Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1870 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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[Front the Toledo Blade.] MR. NASRT’B FRIENDS AT THE CORNERS —MARCH IN TRIU.VU’II UPON CINCINNATI, THE BEARERS OK RESOLUTIONS—THE FATE OF THE RESOLUTIONS AND THE BEARERS THEREOF—A LETTER FROM DEACON rOGRAM. Harp rv Frin S’loon, i 6th Ward, Noo York, Feb. 27, .870. f The following letter wuz received yesterdy from that long sufferin old saint, Deekin Pogram: Confbdrit X Roads, (wich is ) in the State ur Kentucky) > February 20, 1870. 1 My Dear Nasby—Wunst more hev I come to greef, wich is wat I hev bin doin with wonderful regularity ever sence yoo left this part uv the heritage. The aflliciin circumstances is ez follows: Yoo remember wat an eggseitement the ackshen uv Ohio on 15th Amendment perdoosed in Kentucky. Here wuz two States contiguous to each other, the same river lavin both uv their banks, one on one side and ’tother on the ’tother—and wich wuz connectid by other holy and tender ties and sich —and one uv these States hed gone and ratified an Amendment wich placed the niggers uv the ’tother State on a level with her white citizens. Uv course Kentucky wuz indignant, and no part uv it more so than the Cross Roads. Our citizens bilod over when they got the news, and ez we alluz do when we effervess, we called a meetin.

I need not say that we missed yoo. We hev never hed a competent chairman sence yoo left ns, and cousekently quj- biznis goes slip-shod. But after speeches by myself, Capt. MePelter, Bascom and others we finally passed the followin resolooshens: Wareas. Onr sister state uv Ohio whose banks art laved by the same river wick laves the banks uv Kentucky, hez degraded herself by clevatin the nigger to a level with her white citizens, and rfareas, By this ackshnn Ohio has aatlhjted to degrade the white ciUzens uv Kentucky, by forcin them Onto a level with niggers, and I Yareae, Kentucky has alluz coutrihited uv her means to support Ohio, by buyin goods aud sich ; and Warescu, Kentucky hez self-respect, therefore be it Resolved, That Kentucky to assert her self-respect declares that henceforth and forever, she will never hev intercourse with Ohio, in any shape, either ez buyer or seller. The wareases and resolooshuns wuz passed with more enthoosiasm than I ever saw manifested. The aujence riz ez one man, and cheered vociferously. O, how I wisht that that cheer cooil hev reached Cincinnati! How the bloated merchant princes uv that aristocratic city wood hev quaked hed they heard it! To give the akshen doo effect, MePelter, Bascom and myself wuz api>ointed a committee to go personally to present the

w&rcsses and resoloosheus to the merchants of Cincinnati, each delegate bcin empowered by the convenahtlfc to pay his own pcrsnal, and sich other,, expenses ez he mite contract. • Go!’’ sod Issaker G*vltt, “go and be the horn wich’l! batter down the walla uv that Ablishen Jencho." “Go!” sed all the rest, “and return to tell us how ther cheeks blanched ez you red to em their doom !” We went, with the peroeedlna uv the meetifi neatly written. Ez we approached Cincinnati McPelter’s heart softened townrd hsr. " Perhaps," sed ho, “ we’re too severe. Bh*l we hold all uv Cincinnati ’sponsible tor the Acksben uv a porshen uv her citizens? Bhcl we hold Cincinnati ’sponsible for .the sekshen uv the State? There are Dimocrats in Cincinnati—shel we crush them with theothera? Shel the innocent suffer with the guilty ?” I wuz disposed to side with McFcltcr, but Bascom wuz inflexible. He wood never go back an inch. This insult wuz put upon Kentucky by Ohio, and Cincinnati wuz the corumershel uv Southern Ohio, and the only way reech Ohio wuz to crush Cincinnati. The thunderbolt we hed in in our pockit must fall on Cineinnati, no matter who it crushed. Es the Dimocrats in that city didn't want to be smashed let em gi4 out. MePelter yeeldcd with a sigh, and we entered the city, Bascom smilin' a grim smile ez he put his foot on its pavements. “Reel