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NASBY IN THE CABINET. Frontispiece.
EKKOES FROM KENTUCKY.
BYPETROLEUM V. NASBY,
P. M. AT CONFEDRIT X ROADS (WICH IS IN THE STATE UV KENTUCKY), AND PERFESSER UV BIBLIKLE POLITY IN THE SOUTHERN MILITARY AND CLASSIKLE INSTITOOT.BEIN A PERFECT RECORD UV THE UPS, DOWNS, AND EXPERIENCES UV THE DIMOCRISY, DOORIN THE EVENTFUL YEAR 1867, EZ SEEN BY A NATURALIZED KENTUCKIAN.
Illustrated by Thomas Nast.BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD. 1868.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by LEE AND SHEPARD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY, 19 Spring Lane.
DEDICASHUN.
Ez no one who is worldly-wise worships the settin sun, but alluz the risin orb, THIS BOOK is NOT dedikated to Androo Johnson, whose sands uv life is neerly run out, And who cannot remove me from my Post Offis, owin to the restrainin power uv the Tenur uv Offis act, BUT RUTHER TO GEO. E. PENDLETON, of Ohio; GENERAL GEO. B. McCLELLAN, When last heerd uv, in Dresden, Germany; HORASHO SEYMORE, uv Noo York; or FRANKLIN PEERSE, uv Noo Hampsheer: One uv wich is certin of succeedin the individjooel fust named upon this page, and uv hevin, therefore, the disposin uv patronage, in case we succeed in 1868, THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,
BY THE AUTHOR.
P. O. CONFEDERIT X ROADS (wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky), Dec. 1, 1867. P. O. Stamp.CONTENTS.
- Prefis, or Interductry Chapter, 7
- 1. The Amnesty Proclamation, 13
- 2. Project of a College, 21
- 3. The Patriarchal System, 29
- 4. Mr. Nasby in North Carolina, 35
- 5. Laying the Corner Stone of the College Edifice, 42
- 6. He Essays a Sermon, 49
- 7. He does the Corners a Service, 57
- 8. Case under the Vagrant Act, 66
- 9. A McCracken Mission, 73
- 10. School Books for the South, 81
- 11. Mr. Nasby Desires Confirmation, 89
- 12. He Takes a Retrospective View, 98
- 13. The Negro Vote, 105
- 14. The Connecticut Election, 113
- 15. The Russian Purchase, 123
- 16. The Radical Change, 132
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- 17. Mr. Nasby preaches a Sermon on Universal Brotherhood, 140
- 18. Death of Elder Gavitt, 149
- 19. Jeff Davis in Richmond, 157
- 20. Jeff Davis and the "Institoot," 166
- 21. A Vision of the next World, 175
- 22. A Trip to Raleigh, 184
- 23. The Boston Excursion, 194
- 24. A Dream, 204
- 25. A National Convention, 213
- 26. An Autobiographical Sketch, 221
- 27. The Negro Question, 230
- 28. A Consultation at the Corners, 238
- 29. The Kentucky and Tennessee Election, 245
- 30. Mr. Nasby Visits New Orleans, 253
- 31. The Amnesty Proclamation, 263
- 32. The Suffrage Question, 271
- 33. The Antietam Dedication, 281
- 34. The Ohio Election, 288
- 35. A Jollification at the Corners, 299
- 36. A Meeting at the Corners, 308
- 37. The November Elections, 316
PREFIS, OR INTERDUCTRY CHAPTER.
SKOLARS, and men wich wuzn't skolars, hev deprekated the manufakter uv so many books. Whether they were justified or not in their strikters, it doesn't become me to say. Probably they wood say to me, ef I should consult em (wich I shel not), "Don't publish this book; there's reely no okkashun for it!" There isn't? Did the capchus adviser see the state uv my pants? Did he observe the wreckt condishun of my boots? Is he aware that I am in arrears for board? Not publish my book! Kin I so far forget my dooty to humanity? Nary. Its publikashen will at least do ONE suffrin man good, and that's more than half uv the writers kin say. What recks it that that page: 8-9[View Page 8-9] one is ME? Wat posterity will say I don't know; neither do I care. I ain't labrin for posterity; neither did my father, else I hed bin better off. Posterity may assign me a niche in the temple uv massive intellex, or may not; it's all one to the subscriber. I woodn't give a ten-cent postal currency for wat the next generashen will do for me. It's this generashen I'm goin for. So much for Buckinham!
