NASBY, PETROLEUM V.

pseud. of David Ross Locke, 1833–88, American journalist and satirist, b. Vestal, N.Y. Locke was editor of the Findlay, Ohio, Jeffersonian when he first became prominent by publishing (1861) in it the Nasby letters. The writer, Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, was ostensibly an ignorant, violently prejudiced, proslavery sympathizer, and the letters, which caught the fancy of readers from Lincoln down, were of aid to the Union cause in the Civil War. The letters soon appeared in the Toledo Blade, of which Locke became editor and part owner in 1865. He subsequently wrote Nasby letters as satiric propaganda for other causes. The Nasby letters were collected in various volumes including Swingen Round the Circle (1866) and The Nasby Letters (1893).

See biographies by C. Clemens (1936) and J. M. Harrison (1969).

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Swingin Round the Cirkle
Book by Petroleum V. Nasby; Lee and Shepard, 1867
Subjects: Campaign literature--1866--Republican
...his misguided friends South. And so ended the Presidential excursion. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M. wich is Postmaster , and likewise Chaplin to the expedishn...monument to Douglas. The occurence hed entirely slipped my memory. P. V. N.
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Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America
Book by Charles Fanning; Southern Illinois University Press, 2002
Subjects: American Literature--Irish American Authors--History And Criticism, English Literature--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--Civilization, Ireland--In Literature, Irish Americans In Literature, Irish Americans--Intellectual Life, Irish Literature--History And Criticism
...237 Muzzey, 59 60 My Brothers Keeper (Joyce), 44 Myles na gCopaleen. See ONolan, Brian Nad Crantail, 198 99 Nasby, Petroleum V., 111 Nash, D.W., 10 , 13 Nath I mac Fiachrach, 212 New England, 128 33, 136 45, 148 49, 153 54 Newman...
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War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II
Book by Gabor Boritt, Stephen E. Ambrose, Michael C. C. Adams, Ira Berlin, Robert V. Bruce, D'Ann Campbell, Richard Jensen, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Howard Jones, Gerald F. Linderman, Peter Maslowski, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Russell F. Weigley; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, World War, 1939-1945--United States
...echo, even though the Locke to whom Lincoln most often referred was the lesser Locke who wrote under the name of Petroleum V. Nasby. Lincoln secured congressional ratification of most of his unilateral actions. Such ratification might be taken...
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Crackerbox Philosophers in American Humor and Satire
Book by Jennette Reid Tandy; Columbia University Press, 1925
Subjects: American Wit And Humor, Drama, Humorists, American
...Local Color Movement, 158 - 159 . Locke, D. R. Petroleum V. Nasby, pseud . , 63 , 122 - 131 , 132 , 134 . Longstreet...Noailles Charles Egbert Craddock, pseud . , 69 . Nasby, Petroleum V. pseud . D. R. Locke x, 104 , 118 , 122 - 131...
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Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North
Book by Patrick Rael; University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Subjects: African American Leadership--Northeastern States--History--19th Century, African Americans--History--To 1863, African Americans--Northeastern States--Intellectual Life--19th Century, African Americans--Race Identity--Northeastern States, Free African Americans--Northeastern States--History--19th Century, Northeastern States--Race Relations, Protest Movements--Northeastern States--History--20th Century
...societies, 148 , 189 Locke, David R. creator of Petroleum V. Nasby character , 95 Loguen, J. W.: on free will, 261...labels Napoleon, 223 Napoleon, Louis, 231 Nasby, Petroleum V. character of David R. Locke , 95
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Finding America's History
Journal article by Thomas G. Conway; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 97, 2004
...Dividing Line and the scripts of Petroleum v. Nasby, Artemus Ward, and Mark Twain...playing a backcountry hick, Nasby wrote in the comedic style that...like David Ross Locke a.k.a. Petroleum V. Nasby. The language of the youthful...
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Mary Bayard Clarke's Plain-Folk Humor: Writing Women into the Literature and Politics of Reconstruction
Journal article by Jane Turner Censer; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 76, 2010
Subjects: African Americans--Political activity, American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Political aspects, American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Portrayals, Civil war--Political aspects, Civil war--United States, Clarke, Mary Bayard--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Clarke, Mary Bayard--Works, Humorous works--Analysis, Race relations--History, Women authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women writers--Works
...while northerners read about Petroleum V. Nasby, created by David Ross Locke...like David Ross Locke as Petroleum V. Nasby, exposed northern racism and...8) James C. Austin, Petroleum V. Nasby (David Ross Locke) (New...
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Local Autonomy and Civil War Draft Resistance: Holmes County, Ohio
Journal article by Kenneth H. Wheeler; Civil War History, Vol. 45, 1999
Subjects: Draft resisters--19th century, Government, Resistance to--United States, Ohio--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...Blade, whose fictional character Petroleum V. Nasby wrote within days of the rebellion...County, declared war," and Nasby helped lead the resistance, only...Views, Opinions and Prophecies of Petroleum V. Nasby (Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll...
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From Vernacular Humor to Middlebrow Modernism: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the Creation of Literary Value
Journal article by Daniel Tracy; The Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 66, 2010
Subjects: Jewelry stores, Magazines, Modernism
...Shaw ("Josh Billings"), and David Ross Locke ("Petroleum V. Nasby") - worked at regional newspapers before moving to...satire (first appearing in the Civil War, his persona Nasby is an unregenerate Confederate racist who avoids the...
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Erotic Folksongs and Ballads An International Bibliography
Journal article by G. Legman; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 103, 1990
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Chansons de Salles de Garde , q.v. Of these 16 apparent originals...letters), here disguised as by "Petroleum V. Nasby." The erotic slang dictionary compiled...Hospitaliere et Latinesque, q.v., edited by Ber nard . Some copies...
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Fictory or Faction?
Magazine article by Paul Dukes; History Today, Vol. 49, September 1999
Subjects: Historical fiction--Analysis, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)--Analysis
...President ended another Cabinet meeting with a reading from the `latest book of drolleries of another humourist, Petroleum V. Nasby. Vidal also tells of the many times in `some backwoods Illinois tavern when the lawyers on circuit would compete...


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Nasby, Petroleum V
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NASBY, PETROLEUM V. pseud. of David Ross Locke, 1833 88, American journalist...he first became prominent by publishing (1861) in it the Nasby letters. The writer, Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, was ostensibly an ignorant, violently prejudiced...
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Locke, David Ross
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOCKE, DAVID ROSS see Nasby, Petroleum V. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Findlay
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...NW Ohio, on the Blanchard River; inc. 1887. Petroleum products, tires, washing machines, heavy machinery...appeared (1861) the satiric antislavery letters of "Petroleum V. Nasby." The city is the home of Findlay College...


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