Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1864-01-28
|MR. NASBY COMMJNICATES
WITH THE SPIRITS.
Church fthe Slawtered innocents, !
(Lait st. Valandigum,
Dec the lQfh I862

| Dec. the 19th, 1858.
| Ihev bin fer mennv yeres dispos
to bleve in spiritooalism- There
suthin pleasant in the ijee us bein
communicashen with them ez he
gon befoar, es ez it tmay be reznabl
supozd that frum their stan pin
they kin ce things in a more ciere
lite than we who is encountered wit
clay. Akordinly inwiteda distil
gisht mejum to visit my 9oek-
A cirkle wuz formd, andH a1fzsrs
quested TO call fer the spirit NV sur
wun. ,Hevin a few Ablishnists pres
ant, whom l wisht to enliten on po
littikle topix, 1 cald fer Tomus Gef
ferson. 'Tomus' sez /, 'wuz yoo the
father NV the Dimocrisy2'
use my own langige, ez them
old fellers wuz not alluz elegant.
4 wuz.'
'Tomus, air the party now barir
the naim, your child2'
Not eny. Its mizabel bastard
born Nv Jon C. Calhoon, and that,
ole hag. Stait Rites, and a lowe livd
whelp it is. My heirs is them ez
supports the Government 1 helpt to
maik.'
But, Tomus wood yoo hev us
support a Abolishn war fer the per-
pus Nv freein niggurs?'
The sperit rapt out with awful dis
tinknis. 1--WE hold these trooths to
be self-evident that awl men is crea-
tld ekal, and endoud with certing
inaleyenabel rites, amung wich is
life, liberty
At this pint l stopt the mejum. 1
knew the spirit WIZ not Tomus Gef-
ferson, but a imposter, hevin
heerd a Abolishn preecher yuse the
same langige at a 4th Gully cele-
brashen l then cald Androo Jaxn,
hoo responded:
'Androo,' sez 1, woodent 700 like
to be back on yearth, jist now2'
'Yoo kin bet l wood retortid he.
I'D like to hev bin President in the
plais NV that old, wife livered, black
cockade, Federalist, Jim Bookanon.
Wat 4 hangin there wood hev binl-
Their wood hev bin wacansis tn Con-
girls, and jest ez menny funerals ez
ther was wacansis. Ez fer Sowth
Karliny.'
The communtcashen cesed, and 1
heerd a sound ike ts~. ,Sfiittiirf INV
teeth 1t resOomd. I'D string up
Vallandigum, and Phernandy Wud,
and Sammedary, ct setry. 1t wood
be bad ole joak on them indivijils
eff l had control NV the habis corpus
I'd
1 refoozd to here ferther. This
sperit wuz awlso ondoubtdly a i'm
postur
l cald fer Bentun who merely sed
that Mizsory wuz cumin to her SEN
sis in gittin rid NV slaivry, and fer
Duglis who remarkt that he Good
say Nv the tempel NV Dimocrisy ez
the Savior sed NV the sinagog.-
My howse is cald a howse NV pryr,
but We hev maid it a den NV theeves,'
boath Nv whom wuz onquestionably
Another sperit, Iprobably NV de-
ceest Abolishnist sed that Benedict
Arnold and Judas Iscariot hedent
bin on speekin terms fer sum time,
Iscariot hevin cald Arnold a Copper
he'd. Arnold sed he'd never stand
that.
Duglis cum back and sed he he'd
Jest wun word 2 say. The Dime
kradc party wuz wunst CRATE but it
had got in2 bad hands and gon era
~ ez drunken bed bug. 1tneeded
new manajers-men nv sufficient
sence and honisty to run the party
On ole principles. In the ole hands
it wuz a patryotic party a party
that wuz alluz for the country. 1t
whald the British in 1872 and after
wards nockt the hind sites off NV the
old Federal party for opposin it. 1t
smasht Mexiko, and afterwards
the Wing party fer not
helpin. Now fer the Dimocrisy to
oppose war agin rebels who not
only commenst it, but he'd actooly
bustid the party itself, is loonacy une-
kaled in the histry Nv the world.
Squelch them tuppenny polytishns
who hev theeved the mantels wunst
worn by Jaxn and Bentun they
look in EN- jest about as well as or
gan grinder munky wood in a So
jers overkote, and fill EN- jest as
mueh,] get onto a war platform,
and
L didn't care about persooin my
investigashens emmy further pertike-
lerly ez the Ablishnists were awl a
Its my privit opinyun
that thers nothin relyable about it
He'd the sperits reely been them NV
Jaxn Geffersou, and slch, they
woodent hev talkt so much undiloo-
lid niggerism.
However, it did me very we'll
The mejum took up collekshun Nv
SIX dolers wich by singler coinci-
1ence. wuz the cggsact amount 1 he'd
ntendid to charge him fer the use
Nv my church. He grumbled. but
inelly SHIELD out. 7 am now warm
new pare Nv pants.
PETROLEUM V. Massey.
paster Nv sed church, in charge.
By order ofthe War Department