Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-14
NASBY.
MIR. Nasby DeplOres the Con
fIict of Nature and the DE
InOcracy i'm a Fite0us Strain j..
From the Toledo Blade.


the State Nv Kentucky, July 27, 1879.
i am disgusteG and dishartened.
Everything under Heaven seems to
work agin the Democracy, and make
a continyood success impossible. We
succeeded in electin a Dimacratic
Congris, the people hevin tired Nv
Republican rool, and 1t did seem to
me that there wuz nuthin in the way
Nv continuyooance thereof for an
indefinite period. / looked conf
IDENTIFY forerd to the Post-office at the
Corners, and reeiy expected that
shood end nay days holdin that COM
Thin and spendin the salary pleasantly
and cheerfully at Baseom's.
In the fust place We WIZ shoor that
Sherman's resumpshen wood cause
widespread disaster, wlch the people
wood charge to the akkount Nv the
Republican party, and wood bring the
Nashnels over to us, younlhn both
parties agin the commin foe. and that
that everything wood be plain sailin.
We could sweep the kentry like tor
nado, leevin nary greese-spot Nv the
Radikels behind US.
But somehow it didn't work. Sher-
man resooced the fust Of Janooary
without the slitest trouble, and the
kentry, insted NV goin to everlastln
room, went on prosperin at a faster
rate than ever. To our hOorror, fail
yoors begun to grow lesser and less
er; and when L went to Louisville and
| interviewed the merchants and manu-
factures, and they told me that bizniz
wuz better than 1t he'd been for yeers,
and that it WIZ constantly lncreesin,
too, in healthy way, and that they
wuz apayin their hands promptly, and
that the hands wuz a gittin on fust
rate, and wuz comfortable, then my
heart sunk within my buzzom, and l
went home disheartened and discur-
ridged.
! Bascom is more Nv Roman than
/ am. This wuz early in the season,
and when wuz weepin over the
prosperity NV the country he remarkt: {:
'Brace up. Parson, there is yit hope
for the Dimocrisy. The crops may
yit fail, and room may yet ensoo!"
Them words give me hope, and 1
watched the crop reports with intense
anxiety, and daily sighed like Jere-
miah, the great lamenter:
: o that the frost wood strike the
corn in the blade, and the cocumbers
on the vine!
o that the fruit would perish in the
bud, and the scab wood git among
, the sheep!
O that the murrain ana the horn al
: wood rage among the kline!
: o that the glanders wood spred
J among the hosses, and cut them dowr
: by the thousand, yea by the ten thou
= Sandi
O that the cholera wood reye
among the hogs and destroy them all
5 from the mature SOW to the tender
/ and succulent sucking!
\ O that the rot would destroy the
e potato, and the cut worm the tender
: corni
Then wood the people be distrest
Y and they wood charge it up to thu
e account of John Sherman, resumption
: and the Republican party, and We
/. shoOd elect Tildan and Poforna i,
n 1880, and | should enjoy most post
h offs.
e All NV these wood it take, and more
e to enshoor triumph for the Dimoc
d risy.
:, | waited for these in vane. Nache
It favors the Republican party. Their
l. wuZ no cut-wOrm, no frost, no hog
b cholera, no murrain. no nuthin.
n he'd some hope wunst, when | hear(
II the weevil and Hessian fly appeare,
II in the wheat iu Illinois, but my sou
= sank when the report was pronounced
e unfounded. The wheat is averagil
l. thirty bushels to the akre, it is sellil
3 for dollar or thereabouts, and th
e money paid for it is good, and th
farmer is rejoicin.
What good does it do me to g
about howlin about hard times to
farmer with thirty bushels to the akr
# i'll his barns!
N What good Is it to howl about ba
~ money When the farmer can have gol
20 and silver, if he wants it, just th
70 same ez paper money!
i Watts the use of talkin about
! change NV polisy when the people
n. al on brad grin?
: l hev only one more hope. Their
=, are seckshuns where corn is the prir
>. cipal crop, and corn may yit be de
we'd. A early frost in Sosthe
stru,> = do us some good r.
, Indiana might '-~ant with Ch
after tho Gssnno;n 'ha
wheat, l hS but faint hopes Oh
But, eff thTe Good be a frost tba.
, wood kill Lhe entire crop and thus
put up ts price Nv whisky and side
pork, it rould enrage that seekshun
and ensb bor that State for Tilden and
REFORM
, But Ihev no hope NV anythin. II
am so post to disappointment that
shood ie surprised at any sich streek
of lucE 1t don't do no good for me
to leo agin lamp post and swear
that prk can't be had in conscience |
of jon Sherman's reconstruckshen,
for De Bigler jeers and asks when /
eveFiid put in stroke Nv work any.
how And wunst when 1 was de-
clahin agin the scarcity NV labor, he
pune down by offerin me dollar
ap half day to go out and hoe
cfn on q farm he has, for which he
dbdent git labor enough. To give
any hope of success we must hey
ard times, in ded airnist, and reel
distress, and Nv that see no hope.
JNacher is agin US, and who can fight
'agin nacher?
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Distressed Financier.
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