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Mr. Nasby Relates Why He Joined theDemocracy.Saint's Rest, (which is in the staituv Noo Gersey, August 20, 1S65.I wuz born a Whig. My parent wuz a member uv that party, least ways my mother wuz, and she alluz did the votin, allowin my father, uv course, to go thro the manual labor uv castin the ballot, in deference to the laws uv the country, wich does not permit females or niggers to vote, no matter how much iutelleck they may hev in 2 em.W f , mJIn all probability I should hev cast my lot with that party lied not a insident occur-ed, in my boyhood days, wich satisfied me that the Dimocracv wuz my approprit and nateral abiding place. It wuz in thiswiseIn a playful mood, wun nite, I bustid open a grosery, and appropriatid, ez a jest, what loose change ther wuz in the drawer, (alars! in these degenerit days uv paper currency, the enterprisin theef hez to steel at 40 per sent, discount,) and sich other notions ez struck my boyish fancy. I indoost a nigger boy sumwhat younger than myself to aid me, and when he had bagged the game, I, feelin in my pride ez wun heviu the proud Anglo-Sacksum blood acoursin toomulchus-ly thro his vanes, what Chief Justice Taneyhez since made law, to wit: that the nigger has no rites which the white man is bound to respeck, whaled him till he resin-ed the entire proceeds uv the spekulashen to me. The degraded wretch, devoid uv every prinsiple uv honor, blowedon me, and we wus both arrestid- • i - .1* X,'.city of ! idjoininFit A' FeAny bu: and pro Clair sti where h FrankATTOPRA Da joiningMayL. WEITME]woiopened tlemen’ They its bransatisfacohargespm*'Hall, ai Augu
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Frankfort Commonwealth
Frankfort, Kentucky, US
Fri, Sep 15, 1865
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