estate will bo cheaper here tomorrow !” he remarked, glancin at the buildins on either side uv the street. “I may possibly conrlood to invest to some extent myselt. When Kentucky rofooses to trade with Cineinnati its days is numberd. We ll buy it up and re-popilate it with Kentuckians." The next morain we commenst our work. “ We will begin,” sed Bascom, “on the likker merchants, they bein more intimitly connected with us. We’ll crush the likker merchants first by refoosing to trade with em, from this time out." And we enfored the first rectifyin establishment we come to. We didn't go very far into it. The proprietor advanced to meet us—Bascom glanced at him—he glanced at Bascom—the proprietor turned red, Bascom turned ez white ez a sheet, and darted for the door, MePelter aud I followin soot without ktfdWin precisely wat for. Down the street we rushed, the proprietor close behind us; till finally by dartin down an alley we elooded him and leaned up agin a wall to breathe. “Why this foot-race?" I Sskt uv Bascom. “ I owe the cuss a bill for likker bought the year afore the war," returned he. “I didn’t uotis his name over the door or I shoodn’t hev gone in.” MePelter whissled a long, low, soft whissle, and I coodent avoid thinkin uv several things connected with our mishun ez he Spoke them words. After breathin ourselves, we resoomed our raid onto the merchants. We entered another store, a boot and shoe concern, wich wej purposed to crush by declinin to buy uy.it, McPelter’s eye rested onto the proprietor, and he glided out uv the store like a startled fawn. Uv course Bascom and I follered, and the proprietor after us. There wuz another chase, and more dodgin, wich resulted ez before. “ Why is this?” I asked uv MePelter. “ When I bustid in the boot and shoe trade two years ago, this villain wuz my principal creditor. He thought I wuz dead, but ez he’s seen me in the flesh I she! never agin hev any peece.” The next place we essayed wuz a genral dry goods and noslien house. Jist ez we pulled the resolooshen from our pockit to read it the proprietor uv the store perdoosed a note uv Eider Gavitt (Issaker’s father), onyvich I wuz bail, and we tried to dust out uv that place. But by this tims Bascom and McPelter’s men hed found wher we wuz, with a skore or more uv others who hed heerd uv our bein in the city thro these, and the thing got so hot that we hed to run for it, and run w# did. Fearin all sorts uv legal annoyances about obtainin goods under false pretence?, et settery, we didnt stop till we hed got well out uv the city and the next day we hailed a boat and sailed for Looisville. I can’t say that our visit resultid in accomplishin wot we desired. We didn’t git a chance to read our resolooshun at all, owin’ to the coopidity of the merchants who, with a grovelin mercenary spirit wich I never saw ekalled, appeared to be more anxious to git wot we already owed em than to listen to resoloosliens declinin to trade with em, or to open new accounts, and Cincinnati don’t know to this day the doom wich hung over her. We sed very little uv the result uv our trip on our return. MePelter did intimate that Radicalism hed rcsccved a stunin blow from wich it would never recover, but we declined to go into pertikelers. I shel never go on sich a mishun agin. Is there an openin for me too in Noo York? I’m weary uv life here. Faithfully, Eli.ier Pogram, Blessed Saint! Almost marter! ned he been arrested in Cincinnati for ebtainin goods under false pretenses, and hed he died in a Basteel, wot a fittin climax to a life so crowned with beauties! And hed he so died my debt to him would hev bin cancelled. But we can’t expect to hev everything arranged to soot us. I shall write the aged saint a letter uv congratulashen on his happy escape. Petroleum V. Nasby. (wich wuz P. M.) • > The Atlantic Monthly.—Contents of the March number: In Behalf o( the Birds, by T. M. Brewer; Joseph and his Friend—lll—by Bayard Taylor; From Pennsylvania Hills to Minnesota Prairies, by J. T. 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