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The struggles (social, financial and political) of Petroleum V. Nasby

embracing his trials and troubles, ups and downs, rejoicings and wailings, likewise his views of men and things : together with the lectures "Cussid be Canaan," "The struggles of a conservative with the woman question," and "In search of the man of sin"
Locke, David Ross (1833-1888)
  
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DEDIKASHUN.
  
PREFIS.
  
INTRODUCTION.
  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  
CONTENTS.

 1. 
I. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
 2. 
II. THE SECESSION OF WINGERT'S CORNERS.
 3. 
III. NEGRO EMIGRATION.
 4. 
IV. PROPOSES TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY.
 5. 
V. ANNIHILATES AN OBERLINITE.
 6. 
VI. MAKES A CANDIDATE “UV HISSELF.”
 7. 
VII. SHOWS WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE DRAFTED.
 8. 
VIII. IN CANADA.
 9. 
IX. IS FINALLY DRAFTED.
 10. 
X. DESERTS — HIS EXPERIENCE IN CLOTHES.
 11. 
XI. CAPTURES A TURKEY.
 12. 
XII. IMPROVES HIS FORTUNES BY MARRIAGE.
 13. 
XIII. CONVERSES WITH A SOUTHERN SOLDIER.
 14. 
XIV. AT HOME.
 15. 
XV. ASSISTS DRAFT RESISTERS.
 16. 
XVI. STRATEGISES.
 17. 
XVII. ADDRESSES THE SOLDIERS.
 18. 
XVIII. ORGANIZES A DEMOCRATIC CHURCH.
 19. 
XIX. GOES ON WITH HIS CHURCH.
 20. 
XX. “CAPCHERD.”
 21. 
XXI. STARTS A PAPER.
 22. 
XXII. PREACHES AND MAKES A SUDDEN SHIFT.
 23. 
XXIII. OBSERVES A DAY OF FASTING.
 24. 
XXIV. CONFESSION OF FAITH.
 25. 
XXV. VISITS VALLANDIGHAM.
 26. 
XXVI. CONVERSES WITH A BROTHER.
 27. 
XXVII. PREACHES — SUBJECT, “GIVIN.”
 28. 
XXVIII. VISITS CAMP DENNISON TO ELECTIONEER FOR VALLANDIGHAM.
 29. 
XXIX. WAILETH.
 30. 
XXX. IN THE “APOSSEL BIZNIS.”
 31. 
XXXI. HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT.
 32. 
XXXII. PREACHES.
 33. 
XXXIII. SUBMITS A PLAN FOR THE SALVATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
 34. 
XXXIV. TAKES A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
 35. 
XXXV. COMMUNES WITH SPIRITS.
 36. 
XXXVI. TRIES AN EXPERIMENT.
 37. 
XXXVII. ESTABLISHES AFRICAN SLAVERY.
 38. 
XXXVIII. OPPOSES THE NOMINATION OF A MILITARY MAN.
 39. 
XXXIX. TRIES TO AWAKEN AN INTEREST.
 40. 
XL. RECOMMENDS UNANIMITY.
 41. 
XLI. AGAIN REPUDIATES M'CLELLAN, AND GIVES REASONS THEREFOR.
 42. 
XLII. ORDAINS A MISSIONARY.
 43. 
XLIII. GIVES THANKS.
 44. 
XLIV. WAILETH.
 45. 
XLV. FREMONT'S NOMINATION.
 46. 
XLVI. THE RETURN OF VALLANDIGHAM.
 47. 
XLVII. DEFINES HIS POSITION, AND APPEALS FOR AID.
 48. 
XLVIII. DECLARES FOR REPUDIATION AND UNION WITH THE SOUTH.
 49. 
XLIX. SHOWS THAT A WAR PLATFORM WON'T DO FOR THE DEMOCRACY.
 50. 
L. HAS A CLASS-MEETING, AND DEPRECATES NEGRO-KILLING.
 51. 
LI. STARTS A SOCIETY OF HIS OWN.
 52. 
LII. INDORSES THE NOMINATION.
 53. 
LIII. THE CANDIDATES AND PLATFORM.
 54. 
LIV. WAILETH.
 55. 
LV. LAMENTETH.
 56. 
LVI. HAS A DREAM.
 57. 
LVII. LOSES A FRIEND, AND WRITES HIS OBITUARY.
 58. 
LVIII. HAS A DIFFICULTY WITH HIS FLOCK AND LEAVES IT.
 59. 
LIX. DEPRECATES THE ARMING OF THE SLAVES BY THE SOUTH.
 60. 
LX. HAS A FRIGHTFUL DREAM.
 61. 
LXI. PROPOSES THE EMIGRATION OF THE DEMOCRACY.
 62. 
LXII. CONSULTS THE SPIRITS.
 63. 
LXIII. “WAILETH AND CUSSETH.”
 64. 
LXIV. RENOUNCES SLAVERY.
 65. 
LXV. LAMENTETH.
 66. 
LXVI. DETAILS THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRACY.
