Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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{From tbs ToMo Blads 1 THU PATRIOTS OF THS CORKERS IN HUM BLR IMITATION OP THR LATE PRESIDENT, ATTEMPT TO CEBCUMVEHT THR AFRICAN. —THR RMSCLT OP THXIR LITTLE MANOeCTRB. » Parr own, CowrsanrrX Road*, i (Wicnl* in the Stmt* j. The speech made by his Ex excellency, A. JohMon, to the niggers uv Nashville, struck me rs bem s stroke uv policy wich we ought by all means to Imitate. I hev out long uv the opinion that there alnt no northly yoooe in ataadin in front uv the &as uv pragmas—that we must either get onto it or be mashed. I sed ez much to Donkin Pogram and Elder Pennibacker, 'and they yielded a reluctant assent, “ The nigger is goin to vote anyhow,” L “ and hedn’t we better gobble our there uv them votes than to hev em all aginusf” 1 1 1 mjested a met tin, to be held at the rwifrfcn/lo wich our colored bret here n shood all be invited and at wich the hatchet shood be forever berried—a sort wFpdutikle lovefeast in wich there shood he a eqrt uv ininglln, a sub*idln, a runm n together, ez it wsre. Dookin pogram entered into the skeem with considerable energy after he comprehended it, and Bascom with a bisnis sagasity that makes him one uv the groat financier* uv the age, favored it; remarkin that any movement wieh wood transform men into Demokrats must be advantajus to him. i entered onto the work with more than my yoosual energy. I dekoraied the church with mottoes and transpartencies. I bed it swept out Even sum uv the mottoes wuz rather high scentidfor the Pekin, but I soothed Aim by ashoorin him that they wuz only (hr efftek and that there - wuzua nothin’ more intended by ’em than there to yoosoaliy in party platinstracted the Dekin, and the others, ez to wot they must do to make it a perfect success. They most, I told ’em, not only be corjel to the niggers themselves, but their wives, and sons, and daughters must be likewise. The Ethiopians must be made to understand that we wuz in earnest; that they wuz to be reeJy counted in ez humans, and by ns. “We must,” I remarkt, ’• cut under the Ahltshnista” Everything succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. The white inhabitants uv the Corners wuz all there, and at least twothirds uv the niggers. I bed an involuntary shudder ez 1 notist Joe Bigler and Pollock marsh ailin’ the niggers, but I bed hopes ez the meeiin’ wuz called for the purpose of recognisin’ their rites, that they wood Ist i{ go off without interrapshen. _v I wuz appinted Chairman, IhfcDburse, •aid the nsw Assessor, wich is a nigger, wuz made Vice President I opened with a tribute to the character and qualities uv our Afrikin brethern. I ashopred em that 1 bed the higuest respect tor em, individooaily and collectively, and that* so fur ez I wuz concerned, 1 wuz prepared to receive em on terms uv per2sok ekailty in everything. “I may hev had prejoodises,’’ I remarkt; “I may hev allowed them prejoodises to carry me beyond the bonds uv rite attunes, but thank Reopen them prejoodises is cured. I kin take this worthy man by the hahtl—(at wwh pint I took the Assessor by the hand Judd shook it, the effbek nr wich tabloo, however, wuz marred by his wipin hi*. Band tactfully and ostantashusiy on his breeches ez soon ez I let go uv it, at wich the niggers tittered.) I take him by the hand, and in doin it I wish to be underMW* Shalt in (he satire Afnkia race by the hand. My soli goes out in levs fetamnl aB uv em.”' .

