Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1874 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

[From the Toledo Blade.] Tbe Democracy the Corner* Moot 1* Ceaveattoa aad Resolve—How They Lived Up to Their Resolutions. Cokvxdu* X Roads, ) (Wich is in the State mr Kentucky), V Sept. 19, 1874. | The Dimocrisy uv the Corners hev felt, and do feel, that watever they may hold ez their private opinyuns ez to men and things, they hev no rite to jepardize the prospex uv the party in the Northern States, wich, after all, is to be the battlefield in the contest wich is comin on, wich will decide the fate uv the party. The Corners is liberal, like other Democratic localities, in the matter of resolooshens. We kin resoloot with a loosenis that hez never yet been ekalled, and do it with sich sincerity ez wood carry convickshen to any sole —wich never seed ÜB. Feelin that the people uv the North ought to be disabused uv the idea that the Dimocrisy uv the Comers wuz not friendly to the colored people whose lott is cast amongst us, ana feelin that the fact that we cherish a abidin affeckshun for em ought to be understood, I called a eonvenshun uv the white Dimocrisy, that our troo sentimence on this question mite be given to the world. We gathered in force. I took the cheer, and the following resolooshens were yoonanimously adopted: The Dftnocriey of the Confedrit Cross Roads In convenshnn assembled, beleevin that the troo feelin uv the Dimocrisy uv the South toward the colored people Is misunderstood, and feelin anxshns that the sed misapprehenshun shood be removed and that the Corners espeshelly shood be set rite afore the world, do hereby set forth the follerin ez their platform uv prinslpples: Resolved, That the Dimocrisy uv Confedrit X Roads accept the results uv the late onpleasantness in good faith, and pledges thelrselves to stand by the same forever and ever. Resolved, That the Dimocrisy nv Confedrit X Roads hev alluz accepted the abolishun nv slavery ez final, and hev neither desire nor disposishnn to agin see their colored brethren in bondage nv any kind watever. Resolved , That the Cross Roads challenge any locality in the North of ekal populashun to show more people wich kin accede to the sentimence uv these resolooshens with more heartiResolved , That we heartily concede the entire ekality uv the colored men nv the Corners with the Caucasian Dimocrisy and guarantee to em all the rights, privileges and immunities that we possess, and pledge ourselves to see em pertected in em. «. Resolved, That the rite uv the colored men uv the Corners to exercise the sacred privilege uv the ballot we not only concede, hut we pledge ourselves to pertect em In it at all hazards. Resolved, That we are not the enemies, but the friends uv our colored brethren, and we put the seel nv our everlasting condemnashen on all attempts to bring about anythin that hez the slitest appearance uv a war uv races. Resolved, That we condemn vehemently and unreservedly all acts nv violence toward our colored brethren; and we pledge the Corners that, loving our colored brethren ez we do. nothin uv the kind shel ever occur here, hut that the colored men. of this visinity shel live under their own vines and fig-trees (es they have em to live under), with none to molest nor make em afeered. These resolooshens wuz passed yoonanimously. Bascom insisted that there shood be no disenshen, for discushen, he remarkt, took time, and to him time wuz money. While the Corners wuz in the meetin-house discussin, the Corners wazn’t at his bar a drinkin, and he despised discushen. The resolooshens waz all rite, envhow. And so they wuz adopted, and the meetin adjourned.

I went away from that meetin-house tollably well pleased. I hed got the Corners committed to a line uv polisy wich wood satisfy the people uv tfle North. Them Republikins soured with Rupublikinism, but which dassent trust us to take keer uv the nigger, coodent find no fault with these resolooshens, and mite safely trust themselves with us, on a platform so broad and comprehensive. To me the prospex uv theDimocrisy wuz never so brite; But my pleasure wuz uv short durashen. While we wuz at Bascom’s takin a soshel drink, Issaker Gaytt saw passin a nigger wagon-maker who lives at the lower end uv the village. “ That villin,” sed Issaker, grittin his teeth, “ dunned me for ten dollars for repairs onto my wagon yesterday, and my father yoozed to own that nigger!” “Infamus!” shouted they all in korus. “ And only nite afore lastl hed a ham’ stolen from my smoke-house, wich, I am satisfied, that nigger must have stolen.” I wuz glad to hev that ham fastened onto a nigger, for I hed paid Bascom a ham on akkount the mornin Issaker missed it. It takes good financeerin for me to live here. By this time the nigger hed got home, but Issaker’s rage wuz a bilin feendishly. “I am goin to hev pay for that ham out uv that nigger!” yelled Issaker, drawin his revolver. “ But the nigger is home and safe by this time,” I sed, hopin to stem the tide uv his wrath and save ourselves. “ Let it rest.” “Never!” sed Issaker; “never! I owe a dooty to society. That nigger may be home and out uv reach, but there are enuff others layin around loose. Shel niggers steal my hams and go unpunished?” And Issaker sallied out follered by the entire Corners. They didn’t find the individjle nigger that Issaker believed stole his ham, but they found a brother in-law of hizzen, wich Issaker shot at sight, but didn’t quite kill him. The wretch had no more sense than to stagger to his feet and seeze a stun and heave it at Issaker. The crowd, uv coorse, coodent stand any sich signs uv insubordination on the part uv this inferior race, and they cluDbed him till his inferior soul left its earthly tenement and winged its way to wherever the souls uv niggers go.

The blood uv the Corners bein up, there wuz no yoose attemptin to stop it. The wrongs inflicted on Issaker Gavitt demanded prompt reparashen, and it wuz had. The nigger he had accoosed wuzn’t found, but some six others wuz, and they suffered in his stead. Wot remorse will haunt that nigger’s mind when he contemplates the fact that his keepin out ov the way uv bein killed cost six others their lives! It is jest like em. The trouble ran on late into the nite. The niggers hev a trick uv keepin out uv the way when the blood uv the Corners biles, but they can’t take their schoolhouses with em, nor all their portable property. The school-house at the edge uv the village wuz burned, and quite a number uv wagons and wheel-barrers and sich belongin to em, wich we gathered, wuz consoomed to make a decent bonfire. Ez this fire occurred at about five in the momin and ez the mail closed at seven, I didn’t stay to see it out. I got back to Bascom’s and made a fair copy uv my resolooshens, that they mite so North for publicashen in good shape. espeshelly desire to reashoor our friends in the North. Petroleum Y, Nasby, . CWich wuz Postmaster.)

—“Oh, no, dear Charles,” said the widow to her cousin on their return from the funeral obsequies of the lamented, “ nothink—no, nothink can e’er assuage my grief. But, for my friends’ sake, i must live on; and if you could order half a dozen of those nice softshell crabs and a porter-house beef-steak (rare) from around the comer I will try to be unselfish glove’s §&ks.”