Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1878 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

I From the Toledo Blade.) CoNraimrr X Hcmum. I Wicb is in the State of Kentucky. Dec. 10. Ifffi. I Mr. Naatoy fi'ttara * Frotaat Agwlnat the “ Hawfrf of the Northern Hepuhilean Frees Over the Prevention of Negro Votlnx i* the South. I foresee trouble. My prophetic sole looks forrerd a year or two, and perceives a cloud a-loomin up in the fucher, wlch bodes ns uv the South no good. 1 foresee a raid wlch will be made onto the suffirin South, and possibly it may be successful. I foresee a renewal uv the hostilities wlch led to fratricidle struggle betwixt the sexshuns in 1861, and possibly gore. The North to not content with things ez they are. The North persists in bleevin that the rites uv the niggers In the South hez bin violatid, and that they hev bin deprived uv the priviliges of freemen,wich they fortify by assertin ez a fact that in the Cross-Roads alone 75 niggers wuz killed for insistin upon votin the Republikin tickit, and that 500 wuz kept away from the poles by force. * At least let the peopto uv the North hev the truth. Onr enemies will find that nothin kin be gained by misrepresentashun and false statement. I will give the exact facts. There wuz only seventy-two killed, the other three bein merely severely woundid. , One uv the wounded may hev died sence, but I am not certin. There wuznt 500 druv away from the poles, the exact number wuz 491. It is by sich falsehoods that the sufrin South is being prejoodist. It is by meens uv sich lies that Congris will be inflooenced agin givin us sich appropriashens ez we desire, and payin the Southern war debt, and penshunin Southern soljers. It is by sich stupenjus lies that the Radikels hope to elect a President in 1880.

Neither will the subsidized Radikel press give the troo reasons, or, ruther, the philosophy, uv our ackshen in this matter. The fact to, we did not deny the rite uv the nigger to vote. No sich thought ever entered our heads. We desired em to vote. We went into ther settlements and implored em, ez they loved Kentucky, to come and deposit their ballots like freemen. We askt em to jine ns in an effort to save the South from hoomiliashen, by sendin up a Clean Dimecratic delegashun, and by sich majorities ez wood teech the Vandal North that the State wuz a yoonit agin thei unholy skeems uv subjoogashen. We reminded em that they hed an ekal interest witli us in prokoorin appropriashuns. “It is troo,” we sed to em, “ that you will not hev contrax on the ship canal, or on the Custom-House at the Corners, nor will you be penshuned for servis in the Confedrit army, but the money will come here, and ez yoo furnish all the pervishens, we not bein fond uv labor, it will git around to yoo in time.” And we reminded em uv a great many more things. They come to the polls on our invitashen four hundred and ninety-one, which wuz a majority. They come unarmed, save with that weapon wich is firmer set and stronger than the bayonet—the ballot. To our horrer we diskivered that every last one uv the black cusses hed Republikin tickets and perposed to vote em! Uv course this woodn’t do. We wantid em to exercise the rite uv suffrage, but they must exercise it ez we wantid em to, . . . . •

We closed the poles immejitly, till we cood hasten home and git our shotguns and revolvers. Then we opened the poles agin and remonstratid with em agin this outrage. We felt that we wuz bein coerced into permittin’ a unholy Radikel majority at the Corners, wich hez alluz bin Dimecratic, and wich shel alluz be. We told em they shood vote, but they must vote the Dimekratie tikket like free men. Es they felt they ooodent do that, they hed better not inflame the Corners and pervoke blood by stayin’ around the poles. One uv em demandid the rite to vote ez he pleased, When Issaker Gavitt, wich is naterally quick, blew the tbp uv his head off with n charge of buck shot. Hevin tasted blood, a general battoo ensued, in wich seventy-two uv em wuz killed, and the rest took to ther heels and refoozedto vote. This is all ther wuz in the matter. Possibly there wuz more uv em killed than wuz strikly nessary. Possibly killin’ fifty, or perhaps twenty-five wood hev answered the purpis jist. ez well. Es so we are sorry and are willin’ to apologize to the friends uv the deceast. We desire alluz to do the proper and manly thing. But when we are asked to permit a Republikin majority at the Corners, we say no! and we will say it at the muzzle uv thd shotgun, es needs be, tho we hed ruther not. We wood much prefer that the misgidid men wood lisen to reeson, and come into the Dimekratie fold by peaceful means, but come they must, or suffer the consekences. Why, look at it! Without hevin a solid South, how kin we sekoor the speshl appropriashens wich we must hev? How kin we drive the North into the payment uv our debt, and the penshunin uv our soljers? How kin we elect the next President, and run the Government in the interest uv the South? With a divided delegashun it wood be impossible. Let the North think uv our necessities, and we are shoor they will approve our ackshen. I do not know that this simple statement will hev any effeck upon the besotted Northern press, but it is all we kin do. Es we are to be made to suffer for protectin ourselves, then so it must be. We at leest will die like heroes. Petroleum V. Nasby, Statesman (Shot Gnn).