74. LXXIV.
DEPRECATES THE ARMING OF THE SLAVES BY THE
SOUTH.
Saint's Rest, (wich is in the Stait uv Noo Gersey,) }
November the 21st, 1864.
The brave and shiverlus South hev at last desided
upon armin their niggers. Ef they do it, it
settles the question. The Ablishn party is neerly
eggsaustid, and can not hope to cope successfully
with three millions uv fresh niggers, the most uv
em desendid drekly from the fust families uv the
South. The nigger will fite! I may hev sed at
diffrent times, when the goriller Linkin wuz armin
uv em, that they woodent fite, but it wuz a lie uv
the basest character, that I got up 2 deseeve the
peeple. Does Boregard fite? Does the younger
Masons, and Peytons, and Ruffins, and Slidells,
and sich? Where do they get their shiverlus
darin frum? Onqueschenably frum the old Boregard,
Mason, Peyton, Slidell, et settry. Werry
good. Admittin it 's blood that does it, won't the
same blood that makes Kernel Peyton shivelrus,
operate the same way when coursin thro the
vanes uv Sam, his haff-brother? Uv coarse.
Like causes perdoose like effex. Ef Kernel Peyton
taiks a dose uv pills, wat 's the result? Precisely
the same ez wen Pomp takes em. Blood,
like pills, operate the same on all constooshns.
The mizable hirelins uv Linkin will rue the
day they meet these dark knites. The Suthern
white soljer is, I am aware, a mizable cuss. He
wuz born a serf; nacher made him expressly for
them system uv sosiety, and he coodent eggsist
nowhere else. The Suthern lord uv the sile reqwires
various serviss. Manyooel laber is dun
by the black, but his votin must be dun by whites.
Nacher steps in and furnishes him a man white
enuff to vote, and low enuff to be owned. He hez
no shiverlry, and woodent fite at all ef 't want for
the bloodid offisers. Imagin entire regyments
uv blooded men—men uv the fizzikle strength uv
the native Afrikin, animated with the sperit uv
the hawty Southron—a goriller with the sole uv
Shevaleer Bayard.
I hev prayd that Linkin will spare the South
this bitter cup. Hez the retch no sole? Imagin
a Suthern offiser a leedin his regyment in2 battle.
He drors nigh to the enemy. Whiz! sings a
shell. It explodes! He is safe, but, alars! dispersed
in2 inch peeses is Sipio, his nigger, and
perhaps the son uv his grandfather's son, or, may
be, the unkle uv his own children! That shell
cost him $1,500. A rifle pops, and Pompey dies,
who, livin, wood hev bin dirt-cheep at $1,200.
And so he goes. He treds the path uv glory
over the ded bodies uv his blood relashens, which
is also his forchune.
Agin. Ef the nigger fites alongside uv the
white man, he is acknollijed ez his ekal, and away
goes the corner-stun uv Dimokrasy. It hez alluz
bin a consolashen to the Northern Dimekrat to
feel that ther wuz a race meaner than they air.
Shel this pleezin deloosion be roodly dissipatid?
Ferbid it, Hevin!
This sacrifis may be avoidid. Linkin hez bin
slitely electid, and inezmuch ez he hez controle
uv suthin over a milyun muskits, with artilry 2
match, we Dimekrats, hevin alluz bin a law-abidin
peeple, shel submit quietly 2 the popler voice.
But we kin advize. Linkin hez it in his hands.
Let him make peese immejitly and to-wunst. Let
him send commishners 2 Richmond, under same
pay ez members uv Congris, (I will go for wun,)
to treet and be treeted. Let us act upon the
Micklellan ijee. Let us offer them all they want
to kum back, and ef they refooze—why then fite
it out, on constooshnel, conservative principples.
Ef they do refooze, and the war shood be properly
conductid, I shood sacrifice all for my bleedin
country, and go into the servis ez a sutler. I
cood not hesitate for a moment.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
