The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1865-12-19
Mr.Nasby has samOst Horrible Vision
SAINTS REST, (Which is the Stait
Nv Moo Gersey,l Oct. 18th, 1865.

Last mite, weary and disgusted with reed
in eleckshun returns, picked up a volum
Nv Cancels Poems, and red that splendid
peese "The Last man" CAMEL Is po-
eter-there amt no doubt Nv it. Eff my
too par8hel trends amt too parshel, ken
whop him on the sublime, but, on the pa
thetics, I acknollige him ez my souperior.
Be thet ez it may, the pome maid an i'm
preshun on my mind, which is proof thet
ther is suthin into it, and my mind wuz
dwelliu into it ez sunk into slumber.
Ez yoosual he'd dreme, and sioh q
dreme may never hev agane.
Methautsthe epidemic, which is now
devastating Europe, he'd struck New York.
Fer a time it struck down all classes
The brown Cawcashun, the hidgus niger,
the noble red man Nv the forest, and the
almon-eyed Chinese, all, all fell afore the
the ruthless destroyer. But at last, it
abated, eccept so fur ez the niger wuz
konserned The white man wuz spared,
so wuz the Injun, and the Chinese, but
amongst the Afrikans it ragged with re-
dubbed fury. o, it wuz krushing! The
planter looked abroad, and 10 the stall
vert feed hand, which wuz wuth ST, 500
wuza kold corps, and the feel wuz unploud.
Agiu he looked, and alas !! the brawny
wench, which alluz bore him picaninny
which wuz wuth $500 ez soon ez weaned
wunst per ycre,and by little extra whip
pen did full years work, wuz PROSTATE
in the cold embrace Nv death. Agin he
looked, and wo to him the octroon, fer
which be pade $500, and whose girl ba.
bies he Good sell in Moo Orleans ez soon
ez they wuz 16 fer 5000, on account Nv
their havi1 biz blood in their vanes wuz
torn from hiz luVin grasp by the stronger
hand Nv disease. and wuzn't Wath cop.
per fer emmy purpus.
The Dimocracy bekum alarmed. The
indefatigable leaders whispered: "The
nigger is fadin away !-sposen he becums
extinck p Whereupon konsultation Nv
the he'd men wuz held. In vew Nv the
crises a pare-Wun mail and wun femail
wuz selected and examined by comittee
Nv expert life inshureance cumpanies.-
Thay wuz pronounced perfeck spesimens
entirely sound and free frum desease.-
Theze 2 wuz locked up in room in a
healthy Iocashun, and "a Nv the most
eminent fsishuus in the country wuz de-
tailed one to stay with them orr Nv each
daV, that 10 case the disease struck EN-
the remidies mite be towunst applied that
frum these 2, the race might be propaga-
ted, and the cappytle Nv the party be pre-
served. But all to no purpus. The last
niggeI in the Yoouited States perished,
and finally, theze wuz struck, aud not
withstanding the precautions adopted, they
too died
There wuz season nacher sympathized
with the party in its Affections. The hev-
ems wuz clothed with leaden colored
clouds, athort which, ever and anon fash
ed CLEANS of loorid lite. voiced
thunders muttered ominously, and birds
and beasts ran howlin DER the feelds.-
Dray horses fell ded upon the stony streats
and wild beasts rushed frantickly from
their coverts, and snapped foorousIy, ,usd-
at whatever cum in their way.
The last of the Africans wuz layin pros.
trate in the hall. Fernandywood entered,
and ez he seed EN-, he buStid iutu teers.
Farewell" gushed he, ga long farewell,
last Nv cussid race you wuz our tower
Of streuth ; on 700 we bilded Hatred of
700 Civ me the Irish vote OF Moo York.
0, how cheerin it wuz to see them lambs
bust your heds and innocently hang you
up to lamp posts But you m gone you m
gone-and hentz4th life is blank to me-
Farewell vain world fer what is life
without a niggerp' and seazin jacknife
he saw stickin out Nv the nigger's pocket
be stuck it into bis stummck, ,and falling
across the deceased Afrikans expire pease-
fully.
Franklin Peerse approached. "Alas
and thou art gone? Too troo, thou art
In life thou were luvIy "Twas thou alone
made me President, thy woody he'd wuz
my steppin stun to place and power thou
vast my rite bower, ny left and ace }! Eff
I was a Democratic Samson, thou wuz the
hair Wich the Deliler, Death bez sheered
orf. Fernandy, l KUN and seeing the
jack nife frum his hand he plunged in into
his bowels, fallin across Fernandy.
Vallandigum approached. II to,muSt
say farewell" said he kissing their kold
features, "fer thou was my anker. Thou
twas, who made me Cougressmap-thou
exled me, and hate Nv the gave me $780,
600 in ten cent peeses wen l wuz in Can
ady. Do want to go to Congress again !
No no no | shood be dun, fer the
name spring Nv my eloquence lise here!'
and takin the jack nife he immersed it
into his bowels, and fell across Peerse.
Old Jimmy BucannoD, and Vorhees, and
Brlte, ond tlorance, and in fact all the