Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-13
NaSby.

| MT. Nasby Assists nt a Convention of Democrats Who Wish to Ascertain the l Views of Their Candidate upon the. Va | riOus Questions that are Agitatfng the 1 Public Mind.
 GovERNoR's ISLAND, Wich is in the State uv Moo York. { hev bin for sevral days over at Govern ] or's Island assistin General Hancock ez asort uv doorkeeper, wich, inezmuch ez l am cer- 1 tin uv wat kin eat and drink, is 8 better l thing than the prekarious life I Iced at the Corners. Also, when the struggle is over, he ! can't, eff he is elected, help givin me some posishen sootable to my age and abilities. It scots me very well and shel stay here, pro bably, doorin the campane. hev succeeded in receivin quite an amount uv money, al ready from patriots wich wantid to be admit | tid to the presence out uv their turn. l Yesterday wuz feeld day. We he'd dele eashuns from almost every State in the Yoonyun, all wantin to know suthin about | the generals views on the various questions now before the people, and they wuz admit 1 tid one by one. The first wuz delegashun | from Moo York and Boston, wich wuz anx- \ shus to get his nohens on the inanshel ques- \ tion
 s'Representin" sed the spokesman s'the l great finanshel institooshens uv the kentry, | we ask for plain and explisit declerashen ez to your finanshel poGsy in the event uv your \ elecshun.
 never shall forgit the generals answer 'FEf there is any one thing above another" :" ! sed he, ''that wish to hev understood, it | is my posishen on this, the most important l question before the people. I want no equiv I ocashen, and even tho my views shood lose me votes, shel be ez plain and explisit ez ! cood be desired On the question of finance hold that the best polisy should be adoptid, regardlis uv consekences. Ther will be a | congris electid this fall, and that congris will pass bills and sich bearin' on this question. l From one standpoint I shood say that we needed more money, and from another less. 1 Whatever may be the differences uv opinion | on this great question, am thoroly convinst 1 that the Greenbackers uv 1njeany, in com | mon with the hard money men uv Moo York, | are ekally interested in pure government, and 1 that Is wat MT. Tilden in common with my self and John Kelly propose to give our com | mon kentry, for wich I fought and wood | hev died. Gentlemen, trust my anser to l your question is satisfactory. Elf not refer you to the nashnal Democratic committy.
 The committy retired and delegashun uv ! Greenbackers from 1njeany Wuz admitted. They wantid to know also.
 ''Gentlemen," said the great feeder, "ef l am distinguished for anything except military skill it is for directniss with my fellow-citi-
 zens. I am rejoiced that I hev an opportuni- ty uv anserin the queries wich may be put to me. In the matter currency, whether we need more or less, whether 1t should be re- deemable in gold, or not be redeemable in anything, is @ question on wich I need not
 say there are great differences uv opinyun. Elf it is best to have fiat-money, we must hev fiat money-ef, on the other hand, wat is 1 called sound money should be held to con- doose to the greatest good uv the greatest
 number, that is wat we want. But one thing 700 must bear in mind ez 700 go to your homes, wich is that eternal vigilan ce is the | .I- 1I1 IL J-Is uv General Washington wuZ wat brot the lzentry thro the Revolooshinary war. UV that I am entirely certain. But for that we | would be groanin' under the yoke uv British despotism and the beacon lite uv liberty wood not hev bin lit on this continent. I trust hev answered yoor question fairly and cleerly, and that 700 know my posishen. Elf there is l anything else 700 wood like to know, men, | shun 1t, and in the meantime Mir. Nasby will 1 show 700 some excellent Bourbon whisky in the adjoinin apartment"
 This committy got rid uv, ther come in
 one from the South, wantin' to know his 1 views on reconsideration and the status uy the Southern States, ginnerally.
 ''Wishin' to state my views on all the ques-
 tions afore the people frankly and fully, I am glad 700 are here In regard to the South
 ern question, the importance uv wich I rec
 ogniZe, hev to say that it hez been a rool
 uv my life to foller the best examples I hey l
 a naccount of wich hev jist bin reedin', was
 one uv the most brilliant on record, and that
 the settlement uv the questions involved in
 thet war wuz creditable to Amerikin
 statesmanship as the victories in the feeld
 wuZ to Amerikin arms. I know I shel be
 kivered with aboose by the interruptions op-
 posishen to the Dimocrisy, but shel never
 theless anser frankly all questions pro-
 pounded. trust, gentlemen, you are satis
 fed"
 This committy withdrew, and another uy
 niggers from South Kerliny, wich wanted tc
 get pledge that the Dimocrisy wood pertec
 em in ther rites in the event uv a success en
 tered
 The ginerel reserved em with the same UT
 banity that he did the others.
 I ''The condishen uv things in the South, ,
 sed he, 'is, I understand, to be deplored
 pervidin they are ez some accounts give em
 and not to be deplored eff they are ez others
 state em. It is safe to say, gentlemen, that
 700 will be perfected eff the condishen uN
 things is such ez make perteckshun necessa
 ry? Is the lrw uv our kommon kentry, wict
 is my pride, sich ez wood testify the Presi
 dent of the Yoonited States-''
 The gineral stopped very sudden here fol
 a delegashun of South Kerliny rifle clubs
 wich he'd heered the niggers wuz ther rushed
 past me, an woodent take no for an anser
 and got in anyhow. They insisted on the
 niggers gittin out, wich, ez they aint agoin tc
 be allowed to vote in the South anyhow, we considered entirely safe to do. We hustled
 em out without ceremony, and give awjence to delegashun uv Irish from the Sixth ward, Moo York, wich wontid sum definit pledge ez
 to the invashen uv Canady, in the interest uv
 Irish Independence, and subscripshen to
 the Irish skirmishin fund.
 The generals treatment uv the Irish wuz
 ez masterly ez the others. Be shook em cor jelly by the hand, and sed that the luv uv lib 1 erty wuz implanted in every Amerikin's bo- | som, and evry Irishman's ez we'll, and that l liberty wuz the birthrite evry man. 1 "Ceptin naygurs and Chinaze," interruptid l an Irishman. l He accepted the amendment-exceptin nig- | gers and Chinese, neither uv wich was fit to 1 be incorporated into the body politikle. But | uv one thing thar cood be no doubt. Robert Emmett wuz the gratist man the world ever l prodoost exceptin Danl O'Connel and the Irish citizens fought all the wars that this or | any other kentry ever he'd He cood lay his hand onto his hart and say he loved the Irish race. He felt that he he'd stated his posishen with sufishent cleernis.
 Ther wuz one skip in the arrangements wich hey alreaddy rectifed, wich is not get tin the different delegashuns off the island in different direckshuns. It is great mistake to let em git chance to talk with each other after they leeve. They compare notes and dror conclusions.
 They got to talkin outside, and one Noo Yorker exprest the sentiments of the others when he remarkt:
 Well, we've got a non n-partisan candidate anyhow. He hain't got politik-not a ad-d politik-''
 And another one sed that the general didn't know more about governmental matters than MickLellan, and he couldn't say more nor that
 Our feeders are satisfied with him however, and that is all they want. He agrees with every one uV 'en m rnaffar how wide ar1art they may be, and he hez determined to keep that way till after eleckshun and to trust to luck ez to wich he will foIIer.
 thank heaven for one thing. No matter wat his views may or may not be, we are ser tn uv the post offices. Them is my pollitix