The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-07-05
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MIR. Nasty has a Vision.
SAINTS REST, (wich is in the Stait NV ,
Moo Gersy } May 81, 1865. {

meme suthin, Ef 1T may Lord help the under
sined, is my prayer. coDtnooally,
/ dreemd wuz ded--that assisted by ty-
fus fever and dokters he'd busted the bonds
NV mortality, and he'd sored Q the unknone
hereafter. Up went to tho gates NV the
tother world, wher wuz confrontid by Peter.
"Wher yoo frumH" sez he.
"Noo Ceisy," sez I.
"Wuz yoo a good cittyzcn?" sez he.
~ wuz dihoerat who never skrat0ht tik-
kit, sell.
"Hev yoo votd that tikkit for the larst 4
yeers, and kin 700 rede?" sez he.
"a hev and kim" seq I.
"Then yoor place is below, sez he. Git"
Wich did.
/ met his Majesty Satan the l, at hia door,
and he welcomed me oorelly. | wus dsap-
pintid in his persnel appearance. He wuz a
mddle-ajed man, gentemanly in style, rcsem-
bin Geffson Davis very much, only hevin a
more Intellectual east NV countenanse.
"WelGum," sez he 81 hev bin spectin yoo
sum time Welkum, welkmn"
"Hev yoo menny NV the Dmocrisy with yoo,"
sez /.
"Not .menny Nv the ginooine Kopperheds," !"
sez he
"Uv coarse yoo hevn't," sez I, 1--WE everage
ez good ez-"
That's not it." sez he, gain onto me with
expreshun NV intense fondnis, chats not
jst it. All but about 10 or IL frum eech coun-
ty git out by pleedin ignorance and idioOy, and
sieh. But it's all rite. make it up by hevin
hevier force spare stir up the few feeders.
foo kin rcde print, cant yoo9" he askt ank-
ghusly.
"All rite" sez he "Geffetson Davis will be
along in a few months, tho eff he don't show
more man than he did when he wuz caught,
he'll make poor amusement"
"He's disgrace2 his secks--he ort 2 hev
bin woman, sez l.
"Troo," retorts he, "but ez Shakspeer seq,
"there's a divinity that shapes our ends. Then
Alec Stephens!"
"Will yoo git him? He wuz originally op-
posed 9 seceshn."
"That's my best holt. Davis wuz alluz &C.
cesh, Bengamin wuz becoz he thawt it wood
pay-on them I've he'd morgige ever sense
they arrived at the yeers Nv akountability,-
Stephens knode seceshn wuz wrong-he can't
pleed ignorance nor nuthin. fer he warnd his
people agin it, and then wuz botup n2 doin it
hisself for the poor privilig NV playin Cd fiddle
to Gef Davis, who drawd mizable bow his
self. I've ded wood on him."
"Tell me, gentle sir" seq I, chow about Fer
mandy Wood, Vailandygum, ct al, ez the law
yers say"
elm doc time they'r mine," sez he. "They
can't save themselves by repentense even.
They are now past forty, and if they'd com
mense in ded ernest tryn to do ez much good
ez they hev bad, and lived till they wuz ez old
ez Methoozeler, they couldn't make q com
mencement toward baancin the books. BY the
way, speekin NV Methooseler, I he'd to wate pa
silently fer customers in them days when men
lived 900 yeers"
"There's Cory, Colorado Jewet, and Alec
Long," continnerd he, give he'd my eye on.
Jewet and Cory I'll loseA-there's place out
side NV my goorisdicshen fer SIGH. They amt
responsible yoo see. The devils that wuz cast
out Nv the man and took refuge in the swine,
left the swine when they wuz drowndid, and
hey inhabtid menny men sence. Two NV EN-
air in Cory and wun in Jewet, to-day. Alec
Long hez, every now and then, a glimrin NV
sense, he shows occasionally surface indicashens
Nv intellek, not quite enuf to make lunatic
Nv him, and too much fer ideot. l may git
him and may not. But yoo will hev plenty Nv
compny. The stahd yoor party took druv
thousands NV men in2 cussednis, who knode
better, and who, eff let alone, wood hev lodged
me. hev a eye on sum who denounst Vallan-
dygnm, and yet, when the screws wuz brot
down on2 EN-, and by the way, jist sich ez yoo
turnd them sed screws, (and he pokt me jockel-
erly in the ribs) actilly presided at Vallandy
gum meetins, and yotid fer him. Then, after
he wuz defeetid, they swore they didn't vote
fer him at all, addin dirty lie to the originel
sin, wch is givn the devil (ez yoo stile me)
his due with compound intrest."
"But excoose me-I'll show yoo 2 yoor apart
mence. This way my deer sir"
obgeetid to goin and looked anxshusly
around fer escape. Observin this change
cum Ger the polite gentleman afore me. His
eyes glistend, sulfrus streem ishood frum his
mouth his feet partid in2 hoofs, his fingers
elongated ing claws, observd q tale peepin
down under his cote, in short, he wuz trans
formd in2 the denticle devil he'd seen on sew
raj occashens, when labrin under attax Nv de-
lirum tremens, sooperindoost by driuk'n barl
er so too much elecshun whisky, doorin hotly
eontestid campanes. He reecht one claw fer
me, when awoke. 2say wuz rejoist at find
IN myself still on prayin ground, is week-twuz
COY onspeekable. can't interprit the dreem.
PETROLEUM " Massey,
Lait Paster NV the Church nv the Moo Dispen-