News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-01-21
NASBY.
NHr. Nasty Goes Forth From the has
tile a Free Man What Was Done
AbOut HI.
from the Toledo Blade.


ers, feelin that we wuZ outraged by Une
retenshun in offs Nv a Niger P0stmaS'
ter which heZ held the pOslshen "a years
with one breef interval, pitched him out
onto the sidewalk on his disgustln tial
nose, and took posseshun Nv the place
and preceded to open the letters depos-
tied therein which was addreSt to the
Loozeaner Lottry Co. For thus assert
in nv rights | WuZ arrested and lncar-
serated in Basteel, wher Ihev langlsh-
ed ever sence. Yesterday ther cum from
Washington this breef message to the
Sheriff:
discharge Petroleum V. Nasty on
his own recognizance. He amt worth
proSecOOtln."
/ refoozed to go. The note addid in
suit to injery. To discharge me now
pervents my bein tried and shinin ez d
marter before the Dimocrisy Nv the
kentry, and besides to turn me out NV
my comfortable quarters in the Jale, In
the dead Nv winter, without giving me
the offs to live onto, is a outrage.
wuz ut least decently fed, and the jale is
warm, and BaScom did relent occaShun-
ally. to the pint NV Sendin me susie
nance, and altogether l wuZ dom very
well. What will BEGUN Nv me now l
don't see. 1t is a cold world.
NY releese wuz made the occashun Nv
a demonstration on the part Nv the cltl-
Zens, that is, a part OF the citizens.
Bascom, Deekin POgram, Issaker Gavltt
and Kernal M'Pelter embraced the OPP
portunity to git in sum fine work, and
they succeeded in gittin enough others
together at a meetin house to make a
respectable show. / WuZ escorted thith-
er, fur effeck, leanin on the arms Nv
BascOm and the Deekin, eZ tho the long
confinement he'd undermined my helth
and destroyed my strength. l wuz sect
ed in a chare, and perfeSsin too much
week.-mrs. to perside, the Deekin did it
fur me.
Bascom narrated the circumstances
Nv the case.
''Our friend and assoshate wuZ incar-
cerated," said he, g three months ago
loud cheers which drowndid his voice.
and he wuz jist released. Dismal groans
which also drowndid his voice, and cries
Nv 6 What did they want to let him
loose fur? 1t is cheeper to support him
in jale than any other way.")
Bascom seein that Their wuz no yooSe
in tryin to make speech, passed to the
reSOlOOShenS =
Wareas, No seckshun Nv the kentry
labored harder fur the triumf Nv Dino
cratic principles last fall than did the
DimOcriSy of the Corners, and
WareaS, No SeckShun Nv the kentry
adopted more hartily the prinsiples Nv
the Dimocrisy ez sot forth in the plat
form adopted at the Nashnel Dimocratic
Convention ez red to us from the LOOlS-
vile paper, and
Wareas, When we FINELY succeeded
in electin Dimocrat we he'd reeSOn to
expeck complete change in the offises
at the Corners and the film Nv the same
with friends Nv the Administration,
and
Wareas, The sed offices is still held by
the old incumbents, themeZ hez fatten-
ed onto the spoilS thereof for quarter
of a Gentry, the same never havin VOtid
a Dimocratic ticket in their lives, there
fore be it
Resolved, That wat the Dimocrisy Nv
the Corners, eZ well eZ the whole You
nited States, ment by DimocriSy is post
offs.
Resolved, That while we spose plat
form is necessity, and that it WuZ well
enuff to hev one to stand onto, and all
that, it don't meen enything and amt
bindin' onto any body after the eleck-
Shun.
Resolved, That Grover Cleveland af-
ter he wuZ elected to the Presidency, in
goin back and takin his stand onto tht
platform Nv the COnvenShun which
him, and RELY undertaken to
carry out it's precedent, and outraged
the party which hez hOnOred him.
Resolved, That we Nv the Corners
seein the Republicans in the otis demand
in thunder tones wat in blaZeS we are
better off than we wood hev bin he'd
Blame bin elected?
Resolved, That wunst more we de-
mand the immejit removal Nv the pres
ent incumbent Nv the offiSeS nv Post
master, Collector Nv Internel Revenoo,
and Collector NV Customs, and the ap-
ointment to them uvsSubStanShel D1mo-
Gratis, that beIn what we consider the
Dimocratic principles, fur which we fot
fur, which we respected fur, and fur
which we KEEP Niggers and Republicans
from the poles last fall, Dustin the beds
Nv such ez persisted in votin, remorse-
lissly.
Resolved, That we which contributed
to send KentuckianS to Injeany to vote,
maxim shoor the carryin Nv that State
for the Dimocratlc nominees, heV Jest
COZ for complaint at bein refoosed a
heerin when we demand the ofishal pat
ronage Nv the Dimocratic administra-
shen. Eff Civil Servis Reform don't mean
the turnin out Nv men which hev bin in
Oils nearly QudI CoI VI d otuGtIy, anu
SubStitootin in their places DlmocratS
which otherwise kin never pay their bar
bills, we want to know wat does.
Resolved, That the President in re-
foosin to see or listen to the frantic ap-
pealS Nv the DimOcriSy Nv the Corners,
heZ forfeited the respect Nv all troo
DimocratS.
Resolved, That feelin willin to meet
him more than half way we simply ask
that he write down eggSackly wat he
wants us to do eZ DimOcrisy, making
our assent thereto a condishin NV re.
ceVin Our commissions, and we pledge
ourselves to not only assent to EN-, but
to take affidavit that we bleeve in EN-.
Eff he kin lay down any set Nv opinyuns
that we won't accept we hev never bin
interdOosed to ourselves.
Resolved, That we sincerely mourn
the deth Nv the late vice-President and
just eZ sincerely wish we Good mourn
the deth NV the President, onless he
changes his tactics towards us. Men in
BascOm's boots and out of offs kin bear
heap Nv some kinds Nv grief.
Resolved, That the Dimocrisy Nv the
Corners want the offises, and will never
be satisfied till they git them.
The resolooshens were past yoonani-
muSly, and the meetin adorned to Bas-
CONS, wher in accordance to custom,
he set EN- up. That is how we git our
people together. took my glass and
said:
Bascom, Twill not do ez the common
herd duz, drink at your expense. Charge
this" To which he replied Never
mind. It's all the same to me whether
| stand treat or charge it. In fact it's
better to stand treat, fur thereby l save
the cost Nv the chalk and the labor NV
putin it down."
My fucher course is not determined.
At the present writin hev he'd my old
bed at the Deekin's, much to Mirandy's
disgust, and / hev my accustomed cor
ner in BaScom's. There is an occaShun-
al commershal traveller cumin to the
place, who invites me, and manage to
ring on sum Nv the people which hev
sold mule, and are reckless, and so |
shall get on. But every time L look
acrost the street and see Lubbock in
that pOstOffis, the iron enters my sole,
and life looks dark and dreary.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
free but still in bOnds.)
The current interest in the state of our
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