 67. 
LXVII. MR. NASBY AND HIS FRIENDS HOLD A MEETING ON THE FALL OF CHARLESTON.
 68. 
LXVIII. LAMENTETH OVER THE APOSTASY OF THE SAINTS.
 69. 
LXIX. THE FALL OF RICHMOND AND LEE'S SURRENDER.
 70. 
LXX. THE ASSASSINATION.
 71. 
LXXI. “MAKES A DELEGASHUN UV HISSELF,” AND VISITS THE PRESIDENT.
 72. 
LXXII. HAS A VISION.
 73. 
LXXIII. LAYS DOWN A PLATFORM FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
 74. 
LXXIV. MEETS A “RECONSTRUCTID SUTHERN CHIVELRY, AND HEZ CONFIDENCES.”
 75. 
LXXV. “DREAMS A DREAM.”
 76. 
LXXVI. ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.
 77. 
LXXVII. SEARCHES THE SCRIPTURES, AND GETS COMFORT THEREFROM.
 78. 
LXXVIII. OPPOSES THE NOMINATION OF SOLDIERS.
 79. 
LXXIX. SUGGESTS A “PSALM OF SADNESS” FOR HIS FRIENDS SOUTH.
 80. 
LXXX. A HORRIBLE VISION.
 81. 
LXXXI. MEETS A PARDONED REBEL, WHO ENLIGHTENS HIM.
 82. 
LXXXII. ON SOUTHERN CHARACTER.
 83. 
LXXXIII. ON THE DIVERSITY OF THE RACES.
 84. 
LXXXIV. HAS A CONVERSATION WITH THE DEVIL.
 85. 
LXXXV. APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRACY.
 86. 
LXXXVI. AFTER THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS, 1865.
 87. 
LXXXVII. AFTER THE NEW JERSEY ELECTION, 1865.
 88. 
LXXXVIII. A CONVERSATION WITH GENERAL McSTINGER, OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, WHICH IS INTERRUPTED BY A SUBJUGATED REBEL.
 89. 
LXXXIX. A REMARKABLE DREAM. — A COUNTRY SETTLED EXCLUSIVELY BY DEMOCRATS.
 90. 
XC. A CHANGE OF BASE — KENTUCKY. — A SERMON WHICH WAS INTERRUPTED BY A SUBJUGATED AND SUBDUED CONFEDERATE.
 91. 
XCI. THE EFFECT THE PROCLAMATION OF SECRETARY SEWARD PRODUCED IN KENTUCKY.
 92. 
XCII. A CONVERSATION WITH A LOYAL KENTUCKIAN, WHO HAD FAITH IN THE FINAL TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY.
 93. 
XCIII. A PLAN SUGGESTED FOR THE UP-BUILDING OF THE DEMOCRACY.
 94. 
XCIV. ENJOYS A VISION OF THE NEXT WORLD, SEEING THEREIN MANY CURIOUS THINGS, WHICH ARE PUBLISHED AS A WARNING TO POLITICIANS.
 95. 
XCV. THE SITUATION. — THE DEMOCRACY WARNED.
 96. 
XCVI. THE PRESIDENT'S 22D OF FEBRUARY SPEECH.
 97. 
XCVII. THE PRESIDENT IMPLORED TO SHOW HIS HAND.
 98. 
XCVIII. THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM. — AN AFFECTING APPEAL IN BEHALF OF A FRIEND.
 99. 
XCIX. A DREAM. — THE CORPSE OF REPUBLICANISM.
 100. 
C. A KENTUCKY TEA PARTY.
 101. 
CI. A PSALM OF GLADNESS. — VETO OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
 102. 
CII. A CRY OF EXULTATION. — A GLEAM OF LIGHT.
 103. 
CIII. A WAIL OF ANGUISH. — THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL OVER THE VETO.
 104. 
CIV. MOURNFUL VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
 105. 
CV. THE RECONSTRUCTED CONGRATULATE THE COUNTRY UPON THE MEMPHIS OUTBREAK.
 106. 
CVI. THE WORKINGS OF THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. — A REPORT.
 107. 
CVII. PRESIDES AT A CHURCH TRIAL.
 108. 
CVIII. TURNS A MEETING, CALLED TO INDORSE GENERAL ROSSEAU, TO ACCOUNT.
 109. 
CIX. PREACHES — THE “PRODIGAL SON.” — AN INTERRUPTION.
 110. 
CX. A PLEASANT DREAM, THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION BEING THE SUBJECT THEREOF.
 111. 
CXI. REWARD OF VIRTUE. — THE VIRTUOUS PATRIOT SECURES HIS LOAF. — JOLLIFICATION.
 112. 
CXII. THE CONVOCATION OF HUNGRY SOULS AT PHILADELPHIA. — A DESCRIPTION OF THAT MEMORABLE OCCASION BY ONE WHO HAD BEEN PROVIDED FOR.
