
Iall, from the mature sow to the ten.
der and succulent sucking ssr.lss
/ I'd O that the rot wood destroy the
/ potato, and the cut-worm the2tender
corn ! H. 81
Then wood the people be distrest,
and they wood charge it up to. the
account Of John Sherman, resump.
tion, and the Republican party, and
We shood elect Tilden and Reform
in 1880, and I shood enjoy my
post offs. +, .21.-.,satr .-..19sa'H 80 -,
All Nv these wood it take, and
more, to enshoor a triumph for the
Dimocrisy.
I waited for these in vane. Ma.
cher favors the Republican party.
There wuz no cut-worm, no frost,
no hog-eholera, no murrain, no
nuthin. I he'd no hope wunst,
when | heard the weevil and Hes
sian fly he'd appeared in the wheat
in Illinois, but my soul sank when
the report .wuz pronounced un.
founded. The wheat is averagin
thirty bushels to the akre, it is sell.
in for dollar or thereabouts. and
the money paid for it is good, and
] the farmer is>rejoicin.
+ What good does it. do me to 90
about hoWlin about hard times to a
farmer with thirty bushels to the
akre in his barns z es.!svez .ssmrs7
What good is it to howl about
bad money, when the farmer kin
hey gold and silver, if he wants it,
ljist the same ez paper money ?,".s
Watts the yoose Nv talkin about
a change Nv policy when the people
is all on broad grin? ssA i,1ssss5
I hev only one more hope.
There are seckshuns where corn is
the principal crop, and corn may
yit be destroyed. A early frost in
Southern Indiana might do us some
good but after the disappointment
with the wheat I hev but faint