Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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. [mm um ToMo Bisgal .ML EASftf *y ft* trr (Junto ass fesremos, ann to add to in mumiuasyom am ah OUWSOE *ADXUUStftATUm AF POINT* A EES MO m son PEACE — teocblb at the Ow a Faaa, Tim (bass V ruou <Jo*rmmn A Sum. I fWich Mia (fan suu a* Kentucky j The Ole la cast! The ruilloteen hen MUn-T am no longer Postmaster at Omifcdrit X Roads, wich is In the HUte uv Kentucky. Tbe place wlch xnowd me WUftst will know me no more fore per—the paper wich Deekln Pogram UkeS will be handed out by a nigger—a nigger will hev the openin nv letter* addressed to parties restdte hereabouts containin remittances —a nigger will hev the rfflin nr letters ad dreSX to lottry mauagers and extractin the awwete therefrom—a nigger will be—but 1 can't dwelt npon the disgustin theme no

. I hed bin in Washington two weeks as Sbtln the Caocasheas uv that etty to put (heir foot upon life heads uv tne oussid niggers who ain't content to accept the situaahen and remain ez they allnz hev bln, inferior betas. To say 1 hed succeed ed, la a week expresben. I organized a otid onto em so effeclooally ez to drive no lam than thirty uv em out of employment, twenty-seven uv wich wuz compelled to steel their bread, wteh give us a splendid opportoonfty to show up tbe nateral cussidness uv the Afrikin race—wich we improved. On my arrival at the Corners, I knew to-wunat that suthln wo* wrong. I had nd over ffVßESsceaslotivflle on Baacom’s mule wich he had sent over Cot me and ez r rid np to his door, I knowd suthiu hed happened. The bottle* behint the bar wuz draped in black; the barrels wuz festooned gloomily (Wich Is our yoosual method of expressin grief at public calamities), and the premises generally, wore a funeral aspeck. “ Wat is it I” gasped I. Basoom retorted not a word, but waved his hand toward the Poet Offis. general delivery wuz tbe grlnnin faeeuva nigger! and settin in my chair wuz Joe Bigler with P dlock beside him, smokin pipes and lsffln over suthin in a noose rS&wmmgbt site of me, and dsrtin out, pulled me Inside them hitherto sacred pre-cm-TU„ sed he, jeerinly, “to interdoose yoo to yoor successor, Mr. Ceezer 7 y

