Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

[From th« Toledo Blade ] MB. unrr leaves MAUOH chunk, OWING I TO A MISTAKE HE MADE IN A FINANCIAL dPEBATMN—A CIIAPTEIt OF E*r§*U»«Ul£ ®STSR-k, 1 Tbe (ket h> I aint in Mock Chunk any more- The fade wich hee follercd me for ihfitv yean U after me agin I made a tollable thing uv it out of A. Packer, the standard barer and expense payer uv the Pennsylvany Dlmocrisy, so long ez I stuck strictly to politics. I went to bis head quarters each day for a week, each time penonatin the chairman uv n diffrerit Dimocratic club, and I so resembled in appearance and style them wich wuz act illy In them posishns that I got money without difficulty to “ be yooed to carry my ward.” Onct I got a hundred dollars to bring down ten repeaters from Noo Yolk, and on other occasions other sums. I personatid Execootive Committee men from Pittsburg, Scranton, Lock Haven, Redin, Easton, Allentown and sich, with distingulaiied success. Last week, feclin that them caractera wuz too easily asoomed, I essayed suthin more brilliant Walkin boldly into Packer’s Committee room I announst mvsclf az a solissitcr for a raishun church in Philadelfy. Never shel I forget the freezin look that wuz given me. “ A mishen what?" ejackllatid A. Packer’s bed man, givin checks to two gentlemen uv Irish descent from Philadelphy. I explained that it wuz for a struggling church I wuz solissitin funds. “ Sir! ” sed he fiercely. " Bit!! we don’t sped no assistance from sich, and hev no money for sich. Show him to the door, Terence, and see that lie don't trouble us no mere.”

And Terence really helped me down t lie steps with so much alacrity that I nctilly hroozed myself. It served me rite, tlmugh; Ignite hev knowd better. I am, ez the date uv this opistlc shows, in Mississippi, where I shel contritd.it my mite to the cleckshcn uv J udge Dent to the Chief Magistracy uv tins glorious State. I wuz present last nite at the first mcetin of the campanc, where all the candidates uv the Conservative Yoonun party, ez the Democracy call theirselves ’in this seckshen, addressed the masses. The awjence wuz uv all colors. O! ez Isaw tliem niggers standin there all together, how I longed to bev-cm in Kentucky, Ohio or Injiany, where they can’t vote, and where its mfe to bust cm! But they warnt in Kentucky, Ohio or Injiany; they were in Mississippi, and they hev votes, and consekently 1 wuz compelled to stand by and treet ern ez tho they wuz men. Faugh! Judge Dent made a most 1 ell in speech to cm. After remarkin that lie wuz a brother-in-law uv President Grant (at wich the niggers cheerod, and the Judge thankt em with ez much grace ez poor Johnson yoost to under simlar circumstances), he went on to ask why his colored friends coodent hev confidence into him. Hcjcood put his hand onto his heart ami swear he loved em. He wuznt a colored man hisself, but he bed lived amongst em all his life, andhad bin nussed at the breast uv a colored woman. Love - cm! He did love em. There wuz suthin noble about em—suthin nv that naclier wich gave him confidence in humanity. The Judge dcvotid the balance uv the time he lied to the most scorchin, witherin, bias-tin rebook

