Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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[From the Toledo Blade.] Till CORNERS HAVE A DISCUSSION AB TO THE MATTER OF CARPET-BAGGERS - THE ENTIRE QUESTION G ONE OVER—JOE BIGLER, AS USUAL, KICKS OVER TU BUCKET. Ton Orris, Cosranair X Eoaxm, i (Wicfc to in the State nr STOk r The presence 'uv Pollock, the llliuoy store keeper, st the Corners, hez alluz bin a source uv oneasinees to the old settlers—the bloo blooded chivalry, who her alluz bln bora here, and who hev lived here from time immemorial An Illinoyan by birth, an Ablishnist by perfeshin, and a Storekeeper by practia, he hez, from bis original advent here, bin an onmitigated thorn in the aide uv the Kentuckians wich lives at the Corners, wich thorn, hez rankled and rankled, till it hez festered and finally broke. There are several reasons why he hez bin onpopler. Be credited, the citizens uv the Corners, on his first arrival, for sich goods ez they needed, and hed the impendence to insist upon pay. Deekin Pogram in lees than two months from the openin wuz in debt suthin over a hundred dollars, and the wretch not only insisted on payment, but abeolootly good him and wood hev recovered the amount, hed Squire Gavitt, who wuz then Justia uv the Peace, tahood papers. Findin that the i. slice ra uv the law uv the Corners would not interfere in favor uv a disturber, he refoozed to sell another dollar’s wuth save

for cash, and from that time he hez rigedly adhered to that rool. Ez he keeps the only stock uv dry goods there 1s in the Corners, the citizens are compelled to paternize him, and they hev to pay. This iron hez bin entrin their sides for years, and finally it wuz decided to hist him, ana take the chances uv somebody else oomin in his place. The acksheu uv the citizens wuz hastened, by the fact that two friends uv hizzen wuz comin from his old home in Illinoy, to start a Wagon and a Cooper shop in the Corners, wich wuz an increase uv jist that number uv carpet-baggers, besidts wat hands they mite bring with em. This alarmed our citizens, and it wuz felt nessary to take steps to stop it Accordin a meetin wuz called uv the natives, wich met last nite at the church. In assoomin the chair, (I am ex offlsho chairman uv all meetins held at the Corners,) I remarkt that the exigences uv the times demandid that suthin be done. The peece and yoononimity uv feelin uv the Corners coold not be disturbed by the influx of carpet-baggers. The trooly Southern sole wuz wrung, the Southern heart wuz bleedin, but ther wuz a pint beyond wich the Southern sole and heart cood not go, and that pint wnz carpet baggen. The Southern heart loathed the spawn uv the North, and the shivelrous Southern sole cood not and wood not bear to hev Northern agitators okkepyin their places and bringing with em their ijees, wich were alluz in opposiahen to ourn. Es sich wuz to be the case, farewell the sunny South and her instooshens. I askt in conclooshin for an expreshin uv opinynn from the citizens assembled. To my consternashin Joe Bigler riz, tho where he come from I can't say. He commenat by remarkin that attachment to one's native soil, and a desire to hold office in it, wuz one uv the highest and holiest instinks uv our fallen nachers. He cood and did sympathize with the chairman uv the meetin fully, and agreed with him in everything he hed said. He did not believe that needy advencherers from the cold and frozen North shood come here and possess theirselves uv the soil to the excloosion uv them native and to the manor born. Mover I never I never 1 He hed a Southern heart and a Southern sole, and he wood never consent to be crowded out by them alien to us. He hed drawd up resolooshens which he begged to submit, viz:

