Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-10-14
NASBY.
Mr.. NAsBY FINALLY GETS HIS PosToFFIcE-
WHAT HAPPENED.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS, J
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky ;
Sept. 26, 1886. }

Sept. 20, 1886.
| Halleloogy The kentry is saved. Last
night my comishn ez Postmaster at the
| Confedrit X Roads, wich is in the State NV
Kentucky, reached me. and the good ole
Corners is saved the disgrace Nv reseevn its
male at the hands Wv an disgustin nigger.
My appointment wuz made in the interest
Nv Civil Servs Reform. His Eggslency the
President held out long time agin maxim
the change, but when it wuz represented to
him that Lubbock, the ngger incumbent,
| bed held the place for 25 yeers, with site
outin when Johnson wuz President, he felt
it necessary that ther be a change, beeoz 10
so long a time he felt that ther must be rea-
| son for suspectin suthin in the way Nv cor
| rupshen. Sed he to our Representative
Il don't know Wv a Democrat wich Good
| hold offs % yeers without stealth suthin,
and am not goin TO admit that the inferior
Republikin Afrlkin is any better than the
| proud Democratic Cawcashan. Ny expert
ence teeohes me that Lubbock must be a
| theef and shood be removed
| Consistently hev the place and a blessed
| cam rests upon the Corners.
Their never wuz a more exctiner time
/ than when the nooze that he'd reserved nv
! commishn got out in the Corners. The peo-
/ pie poured out en- maSSe, and insisted that
| shood enter to-wuust upon my dooties. |
( remarkt TO EN- that my bond he'd yit to be
/ made out afore | Good take posseshn, but
/ they wooden'the er to il. They organized in
/ 10 a perceshen in front Nv Bascom's, and
/ under the eggscitement Nv the occashun, he
! Civ EN- all credit TO stiff drink. The per-
( eeshn wuz a bootiiul site. 1t wuz headid BY
4 Deekin Pogram, VINO impervised banner,
/ onto wich wuz written; May the Internal
/ Revenoo foller the Post Offs in short
| metre
/ Next cum lssaker Gavitt with my COM
/ lshn onto pole, with the inscripshen In
/ this sine We eonker," and after that cum
/ every Democrat in the Corners, and crate
I many Republicans They poured into the
offs and pitched Lubbock out neck and
I crop, and triumphantly installed me in his
place.
coodent understand the enthooslasm
wlch the masses exhibited, for hev never
J bin IN the habit Of considrin myself a very
poper man, but | wuz not KEEP long in the
dark ez to the movin and impellng coz. It
WIZ not so much love for me ez it wuz the
fact that
OWE EVERY MAN II THE CORNERS
Now, said vun Nv the most noisy
! cheerers, NOW that 700 hey got yoor place
for wlch We hey waited long, Nv course
/ yoo will mmejltly pa, me the ten dollars
yoo borrered me % long and dreary
yeers ago. am not going to play any
. Shy lock onto yoo--I am going to be lbral
/ shel throw OFF the interest. and take
the original so"
Aoor kindnts never shtI forgt,' | muir
. fl bsa MI
esi-now Will yoo a.so kindly consent thet
shel throw of the prlnspIe' 1t is troo
don't do ~ teHy job Nv THROWN of ez
loo DO. but am ekal 10 1t. With such an
ehItahie arrangement ez that, how eezy
( settlement between US becomes Let Us
commence the thrown of blznis to-wunst,
and gei onto sound tinanshel basis. IF
Their is ANYTHING ,het hate It ls debt, and
wood be relieved ez soon Is possible
o my horrer,the on.eelin man utterly re-
fao]ed to do ANYTHING Nv the kind. and
"nen sot back into my chare and asked
HIM what he was going to do about 1t, ther
wuz slch pandemoHum broke loose es it
hes bin seldom my lot 70 wIlnis E'ery
man "ich he'd SHOUTED hissef huarse in the
perceshun n honor Of my apartment cum
iorrerd with hIs bill and demanded immejit
payment.
In 'ane insisted that It wuz all wrong,
ina! had not dr"red penny NV IN! salary
ez !ll' that they coodent expect to git any
money uI my hrst quarter "uz paid, and
that even then all they Good expect wood be
an lnstallment, ez II "oodent be fair to pay
one and leave the rest out, and tha: infz-
much ez the ndehtednis wuz so large that
the dividend each wood receive out uv the
, 'iFst quarter salary wood be so smait ez TO
: do them no good. and ez IN lump It wood
do me power Nv good, why dividend at
all j.: sed all this to EN-, but It did 40 good.
hey ho"!ed for Their money, and swore ef
did not pony up, wunst, they woo0 tear
me lin from lin
benIus stood me 10 good stead pst az this
critIkte pint. \ happy thought struck me.
riz and waved my hand over the eggscted
muItItood. and they sank back INTO silence.
"Gentlemer,' sed |. 81 recognize your
rte to be paid, and you shell be paid"
''Ror " shreekt every wun Nv EN-.
Silver and gold hey nun, but sich ez
hey give unto thee. shel pay you-nev
er teer. perpose TO execoot my notes 70
eech uS you, for the amount | owe, prIns-
pie and interest Now these notes are new
er TO be pad, IN the world.
Nv at good will they do US, then ?" the
infants IN finance demanded.
''Wat good 1t will be yoor fault eff yoo
don't make EN- jist ez good ez anybod,s
money. III yoo will agree among yoor
/ selves to recognize EN- ez cash, to take en-
IN exchange for the produx w the earth,
Jlst the same ez yoo do any other paper
money, They will answer the same purpus ez
any ether money. All you hev TO do, TO
make perteck currency NV EN-, is to con-
tlnyoo to take EN-. The greenbax and nash
mel bank currency is based upon the public
debt this currency will be based upon my
debts. Nay more, in order that the Corners,
wich love, shel hev an abundant currency,
am wiln TO 90 deeper into debt. Ef any
wun Nv 700 hev a mule, or wagin, or
gun. or a watch, or any other property,
Will buy 1t and pay for it in my notes, Nv
| denominashens w 81, 80 and 50, for con-
yenyence, and yoo yoose these notes jst the
same ez money. So long ez voc take EN-,
they go ez money and are money. Passin
from hand to hand, industrousy, they will,
ez matter Nv course, wear out, and then it
will be my pleasin dooty to make out moo
ones, wich will do cheerful,y Wv course
can't pay interest on this paper, fur eff
| shood, any one NV yoo wict is able bodied,
and .emperit, so ez to live long in the land.
| wood, evenchooally, own the airth. But YOU
| shood not ask fur interest, for don't 700 see
700 git yoor prinsiple, and any man wat gifts
| his prinsiple Nv me is doom a mity hefty