Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — A LETTER FROM NASBY. [ARTICLE]

A LETTER FROM NASBY.

Giving His Reasons Why Blaine and Logan Should Not Be Elected. The Boston Traveller recently.sent out a circular letter-to a large number of eminent persons asking them this question: “Why is the election of Blaine and Logan most desirable for the country?” Among other great men addressed Was the Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby, Kentucky apostle, of Bourbon Democracy. That eminent Democratic divine made the following response: Confederit X Roads ) (Wich is in the State uv Kentucky), >- Sent. 10, fBB4. 1 To the Editur uv the Boston Traveller: You ask me to give my rezons why Blane & Logan shood be electid. Perhaps yoo ain’t aware uv whom yoo make this rekest ' Perhaps yoor letter wuz addrest to me by mistake, err perhaps, yoo intend to be sarkastic. Es you reely’ addrest the letter to me, it is a holier mockery’. I see no rezons why Blaine and Logan shood be electid. Do you comprehend who I am, and wat I hev suffered fur Dimocrisy? Do yoo ask one for rezons for the elecshun uv lilane and Logan wich conimcnst his politikle career by’ votin for Jaxon, and who never differd with that grate man but wunst, and that wuz when lie put down Seceshn in South Karliny? Kin yoo ask fur rezons fur votin for Blane and Logan uv one wich cast his vote tor every’ Diniekratic President from Jaxon down, and many times three or four? . lam a Dimekrat. I votid for Bookannon, and when the Radikels percipitated a war by refoosin to give up Fort Sumter I emigratid from Noo Jersey to Kentucky that I mite not be forst to take up arms agin the Dimekratic States. I wuz, however, dratted into the Confedrit servis, fiom which I desertid, not becoz I hed any objeckshun to the coz, but from a constooshnel dislike of gunpowder and baynits. But in desertin the Confederacy I avoided the scylla uv the Confedrit servis only to bump lip agin the karybdis uv fedrei muskit carryin. I W’uz drafted into the fedral army, and only escaped shedding fratrisidle blood by desertin one night to Canady. Who kin descr be the agonies endoored by’ myself and five others on a tempi stuous nite on Lake Erie m a open boat! Whd shel describe the deep disgust that awaited me on the sakred sile of Canady when I wuz compelled to work fur a nigger there or starve. The fust ray of sunshine wich ever illumined my dreery path, wuz when Jonson split with the radikels and give me the postoffis at the Crossroads! That wuz a little heaven below. The salary wuzn’t much, but I managed to subsist by stoppin the letters containing remittances for lottery’ tikkets,.which I did on moral grounds, spending the contence thereof myself, ez a punishment to the senders. They laid the swindle to the lottery companies.—But my zeal for reform worked agin my own interests, tor after awhile the people stopt mailin ther money. But 1 hev alluz bin a marter to principle. Wat wuz Blane doin all this time? lie wuz the rite hand uv the tirent Linkin and wuz foremost among the persek.oters uv the South. Logan! My gorge rises when I think uv him! My regiment, the Loozeaner Pelikins, yvuz afore him wunst, and I never want to heer his name. Gittin away from him and his d doodid ffoljers kep me in a swamp four days and Hires, wich give me arpomatism, wich still inkapasitates me from labor, and the Fedrei Government wich thus rooined me. physikelly, refooses to give me a penshun to soothe my declining yeers, : 2 i Will Blane and Logan, es they are elected, put us Confedrit soljers on a level with the Fedrei survivors in the matter of penshuns? Deekin Pogram and Issaker Gavitt want to know es they will remoonerate’em for the niggers wich they’ freed, not only despoilin’ ’em uv their property buVSisjiefSin-Xfieir sons and dawters to the four qUartefs uv the “globe? - The “last ‘ time 1 “ wuz in Cincinnati with Deekin Pogram we met one uv the deekin’s ante-war sons by a likely mulatto woman.~Mira.ndyr and he refoesed to ’ lend the deekin Hie price uv a sustaner for him and me. And the time wuz when the deekin owned that nigger! Will Blanc and Logan pay’ the deekin the valoo thereof in shekels uv gold and shekels uv silver? Will Blane and Logan pay the deekin for the property confiscatid doorin’ the War by Fedrei sojers? Will his clame for mules and rales confiscatid by’ the Fedrels, wich wuz rejectid becoz it wuz proved upon him that while hc sbltl 1 the Fedrei sojers watermelons doorin’ tlicylay he bushwhacked ’em at nite —will that clanH be paid by Blane i nd Logan? No, down here we see no reason fur Plane and Logan. W’e shel vote fur Sheriff Cleveland or whoever the Democratic Nashnel Committee put on in his place. We have votid the-Dimocratic ticket till moss hez ..growd on our bax, and we shall continoo till the find. W r e can t change to Republikins. We can’t commence warin cleen siiir.s and puttin on stocking in the summer at our advanced age. The noo generashun now comin on may do it, but we can’t. We can’t quit noo whisky and dogleg terbacker, nor kin the good deekin commense learnin to reed at his advanced age. We shel not hev onlimitid nigger laber any nioje, but we hope with a Demekratic Administra.”hen to hev the niggers that are yvith us so completely der control that it yvill amount to about the same thing. The Dimoerisy—uv the Cross-roads may be countid on ez solid and stefifast. We see no rezons why’ Blane and Logan should be elected. Petroleum V. Nasby, (■•lluz the same.)