uv carplt-bagger and carpit baggery I ever heenL When lie spoke with comtcmpt nv Northern men wich come Soutli for the purpose uv bcin nominated for offices, and uv making speeches in their own behalf, his blooa curdled with indignaslicn. Ez he oonclooded I hollered “ llor!” The candidate for Treasurer l'ollored. It bed bin reported uy him that he wuz at antagonism with the colored people of the South. Wat falsehood ! Troo, he hedn’t colored blood in his veins, but—- “ Three sons of yoors hev!” yelled a disgust in carpet-bagger, wich much disconcerted him ez the crowd uy niggers all yelled “Ror!" The candidate for Auditor of State asserted that he loved the colored man, and believed that he wnz destined to work out its final salvation, lie wuz worthy uv their confidence, for In- wuz proud to say he bed colored blood in Ins veins, and alluz hecL He cood take the Ethiopian uv Afrikia descent to his buzzum and say “ brother!” The other candidates w ere ckally emphatic ez to their affection for a Ethiopian. One asserted that his brother was a mulattcr, and the other remainin vowed that sjroodthey be left disconsolit widowers four hundred times each, they would every __ time marry colored ladies. The Chairman Tuterdoostthe candidate ■» for Secretary uv State. Good Heavens ! he wuz a nigger—a full blooded odorous nigger! a thick-lipped, woolly-headed, bow-legged nigger! The nigger shook bands with all the other candidates and made a few remarks, after wich I wuz interdoost to the awjeucc. Ez all uv cm lied expressed their undyih love for the nigger I felt that I must. My weaknis is dramatic effect. I’m a naterul organizer uv tabloo. Sezin that nigger by the hand I led him to the front uv the stage, and fallin onto his neck, I bed the candidates wave two conservative vunyun fiags over us, wich by accident happened to be confedrit flags. Judge Dent a poiutln at us with one hand exclaimed: “ Democrat and Etheopy are hand to hand, hart to hart, ’Ror! ’’

It was tough for me, but I endooml it, and the strikin picter wuz cheered vociferously by the black cusses before us. The meetin ended with three liarty cheers for the candidates, wich wuz jine'd in principally by the candidates and mC. Judge Dent shood hev given me $lO and sent me north immejilly, but he didn’t He gave me $lO to treet niggers with. Good I waste whisky on niggers even to confirm the impression left on ther minds at the meetin ? Never! So that evenin me and four other ardent Dimocrals from the North took 20 or 30 drinks too much after we had reched wat ought to hev ben our limit, nod seem a crowd uv niggers paasin, our nachrel iastinks riz. Ez 1 saw em the whisky in me biled. Forgettin my afieckshinit dem.mstrashen on the platform that afternoon I marched out fullered by my new found friends. Hangin to a lamppost 1 remark! to cm that tbev wuz d—d apes. “Yoor’scendid from g’rillers, your ’ferior race—’Ror fr (hie) Dept, and d—n Grant —yoor not ekal to whites—yoo aint got no int’lect, and yoo (hie) s—s-tink. ’Ror for Dent! Go for the d—d triggers, boys!” “ Kill the d—d niggers shouted one ■ wich hed participated ip the Noo York onpleasantnis in 1863, “kill the bloody nagure!” and cchoin his cry, we sailed in. The Ethiopians wuz surpfiS&l. They hed seen me on the stand—they hCd observed me shakin hands cotjelly with Dent and the other candidates, and to be termed d—d niggers, and assaulted in sich a manner, wuz too much for em. We flidn’t vankish em however. It took a fxmited effort uV sevral pleccemen and tizens to reakoo us from the infoorated wfetcilies,’and I rite these lines with my hed bandaged, one arm in a sling, and divers uther contooshens. I wood leve here, but my vote is needed to prevent the carpet-baggers from triumpbin more than it is in Pennsylvany, where it won’t do no good anyhow. ■<“ The trouble with me is Dtmocrisy amt one and the same everywhere. Hod I did in Noo York, or Ohio, or Injeanny wat I did in Vixburg, the Dimpcrisy wood hev rewarded me With a sect in the Legislater, while here it puts me out uv favor with tha, saqte party. . A»d wat an argement in favor nv tempera ns when yoo hev to make sadden changes in bizness wich requires

dellklt touebea In the North tho more llkkcr a man her. in him the better he is fitted for Dimoerl»y r for it unlooses his lower inrtink*—here, alas! the naoliral infltlnk every Dimokml liuz to kill a nig ger must be stipprest. Wo is me! don’t iiiecyc I shel ever dp for this seckshun. KT I over donbtUl the terrible effeck uv girin the nigger the ballot, 1 am nrtw conVlnst. In slid nv runnin like sheep or standin with bowed beds to take sicli blows, cz men when convivyelly inclined choose to give em, these niggers, puffed up with the idea of ckality, struck out from the shoulder jistez es they wuz men, and lied rites. And to see white men intcrferln In their behalf agin inen uv their own race wuz too sicknin. And this, too, done by Dimocrats! Wat is the country oomin 'to ? Petroleum V. Nasby, Wich wuz Footnuu-ter.