Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

Mr. Nasby, Who Is in How York on Political Business, Interviews Several Distinguished People and Proposes a New Ticket. > Confed kbit X Roads | (which is in the State uv Kentucky), > Aug. 12. — , y -7 + I cum to Noo York to attend a meetin uv the Independent Republikins, which have boltid Blane and perpose to elect Cleveland, to see egsackly wat they mean to da I wuz forchnit in my time uv comin, for there wuz a meetin uv em the nite I struk the Metropolis. There wuz present George Wil yum Curtis, Carl Shurts, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and others to tejus to mention. 1 can’t say they greeted me with that corjalitv which ought to eglst atwixt brethern engaged in a commofl Coz, and I am satisfied that the ginooine Democrisy uv the kentry kin never work in harmony with em. They are altogether ondesirable, wich wuz, evidently, leveled at me. Out uv deference to these finlky-men I bed borrored a shirt from a clozeline at 1 a. m. to come to Noo York in, and hed only wore it a week. Wat do they want? Wood they hev a man hev a thousand shirts? They ot to see that shirt a week from now. George Wilyum Curtis snifed at my breth, and Henry Ward Beecher refoosed to speek to meat al. However, I don’t mind trifles like that. ;1 mingled with ’em affably. method uv conduktin the campane on the part uv the Independents, and Mr. Curtis spoke fust. Mr. Curtis remarked that he hed Idled the Republikin party, originely becoz uv the depravity uv its candidate, the tat oed Blaine. It wuz his originel ijee that he cood never suport a man wich hed any stane onto his caracter uv any kind. But his views hed undergone a modificashen recently. He hed originely intended to eliminate polytix from the campane entirely—and hed notified the Dimocratic Nashnel Comity to that effeck—and fit it out purely on the sooperior morality uv Mr. Cleveland, but his views hed undergon a serins ciiange sence a subsized pres hed charged Mr. Cleveland -with sedoosin a wiflder and bein the father uv a ilegitimit child A voice from the awjense—"And proved it, too.” “I admit the corecshun. And proved It. I hev sence desidid that the bringin uv the persnel caracteruycandidates into the canvas is alYong. For the time bein, I only a.-kofishl purity uv a candidate. Wat hez the Wider Halpin to do with civil cervis reform? Wat hez the Wider Halpin to do withMyself—'The.postoffises! ” “Wat hez the Wider Halpin or the child, Oscar Folsom. Cleveland, to do with purifyin Amerlkin politix? Nothin. This campane must now be tot on them ishoos, and none others." The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher spoke next. “Es I sposed,” sed Mr. Beecher, "that Mr. Cleveland wuz actily gilty uv the henyus sin that has been charged to him, I supose I cood not cflnshienshusly vote for him. A man in public life hez no rite to indulge in sins m sich a way that it can be proved again him. Ruthur than hev it proved agin him he hed better keep virchus. In a matter uv this kind the onpardonable sin is to hev it proved agin yoo. 1 kin sympathize with Mr. Cleveland, for I have bin slandered myself. Yu all remember the painful circumstance. But I wuz sure of my ground. I wuz acquitted. My peple all elieved that, while I wuz inosent. Elizabeth was guilty, and I most ernestly hope that our noble standard-bearer is fixed the same way. W’e care not how guilty Mrs. Halpin may be considered, but we must doubt the gilt uvMr. Cleveland. And, after al, I shel vote for him anyway. Sez the Holy Scripters, ’Let him wich is without sin cast the fust stone.’ To forgiv is divine. We all need forgivenes. Sposen Theodore hed succeeded in huntin me out uv my pulpit wat w ood Brooklyn, and the Independent Republikin organizashen, and the world hev lost? When the purifyin uv the polytix uv this great kentry is under considerashen it is idle to take into account sich a trifle ez the seduckshen uv a woman or the abduckshen uv a child, or trifles like that. We stood keep our eyes fixed stedily onto wot we sot out to do—the establishment uv richusnis in polytix, Not wun uv us kin vote for a man like Blaine, whose caracter is smirched.” It was my turn to chip in, wich I did ez follows: : “My friends and co-workers," I remarkt, “I bring yoo glad tidins uv grate joy. The charges made by a venal and subsidized pres agin Mr. Cleveland don’t affect the Dimocrisy uv the Corners at al. That feend, Joe Bigler, sposed it would hev sum efeck upon the Democrisy, and he sposed that we wood denouns a man for such misdemeanor, and demand his retirement from the tikit. We held aipeetin to consider the mater and Josef fixed to put us ..to confusion, wich is his prinsiple business. He gathered together a hundred or more mulattoes, the most of em over 30 years uv age, bein the sole reminders uv the' old patriark system wich the Republikin party destroyed, al uv em barein the honored names uv Pogram, McPelter, Gavit, and Guttle, andal uvem the Pograms, Gavitta, McPelters, and Gutleses to a wonderful degre. He gathered together these niggers, and brot em to the meetln-house, and intendid to spring em on us jist after we hed pased a resolooshen denounsin Cleveland for hevin bin the father uv a ilegitimit child! Did ne put us to confooshun! Not any. I quoted the passage uv skri.pter wich my trend Mr. Beecher jist quotid and we resolved, ez yoo are doln, that this campane must be sot out on the grate prinsiple uv reform in polytix, and that in sich a site the privit caracter uv our candidate hed nothin watever to do with it. It is entirely proper to assale the privit caracter uv the Republican candidate, becoz the Republican party lay clame to respectability, but it is not proper to assale the privit caracter uv cur candidate, becoz we don’t make no sich a clame. Inesmush ez Joe Bigler kin git together a hundred niggers who beag the noses uv a skore uv our best Dimocrats, shel we condem Cleveland, wich is only charged with a half dozen? Dimocrisy must be consistent. The charges agin Cleveland will make votes for him in the Comers. Ez we sympathised with Mr. Beecher some years ago, so we sympathise with Cleveland now. Indeed wer it not for the reccord the grate Hendrix made, ez an unflinchin oponent of a crooel War wich deprived us uv our privileges we shood insist that he resin from the tikit that we might substitoot the name uv Henry Ward Beecher. “An now that 1 think uv it that is wat we want to do. We want a symetrikel tikit. Grover Cleveland is best known by the peple nv the Yoonited States, by his conexions with the Wider Halpin, and Henry Ward Beecher by his connexion with the Tilton family. Let us make the tikit symetrikel. Let it be CLEVELAND AND BEECHER! "Es we succeed in electin’ em, the peples idea uv jestis kin be don. Mrs. Halpin and Mrs. Tilton, both uv wich are in stratened circumstances, km be given posishens in the Treasury Department, and they will be pervided for and everything made lovely. “This wood be a symetrikel tikit, and a wellbalanced tikit, a tikit both ends of wich wood come together, like a snake with its tale in its month. I move that the Democratic Nashnal Cowimitty be advised uv the ackshen uv this meetin’ ane rekested to make the change towunst.” . The matter wuz taken under considerashun, and we meet tomorror evin’ to deside unto it. May wisdom guide their councils. I don’t like to see Hendrix shelved, but the war ishoos are old, and noo ishoos hev arizen. We shel remember his services to the Confederacy with gratitood, but everything must be sacrificed for success. The postoflices is our goal, and to gain them we must run faithfully and strongly. Petroleum V. Nasby, (Manager.)