Deekin Pogram remsrkt that be cood *9^o ■“ .‘'ij l * l the Cheerm&n bed sed He felt that, the time had come when color. ataoo4«|l!M*>asidcnd. “Blew the Lord,’’ Bed the Dews, “I kin say that I look j»m adult akgwa ex brothers, the younger one* e* children. Ble*« the Lord, I kin Afrikin my ekal, and I ftato-that they shel be, from thia time henceforth and forever, on percisely the eame foottn we fund onto. From thia ttnal ftatkaaw no. white, no black—mf; tom and wihunin. The colored yoaU,abfl beto me « the white youth, iftett Hie JuorcL I wtSthgffti-srsi the If in * •*' • ' . i t. '•? a“'V~ * * '

up, and embiace yoor kindred. * Mingle yoor tears and be quick about it," Immrjstiy every mulatter, male and female, La the house rir to their feet and made a rash. Twelve of set uv all shades from the regular tan color up to the near ly white, fell onto Deekln Pogrom, the sen all ahakin him by the band, and the wlmem all kleein him, all in korinna exclaim in « Father 1" “ Look upon em ez children, Deekin! ” aung out Bigler, * yoove a nachiel rite to Bvery one nv em hrz got yoor nose and hereafter there’s to be no diffrenoea 1 ” An ekul number, nr perhaps more, wuz performed likewise onto Elder Pennibecker. Cant. McPelter and Baacom. Quittin the old men these enthoosiastic niggers, stimulatid thereto by Josef Big ler, who kept clappln his hands and ejacu latin, “ How lovely! Oh wat minglin! How pleasant ’tie to see brethern agree! ” et settry, made rashes for laaaker Oavitt, Beniah Pogram, Eliphalot Pennibacker, and young Hugh McPelter and their ito ten, and fallen outo their necks kist em, rjaculatin “ Brother 1” or “ Bister!’’ as the QIH mltft V Now," sed Josef “ let the colored mothenuv these newly recognized lambs go to the elderly white female saints and em brace em in sisterly love. Troo they alnt blood rclashens, but there is nevertheless a tie wich binds The sons and daughters uv these shaded sisters to blood relasheDS uv the pure while ones In this happy hour all these differences to to be buried. Up and at em! ” And imriitly a score or more uv wenebea riz and undertook to embrace and kiss the wives uv Pennibacker, Pogram, McPelter, Basoom, et al. These females hed been bilin doorln this entire perceedin, and this finish! em. It wuz straght hair agin wool immejitly. Mrs. Pogram, who is rather bony, laid out two uv the flnt wfch come al her, sad her doghter Mirandi takin ex ample went for them wich wuz afleckshnately callin her “ Bister!” The flte become general in leu than a minnit among the wimmin. 1 heard no more the gentie word ."Ulster.” On the contrary, other words, not so refined in their nacher, were yoosed to designate each other. And at it they all went, tooth and nail, the entire bilen nv em; male and female, black, white and yeller, and others, klckin, strueglin, bilin and aweartn, on the floor. And all thto time that cusid Bigler wuz on the top uv two seats, shoutin encoursginly to both sides, and Pollock was buetin out in peals uv the most uproarious laughter. The struggle finally endid, the combatants bein’ completely eggsausted. There wuz on the floor at least a bushel uv hair, wool, cotton, false teeth, reel teeth, ribbons, stays, bonnets, st settry, with an occasional spot uv gore. And to add 1 insult to injury, Joe Bigler threatened te whale us all for not carry in’ out the programme ez wuz originally contemplated.

" Myself and friends,” remarkt this unmitigated wretch, “ hev bin swindled into cornin’ here. And Oh, Deekiu, when I thick that at sich a time yno cood be so cold hearted ez to resist nachrel instinks! When yoo were surround id by yoor offspring, didn’t yoo* heart warm toward em. Why did yoo cast em off* ” El yoo can’t recognize the ekality uv a nigger when that nigger resembles yoo, when kin yoo? Andwat kin our colored voters expect so long ez yoor wife entertains the same prejoodto agin yoor children ? Deekin, fer shame!” And the wretch rolled off, winkin’ a most insultingly meanin wink at me. 1 seer me that this derangement, like uieny others I hev made, wuz a lailyoor. Well, we are no worse off than before; we can’t be. Petroleum V. Nasbt, P. M., l Wich means PostmasUr.)