When I last communed with my readers, Democrisy wuz about the most bustid institooshen in this country. Dimocrisy hed undertook to carry the President, and it broke down under the load. Then the President undertook to carry the Dimocrisy, and he broke down under that load. Both were sootable to be carried, but neither hed the strength to carry the tother. And so, doorin the winter, spring, and summer they lay, both at the bottom uv the ditch uv despondency, lookin helplessly at each other, but neither able to help his fellow-suffrer. They wood hev embraced, but they hedn't strength enuff to roll together.
The Fall elections revived us. The Ablishnists lishnists uv Maine didn't vote, wich give our people in Californy strength; the carryin uv that State discouraged em in Ohio and Pennsylvany, wich, follered up, give us the overwhelmin triumph in Noo York. That give us life; that infused vigger into us. It operatid like a invigorator—a stiff wun—does onto the bowels uv a Kentuckian whose flask is out, and who hezn't bin neer a bar-room for thirty-six hours. It wuz strengthenin.
These confliks may be considered the skirmishin percedin the main battle. We hev druv in their outposts; shel we be ez successful when we storm their works? Upon the anser to that conundrum depends much. Ef we do, then shel the Post Offis wich I now hold be mine four years longer; then shel I still enjoy the conjenial society uv them wich long assosiashen with hez made deer; then for four years will my sustenance be ashoored. That will do me. I probably wont eggsist longer. Within that time my venerable biler, now weakened in spots, will hev bustid, and I shel hev gone to join Elder Gavitt, wherever he may be.
page: 10-11[View Page 10-11]We kin conker, however, and we must. We hev the Ablishnists onto the hip. They endorst the nigger in 1863 and $4, and the people stood it becoz they needed him. It didn't become the city, wich hed filled its quota with nigger troops, to go back on the Ethiopian. Neither did it look well for the Ablishnist, who praised em for ther devoshun at Petersburg, etcetra, to deny that they wuz a man and a brother. BUT NOW THE NIGGER AIN'T NEEDED. Grim war hez smoothed his wrinkled front, and we are caprin gayly in my lady's chamber to the lascivious soundins uv the loot. Now, the servis the nigger rendered us fades out uv our remembrance, wich it does faster than his color did in strikly Democratic States under the old arrangement. They don't want him any more; and, glory! he's the same d—d nigger he alluz wuz. So duz the wholesome prejudis agin color swallow up gratitood! So does the pride uv race smother wat the thin-skind uv the Radikels call justis!
It is onto this string we must harp. The Democrisy hev alluz conkered when they went calmly on—secoor in the beleef that all mankind wuz either ninnies or raskels. They ain't fur out uv the way. The nigger is now onfit for citizenship—let it be our dooty to see that he continues onfit. Shood he rise to an intellektooal level with us, we are out uv an argument agin. The law agin schoolin uv em must be enforced; the laws regulatin their labor must be made ez stringent ez ever; for ef they are allowed to go unregulated, the Ablishnists will say to-wunst that sich ain't nessary. We must keep a worritin, and pokin, and punchin this lion, that his roarin may show the necessity uv our bein kep in power to restrain him.
I bleeve in commencin early. Let outrages by niggers be commenst to-wunst. Let niggers be found dead uv starvashen ez soon ez possible. Let the shuddrin uv Democratic damsels over the horrors uv bein forst to contract matermonyel alliances with niggers be got up immejitly, and let ther shudders be strong. Let the heresy uv the Noo York World, that niggers don't stink, be refooted by a body uv page: 12-13[View Page 12-13] Dimekratic ethnologists, who shel assert that they do, and make oath to it; and, in short, let all the old machinery, wich served us so well in days gone by, be set in moshen agin, and all will be well with us.
Then shel we conker. Then shel we regain that wich we lost in 1860, and in the haven uv success, feedin fat onto the manna uv public patronage, enjoy for a time the felicity of livin under Dimekratic laws, made by Dimekrats, and executed by Dimekrats.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
(Wich is Postmaster). P. O., CONFEDERIT X ROADS (wich is in the State uv Kentucky).
