Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1870 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

(From the Toledo Blade.] MR. NASBY ATTEMPTS TO STUMP THE STATE OF DELAWARE—THE OBSTACLES THROWN IN HIS WAY BY ONE OBED PEABLY, A CONNECTICUT MAN NOW RESIDENT OF THAT STATE. Mastkh’b Cobhxbs, MmrmoN Hmm bud, 1 ik ths Stats uv Dklawabi, > - September 11,1870. I It seems to me cz though whenever I thought I hed a pecoolyerly good thing, that some onmitigated cuss wuz destined to be raised up agin me to bust it. At Confedrit X Roads in Kentucky, that sneekin whelp, Pollock, and furoshus broot, Joe Bigler, wuz alluz in my way, a overthrowin my happiest skeems and blast in my most cheiisht purposes. Here, in Ms*ten’s Corners, my evil genyusis a cuss from Connecticut, named Obed Peasly, who drifted Into Delaware four years ago, and who now runs a tin shop at this place. The people hev to endoor him and support him, for ez they never buy new tin ware its a real accommodashun for em to hev a man capable of sodderin holes in pans, when the" orifices become too big to be stuffed up with rags. But he iz nevertheless a disturber and an inkubus. He hez made friends with all the niggers in this part uv the state; hez helped the Methodist and Baptist preechera to start Sunday Skools among em, and is in all respecks conduktin hisself like a man uv low, grovlin instinks, who feels a call to tear down ancient land marks, and root out everything that the well regulated Delawarian most desires to perpetuate. He is an innovator uv the most dangerous discripshun. He hez been bawlin for years for the destruckshen uv the whippin-post, and the establishin uv free skools here, hez tried to interdoose factriee and stop the sale uv likker, and hev a mectin house put up, and so on. In shoit he hez bein doin his level best to redoos Delaware to the level of Noo Ingland.

The Democratic Central Committee uv the State hed arranged matters wisely and well; that is, it wood hev bin well hed it not bin for this cussed Peasley. They desired to hold all the white vote, and hoped to gain a large share uv the nigger vote. We knew we shood hev no trouble with the white vote, for abuse uv the nigger wood do that, but how to aboose him and capcher his vote at the same time wuz the problem. It wuz decided not to hold public meetins among the niggers at all, or to hev tm attend meetins, but to do the work among them by private conversashen. This wood make clear sailin for our who wuz all notified by cirkler uv wot wuz to be sed. They wuz to bear with all the force possible onto taxes, wich the Delaware man hez alluz hatid to pay, for any purpus, and pertikelerly the danger of nigger tkality, wich is a movin topic for Democratic speekers everywhere. I opened the campane in Masten’s Corner’s two weeks ago, with the same speech I hev bin yoosin tor twelve yeers. Ln the begtnnin I arrano the Republikin party for corrupshen, onto wich I dwell for perhaps ten minutes, when I launch off into my favrit argument, wich is that the nigger is a beast, and physikally and morelly onfit to be anythin but the property uv ths proud Caucashen, which is by nacher the master race. The meetin passed off splendidly—indeed a more enthoosiastic aujence 1 never hed. Obed Peasley wuz in, and at the concloosion he told me that he never hed bin so staggered in his life. “ Whcr do you speck to-morrer nite ? ” he asked. I told him at a village some sixteen miles from here. “ I will be there to hear it agin,” he sed, “ and ez them trooths uv yourn ought to hev wide circul&shen, I shel bring all my trends in that naborhood.” I never wuz so elated in my life. Here wuzfroots! Here wuz a Noo Ingland disturber sonverted by one speech—a persecoctcr converted into an adherent. I retired to bed that nite in ruther high estimate uv my ability. The jnext nite I hed a dclitefu! auj er.ee. The barn in yrieh I wuz to speck wuz nearly full uv the residents uv the scckshttn. and fiom remarks I heerd ein drop and tier appearance, and other indicashens, I felt ashoored that everything I shcod say on the nigger wood meet with ready and enthoosiastic response from cm. I opened elokently and reeled ors the first ten minutes uv my remarks with more spent than I ever throwd into it

The people were enthoosiastlc in ther applause, and I hed workt myself up into a fever uv eggscitement. At last I got to the second head uv my remarks—the nigger question. “ My brethren," sed L“ I approach this question reluctantly. The snbjick isn’t a pleasant one. The nigger, my brethren, wich these fanatics are strivin to force onto us <z an ekal, iz not a man. The nigger, with his long heels, his horribla odor, his I didn't conclood the sentence. At this pint, while these words wuz a ekoin thro the assemblage, that onmitlgatld noo-, since, Obed Peasley, marched Into the barn at the head uv a percession uv male niggers, twenty in number, all uv wich took seats rite in front uv me where they coodent help hearin every word I shooa utter.

My tongue wuz glued to the roof uv my mouth. I saw the danger I wuz in towunst. Them niggers hed votes, and with the white Repuolikins in the vicinity kin carry it. Our people had bin to work among em with hopes uv holdin at least a porshen uv em. Es I perceeded with my speech ez I hed it arranged, they wuz hopelessly lost—cf I didn’t lay it on thick enuff onto the nigger, I disgusted my white friends afore me, who only hed one politikle creed, wich wuz to hate sich. I undertook to switch off and say suthin else, but I coodn’t. I hev only hed one speech for twelve years, and I must deliver that or hold my peace. Peasley nodded at me approvinly. “My brethren I” I commenct agin, when seein them niggers my knees trembled. I lost conshusnis and fell faintin off the barrel onto wich I stood. I perceeded the next nite to my next appointment, thankin Heaven that I fainted ez I did, for it let me out of a most awkward posiehen. I opened tz before and got to the percise pint where I change to the discushen uv the nigger, when Peasley agin made his appearance with his escort uv niggers, twenty in number. Agin I tried to switch off; agin I stumbled and floundered, and agin I sunk down unable to say a word. Need I continyoo the hart rendin narrative ! Need I say that for two weeks that feend incarnate, with twenty niggers alluz with him, made his appearance at my meetins, every time jest cz I wuz Bayin “my brethren, the nigger wich these Radikals is forsin onto us ez an ekal is not a man. He is not fit morally or physically to be asseshated with us. He is-” Need I say that I am at Bill Sapp’s, sick, after hevin miscarried with that same speech fifteen times ? And need I say that it hez leaked out that a lot uv Radikels in Wilmington, onto whose heads cusses, furnisht this Peasley with means to follow me up doorin the campane, and that he perposes to continyoo till the nite of elecshin ? 1 applied to the Central Committy to furnish me a new speech—one wich wood soot for a mixed aujence—but they cant do it. They say Dimocrisy woodnt bear sich a strain ez to kiver both idees towunst, —■: ■ And so in konsekence uv this Connecticut scoundrel’s feendishnis, I atn made yooelis doorin this campane, and we may possibly lose all that we are playin for. Why cant that race be exterminated. Petroleum V. Nasby. (Wich wuz Postmaster)