The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-23
A LETTER FROM NASBY.
Giving His Reasons Why Blaine
and Logan Should Not
Be Elected.

The Boston Traveller recently sent out cir
cular letter To n large number of eminent per-
sons asking them this question; Why IL the
election OF Blaine and Logan most desirable
for the country" Among other great men adj
dressed was the Rev. Petroleum V. Nasty. Ken
lucky apostle of Bourbon Democracy. That
eminent Democratic divine made the following
response:
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS
witch Is in the State NV Kentucky,
Sent 10, 1884.
To the Editur NV the Boston Trareiier:
You ask me TO give my rezons why Blame IL
Logan shood be electid. Perhaps 700 amt
aware NV whom VOC make this rekest Perhaps
yoor letter wuz addrcst to me by mistake, or,
perhaps, VOC intend to be SARCASTIC Eff you
RELY addrest the letter to me, 1t is a holler
mockery.
see no rezons why Blaine and Logan shood
be electid. Do you comprehend who am, and
wat hev suffered fur Dlmocrisy? Do 700 ask
one for rezons for the elecshun NV Blame and
Logan witch commenst his politikle career by
votin for Jaxon and who never differd with that
crate man but wunst, and that wuz when he
put down Seceshn in South Karlinyp
Kin 700 ask fur rezons fur votin for Blame and
Logan NV one witch cast his vote for every Dime
kratic President from Jaxon down, and many
times three or four?
L am Dimekrat. / votid for Bookannon, and
when the Radikels percipitated war by re-
foosn to give up Fort Sumter L emigratid from
Moo Jersey TO Kentucky that mite not be forst
10 take up arms agin the Dimekratic States.
wuz, however, drafted into the Confedrit
servis, from which desertid. not becoz l he'd
any objeckshun to the coz. but from con-
stooshnel dislike OF gunpowder and baynits.
But In desertin the Confederacy avoided the
scylla NV the Confedrit seryis only TO bump mp
agin the karybdis NV fedrel muskit carrytn. i
wuz drafted into the fedral army, and only es-
capped shedding fratrsidle blood by desertin one
night to Canady. Who kin descr be the agonies
endoored by myself and five others on tenn
pestuous mite on Lake Erie In open boatl Who
shell describe the deep disgust that awaited me
on the sakred sile OF Canady when l wuz COM
PEELED TO work fur Niger there or starve.
The fust ray of sunshine witch ever iumined
my dreery path, wuZ when Jonson split with the
radikels and give me the postoffis at the Cross
roads, That wuz n little heaven below. The
salary wuZn't much, but managed TO subsist
by stoppin the letters containing remittances
for lottery tikkets, which did on moral grounds,
spending the conuence thereof myself, ez pun
ishment to the senders. They laid the swindle
TO the lottery companies. But my zeal for re-
form worked agin my own interests, for after
awhile the people stopt main Their money But
L hev alluZ bin q marter to principle.
Wat wuz Blame dom all this time? He wuz
the rite hand NV the TRENT Linkin and wuz
| foremost among the persekooters NV the South.
Logani My gorge rises when L think NV
him. My regiment, the Loozeaner Pelikins, wuz
afore him wunst, and i never want to heer his
name. Gittin away from him and his deloodid
soljers KEEP me in swamp four DAYS and mites,
witch give me a roomatism witch still inkapasi-
tates me from labor, and the Fedrel Govern
| ment witch thus rooined me, physikelly, refooses
| to give me a penshun 10 soothe my declining
| yeers.
| Will Blame and Logan, ef they are elected, put
| us Confedrit sellers on level with the Fedrel
| survivors in the matter of penshuns? Deekin
| Pogram and Issaker Gavitt want to know Of they
will remoonerate EN- for the niggers witch they
/ freed, not only despoilin EN- NV their property
| but dispersin their and dawters TO the
! four quarters nv the globeP The last time
| wuZ in Cincinnati with Deekin Pogram we met
! one NV the deekins ante-war sons by a likely
mulatto woman, Mirandy, and he refot sed Ia
4 lend the deekin the price nv a sustaner for him
| and me. And the time wuZ when the deekin
owned that niger! Will Blame and Logan pay
| the deekin the valoo thereof in shekels NV gold
| and shekels Nv silver?
| Will Blame and Logan pay the deekin for the
property confscatid doorin' the War by Fedre
! sojers? VIII his elaine for mules and rale'
| confiscatid by the Fedrels, witch wuz rejectio
! becoz 1t wuz proved upon him that while he solo
| the Fedrel sojers watermelons doorin the day
| he bushwhackcd em at nite-will that elaine be
paid by Blame md logan?
| No. down here we see no reason fur votin ful
| Blame and Logan We shell vote fur Sheriff
| Cleveland or whoever the Democratic Nashne
| Committee put on in his place. We have votiC
the Dimocratc ticket till moss hez crowd OF
| our baX. and we shall continoo till the end. W.
can't change TO Republicans We can't com
mence warm eileen shirts and putin on stockin!
! in the summer at our advanced age. The noe
generashun now comm on may do IL, but w,
| can't. We can't quit moo whisky and doglel
| terbacker. nor kin the good deekin comIpens'
| learnin to reed at his advanced age. We she
not hev onlimtid niger laber any more, but w
hope with Demekratic Administrator to hey
the niggers that are with us so completely un
! der control that 1t will amount TO about thu
| same thing.
The Dimocrisy nv the Crossroads may b
| countid on ez solid and stedfast We see M
rezons why Blame and Logan should be elected
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
| linz the Same.1