Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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[Pnsn ti* Tokido Bl*de] MB. ion MDCBTTBTH A LKTTKK FROM TBK DBMOCOUTIO BATIONAL OOMXITTBK »- z32EKZ^s££'%z: a Z. HAND AMP MntBBB -HM LETTER TO THB COMMITTEE THROWING XJT THB JOB. Pn'rm'iTatum,HornOo..O., I Jooljt7tA. ISO*. f Paul, the ’t>oMel,„iii his epistle to the SecondCorinthUne remarks as follows: “Thrice was I beaten with rods, wnnst was I stoned. * * * * In Journey ins perils mb? water, in perils among Paul was doubtless a devoted man, and suffered much, but I Un give Paul fifty in a hundred on the skote uv saffrin for a cos and beat him. I hevnt bin 1b any peril uv water for I never let that element aneer me in any shape, but I hev bin len with rods; I hev bin .ptoned ez was Paul, and I hev bin pcltid with rotten eggs, es Paul wus not, at least ther ain’t no akkount uv it in the Skriptoors. Indeed, I don’t remember that eggs, cz evidences uv popler disapprobashcn uv publik speakers wus ever menshend in the Bible. The Jews had either not diski vered ther efflahency, or the prioe wus too high In Joodee to make ther yooae common for rich purposes. Two weeks ago I received a letter from the Chairman uv the Nashnel Dimocratic

Committee, rcouesten me to take the stump in Ohio, Pennsylvany, Injeanv and Tennessee. I alius go wher dooty calls, pervidin Expenses is paid, aad that being sekoored I started tb-wunst. That I didn't succeed, and that lam back here in ten days, hevin in that brief time completed the toor uv four States, is no fault uv mine. It yoost to be the boast uv Dim-' ocracy that it wus one and the same everywhere. It’s one and a good many now, and that my intellek ain't hefty enuff to hold and doupfehebd the whole nv it, is no &uh uveatoe. Bather set it down to the account uv them which made these differences, wich are too for apart for any one to straddle. I feel sensitive on this question. I write these lines with my face kiwered with plasters and my left arm in a sling. I commenced my labors in Ohio, in this county uv Holmes which gave more patriots to that noble force wich resisted drafts and shot provo-marshals than any one in Ifae State, Feelin uv course, that I mu#t support the nominees uv the party, I launched out *boldly into a vigerous eulogy uv Rosecrans. I spoke in that style uv fervid oratory wich I learned uv Henry Clay Dean, wich is uv the sky rocket order, ez tho the speaker hed bin born half-way betwixt a camp-meet in and a torch-light perceshun. The sturdy Democracy uv Holmes are ez troo Democats ez the State kin boast, but they don't think ez rapidly ez they act. They learned some years ago that Rosecrans wuz a Fedral General and that his men wnz the cheef actors in huntin uv em down in 1881-3, but they haven’t got to the pint yit uv lookin at him ez a Dimocratic candidate. Therefor the moment I spoke Uv “ Rosecrans the gallant soljer, wich is now a candidate for Governor, they yelled in a outburst uy rage: “Down with the Amishn emissary wich praises a bloo-bel-lied butcher,” and bombarded me with stones, rotten eggs, and sich. It wuz yooseless to attempt to continyoo to speak and . I succumbed. Troo, the leaders got em rite on the Governor that nite. bnt I coodent speek to em agin, ez myjujoories wuz too severe. The next pint I wuz advertised for wuz in a dose eoOhty, wher the Dimocrisy hed bin parshelly under blood thirsty inflooences durin the late onpleasantness, and wher ther show uv success in capchcrin ths county offices consists in their gobblin a hundred or so Repuklikin votes. Sposin from the. eggsperience I hed hed that prasin solgers wusnt the dodge in Ohio, I opened out with a viggurus denunaiashun uv the Linkin hirelins wich brut «nto the country the woes wich we wfie now sufieria under, gettin off fiooently the speech Iyoosed in ths Vallandygum cam pane in 1883. Immeiitly ther wuz another uprore. The candidates choked me ors, and ther friends in the aujence pelted me TfilS ftlcta gnd stones, and ez 1 wuz bein earned away T hed the satisfacsliun uv heerin a specker dammin the committee for sendin uv an escaped loonatic.to speek toem. —'-—, My eggsperience in Ohio wuz not uv a nacher calculated to please me, and I moved to-wnnst to Pennsylvany. I felt good ez I struck that eakrid soil. Here, thot I to myself, is a State uv laborers. Here is a State into wich I shel only meet the brawny-armed and horny-handed sons uv toil Here, for wunst, my path is clfear. I opened out at my first meet in furiously agin bonds, agin monopolies, agin bloated bond-holders, agin the aristocratic men uv wealth, wich, by ackumilat in bonds, hev managed to get into ther hands enuff to subsist onto, thus wringing gorious luxuries out uv the sweat uv the labrin men, and then rememberin my last Ohio eggsperience, had just commenced to branch out eulogistic uv the noble men who opposed copperheaaism door in the war, when the most unearthly yell ther ever wuz heerd assailed me.

