Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-05
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I, Jedidiah Scraichgravel, bein at the
Ridges, he'd a curis dream. 1t was the curis-
est | ever did hev. I've drempt afore now
Of fndin eggs in the hay.rnow, CROWN more
and more, barrils and barriIs on 'em al last.
an I've drempt sometimes of fndin dollars
in old pots down suller, and hime by I'd find
'em so thick they was in everything, but be-
fore I'd rally got any on 'em Id wake up
But them dreams was noihin to what ! red
in the Bosting Daily Crocodile, cummin
from Gineral Masne and other guvment char
arters, and especially in President Pokes
meSsidge. Readin them dokyments, ! went
IN sleep and dredmpt that | was in Californy
myself, and everybody else was there. Mr..
Choate and Mr.. Webster was there, and
Guvner Briggs and Gineral Taylor, and the
American Borde Of Mlssi ms, and all the
Missionaries from all the eends of the airlh,
and the Judges Of the courts and lawyers and
parsons and doctors gineraIly. They was all
up 10 their knees in the water, washin out
The yaller goold and putin it up into meal
bags. o my ! what a site that river Saccra-
ment was For miles and miles, Seniters
and members Of Congress; and doctors of
Divinity, and owners Of factrys and rale-
rodes was clutchin mp the nut from the bot
tum and shakin il in TN pans, and clawin
OUT lUf EOOlus htH anu NlllluIU was dl IL
together-there was ladies the finest | ever
seen, with their petticotes tucked up, wadin
inland washin the goold. Some thought thade
ketch cold, but | calkalate it only done nm
good. There want wun on UNI that was
rich enuf to hire an Irish gal to wash for um,
as they yoused TO to hum. They was all on
'em on as much of a quality there as parson
Pebody says we s'll all be after deih.
Hut what NyaS The onpaTaSt thinn upas tbat
when any on us, for | was diggin and wash
in myself rite beside OF Abbok Lorrence and
barren Rawschild, he'd gut hold Of a par'ikle
Of goold, it begun tn grow, and il growed
and growed ill eny liule teenty mite was
nothin but a gret big bar Of yaller iron, and it
twant but a leetle while afore every bag was
bust. There want emmy waist, the meltle
was all Ihare and more III, but the people be-
gun TO louk purity black | tell you, for VIVA
should they du. Things was Jest wisy WOr
So, as the sain is. lnstid of carryin goold il
your pockit 10 by your dinner with, the spek
laters kerried provisions In their pockets 10 by
goold with. Half a pokit full of crakers wa;
pade for a hnll bnte lode of goold.
Then | saw in my dream that all the peo
pie in that sacrament without any supper
lifted up their voices and wep, sain, 80, eI
these grains Of goold was only eggs or colo.
nels of wheat, then they would hatch and
grow to sum purpus, hut now the more they
grow the less they are good for. And where
are the houses, and markets and relijus pTiva-
liges we left behind us? A nice time Of il
have the people had who staid TO hum"
And drempt that the hull currency of the
country was upset by the growth Of goold.
The goold in the mint and the banks isent
worth no moTen so much pot mettle, and so
| walked up and rit this here dream, and Fun
bound TO go TO Californy.
I've heeTn tell OF MilleFism and the Mill
leneyum as fore told by awl the profits, and
! bleve this goold manyer iulfls il all. lrll
put all the people on an equality jest like
deth, JSpFpIAu ScRAToHGRAyEL,