Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1876 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

Hr. Raskjr Consider* It Hwnoisry u InaCrae* ths Psofl* of (Is* North an to the True State of the Caste with Hsspcct to the Negro. (From the Toledo Blade.] Cosrusn X Hoads. 1 .WicHfs i* ran State mr Kentucky, V j/ Sept 4, 187#. \ Reed in Northern noospapers for some weoks past, I Lev come to the conclooshen that the people uv the North don’t understand the troo status uv things down here, and I feel it my dooty to enllten em. It is not nacheral that a Northern man kin understand the feeling uv a Suthemer. The Northerner never wuz a aristocrat like us —he never wuz a sooperior race, but bein mere labrln men, or mere men uv biznis, or sich, they kin hardly be expected to comprehend how some things strike the minds uv hawty, shivelrus people, which hev been obleeged to succum to force. That the nigger is a trubble to us there ain’t no question, and noboddy denies uv it. He is a worriment and an irritashen, and more than that an a*bsloot noosence, and there never kin be peece so long cz he is onrestrained and oncontrolled. 1. We are in' constant fear uvhim. Here in the Corners there is about 200 uv em—there wuz more, but their repeeted assaultz onto us hez ended in ther bein thinned out somewhat—and them 200 keep us in constant seer. They form a boday by theirselves, and hev doubtless organized to act agin us. I myself hev frekently seen two uv em in close converse, and they hev their own religious meetins, wich is doubtlis a kiver for ther nefarious desines.

We hev never suffered from any outbreaks uv theirn, for the Corners is prompt. Whenever we anti9sipate danger, and seer s risin, we immedjetly sally out and kill a dozen or so, wich nips it in the bud. 2. They will not labor for us, and thus stand in the way uv the progress uv the country. This season the follerin losses wuz inflicted on citizens uv the Comers by these people refoosin to work for em: Issaker Gavitt, four akers uv grass. Capt. M’Pelter.six akers, ditto. Deekin Pogram, five akers, ditto. Elder M’Grath, four akers, ditto. And others too tejus to menshun. I shudder to think that I shood hev lost all my crop es I’d hed any. But ez I ain’t I wuz mercifully spared. This loss come direckly upon the peeple by the absloot refoosal uv the niggers to cut and git in the hay. Every man uv us wuz at Bascom’s every day doorin tbe hayin seeson, implorin them wretches to git it in; but they refoosed, givin ez a reeson that they hed ther own to take keer uv. One uv em insultinly asked why we didn’t go and git it in ourselves? He never asked no more questions. Ther wuz only $2.50 on his body. And ez we lost the hay crop so we snel lose our com. It hez not bin plowed or hoed, becoz we coodent git the labor, and how wat little ther is uv it is to be cut and husked, is the question that we are perpetooally askin ourselves at Bascom’s.

3. —They are not a contentid race, and are onfittin theiraelves ez fast ez they kin to be an inferior people. They hev skools among theirselves, wich is taught by emissaries from Noo England. They are not only learnin ther children to read, and sich, but they are flyin in the face uv Providence by learnin theiraelves. They hev the impudence to discuss things, ana in one naberhood they hev reely startid a debatin skool. Uv coarse all this worries us. Es they keep on in this way they won’t be fit to be agin redoosed even es we do git a Dimocratic President. I ain’t shoor that it ain’t too late now, and that even es Tilden shood be electid, I doubt es we cood bring ’em to any thing neer wat they yoosed to be. 4. —They are dnslent to us to a degree that is onbearable. They refoose to take ors ther hats wen they meet us, and teech ther children to show us the same disrespect. To- a true Suthern gentleman, one uv the sooperior race, this is sufficient to drive him to madnis. He hez alluz taken great comfort in the jdee that ther wuz a race beneeth him, ana it cuts to the quick to destroy the ijlushen. Niggers wich only a few years ago’wuz the property uv our citizens now pass us with their heads erect, and their hats on, and even irritate us by appearin with better close than we kin wear. Issaker Gavitt’s wife wuz only last week driven to the very verge of maanis, by seein Mirandy, the wife uv one uv ther niggers, on the street with a black silk dress on, suthin Mrs. Gavitt hezn’t hed sence Issaker sold Mirandy’s daughters to git one fur .her in 1860. This prodooses Tnsubordinashen in our families. Mrs. Gavitt made it lively for Issaker. She told him that es he wood quit loafin around Bascom’s and go to work, ez Mirrandy’s husband did, possibly he mite git her another dress. Issaker coodent make her understand that a shivelry coodent be expectid to work in the feeld, like a nigger, and to escape her tongue he didn’t go home fur two days, but slept on the floor at Bascom’s. 5. This inferior race insists onvotinand takin part in public affares. At meetings called to decide ez to levyin taxes for roads and other purposes, they come in and vote and speek, jest ez tho they wuz white, claimin that becoz they pay taxes they hev a rite to a voice in the disposishen uv em, forgittin that an inferior race ain’t no rites to mix in anything. At a meetin last week to consider the extensliun uv a road, one uv these degraded beings come up with a paper, on which he had written the cost per mile, and all about it, and he hed the impudence to hand it to the Secretary, Issaker Gavitt, to reed. I hed to releeve Issaker’s embarrassment bytellin the inferior man to reed it hiaself, wich he did, and in consekens title proposition was voted down. They inflict there humiliashuns onto us perpetooally. I cood say more, bat this isenuff. Ther is but one way out uv this trubble. The two races wuz never calkelatid to live toS ether except ez master and servant, and. ier never will be peace — ther can’t be—till these inferior people take the place nacher intended ’em for. The aristocracy uv the sunny South will never admit tern to an ekality. They hev succeeded in gittin farms and gittin a foothold that irritates us, to a point past endoorance. We shel never be content till the old order uv things is re-estab-lished. Ez the stronger race, we must be releeved uv all seer uv ’em. We must he wunst agin made their guardians and protectors and guides. They must wunst more labor for us, and under our direckshen. We shel never ask that they be abalootely re-enslaved, but they must be made our wards’ ez it were. They must not be elevated to the rites uv citizenship till they are fit for it. They must shut up ther skool-houses, and their churches, and resoiom their normal condishen til] sich time ez they hev progressed fur enuff to be safely entrusted with the rites uv freemen. 77

This is wat we want, and this is wat we must hev to hev peece. Es the nigger will consent to this ther will be peece—otherwise not. We can’t endoor the present condishen uv things no longer. Tttte sass will decide the matter. Es Tilden is elected, all will be well. With a Democratic President and a Democratic Congris, with the Southern claims All allowed, with capital, and tbe means to compel nigger labor, the South will enter upon a new career uv prosperity, and be almost ez well off ez it would hev bin hed we succeeded in conkerin the minyuns of the Gorriller, Linkin, and establishin a government uv our own. Dimocrats uv the North to your posts!

PETROLEUM V. NASBY,

Reformer. P. B.—ln the interests uv reform I hev arranged for 400 Kentucky Dimocrats to go over into Injeany in October, provided the money for ther expenses is forthcomin. We are wutin anxiously.