 113. 
CXIII. THE GREAT PRESIDENTIAL EXCURSION TO THE TOMB OF DOUGLAS. — FROM WASHINGTON TO DETROIT.
 114. 
CXIV. THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR CONTINUED. — FROM DETROIT TO INDIANAPOLIS.
 115. 
CXV. THE END OF THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR. — FROM LOUISVILLE TO WASHINGTON.
 116. 
CXVI. AT HOME AGAIN. — A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF SOUL-HARROWING OUTRAGES INFLICTED UPON THE PEOPLE OF CONFEDERATE × ROADS BY A PARTY OF FREEDMEN, AND HOW THE INSULT WAS WIPED OUT.
 117. 
CXVII. IS REQUESTED TO ACT AS CHAPLAIN OF THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION. — THAT BEAUTIFUL CITY VISITED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
 118. 
CXVIII. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE JUST BEFORE THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
 119. 
CXIX. THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. — THE EFFECT THE RESULT PRODUCED IN KENTUCKY.
 120. 
CXX. THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. — MR. NASBY'S OPINION ON THE CAUSE OF THE DEFEAT OF THE PRESIDENT.
 121. 
CXXI. “WILL YOU HAVE ANDREW JOHNSON PRESIDENT OR KING?” — A DREAM, IN WHICH ANDREW JOHNSON FIGURES AS A KING, SURROUNDED BY HIS NOBLES.
 122. 
CXXII. A CABINET MEETING. — LETTERS FROM REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER, GENERAL CUSTAR, HENRY J. RAYMOND, AND HON. JOHN MORRISSEY, EACH ANXIOUS TO PRESERVE HIS REPUTATION. — A SAD TIME AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
 123. 
CXXIII. A SERMON UPON THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, FROM THE TEXT, “NO MAN PUTTETH NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES,” WITH A DIGRESSION OR TWO.
 124. 
CXXIV. THE AMNESTY PROPOSITION. — THE CROSS ROADS MADE THE VICTIM OF A CRUEL HOAX.
 125. 
CXXV. MR. NASBY PROJECTS A COLLEGE.
 126. 
CXXVI. MR. NASBY TRIES TO WEEP AT THE TOMB OF A FRIEND.
 127. 
CXXVII. MR. NASBY IN NORTH CAROLINA. — THE ABROGATION OF GENERAL SICKLES'S ORDER.
 128. 
CXXVIII. MR. NASBY'S ACCOUNT OF HIS STEWARDSHIP. — LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE COLLEGE EDIFICE.
 129. 
CXXIX. MR. NASBY ESSAYS A SERMON, BUT IS INTERRUPTED BY A NIGGER.
 130. 
CXXX. MR. NASBY DOES THE × ROADS A SERVICE.
 131. 
CXXXI. AN IMPORTANT CASE AT THE CORNERS UNDER THE VAGRANT ACT.—THE DECISIONS OF 'SQUIRE GAVITT.
 132. 
CXXXII. MR. NASBY IS DESPATCHED BY THE PRESIDENT UPON A MISSION, SIMILAR TO THAT OF MR. McCRACKEN.
 133. 
CXXXIII. MR. NASBY'S BOARD COMMENCE THE COMPILATION OF A SERIES OF SCHOOL BOOKS FOR THE “INSTITOOT.”
 134. 
CXXXIV. MR. NASBY DESIRES CONFIRMATION. — IS ADVISED HOW TO PROCEED BY THE PRESIDENT, BUT REJECTS THE PROPOSITION WITH SCORN.
 135. 
CXXXV. MR. NASBY TAKES A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
 136. 
CXXXVI. MR. NASBY, IN IMITATION OF WADE HAMPTON, TRIES TO CONCILIATE THE AFRICAN.
 137. 
CXXXVII. THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
 138. 
CXXXVIII. THE RUSSIAN PURCHASE.
 139. 
CXXXIX. A SLIGHT ALTERATION IN THE NAME AND POLICY OF MR. NASBY'S “INSTITOOT.”
 140. 
CXL. MR. NASBY PREACHES A SERMON, THE EFFECT OF WHICH IS DESTROYED BY NORTHERN PAPERS.
 141. 
CXLI. THE DECEASE OF ELDER GAVITT.
 142. 
CXLII. TRIUMPHAL PROGRESS OF J. DAVIS FROM FORTRESS MONROE TO RICHMOND.
 143. 
