Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-29
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 large number of eminent per-
sons asking them this question: Why is 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, :
Sept 10, 1884. J
To the Editur Nv the Boston Traveller:
You ask me to give my rezons why Blame d
Logan shood be electid. !, Perhaps VOC amt
aware Nv whom 700 make this rekest Perhaps
yoor letter wuz addrest to Inc by mistake, or
perhaps, VOC intend to be SARCASTIC Eff you
RELY addrest the letter to me, it is a holler
mockery. -H.s
see no rezons why Blaine and Logan shood
be electid. Do you comprehend who am and
wat hev suffered fur Dimocrisy? Do 700 ask
one for rezons for the elecshun NV Blame and
Logan witch commenst his politikle career by
votn for Jaxon, and who never differd with that
| CRATE man but wunst, and that wuz when he
put down Seceshn in South Karliny?
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 aRnd many
/ times three or four?
| l am Dimekrat. votid for Bookannon, and
when the Radikels percipitated a war by re-
| Moo Jersey Jo kentucky that mite not be forst
| to take up arms agin the Dimekratic States
1 wuz, however. drafted into the Confedrit
servis, from which l desertid, not becoz he'd
| any objeckshun to the coz, but from a con-
| stooshnel dislike of gunpowder and baynits
But in desertin the Confederacy / avoided the
scylla Nv the Confedrit servis only to bump up
| agin the karybdis Nv tedrel muskit carryin. /
wuz drafted into the fedral army, and only es-
capped shedding fratrisidle blood by desertin one
| night to Canady. Who kin descr. be the agonies
| endoored by myself and five others On a tenn
| pestuous mite on Lake Erie IN aopen boat Who
| shell describe the deep disgust that awaited me
on the sakred sile of Canady when l wuz COM
PEELED 20 work fur niger there or starve.
| The fuSt ray of sunshine wich ever nlumined
my dreery path, wuZ when Jonson split with the
radikels and give me the postOtfis at the Cross
| roads! That wuz a little heaven below. The
| salary wuzn't much, but managed to subsist
1 by Stoppin the letters containing remittanceS
for lottery tikkets, which did on moral grounds,
spending the conJence thereof myself, ez a 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 mailin Their money. But
l hev alluz bin a 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.
Logan! My gorge rises when think Nv
him! Ny regiment, the Loozeaner Pelikins, wuz
/ afore him wunst, and 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 roOmatism, witch still inkapasi-
! tates me from labor. and the Fedrel Govern
| ment witch thus rooined me, physikelly, refooses
| to give me a penshun TO soothe my declining
yeers.
/ viii Blame and Logan eff they are elected put
| us Confedrit soljers level with the Fedre
| survivors in the matter of penshuns? Deekin
! Pogram and lSSaker GaYitt want to know eff they
/, will refnoOnerate EN- for the niggerS witch they
freed, not oily despoilin' EN- their property
but disperSin' their sons and dawterS to the
four quarters Nv the globe? The last time /
| wuZ in Cincinnati with Deekin POgram we met
! one Nv the deek1n 5 ante-war sons by likely
mulatto woman, Mrandy, and he refoused to
lend the deekin the price Nv sustaner for him
and me. And the time wuz whea the deekin
owned that niggerl VIII Blame and Logan pay
the deekin the valoo thereof in shekels Nv gold
! and ShelzelS Nv silver?
| VIII Blame and Logan pay the deekie for the
property contiscatid doorin the War by Fedrel
sojers? Will his elaine for mules and rales
coniscatid by the Fedrels, witch wuZ rejected
! becoz it Nvuz proved upon him that while he sold
the Fedrel sojers watermelons doorin the day
paid by Blame and logan?
| No, down here we see no reason fur votin fur
4 Blame and Logan We shell vote fur Sheriff
| Cleveland or whoever the Democratic Nashnel
Committee put on in his place We have votid
the Dimocratic ticket till moss heZ crowd on
our bax, and we shall continoo till the end We
can't change to Republicans. We can't COM
mence WARM eileen shirts and putin on stockins
in the summer at our advanced age. The moo
generashun now comm on may do it, but we
can't. We can't quit MOO whisky and dogleg
terbacker, nor kin the good deekin commense
| learnin to reed at his advanced age. We shel
not hev onlimitid niger laber any more, but we
| hope with Demekratic Administrator to heV
| the niggers that are with completely I'M
! der control that it will amount to about the
same thing. - 49,
The Dimocrisy NV the Crossroads may be
countid on ez solid and stedfast. We see no
| rezons why Blame and Logan should be elected.
4 PETROLEUM Y. NASBY,
.tt. (a11uZ the Samnl