Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17
WAITING FOR THE spo1Ls.
! The Result of Mr.. Nasby's Attempt to
Corral the Postoffice.

IL A BAsTEEL, CoSFEDERIT Z RoADs
witch is in the State NV Kentucky. Sep
TENDER, lSS5.-The blow hez fallen. Liber-
ty aud jestis hez bin outraged in my person.
l am languishin in a Basteel at the Cor
ners, with my compatriots, Basconl, Issa-
ker Gayitt, Kernel n Pelter and Deelin
Pogram, and to make the pane more akoot
and the sufferin more intense the blow wuz
inflicted by q man witch l voted fur, Grover
Cleveland
Wishin to relieve the President of the re-
sponsibility of remoyin the niger, Lub-
book, witch hez yooserpt my Post Offs for
| the past twenty years, exceptn the one in
teryai that Androo JOnso:. Wuz President,
by the lucky removle Nv that goriller, Lin
kin, We seezed the place pitched the niger
out in the street onto his nose, and took
possesshun Nv the Office.
Possibly the removle wuz irregular but
wat wuZ we to do? The President he'd
gone mp into the Adirondax fshin, levin
| me out in the cold, without the mems NV
compassin drink, and after his return he
paid no attention to our agoniZin sppeels.
Wat WIZ we TO do2 Why, we did wat
| any freemen shood hey done, we asserted
our rites by forse. We made up our minds
that the civil seryis law wuz unconstoosb-
| mel, and we abrogated it. That is the way
the Corners hev ai!uz done, and we did il.
| We took wat wuz our own in our own way.
| Wuz that niger, Lubbock, to continner
| IN the Post Offs wich belonged to me?
Never
Wat happened2 Why, a Yoonited States
Marshef, BARN the authority of the Gov
| eminent, cum into the offs ten days after
we seized it, reinstated the Niger and ar
| rested the hull bilin NV Us for histin him
ont, and we WIZ ANONYMOUSLY taken TO
jale, and are to be tried in the Yoonited
States Courts, with the brillyant prospeck
Nv imprisonment for twenty years.
am willin to die and be gathered 10 my
fathers. Life hes no charms for me, and
the fnel eend cannot come too soon. l am
writin in my dreery cell. Out of the little
winder | kin see into the winder Nv the
Post Offs, where Lubbock sits smilin. &C.
cashunly bowin to me ez he sees my eager
face throu the bars In derishun he put up
my demijohn in full site, and goes thro the
moshuns Nv takin drink from it, GRIMM
like baboon ez he sees the anguish on my
face. Pollock and Joe Bigler cum in ever
| and anon, and they also grin at me with a
expreshun that drives me mad. | shell go
insane ef this containers much longer.
| never understood or appreciated the
fable NV Tantalus afore To see my demi-
john in the hands Nv another man, to hev
II so clost that | Good almost hear the CUR
gle Nv the refreshin flood and not be able
to even smell the refreshin drink, wuz too
| much. Tantalus wuz surrounded with wa
ter and wuz not permitted to drink.
think | Good endoor to see Lubbock foolin
with water and smile serenely, but too see
him with demijohn NV whisky, out NV
my reech, wuZ suthin terrible.
From this cell |, a marter. appel to the
Dimocrisy Nv the kentry. We hey bin be-
trayed. We hey not electid Dinocrat.
We hey not got wat we voted fur. Where
are the offises Who is holden en- Is it
the Dimocrisy wich bore the beet and bur
den Nv the day or is it the eleventh hour
converts whose noses are not yet colered
and who still ware eileen shirts?
Grover Cleveland is evidently panderin
TO the better element Nv his party. or is
tryin to be respectable by continoon Re-
publikins in offs. lam lauguishin in jale
and Lubbock, a Niger appinted by Grant,
IS holdln the place TO wich hev prescrip-
tive rite. Bascom's place is bein run by
his wife, and the fires have gone out in
M Peters Distillery. Mirandy Pogram is
cuttin fire wood, tho she don't complane
She SEE she don't keer how long they keep
her father in jale ez she finds it easier to
pervide for herself alone than it is 10 take
keer Nv him also l persuaded the Deekin
to beseech w her to sell suthin and send
MN the proceeds, that we might prokoor
ever so little sustenance to sooth US in our
atfiickshens, but she hartlesly refused
Baseom won't send fur drop fur US, and
NJ Pelter refooses to advance even 4 pint
am dryer than u lime kiln, and the cotton
l spit wood supply a Lowell factory.
viii the DimocriSy stand this2 Are we
to git within site nv the promised land and
then die of thirst without occupying it? Is
there no relief to cum to us2 Is it possible
tibet | shell hey to turn Republican to git
the place that belongs TO me?
How long oh, Lord how long?
PETRoLKUM Y Massey fpe,pairinl