Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1878 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

Mr. Hamby filven Mia Mans o 4 Ska Klw liana la the tails am luua. Dae. 1. 1878. i (From ibe Toledo Bteda.l The KadiJtela uv the North are gittin excited over the “ Solid South,’” and are agin commencing to persekoot us uv the former slave States, wich made a struggle for our rites, but was crushed out by the iron heel uv despotism under the tirent Linkin. Wat does the North want? That’s the question—wat does it demand uv us? * . Suppose the South hex sent up a ■olid Domikratic Congressional dclcgashun? Suppose there ain't a jnisable Radikel from any of the Southern States in Congris. Suppose—but what’s the use of supposin. Does the North know how we arc fixed? Does the North know that we uv the South are livin among a people wich yoosed to furnish us with bread and butter, and summers at Sar&togy ? Does the Nort h know that the tirent Linkin emancipated them people and put em out from under our control, and that they are in condishen to do ez they please? Nay, more. Does the North know that them people kin vote, and hey jist ez much to say about polisies and things cz we hevP Those things sliood be considered. The North shood remember that we uv the South—l meen the white men—are a sensitive people, and we hev feelings. We can't git down to the level uv a common man at wunat. We hey bin cradled in the lap uv luxury. Wo hev bin yoosed to hevin our work done for us, and hev been accustomed to livin by the swet uv other people's brows. It is not to be supposed that we kin accept so radikel a change ez bein compelled to go to work ourselves without a protest. - ■ %•" We make our protest in our own way. . By the result uv the war the nigger wuz given the ballot. All rite. He hez the ballot. We don't beleeve he onght to hev it, but ez the Fifteenth Amendment gives it to him, we accede. We hate the amendment, but ez it is law, we yeeld. We are law-abidin citizens. And so we give to the Afrikin his rites, and lay down quietly to him. He kin vote ez mutch ez he pleezes, and ez freely «z anybody. Fan the North ask anything more? Still we hev our way of regulatin wat we consider evils. Here in the CrossRoads our method is very simple, Joe Bigler and Pollock wuz off buyin a car-load uv mules. They wuz not here on eleeshun day, and conaekently we wuz not in terror uv Bigler’s revolver or Pollock’s tongue. We knowd they cood not get back m time to vote, or even to marshel the 500 niggers that hev the franchise at these poles. Therefore we proposed to send up a complete and clean Democratic offishary from this precinct, and at the same time obey the law. We respect the law. The nigger hez the rite to vote. We understand that and respect ijt. But there must be limitashuns. He may vote—the law sez that—but. the law don’t say how he shel vote. That is for us. We determine that. We are the roolin class, and the inferior class must be guided by the sooperior intelleck that don’t like to work. Es we cood hev trustedjthe nigger, we wood hev done it, but we coodent. We knowd he hed a predeleckshun for radikelism, and wuz, ez a rool, ppposed to appropris shuns. He cood not be trusted with the ballot without gidanse. Wat did we do? Joe Bigler and Pollock wuz away buyin mules, and the niggers were without their leaders. Then we organized. We notified em that they shood vote—that we didn’t want to interfere with ther rites, but that they must vote according to our noshens. We sed to em ez follows: “ Yoo are entitled to the ballot under the laws. We_ don’t approve uv the laws, but they is laws and we shel respect em. Far be it from us to break laws, or in any way interfere in their proper execooshens. Yoo shel vote. Yoo.shel exercise the rites uv citizens. Everyone uv yoo who wants to vote step up. We will give yoo aDimocratic tiokot and yoo shel vote it. Es you refooze to vote that ticket, we shall immediately perceed to blow the top uv yoor hed off. We want the utmost freedom uv opinyun, and the ballot-box shel be inviolate, pervided yoo vote rite. We shel say wat is rite. Now don’t go and complane that you hev bin refoosed the privileges uv an Arnerikin citizen.” The niggers come down and attemptid to vote. We hed shotguns and navy revolvers, and stood at tne poles. Ez they filed up. we demanded a site uv the tikkits they perposed to vote, and, es it wuz our tikkit, it went in all rite. Es it wuz any other tikkit, the presumpshus retch wich offered it hed jthe top uv his hed blowJ off immejitly, ez a warniu to the others. We ooodent stay foolin about, wen our rites wuz involved. Uv course, the result wuz a clean Dimocratic vote. Ther wuz no Rjdikel tikkits In the box, wich shows that the South hez but one Sentiment. Watever our views is, they are yoonanimus. and that is all ther is about it. Let the North look at our poll-lists, and the North will git a clear idee as to wat the South reely desires. I suppose there will be a howl about the fact that there wuz a yoonanimus Dimecratic vote at the Cross-Roads, when it is wall known that there are 500 niggers in the precinct wich would vote the Ablishn, Radikel tikkit. I suppose that it will be made the excoose for another raid and another demand for violent measures agin the sufferin South. Let it be so. Es the North supposes that we phel Jay still and let niggers offset bur votes, when we want the Southern war debt paid, and a system of Southern internal improvements inoggerated, the North is mistakin. The Southern Dimocrat knows how to protect himself. He obeys lawq, perviaid the lans run his way.- - • Petroleum V. Nasby, Statesman.