85. LXXXV.
APPEAL TO THE DEMOCRACY.
Saint's Rest (wich is in the Stait uv Noo Jersey), }
October the 4th, 1865.
Dimekrats uv the North! Yoo hev to decide whether the
old party, which hez alluz delited in managin the affairs uv this
guvernment, is to agin assoom its nateral position, or whether
it is doomed to die, and be among the things that wuz.
Ez the hed uv the party I issue this appeal.
The time for argument hez passed — all that now remains is
ackshen! ackshen!! ackshen!!!
Never before wuz there sich need uv work — never wuz
there so much at stake. Look around yoo, fellow-Dimekrats!
See! Uv all the States North, only Noo Jersey remains troo
to her anshent prinsipples. The dark waves uv Ablishnism
are a sweepin over the land, unchecked, save by Noo Jersey.
There, thank God, the ark uv the covnant rests. There the
vestal fires burn brightly. Noo Jersey hez the Dimokrasy she
alluz hed — she changes not. Ever since the year before the
Revolushen, she hez bin Dimekratik. No matter wat issues
wuz presented — no matter on wich side uv sed issues the
Dimokrasy planted themselves, Noo Jersey alluz voted that
ticket.
Sich confidin trust in the leaders, sich Roman simplicity, is
refreshin. Wood, O wood that we hed more Noo Jerseys!
This fall the Dimokrasy hev exceeded theirselves in liber
ality to the people. Never wuz there sich a assortment uv
principles to choose from. In Noo York, we hev on the track
a Ginral, who sheathed his sword in the hearts uv his Suthern
brethrin, and him we stood on a platform wich recognizes the
death uv slavery, and feels good over it, and wich goes for
payin the debt, intrest, principle, and all. In Noo Jersey we
hev a Ginral on the ticket who run away from Bull Run, becoz
he didn't approve uv the principles on wich the war wuz bein
conducted, on a platform ez strikly Suthern ez the Camden and
Amboy cood make it. In Ohio, our platform wuz made by the
great Vallandigum, and in it is the pure expressed juice uv
Dimokrasy. The great doctrine uv State Rites is avowed, and
the rite uv the seceded Staits to agin secede is upheld.
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Here is diversity — here is pickin. Each Dimekrat kim pick
wich set uv principles he desires, and the cheerman uv his
central committy will cheerfully certify that that set will be
made universal, ez soon ez a Nashnel Convenshun convenes.
Look at what interests are at stake. Do yoo want to marry
nigger wenches? Do yoo want yoor gushin daughters tied by
indissoluble ties to disgustin buck niggers? We hev persistently
petitioned Abolishn legislachers to pass acts preventin
us from doin this foul thing, but to no avale. They hev turned
a deaf ear to our entreaties, and to-day we stand exposed to all
these dangers.
Do yoo want a buck nigger to march up to the poles with
yoo to vote? Do yoo want their children mixt with yoors in
schools? Do yoo want em on juries and holdin offis in yoor
township? My God! think uv it! Think uv yoor bein brot
up on a charge uv petty larceny, sich ez steelin sheep or
chickens, before a nigger justis uv the peace! Think uv yoor
bein sued for a store bill that hed run ten years, afore a nigger
squire! In the towns and cities, think uv bein arrested for
bein drunk, by a nigger policeman, and bein arraned in the
mornin before a nigger mayor! Contemplate these picters
without a shudder, ef yoo kin. These questions must be met.
They stare us in the face. On yoo depends the issue. The
nigger is our natral enemy.
Sum uv our best lites are in favor uv givin him the suffrage,
on the ground that in a little while we wood git his votes, on
the principle that we ketch all the trash naturally. My frends,
be not deseeved. We hev abused the nigger so long and so
persistently, that it wood take ages afore we cood git him suffishently
demoralized to act with us, and afore that time we
wood all be in the silent grave, where pollitics is uv no
account.
On the question uv taxes, and reconstruction, and sich, I
refer yoo to the platforms adopted by yoor various State Convenshuns;
yoo may depend upon each bein perfeckly sound.
On these minor questions there may be difference uv opinion
in localities; but, thank Heaven, on nigger there is unanimity.
“Nigger and him prostrated,” is the rallyin cry uv the Dimokrasy,
North, South, East, and West.
I bleeve, in the above, I hev given a full epitome uv the
principles uv the party. We hev a terrible fite afore us, and it
behooves every Dimekrat to buckle on his armor to-wunst.
Noo Jersey may be dependid on. The few Ablishnists we hev,
hev gone so far into spellin-books and grammars, that their talk
is all Greek to our voters, and so they are safe from their
contaminatin appeals. She expects every State to do its
dooty. She is lonesome, and wants company. She stretches
out her hands appealinly to her sisters, and sez, in winnin tones,
“Jine me!”
Will yoo not do it? Shel she appeal in vane? Forbid it,
Hevin! Rally! Rally! Rally!
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.