“My successor 1 W»t does this mean t” “ Show him, Ceezer ?” And the nigger, every tooth in his head shinin, handed me a oommishn dooly made oat and signed. I sand It all at a glance. In imitation of our Secretary Borie I hed left my biznis in the hands uv a depetty, which is now the favorit method of doin public biznis. It arrived the day after I left and Isaker Gavitt, whodistrib bited the mall, gave it to the cuss. Pol lock made out the bonds and went onto em himself and in ten days the commission come all regler, whereupon -Bigler bockt the nigger and took forcible pos session nv the office. While I was absent they hed hed ft perc&eion in honor uvthe Joyful event, sed perceshn conoistin uv Pollock, Bigler snd the new Postmaster, who marched through the streets with the stars and strtees, banners and sich. Big ler tftOmrkt that the peroemion wuzn’t Urge, but it wuz talented, eminently respectable and extremely versateel. He (Bigler) carried the flag and played the fife; Pollock carried a banner with an inscription onto it “ sound the loud timbrel o’er EgypU dark sea,” and played the bass drum; while thie nigger bore aloft a banner inscribed “ where Afric’s sunny fountina roll down the golden sands,” with his commission pinned onto it, playin in ad dishenm-paif qf anshent cymbals. Bigler remarln further that the mreeshun created a positive sensashun at me Corners, wich I shood think it wood, “ It wuzn’t ” sed this tormennn ems, ■ very much like the grand peroemion wich took place when yoo reoeived yoor commiahn. Then the whites uv the CornefS wuz elated, for they spectid to git wat yoo owed em in doo time, and the niggers wuz corresponding deprest. They slunk into by-ways and side-ways, they didn’t hold up their heads, and they dusted out ez last ez they cood git At this percession there wuz a change. The niggera lined the streets ez we passed, gruukin exultinly, and the whites wuz deprest corresponding. Its singler that at the Corner* the two races can’t feel good both at the same time.” My arrival havin become known, by the time I got back to Baacom’s, all my friends hed gathered there. There wuznt 6 dry eye among em, and ez I thot uv the joys once tastid, but now forever fled, mine moistened likewise. There wuz a visible change in their manner toward me. They regarded me with solisitood, but I cood discern that the solisitood wuz not so much for me ez for themselves. “Wat shel Ido f” I askt. “ Suthin must be devised, for I can't starve.” “ Pay me wat you owe me!” ejakelatid Bascom. “ Pay me wat you owe me!” ejakelatid Deekin Pogram, and the same remark wuz made by all uv em with wonderful yoonanimity. Watever differences nv opinyun there mite be on other topics, on this they were all agreed. “ Gentlemen!" I commenced backing np into n corner, “is this generous? Is this the treatment I hev a right to expect ? Is this—” - I shood hev gone on at length, but jist nt that minnit Pollock, Joe Bigler and the new Postmaster entered. Room wuz mads for em and cheers offered em, but they declined to sit. I “ I hev biznis!” sed this Postmaster; “ disagreeable biznis, but it’s my offlshel dooty to perform it” At the word * offlshel" comin from his lips I groaned, wich wuz ekkoed by those present “ I hev in my hand,” continyood he “ de bond giben by my predecessor, onto wich is de names uv Geo. W. Bascom, Elkanah Pogram, Hugh McPelter and Seth Penni backer, ez sureties. In dis oder hand I hold ft skedool ob de property belongin to de ’portment wich wuz turned ober to him by his predeoeasor, consistin'of table, •““"S et settry, wid sundry -.urorf-of stare os, paper, twine, Ac. Nope otvto; postoffi* property, turned over to by his predecessor, is to be found in de offis, and de objick ob dis visit is to notify yoo dat unless itemSjtt payment be made uv the amount'therecf, f am directed by de ’partmeutto bring soot to wunst against the Never before did I so appreciate A. Jonter wuz ever pulled up for steelin anything? Bkoansera. ** bf< * e “ Wat!” exclaimed Bascom, “ shel I lose for wat “Shel I loose the money,” sed Pogram, “ wich I lent yoo, and in addishen pay a < Ablishen government for property yoove Mnfiaeatea?’’ r ’ » ■ • “But the property is here,”l remarktto Basoom, “ yoove cot it-.all. Why not return it and an aU this trouble. 5 Wat wood I hev then for the Whisky yoove consoomed ?” he ejaculated visluisly. “ It’s ail I’ve ever got from you, and I’ve tain keepte yoo for four years.” - “Didn’t that property pay yoo for tite Ukker ?” I asked, rat Basoom wuz in ho

TtF n unnr for Aggers, and ha pitched into me, at Wich pleasant pastime they all fullered soot But for Joe Blgter, they wood hev killed me. Ez it wuz they blackt both my eye* and rolled me out onto the sidewalk, shuttln the door sgfn me. Ez I heard that dour slam U>, I felt that all was lock. No offis! no money 1 and Bascom's dosed agin met JKin there be a harder fate ? I passed tne nlte with a farmer three miles out who, bcln sick, lied n't bln to the Corner*, and Conaekently knowd nothin uv the changes. I beard the next day the result of uv the rucksben. Bascom returned sicb uv the property ez hedn’t been sold and consoomed wich consisted of the boxes. The chairs had bin broken up In the frekent shindies wich occur at his place, the locks hed bln sold to farmers who yoozed em on their smoke houses, the bag* had bin sold for wheat and so on. The stamp*, paper, twine and aich figured up three hundred and forty-six dollars, wich was three hundred more dollars than there was in the Corners. Bascom advanced the forty-six dollars and the three hundred waa borrowed uv a banker at Secesaionvllle who took mortgages on the farms uv the imprudent bondsmen for scoority. Uv course I cannot go back to the Corners under eggiatin circumstances. It woold be uncomfortable for me to live there ez matters have terminated. I shr-1 make my way to Washinton, and shel see es I citnt get myself elected ez Manager of a Labor Association, and so make a livin till-there comes a change in the Administration. I wood fasten myself on A. Johnson, but Unforchlhtly there aint enuff in him to tie to. I wood ez soon think of tyin .myself to a car wheel in a storm at sea. Petroleum V. Nasrt, fWicta wuz Poet Master.)