Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-10-10
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY.

REIhULEDM We NASBts
Mr. Nasby Encounters Mcsmerist, who
Puts Deacon Pogram Under tho In.
fiuouce.
From tho Toledo Bladel
CoNFEDEHtr \ ROADS
twich is In tho State NV Kentucky
September, 1881
Thor come TO tho Corners Yesterday
mesmerist wich claimed that by mys.
terious passis, NV wich he he'd tho nat
eral gift, he Good put any person into a
trance, in witch condishen he wood bo
enabled 10 penetrate the dim and misty
futur, and foretell wat wuz to happen.
declined to be expermented with, for
a reason. | don't want to know any.
thing about the futur, for feer that II
will so resemble the past ez to make me
sick. The past is quite enulf fur mo,
My past hez not bin so cheerful or to
indoose me to look forrerd into the
fucher, witch am shoor is to be nothir
but dismal repetishn. When think
NV the days hev gone thirsty, NV the
times hev bin kicked off NV francs foI
want NV money to pay fares, NV the
skirmishin hev he'd for food, NV the
experiences l hev bin compelled to re.
sort to fur eileen shirts, even goin so
fur ez to break my sleep by sittin up
till after twelve at mite that mite bor.
rer EN- of my nabor's line, NV all the
slings and arrors NV outrageous for.
choon that hev cndoorcd, don't want
TO know wat is to happen to me. ]
he'd ruther live in the fairy realms NV
hope, and take things OF they come. ]
kin endoor horrers singly, but | do moi
keer to encounter EN- when they are
massed in armies.
But, nevertheless, he'd curiosity tc
know wat wuz to happen, espeshly in
politikle way, and so [ indoost that
old Saint, Doekin Pogram, to submit
hisself to the Perfessor and take an eX-
cursion into the fucher.
The Perfesser made lot NV passes
over the Deekin's venerable he'd and
declared him sufficiently mesmerizod,
and asked the Deekin to say wat he
saw witch the Deekiu did thus:
al see, murmured the Deekln, his
eyes fixed on vacancy, "that pure and
gilelis citizen Cleveland in the Whits
House and that other pure and ire.
proachable man Beecher smilin be.
ninently onto him. / see in Cleveland's {
Cabinet quite another stile NV men thar
IiClu Which, DCN olll olbJtu Ill
tial councils for twenty-four years. Thei
is Jeflson Davis Secretary of State. and
| the other members are all Conlederii
| soljers wich distinguished themselves in
the CRATE struggle for the Southern sys
tenn.
II see in the Custom House and
| Post-offis at Moo Orleans aud Mobeel
and Atlanty, and all the other pints in
| the South, from the biggest to the
smallest, the Radikel Republicans
cleened out and ther places filled with
Confedrit soldiers. The Government
employees are not whisslin ez they GO
to ther work: Hale Columby' or The
Star-Spangled Banner but the sole.
Inspiring stranes NV The Bonnie Bloc
Flag and Dixie greet my ravished
ear.
81 see an eleckshun scene. The
Fedrel laws for the preservashcn nv the
integrity NV the ballot box hev bin re.
peeled, and the gentlemen NV the
South hev now the power in ther own
hands. They sit at the poles and they
determine who shell vote and who shel
not. There is not nigger in site, fol
ther day is over.
see the laws for the perteckshun
Nv niggers is all repealed, and the labor
NV the South is got back to suthin like
wat it shood be. The nigger isn't Q
slave no more, but he Gums ez clost tC
it ez is possible. He isn't permitted tc
testify in the courts agin a white man
he hez no vote, and he is, praktilly
wunst more servant unto hi;
brethren. hallelloogy.
:" l see still more gladder site wicl
warns the cookies NV my old hart.
see the debt made by the Confedracl
put onto ekality with the debt in
curd by the Fedrel Government, ant
bonds Ishood kiverin all alike. | SCI
Confedrt soliers penshund jist tn,
same ez Fedrel soljers, the Confederi
lice that it wuz only contest betwix
the seckshuns ez it were, bein adoptid
and one side is jist cz much entitled t.
considerashun ez the other.
al see the South made rich in conse
kence. The penshuns NV Confedri
soljers hez bin compootid with intres
from the close NV the war, and they he
bin paid in bonds which bare intrest q
four per cent. myself hev proved m
servis in the ConIedrit army, and he
in my pokkit now all my back pay.
al see all the property destroyed i
the South paid for in the same way.
hev myself bin paid for l13 mules cap
chered by John Morgan when he raide
, this part nv Kentucky and | see mysel
livin in comfort on the intrest.
81 see yoo, Parson, in the Post-olls O
the Corners, and me in the Collector
oils. / see Lubbock, the nigger, vic
hez held the place sence Grants fus
term, hangin to "A tree in front NV BaS
com's. and Pollock and Biglcr gittn on
Nv town, pursood by the infooriate
populis wich is thirstin fur ther blood
| see Bascom smilin from ear to car, G
we actilly pay fur drinks instid NV re
markin to him, "jist mark it down"
see the Fedrel oflises all over tn
broad land filled with Dimocrats,
sweepin change hcvin bin made in TIN
interest NV reform, from the highest /
the lowest, and the gin-mills rejoice wit
exceedin grate joy
81 SEQ the wheels NV time role
backward, and matters reversed tina
everything done by the Repub!ica
party for the last twenty-four years
. done away with, from the emansipa
shen NV the niggers to the ishooing u
Nashnel money.
( 81 see the costs NV Stonwall Jaxo
and Hood, and Forrest, and them he
oes, rise from their graves and jnc tn
korus nv latter ez they see wat the
fought and died for on the field realize
,y means of politikel ackshen.
81 see n Congrls wich will pass a
iorts NV appropriations for the Soutl
d a President who will not veto en-
see Seceshn erik slack watered, and
: custom-house in the Gross Roads. tn