Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-11-20

The following letter from Petroleum
Nv. Nasby is printed in the Toledo
Blade
CoNpEDERlT X. ROADe
(Which is In tho State Nv Kentucky,
November 0. 1884.
Never sence the fust battle of Bull
Run, when 1t wuz represented that the
Fedrel Army had bin entirely destroy.
ed and that the Confedrits wuz in pos
sesshun NV Washington, wuz there
sich q feeling NV abslo0t Joy In the
Corners ez Wednesday mite, when We
reserved the glad intelligence that our
noble standard barer, ex Sheriff Cleve.
land, he'd bin electid.
| The effect wuz electrikle. The over.
joyed Dimocrisy howled. Issaker Ga
witt footed the horn wich we use, OWN
to the fact that the money for q bell
wich wuz sent US by the Moo England
Church Extenshun Society happened
to come TO me ez the pastor, and Bas.
com KNOWN NV 1t made me apply q half
NV it to the lik widashun Nv bill at his
bar, and the other halt lost that mite
At . game Nv sen up with Dekin Pogram.
However, the horn does very we'll, ez 1t
Is one NV CRATE power and remarkably
soft in tone.
We wood hev he'd sp eeches, but Bas-
com, wich Is ass, wuz 80 full nv joy
that he spilled the hull thing by remark
\ in that his wife and son, Jefferson
Davis, wuz putin fresh oarl on tap,
and that the corners wuz welcome.
Good the citizens endoor stayin in the
meeting house under these circum-
stances? No indeed. There wuz q
Wild rush for his place, and the barl
|, wuz set runnin, and the mite wuz
sivin over to sich rejoicin ez seldom
falls to the lot NV man.
AT abOut 8 in the evenin / wuz
pulled out NV my chare and stood up
on whisky barl for q speech, he'd
skasely commenst when l wuz rOodly
pulled down. 1t wuz that feend, Joe
. Bigler, who remarkt that he felt very
much like maxim a speech hisself, and
when in the mood NV dischargin his
self he didn't want no interrupshen.
My friends" he commenst, 81 am
with yoo to-Dite to rejoice with voc
over the glorious results nv the cleo.
! shun."
. "You rejoice with us !" eggsclaimed
the surprised meetin. Why, yoo arr
black Republican"
"Troo," he replied, 900 tro0, bul
= still rejoice. l confess that havin o
:, family l hedn't the nerve +, vote fol
!. Cleveland, but nevertheless / rejoic,
that he is electid."
Give US yer reason" shouted tn,
leggscited multitood.
hev q reason and 1t Is good one
n kin git along under any sort NV Z
= Government but gentlemen, l he,
d children. i hev bin mitily concerned
!, ~ to wat will become Nv them when
= !, am gone, and consekeptly / want TO se'
!. how much NV strane d Government
i. kin bear and survive. The reason WHY
IL am glad Cleveland is elected ia that 6
Q this Government kin stand four yeer
= Nv sich man, and them which will b,
a behind him, 1t will endoor forever, fO
I. certainly we kin never possibly 81
ri anything wuss. Ef the people want I
= man wich Good rite that letter 70 Mrs
i. Beecher, and be ruther proud nv II
il ther Amt no danger Nv ther ever bein
Ie any thing but q republic on this cont
Q lnent. Et It stands that strane 1t vii
z stand anything.
" 81 rejoice becoz 1t Ia the carryin' oui
in one sense, NV our system. 1t 10 ou
Il proud boast that any one may aspire :
ID the Presidency. The eleckshun Tooi
-lday shows that that Is no vane boasl
d Anybody, l say anybody, after thil
q. may aspire to the Preidohcy, Of sich
ID man ez Cleveland kin git there.
q al rejoice over the eleckshun u
~ Cleveland becoz 1t wuz to be eggspecte
n. that sumtime in the histry Nv the R'
IN publik sich man shood, by some II
D. crutable decree NV Divine Providence
ts be elevatid to the Presidency, and / he
~ ~ rather the calamity would happe
as while am alive to endoor 1t, then
III TO hev It fall upon my innosent chi
Of drep. l kin stand 1t, for hev know
greet. l hev seen sich men ez Piert
and Bookapnon President, and kno
what 10 expect. But with my inn0seI
a q children It il different, and want tn
!. calamiiy y to come while 1 am alive IN
=, ~ kin sort o. comfort and sheeld on
4. Gen tlemen, am sick, but this feerf'
% 90 disgrace he'd to come some time. l n
no glad 1t hez come now"
no Then Josef staw ktd out nv the roo
n and we resoomed our rejoicin. Ba
=. =. CONS one barl didn't last long. Inc
:, much ez It wuz q certain thing that q
a. fedrel offises wood soon be ours he fe
1t safe to extend credit to sich ez wot
natreally fill them places, and we orde
o., ed recklisly. l amt shoor how much
On ~ am in nor is Bascom, for he hadn't Il
|, next morning time to fggerup The bool
.p but l think must have ordered at lea
$50 wuth myself The credit system
70 dangerous, for 1t Is 80 easy to ord
m when you don't hev to pull the mon'
n out NV yer pokkit and pay.
~ l don't keer, however. The postof
"a is mine and when / am drorin N
" salery l kin pay him orr by insta
mence.
The festivities wuz kept up till ds
lite, and the heft Nv the Corners sl'
az on his floor, wat little sleep they &c
~ ~ 1t wuz glorious celeDrashen of 81
@on @ rious event. Half the toasts that W,
20 drunk wuz to the Prohibitionists
10 Moo York, whose zeel fo- st. John 9
w. shoored the elecshun NV Cleveland, al
~, struck aeth blow at the Temperan
W fanaticism wich seriously threaten
us even In Kentucky. Out Nv the Il
barls of whisky consoomed. three
-, en- wuz to our Prohibition friends. L
~ Probibitionists and the rum mills
-, 90 York did the bizDis.
W My heart IL overfiowin. 1t is t
a,s fust gleem NV sunshine hev seen
o -, twenty five years.
for Halleloojy
'o' PETROLEUM V. NAsBY. (Full.
Mrs. M. A. Fitzpatrick, formerly
Philadelphia, wishes to inform ,
eet patrons that she Is now prepared with