Retolved. That the native born etttaans nv the Oonfedrit X Roads, wich la in tho State uv Kentucky, denounce ea disturbers. Interlopers and carpet-baggers wich can't bo tolerated, all those within her borders wich wuz not born there. Revived, Tn«t when sich a person < s is contemplated in the above resolution holds an offls or asks for one, his presence is pertlklerly nnsnfferable. Revolved, That we do'to wunst elean out uv tho Corners all sich persons, quietly es possible, but by force es needs be. The resolooshens struck the citizens favorably, and they wuz about to pass em, Bigler’s niggers uv course all votin for em, when an idee struck me. I saw the strategy uv the detestable wretch to wunst. It wuz me he wuz aimin at. I wuz the mark uv his infernal mashenashens. I remembered, for the first time In four years, that I wuz not a native uv Kentucky; that I wuz a Northner, and that I had come to Kentucky an advenchererl In agony I arose and protested, but too late! The resolooshen passed yoonanimusly, and Joe Bigler stood grinnin at me like a feend. “ Now 1” sed he, “now that I kin act by authority; now that I kin wunst more act in accordance with the wishes uv my fellow citizens, from whom I hev bin so long unhappily separated, I propose to go for a carpet-bagger. Parson, your time hez come!” And the wretch made for me vishusly, and hed me by the throte in less than a second. Immejitly Bascom and Pennibacker, McPelter, and the rest interfered and dragged the villin away. “Wat does this meant” they askt. “Why this assault!" “ Why T Isn’t the Parson afore us a car-pet-bagger f” askt Bigler “ Wuz he born at the Comers ? Hi zhe a rite to stan on the soil uv Kentucky and say, thank Hevin I too am a Kentuckian I Possibly I may hev misunderstood the tenor nv the rcsolushens wich I writ, and wich yoo passed. Es so forgive my zeal." “ But Josef,” said Deekin Pogram, “ the Parson is not, accordin to our idea, a car-pet-bagger.” “ Too troo,” said Bigler in reply, “he hed no carpet bag when he came.” “ That isn't precisely wat I mean. The Parson is a Constooshnel Democrat. He agrees with us in sentiment, and—” “ A lite breaks in onto me," remarks Bigler. “I see a distinkshen. We denounce men ez carpet-baggers and interlopers and sich, not becoz they are carpetbaggers and interlopers, but becoz they don’t interlope accordin to yoor noahena. The Parson isn’t objectionable to the Corners, becoz the Parson kin punish ez much sod corn whisky ez any uv yoo, and votes the Demokralic ticket with fearful regularity; Pollock is objectionable becoz he don’t do these things and happens to be somewot Ablishen in his tendencies. Thank the Lord I now understand wat a carpet-baeger is. Parson, I beg pardon for my violence, and I move this resolooshn ez a substitute for the one yoo so inconsiderately passed.” Retoived, That while the eitlsens av the Cernere bleevo In perfect freedom nv thot and speech, and desire it above all things, they nevertheless, view with alarm the comtn hither nv Northerners who are Repnbliklns and won't paternlse Bascom, and we pledge oareelvesto boat the heads uv sich. Revolved. That wo bust the heads only nv disturbln carpet-baggers Retoived, That all Northern RepnbUklns comln hdre la carpet-baggers, and all Northern Demokrais 1s not. “This,” sed Josef, “makes the matter plain to the dullest comprehension. Let ’em pass.” I objected, but Bigler, stubborn ez a pair uv mules, insisted, and ez by thia time the church wuz half full nv niggers, wich he insisted shood vote ez they wuz not only native born Kentuckians, but many nv ’em hed the best blood uv Kentucky runnin in their veins, it was passed over our heads and the meetin adjourned, Bigler and Pollock, follered by their adherents, goin off in high glee. That cuss seems to take a delite in spiling everything that the rest uv ug undertake to do. Ther’s many short corners in Dimocrisy that must be turned skillfully, and it’s awkward to hev a man like him bustin thro ’em like a bull in a china shop. But he can’t live alluz. Pbtrolbum V. Nasby, P. M., (WfcbU Post Master.)

The following is an exact copy of a promissory note dated at Concord, Nov. 25,1793: “ For an old horse which I have bought of Mr. Isaac Dow, I promise to pav Dim three dollars in wheat or flour at eash price; but if the horse does not live to get to Lebanon, and three days after he gets there, I am to give but two dollars for the hem. Witness my hand.**