30. XXX.
IN THE “APOSSEL BIZNIS.”
The sole uv Nasby's foot knows no rest. Eternal viggilence
is the price uv liberty, and a old Dimekrat who hez never
skratched a tikkit, and who never spiles his likker by dilooshn,
kin work in these perilus times. I am engaged in organizin
societies on the basis uv the Union ez it wuz, the Constitution
ez it is, and the nigger wher he ought to be. This employment
soots me. The apossel biznis I like. Brot into continool
contack with the best uv Dimekrats, I hev the run uv a thowsand
jugs — pay regler and libral — facilities for borrerin unekalled
— I am kontent. I send a few extrax from my journal.
Mundy, 2d. — Kum into Whartensberg afoot. Wuz reseevd
with enthooziasm, invited to drink twenty times in ez menny
minits, wich invitashens I acceptid, solely for the good uv the
coz. Hevin cast-iron bowils, I survived the trial. Hed a
meetin, and adminsterd the oaths to resist drafts and shelterin
deserters; and after exhortin uv them to stand by Dimokrasy,
borrered thirty dolers and a clean shirt, and departid. [Poskrip.
— The clean shirt I borrered frum a line about 9 P. M.]
Toosdy, 3d. — Houktown wuz the next pint. Dimokrasy all
rite to opperate on. Never wuz in a place in wich nigger wus
so hated and feerd. They hev a holesum prejoodis agin every
thing black. Wun old patriark shot all his black sheep, paintid
a black hoss red, and his dawter, a gushin maiden uv thirty-too,
askt the objik uv her affeckshins too dy his raven locks
white. A rumor that a provo marshel wuz in the visinity did
the job for him in a single nite. Found em well organizd.
Addrest em at length, showin conclusivly that hed Linkin resined
in favor uv the great Davis, we shood never hed this
war; that sich a compermise, and the follerin concessions,
wood hev averted blud-shed, to-wit:—
The rite uv suffrage to be held only by slave-owners, and
sich ez they may designate. The repele uv awl tariffs ceptin
the wun on sugar. The fillin up uv Boston harber. The
suppreshun uv the Triboon. The hangin uv Giddins, Wade,
Stevens, Sumner, and Oin Luvgoy.
I dwelt at length on the horrors uv amalgamashen, and
closed with an elokent appele to stand by Vallandigum and
pure Dimokrasy. Borrered three dolers on a prommis to remit,
wich I shel do sum time after next Presidenshel eleckshin.
I made the wictim eazy by givin him my note. When men
can be made comfortable by simply a note, I alluz do it, if
they furnish paper. Benevolens is a prominent trate in my
karicter.
Wensdy, 4th. — Van Buren wuz my next pint. The Dimokrasy
here hav their lamps trimd and burnin. They indoost
more soljers to desert than any township in the county, ceptin
Amandy and Union. I organized a branch society to-wunst.
A blessid feelin pervades here. They jest more than hate
niggers, and mor'n twenty babies hev bin named Vallandigum
within six months. One enthoosiastic old butternut named a
femail infant Vallandighamia, and another named his boy Vallandigum
Woods Bright. The boy hez a strong constitooshn,
and may live. Things is workin in Allen. I borrered only
eight dollers uv the fatheful, wich I shel pay wen one of my
rich uncles pegs out.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Paster uv sed Church, in charge.
