104. CIV.
MOURNFUL VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Confedrit × Roads (wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky), }
April 26, 1866.
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The work uv death is a goin on. The sakred precepts uv
the Holy Skripters is bein daily violated by an insane majority,
who hev substitooted their own noshens for the safe and pleasant
revelashens uv Holy Writ, and the practices of their
fathers.
Cood Noah, when he cussed Ham, and declared that he shood
be a servant unto his brethren, hev foreseen how his cuss wood
hev bin disregarded in these degenerate days, he wood, I boldly
assert (and I make the assertion from wat I know uv the character
uv that eminent navigator), hev kep sober, and not cust
Ham at all. For wat's the use uv sich a cuss ef it's to be removed
jist when you want it to stick? Hed it bin taken off
afore cotton wuz profitable, and afore the Southern people hed
learned to depend onto their labor, it wouldent hev bin so bad,
and they cood hev endoored it without murmurin. But, alas!
not only is the South in a state of abject cussitood, but the
Northern Dimocrasy is likewise.
The case stood thuswise: The South depended on the Nigger;
and the Northern politicians, like me, depended on the
South. The nigger wuz the foundashun upon wich the entire
structur rested; and now that he's knocked out, it falls.
I wuz in Washington the other day, and wuz a unwillin witnis
uv a scene wich filled me with unutterable disgust. The
niggers wuz a celebratin suthin connected with their onnatural
removal from their normal condishun, and wuz a paradin the
streets with bands uv music, and with banners and inscriptions.
They hed the impudence to dress up in good clothes, — clothes
wich I cood not afford to wear, — and three uv the impudent
cusses hed the ashoorance to go so far in their imitation of
human beins ez to make speeches; and to my horror, the mass
uv em hed ben so well trained by somebody that they actily
cheered, and ez near ez I cood make out got in the applause at
the right place, and all without the assistance uv a indivijual
to commence applaudin at the right time, wich we hev generally
found nessary at Dimmekratic meetins.
Their inscripshuns wuz insultin. They hed em all spelt rite,
and they wuz full uv alloosions to ekal rites, and onqualifyed
suffrage, and sich, planely showin that the poor, misguided
critters hed no idee that they wuz loaded down with a cuss
and that becoz uv that cuss they hed no rites watever.
In Richmond I saw other evidences uv the terrible breakin
down uv the barriers wich Noah set up atween the races. I
wuz sittin in a hoss car, when a nigger hed the onparalleled
asshoorence to enter and set down. I remonstrated with the
chattel, who laft in my face.
Thus the old landmarks is bein removed, and thus the foundations
uv society is a bein broken up. I saw in Richmond
fair wimmin who hed, in olden times, never known wat labor
wuz, a washin dishes, and cookin their own vittles; and I saw
men, who hed wunst lived luxuriously on the labor uv a hundred
niggers, now drivin drays, and sellin dry goods and groceries,
and sich, and my soul sunk within me. Wuz the cuss a
mistake? Wuz the nigger not the race that wuz cussed? or
has he becum so bleached, so lost in the white by amalgamation,
that there ain't enough uv the black left in each indivijual
for the cuss to hang to?
Andrew Johnson! in your hands rests our cause; on your
ackshen depends our weal or woe! Yoo, and yoo alone, kin
remedy this. Wat if a corrupt and radikle Congress does override
your vetoes, and legislate for these cuss-ridden people?
Yoo hev yet a power wich yoo must not hesitate to make em
feel. Clear out the rump Congress; declare our Southern
brethren entitled to their seats, and see that they hev em.
The Dimocrisy uv the North, wich wuz latterly for peece, are
now fur war. They will sustain yoo. Reverse yoor ackshen,
and yoo kin attach em to yoo with hooks uv steel. There ain't
no risk in it — nary risk. Turn the Ablishnists out uv the
Post Offices, and replace em with Democrats; let it be under
stood that yoo hev come back to yoor fust love, and no longer
abide in the tents uv Ablishunism, — and all will be well.
Talk less uv yoor policy, and put more uv it into acts. Combine
Post Offices with Policy, and proclaim that only he who
sustains the latter shel hev the former, and yoo kin depend on
the entire Democrisy North. We are waitin anxiously. From
the South comes up the cry, wich the North reëkkoes.
Will Androo Johnson, wich Ablishnists call Moses, but wich
we, for obvious reasons, style the 2d Jaxson, heed that cry?
or will he persist in clingin to the black idol he embraced four
years ago?
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