CXLIII. AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIP TO RALEIGH.
 144. 
CXLIV. THE BOSTON EXCURSION.
 145. 
CXLV. MR. NASBY DREAMS A DREAM.
 146. 
CXLVI. THE NEGRO QUESTION. — THE CHANGE.
 147. 
CXLVII. A CONSULTATION AT THE CORNERS, FOLLOWED BY A DREAM.
 148. 
CXLVIII. AN AMNESTY PROCLAMATION.
 149. 
CXLIX. MR. NASBY IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN OHIO.
 150. 
CL. THE ANTIETAM DEDICATION.
 151. 
CLI. MR. NASBY ASSISTS IN THE OHIO ELECTION. — THE DEFEAT OF THE AMENDMENT.
 152. 
CLII. A MEETING AT THE CORNERS.
 153. 
CLIII. THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.
 154. 
CLIV. MR. NASBY REGULATES A SCHOOL.
 155. 
CLV. THE ALABAMA CONVENTION. — THE WOES OF JOHN GUTTLE, JR.
 156. 
CLVI. A CONVENTION OF SUFFERERS.
 157. 
CLVII. THE DECEASE OF ELDER PENNIBACKER.
 158. 
CLVIII. THE PENDLETON THEORY IN KENTUCKY.
 159. 
CLIX. THE IMPEACHMENT MATTER.
 160. 
CLX. POLLOCK VS. BIGLER.
 161. 
CLXI. SERGEANT BATES IN PETTUSVILLE, VIRGINIA.
 162. 
CLXII. A CONVENTION AT THE CORNERS.
 163. 
CLXIII. THE PREPARATIONS OF THE MARTYR FOR THE COMING EVENT.
 164. 
CLXIV. THE IMPEACHMENT FAILURE. — THE FEELING AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
 165. 
CLXV. THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. — MR. NASBY GETS ON A HEAVY DISGUST.
 166. 
CLXVI. THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
 167. 
CLXVII. MR. NASBY A DELEGATE TO NEW YORK.
 168. 
CLXVIII. A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO RATIFY THE NOMINATIONS AT THE CORNERS.
 169. 
CLXIX. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
 170. 
CLXX. MR. NASBY GOES TO NEW YORK AND ESTABLISHES HIMSELF IN BUSINESS.
 171. 
CLXXI. MR. NASBY AND HIS FRIENDS CONSIDER THE QUESTION OF BREAD AND BUTTER.
 172. 
CLXXII. MR. NASBY FINDS A NEW BUSINESS WHICH PROMISES AMPLE PROFITS.
 173. 
CLXXIII. THE LAST OUTRAGE UPON KENTUCKY. — PASSAGE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BY THE HOUSE.
 174. 
CLXXIV. THE LAST CABINET MEETING. — THE END OF THE JOHNSON REIGN.
 175. 
CLXXV. MR. NASBY WITNESSES A PROCESSION OF THE SONS OF ERIN.
 176. 
CLXXVI. THE CORNERS OUTRAGED.
 177. 
CLXXVII. THE CORNERS HAVE A DISCUSSION AS TO THE MATTER OF CARPET-BAGGERS.
 178. 
CLXXVIII. MR. NASBY NURSES THE LABOR MOVEMENT AT THE CORNERS.
 179. 
CLXXIX. MR. NASBY AND HIS CONFRERES HOLD A COMMERCIAL CONVENTION AT THE CORNERS.
 180. 
CLXXX. MR. NASBY AT LAST LOSES HIS POST OFFICE.
 181. 
CLXXXI. MR. NASBY RECEIVES A LETTER FROM HIS STEADFAST FRIEND.
 182. 
CLXXXII. MR. NASBY ATTENDS A CONVOCATION OF THE DEMOCRACY OF NEW YORK.
 183. 
CLXXXIII. SETTLED AT LAST. — THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO BE HIS FINAL RESTING-PLACE.
 184. 
CLXXXIV. MR. NASBY GIVES A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS NEW ESTABLISHMENT.
 185. 
CLXXXV. THE FRIENDS OF MR. NASBY HOLD A MEETING AND INDULGE IN A WAIL OVER THE PASSAGE OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT BY THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.
 186. 
CLXXXVI. MR. NASBY IN A DESPONDENT FRAME OF MIND.
 187. 
CLXXXVII. THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
 188. 
CLXXXVIII. MR. NASBY ATTEMPTS TO GET POSSESSION OF THE NEGRO VOTE.
 189. 
CLXXXIX. A FEW LAST WORDS. — THE WRITER HEREOF BIDS HIS READERS FAREWELL, AND HURLS A TRIFLE OF EXHORTATION AFTER THEM.
  
