Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-07-05
Mr.. Nasty has a Vision.
SAINTS HrSf (Which is in the stait Of
Moo GerseY / Nax2 ISkh

prayer continoolly.
| dreemed [ wuz ded-that, assisted bv
tyfus fever and dokters, | he'd busted
the bonds of mortality, and he'd sored to
the unknown hereafter Up went to the
gates Nv the luther world, wher wuz con-
frontid by Peter
"Wher 700 frum p sez he
g Moo Gersey," seq T.
d" Wuz 700 good cittyzen q scz he.
:" | wuz dimocrat who never skratcht
a ticket" sez l.
flev yoo votid that tiket for the larst
yeers, and kin rede q sez he.
:" | hev and kim, seq l.
"Then your place is below" sez he
Git" Which did
| met his Majesty Satan the |. at the
door, and welcomed me corielly. / was
disappointed in his persnel appearance
He wuz a middle-ajed man. gentlemanly
in style, resemblin Gelfson Davis very
much, only hevin a more intellectual cast
of contenanse
Welkum,' sez he. Il hev been spect-
in you sum time. Welkum, Welkumr
"Iiev 700 menny NV the Dimocrisy with
yoo?'' sez l.
" Not mcnny Nv the ginooine hopper
heads" sez he
"Uv coarse 700 hevn't," sez I 1--WE
average az good ez'-
That's not it, sez he, gazing onto me
with a expreshun Nv intense fondnis,
that's jist it All but about 10 or -
from each county git out by pleedin ignor-
ance idiocy, and sich. But it's all rite
J make it up by hevin a heavier force .
spare stir up the few feeders You kin
rede print, can't you ?" he askt ankshusly
" kin" sez I.
"All rite, sez lie. "Gefferson Davis
will be along in few months, tho eli he
don't show more man than he did when
he wuz caught, he will make poor amoose
ment."
"He's disgrace his secks--he ort 2
hev bin wouan," sez l.
Troo, retorts he, 'but ez Shakspeer
sez, there's a divinity that shapes our
ends. Then Alec Stephens +"
"Will you git him He wuz originally
opposed TO seceshn."
That's my best holt Davis wuz alluz
a secesh. Benjamin WIZ, hecoz he thawt
it would pay-on them I've he'd a morgige
ever sense they arrived at the yeers oil
akonntabi ity. Stephens knode seceshin
wuz wrong-he can't pleed ignorance nor
nothin fer he warned his people agin it,
and then waz bot up in doin it hisself
for the poor privilig Nv playin ID fiddle 70
Gef Davis, who drawd a mi1erablc bow
hisself I've ded wood on him"
Tell me gentle sir, sez |, "how about
Fernandy Wood, Vallandygum, ct al, ez
the lawyers say"
In doc time they'r mine," sez he
They can't save themselves by repent
ance, even. They are now past forty, and
if they'd commense, in ded ernest, tryin
to do ez much good ez they hev bad, and
lived till they wuz rs old ez Methooseler,
they couldn't make a commencement to-
ward balancin the books. BY the way
speckin ov Methooseer, / he'd to waite
pashently for customers in them days,
when men lived 900 years.
"Theres Cory, Colorado Jewet, and
Alec Long" continued he, "I've he'd nv
eye on. Jewet and Cory III lose-there's
place outside Nv my joorisdioshen for
sch. They amt responsible, you see
The devils that wuz cast out Nv the man
took refuge in the swine, left the swine
when they wuz drowndid, and hev in
habited menny men sinse. Two NV EN-
air in Cory and wun in Jewet, to day
Long hez, evrY now and then, glimrin
" sense he shows, occasionally, surface
indicashens Nv intelleck, not quite enuff
to make lunatic Nv him. and too much
for an idiot | mHy git him and may not
But 700 will hev plenty Nv compny. The
stand your party took druv thousands NV
men in2 cussednis, who knode better, and
who, ef let alone, wood hev lodged
me. hev an eye on sum who denounst
Nallandygum, and yet, when the screws
wuz brot down on2 en-, (and by the way,
jist sich as 700 turned en- sed screws
and he pokt me jockelerly in the ribs. }
actilly presided at Valandygum meetins,
and votid fer him. Then, after he wuz
defeetid, they swore they didn't vote fer
him at all, addin dirty lie to the origin
al sin, which is givin the devil, (ez 700
stile me- his due with compound intrest.
But excoose mel II show you your
appartmence. This way my deer sir.
! obgectid to goin and look edanzshusly
around for escape Observin this change
cumc DER the polite gentleman afore me-
His eyes glistened, sulfrus streem ishood
from his mouth, his feet parted in2 noofs,
his fingers elongated in2 claws, | observ-
ed tale peepin down under his cote, il
short he wuz transformed in2 the identi-
Gle devil he'd seen on sevral occashens,
T when labriu under attax of delirum tre-
mems. sooperindoost by drinkin bari er
| SO much e1echun whiske, doorir hotly