“ Who brot you here to abooze our candidate for Governor ?' shouted the infooriated mob, and stones and 6ticks began to fly like hail about me. I stood this till two enthoosiastic admirers uv Packer rushed to a grocery handy by, and returned in a minit with a bask it uv egg a. Them I never cood stand, and demoralized and bewildered I left Pennsylvany. I made my way immejitly to Tennessee, where I wuz taken charge uv by the Dimocrisy wich is supportin Senter. I wuz somewat in doubt ez to wat pertikler kind uv Dimocrisy to go for, but at my first meetin I notist perhaps a thousand disgustin niggers mixing in the crowd. To wunst my,line uv ackshun wuz decided onto. There is a reality, thought I, in the repugnance the nateral Caucashun feels toward the nateral Afrikin; and here, where the niggei* elbows his way impoodently among whites, wat better string kin I harp on than nigger suffrage ? Confident in the correctness uv my theory, I opened out onto the nigger with the ferocity uv the tiger. “ Men uv Tennessee— Democrats uv the State uv Jackson,” yelled I, “ are you willin to stand side by side with the greasy, disgustin nigger, whose smell alone is a sufflshent warnin t ?^. cloße tclashenship, politikle or soshel, vntbem. Dimocrats uv Tennessee! Will you consent that that disgustin beast (I pinted to one pekoolyerly offensive) "shpl be yoor ekal, and that—” got no further. A shower uv stones, |y|ryin in size from a hen’s egg to them pperly ez large ez that we yoosed ez a corner-stone for the Military and Clasikle Institoot, overwhelmed me, and the indignant white Democrats pounded meVand trampled onto me for aboazin their Afrikin friends, and wat wuz wuss for singlin out ez a object for my insane ther honored candidate for the Legislaclier! Ingeany was my next essay and my last. My first meetin wuz held in a spot pekoolyerjj favorable for such purposes. The wuz small, consistin uv a grocery, W S£2!? uth and * tore - “d there wuz a distillery, the proud boast uv the proprietor uv wich wuz that he hed never paid a cent uv tax to a tiranikle governmdttt, and the aujence wuz large and en thosiastic. experience hr Ten ocracyJufcP'ahuidaaecl its opposition C *to nigger suffrage, and teein no niggers, I judged it would be perfectly safe to try myself on that shoot then and there. I pkkordlngiy opened out with a vigorous

denunsUfihun uv them wich wuz so bigoted and so prejonditt cz to deny the ballot to all men, black ez well ez white. I didn't git no ftirther. The Democracy uv Iqjeany is ez lively ez them uv Tenmsssfte, Pebnsylvany and Ohio. Theri is a good crop uv stones in that seeshun and the air wuz suddenly filled with em, and all uv em wuz Ilyin in the direckshun uv me. “ Down with tho d—d nigger lovin Ablishnist! ” shouted the infoonated populb, and alone saved my life. • lam back in my room under Pepper’s hospitable roof in Holmes county, Ohio, hevin made the toor uv four States in two weeks The folierin letter wuz this mornin forwardid to the Chairman uv the Nashnet Democratic Central Committee in Noo York : 81a:—I am wtlHn to lift mr voice to behalf nv the Democracy, bnt I can't afford to do It too ml»cellanaooaiy. t can't apred myaelf ore too much territory, ez thing* politlkle are at thte time. Travel* azpeaaea and unlimited whisky Is good, but Ufa la better. I can't afford to give my atumlck a good time at the expenee uv the rest uv my suctomlcle etructer. I hvv bln egged In Ohio, stoned In Penaaylvany, stomped onto Tennessee, and clubbed tn Inleany for advocatln Democrisy ez I understand It. How, sir, lam wlUtn to proceed tn the minimary blatnls bnt only on these condlsbnus: 1. I am to go only In one State. A Too most give me before I start a legibly printed copy uv the Democratic platform nv tbe pertlkeler State into wich I am to speek. 8. Too mast famish me, before spekln, with an authentic biography nv each nv the Democratic caadidatea nv the State Into wich 1 am to apeek, statin fully their race, color, flnanshel condlshun, views on all the qnestloua before tbe people, parentage and antecedents. I consider this necessary In tbe present highly mixed condlabun nvths Democracy, to prevent onr orators from Ctilin Into snch errors ez th«m wich needy laid me acold corpse Into the silent toom. Respectfully. Odlefts these condishnns arc fulfilled I shel speck no more. Petroleum V. Nasby, Wich wuz Post Master.