73. LXXIII.
LAYS DOWN A PLATFORM FOR THE COMING
CAMPAIGN.
Saint's Rest (wich is in the Stait uv Noo Jersey), }
June the 23d, 1865.
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These is the dark days uv the Dimokrasy. The misforchoons
that befell our armies in front uv Richmond, the fall uv our
capital, follered by the surrender uv our armies to Grant and
Sherman, hez hurt us. Our leaders are either pinin in loathsome
dunguns, incarseratid by the hevin-defyin, man-destroyin,
tyrannical edix uv our late lamented President, or are baskin in
the free air uv Italy and Canady. We hev no way uv keepin
our voters together. Opposin the war won't do no good, for
before the next elecshun the heft uv our voters will hev diskiverd
that the war is over. The fear uv drafts may do suthin
in some parts uv Pennsylvany and Suthern Illinoy, for sum
time yit, but that can't be depended on.
But we hev wun resource for a ishoo — ther will alluz be a
Dimokrasy so long as ther's a nigger.
Ther is a uncompromisin dislike to the nigger in the mind
uv a ginooine Dimekrat. The Spanish bull-fighter, when he
wants to inflame the bull to extra cavortin, waves a red flag
afore him. Wen yoo desire a Dimekrat to froth at the mouth,
yoo will find a black face will anser the purpose. Therefore,
the nigger is, to-day, our best and only holt. Let us use
him.
For the guidance uv the faithful, I shel lay down a few plain
rools to be observed, in order to make the most uv the capital
we hev: —
1. Alluz assert that the nigger will never be able to take
care uv hisself, but will alluz be a public burden. He may,
possibly, give us the lie by goin to work. In sich a emergency,
the dooty uv every Dimekrat is plane. He must not be
allowed to work. Associashens must be organized, pledged to
neither give him employment, to work with him, to work for
any one who will give him work, or patronize any wun who
duz. (I wood sejest that sich uv us ez hev bin forchoonit
enuff to git credit, pay a trifle on account, so ez to make our
patronage worth suthin.) This course, rigidly and persistently
follerd, will drive the best uv em to stealin, and the balance to
the poor-houses, provin wat we hev alluz claimed, that they are
a idle and vishus race. Think, my brethren, wat a inspirin
effeck our poor-houses and jails full uv niggers wood hev on
the people! My sole expands ez I contemplate the deliteful
vision.
2. Likewise assert that the nigger will come North, and
take all the good places, throwin all our skilled mechanics out
uv work by underbiddin uv em. This mite be open to two objecshuns,
to-wit: It crosses slitely rool the 1, and white men mite
say, ef there's jist enuff labor for wat's here, why not perhibit
furriners frum comin? I anser: It's the biznis uv the voter
to reconsile the contradicshun — he may beleeve either or
both. Ez to the second objeckshun, wher is the Dimekrat who
coodent be underbid, and stand it even to starvashen, ef the
underbiddin wuz dun by a man uv the proud Caukashen race?
and wher is the Dimekrat so lost to manhood ez not to drink
blood, ef the same underbiddin is dun by a nigger? The
starvin for work ain't the question — it's the color uv the
cause uv the starvashen that makes the difference.
Nigger equality may be worked agin to advantage. All men,
without distincshun uv sex, are fond uv flatrin theirselves
that somebody's lower down in the scale uv humanity than
they is. Ef 'twan't for niggers, what wood the Dimokrasy do
for sumbody to look down upon? It's also shoor to enlist wun
style uv wimmen on our side. In times gone by, I've notist
gushin virgins uv forty-five, full sixteen hands high and tough
ez wire, holdin aloft banners onto wich wuz inscribd — “Save
us frum Nigger Equality.” Yoo see it soothed em to hev a
chanse uv advertisin, 1st, That they wuz frail, helplis critters;
and, 2d, That, anshent and tough ez they wuz, some wun wuz
still goin for em.
Ef ther ain't no niggers, central commities must furnish em.
A half dozen will do for a ordinary county, ef they're hustled
along with energy. Ef they won't steal, the central commities
must do it theirselves. Show yer niggers in a township in the
mornin, an the same nite rob the clothes-lines and hen-roosts.
Ever willin to sacrifice myself for the cause, I volunteer to do
this latter dooty in six populous counties.
These ijees, ef follered, will, no doubt, keep us together
until our enemies split, when we will reap the reward uv our
constancy and fidelity. May the Lord hasten the day.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
