Excerpt from The Struggles: Social, Financial and Political of Petroleum V. Nasby But it wuz not to be so. Grant wuz elected, and per conse quence I wuz oustid. Weary 11v life and heart-sick, I startid a grosery in the 6th ward, noo York, -where I hed hopes that the Dimocriey wood rally to my support, and give me a suffi shency uv the two prime necessities uv life, - a roof and whis key. But that didn't anser. I drank up twenty-five per cent. Uv my stock, and the balance wuz sold on credit to that class uvdimoorats whose proudest boast is that they never pay a bill. He needs to be an aco'ot man who deals with sich. Unable to maintain myself there, I returned to Confedrit X Roads, where I am now livin, and where, probably, I shel'die. It! Is the most sootable place for me, for here I am entirely safe. Massyohoosets ideas can't penetrate us here. The aristocracy uv this 'seckshun bleeve in freedom 11v speech, but they desire to exercise a supervision over it, that they may not be led astray. They bleeve they'r rite, and for fear they'd be forced to change their minds, whenever they git into argument with anybody, ef the individooal gits the better uv them, they to-wunst shoot him ez a disturber. Hence Massychoosits can't disturb us here the populashen is unani mously Democratic, and bids fair to continyoo so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.