The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19
Mr.. Nasby Advises the Democracy
CONFEDRIT x ROADS, J
(In the State Nv Kintucky,) ;
Nav Is. 1880.


principal biznis wuz writin fables,
(wat paper he writ em fur really
don't know, about dog witch wuz
crossin bridge with bone in hiz
mouth. He saw the shadder NV the
bone in the water, and thinkin that
tive bones wuz better than one. drop
ped the ore in hiz mouth to ketch
the other. Censekently he lost the
wun he ned without gittin the other.
The Dimocrisy is very mulch like
that dog. We hev in our mouth, iist
now, a very excellent bone. We
nev the Congris, the SENT and hev
the power to elekt the next Presi-
dent. Nv course we want to achieve
the possibilities, but wat folly it liz to
hazard wat we hev, on the mere
chance NV gittin more.
The south, wich liz the Democrisy,
iz in a very comfortable situashen
now. Ez 1 sed, we hev the Congris,
and we kin strengthen that Congris
to almost any extent next year.
Then ext year we kin, eff we play
our keerds right, elect President,
and then the entire government iz On
our hands, to do with ez we please.
With this comes the postoffices,
the custom house and the contrax-
everything that the Dimekratic pa
triots hey bin deprived NV fur twen-
ty long and weary years. and wich
every Dimekrat bankers fur ez the
hart thlrsts for the running water.
Awl this we are liable to lose, by
catchin at the bone that iz shinin in
the water, wich, like faith, iz simply
the promise Nv things hoped for.
How?
By the follow in NV the South. The
DImocrisy never he'd the ded woed
on anything they wantid that they
did not kick it ever by askin toe
much, and alluz asKin at the wrong
time. Wat iz the yoose NV urgin the
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in the war, afore we git the power to
pay the clames? Wat yoose iz it
to insist on the payment NV Suthern
patriots for their freed niggers afore
we kin hev the power safe in cur
hands to pay 'em? Wat yoose iz it
to ask for custom house at the Cor
ners, and the slack waterin NV Seces-
sion erik afore we heva C0ngris thro'
witch the necessary appropriashens
kin be slid?
The point now liz moderashun. The
South wants to be ez wise ez the SER
pent, and, jest now, ez harmlis ez the
dove. Espeshly ez wise ez the SER
pent. But the time will come-well,
l needn't say no more about it.
The proper thing fur the Dlmocri-
sy to do liz to sing verv small. We
want to nominate fur President the
most mild hammered man that ever
cut throat or scuttled ship. He
must be ez good ez a graduate NV the
Andover theological seminary, and a
man without a record. The candidate
fur Vice President must hev record
like sunday skewl teacher, and a
face wich will sustane hiZ record.
The platform must be solid on the
moralities, and hev nethin in witch
cud effend Connecticut deekin ther
must be nothin in it but the most ex-
allied patriotism, nothin but wat a
Andersonville primer cud endorse.
I. KNOWN both sides, cud write sich
platform, and it wud be one wich
even the most ardent Northern man
wud indorse; ii wudent say much,
but wat it did say, and wat it didn't
say, wudent meen nuthin.
After the eleckshun it would be an
other thing. When we hev our Presi
dent elscktid, and wen we have Con-
girls. beth branches, in our hands.
pessiblylt mite reed different. Posi-
bly, the platform witch didn't meen
nuthin mite blossom into possibilities
wich wud.make glad the Cross Roads.
Possibly the President mite recon-
mend the slack waterin NY Confedrit
erik under plank wich iRdorst lib
raj and wise internal Improvements.
Possibly the emancipated niggers
mite be pade for under the plank
wich insists on the doin away Nv SEX
shunal animosities, and possibly the
establishment NV slavery mite be ac.
complishsd again, under sum ar
rangement NV apprenticeship, or
whatever mite be deemed advisable
to accomplish so vital result.
But awl this cannot be accomplish
ed by the tactics which the party liz
adoptin now. The party hez got 20
lay low. 1t must hev more consilia-
tory people at the he'd. The North
IL skeery, and this amt the time to
skeer. Eff we are stoopid enuff to let
out awl that we want, we shell lose
! 1ua hAu Tho Tniannu nipnaIyrat