“CUSSID BE CANAAN!”
  
“THE STRUGGLES OF A CONSERVATIVE WITH THE WOMAN QUESTION.”
  
“IN SEARCH OF THE MAN OF SIN.”

  
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16. XVI.
STRATEGISES.

Wingert's Corners, Ohio, }
May the 15th, 1863.

[1] Dimokrasy hezn't ez many hobbies now ez it used to hev,
and it is somewhat difficult to keep the people strung up to the
proper pitch. Nigger is all the capital we hev left, and its
rather tough work to keep the old machine runnin. In Union
and Orange their blood dident bile when I told em that 40,000
niggers wuz on their way to that section — nary bile. So I
hed recourse to strategy. Last Friday nite I prokoored some
lamp-black and lard-ile, and applyin it to my classic countenance
and my laber-staned hands, transformed myself into a

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villainous contraband. Then I proceeded after night to the
south end uv the township, and at daylight commenst going
north. The skeem workt beautiful. At every house the follerin
conversashen wood ensoo:

“Hello, Cuff! wher you from?”

“Tennisee, massa.”

“Wher you goin?”

“I'se gwine to stop sumers 'bout heah.”

“Who sent you North?”

“Kurnel Niblin, and de Ablishners ob de 21st.”

“Dam Niblin, and yoo too. Git!”

Wich I alluz did. Then going back, I'd take another road,
stealin sich trifles ez shirts and stockins, and usin sich other
means uv arousin our people to a realizin sense uv the cuss uv
a floatin nigger populashen ez sejested themselves to my mind.
It became a serious thing though, for on the fourth day so
many hed seen me, that they reely sposd the nigger invashen
had commenst, and they hunted me. I run a mile, and findin
they were gainin on me, darted into the woods, washed, and
come out ez the original Nasby.

Lord! what an enthoosiastic meetin we had that night.
Their faith in the nigger invasion hed bin shaky, but it was
now firm. They had seen em. Wun had seen thirty-eight
that day, uv wich number he wuz proud to say he had killed
five. I larfed innardly, but held my peece. Desepshen is
justifiable now and then.

Petroleum V. Nasby.
 
[1]

The rebel party in the North relied on stirring up into fury the ignorant and
prejudiced against the unfortunate victims of American oppression. Negro riots
in several of the large cities were created by circulating slanderous fabrications,
charging colored people with crimes and scandals. In one city, the scum of its
purlieus was excited to riotous proceedings by a false story, charging a prominent
colored man with insulting a white girl who came to his store as a
customer. The calumny was as groundless as any that malice ever invented.
Yet it was only by the most resolute efforts of peaceable citizens that a
general and murderous onslaught on the unoffending negro population was
prevented.

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